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I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Hi all! I've finally opened a shop for my small items: stickers, magnets, and mini zines! Give it a look!

The first listing is a new Splotch Sheet released as a free/tip-based download! Good for digital art or printing at home!

#PandaKong #PandaKong Art #ko-fi #patrons have a look on my patreon and you'll get a coupon code

New public post on my Patreon!

Art update and Zines in Seattle! by PandaKong Art on Patreon. Join PandaKong Art's community for exclusive content and updates.

#10 days of art plus news and upcoming stuff #art #patreon #panda kong #pandakong art

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[Image ID: Tweet from peet (@/ PeetingDisorder) reading: [At the gym before someone teaches me the word spotting]: "hey bro will you take care of me and protect me?" /End ID]

coughloop

why are people submitting asks with skulls? to be scary? 👣

...can you put your shoes back on

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She’s posing

#art #do not touch or please touch #cat #kitty

reeddraws

I don't know why, but these colors and values make me feel like a real painter. I feel like I look like I know what I'm doing lol

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pandakong

I am at Paper Pushers zine store in downtown Seattle!!! Check out the zines!

1200 5th Avenue #100, Seattle, WA 98101

Open W-F 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-5pm

pandakong

Ooooh, one of the people who created the popup is on tumblr! Thank you!

I have arrived

amandassketchblog

My two zines!!!

#reblogging from my art only blog #yay zines #Seattle has a few copies of my two 'full size'#or half letter

questionableadvice

~ The Spinster Book, by Myrtle Reed, 1901

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[Image ID: Text reading: There is no virtue in women which men cultivate so assiduously as forgiveness. They make one think that it is very pretty and charming to forgive. It is not hygienic, however, for the woman who forgives easily has a great deal of it to do. When pardon is to be had for the asking, there are frequent causes for its giving. /End ID]

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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.