Chapter 3: The ramble gets worse

he/they - 26 - maker of comics and games

[helenvaughans]

[zitasaurusrex]

[iamoutofideas]

meowth voice: today I’m takin james to da clinic to get an aboition

[eroscestlavie]

when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.) 

[reactionimagesdaily]

[mokeonn]

I have this terrible habit of making up a project and as I work on it more and more it simply becomes a long list of research before I ever put a drop of ink on paper.

[mokeonn]

I also have a nasty habit of getting a smidgen of energy and good vibes after bouts of depression and anxiety, and I often decide during these burst of energy and motivation to start a new project that will quickly be sitting in the background, unworked on, for a few years or so

[mokeonn]

I have this terrible habit of making up a project and as I work on it more and more it simply becomes a long list of research before I ever put a drop of ink on paper.

[aroacexuemeng]

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

[doggirlhen]

reblog heavy

[boldlynothanks]

the places studying particle physics will take you

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[ruthimages]

[im-mender]

Smoking on that we'd

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[drchucktingle]

tough but fair

[zoctopode]

im so used to tumblr that i forgot some troglodytes on reddit wouldnt be even surface level familiar with the concept of the robot lesbian

[zoctopode]

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[mokeonn]

"Ohhh you need to make sure your blog is art focused if you want to get attention for your art, you need to make it easy for people to find your art and see more of it, you can't just reblog 104 posts inbetween each drawing"

☝️consider the following: my beloved mutuals and following list blessing me with endless funnie post. Yeah, checkmate athiests

[teratodentata]

I was convinced for a second that Pikmin Bloom had church themed Pikmin, realized that would be ridiculous, imagined a Pikmin on a cross and lost my mind laughing. So I had to draw it.