Cactus Niki

Welcome to My art blog! I post both original and fan art, mostly of Homestuck, MHA, Ava's Demon, and whatever else I'm interested in at the moment. 25 -she/her

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[nyctosaurid]

i dont know how people handle the world without looking at pictures of little tiny mice sitting on wheat

[nyctosaurid]

powerful…

[depsidase]

[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.

[sforzzz]

copper ii sulfate has no reason to be this blue. this shade of blue looks like it should only be a digital invention

[beadyeyes]

Let's fucking grab this Wednesday by the nothing

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

[coughloop]

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

[byjove]

when I first made a lot of my internet accounts like my email and my Tumblr, I put my birthdate as 6/6/66 because I was 12-14 years old and an edgelord and a Murdoc Niccals kinnie BUT now I’m pretty sure all of my ad preferences think I’m a 60 year old divorced dad with erectile dysfunction

[tannnnblogs]

more shading practice

[seashoreships]

Courier

[ladylingua]

the new york times has such a great series of elevated butter noodles, if you ever want a super fast easy dinner that still feels grown up and you can emulsify pasta water + butter together basically the sky is your limit

ya got

gochujang butter noodles

peanut butter noodles

chili crisp fettuccine alfredo

miso butter noodles

any one of these + a bag of salad or whatever vegetable side you find easiest/cheapest, and you've got yourself a full meal that tastes far above the effort you put in.

[caesarsaladinn]

you know that phenomenon where vaccines are so effective that people forget how scary the original disease was? I think Americans are like this about government

[solitairians]

when I was like 14 I used to reblog these posts on here that were like "YOUR 20S ARE NOT AN IMAGINARY RACE YOURE DOING JUST FINE!!" just to be positive towards my older mutuals even though i didn't really get what they were about and I'd be in the tags like "#so true!! #everyone does things at their own pace!!" and now im 24 I'm thinking back to it and it's like Oh of course the imaginary race. Which im losing

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[salmon-n-hazel]

Forget me not

My print shop: INPRNT

[roswellsoup]

graduated and was blessed by ladybug freaks 💛🐞🎓

[inthesensethat]

[hexthelex-deactivated20250420]

This is true btw

[letmeliedown]

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really