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[onecells]

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

GET LOVED!!!!!!!!!!

[dateamonster]

look i WISH more horror movies were just the directors thinly disguised fetish. instead we got all these horror movies that are just undisguised reflections of culturally hegemonic values and anxieties. like if we got some weird fetishes up in here it would probably add some variety thats all im saying.

[pyomatic]

I think the whole point is to make extremely niche things very well.

[whosname]

[id. A twitter post by @/Bennieeexyz Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat. Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records. My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now. Called the county clerk. Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty. Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons? Me: Yes, but he's a cat. Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county? Me: He's a legal cat. Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption. Me: He can't file anything. He has paws. Clerk: You can file on his behalf. Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat." Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons." Me: What's the medical reason? Clerk: He's a cat. Me: That's not a medical condition. Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving. Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later. "Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement." Took the letter to my vet. Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty. Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty? Me: Excellent question. No good answer. Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten. Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve? Vet: On what grounds? Me: He's a cat. Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings." Me: Perfect. Sent it in. Got another rejection. "Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court." My roommate thought this was hilarious. Roommate: Felix is going to jail. Me: This is serious. Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens. Decided that was actually the only option left. Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters. Checked in at the courthouse. Clerk: Name? Me: Felix Martinez. Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix? Me: Yes. Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat. Me: I've been saying that for six weeks. Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption? Me: I filed three. All rejected. Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief. Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation? Me: Twice. Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this. Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me. Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote? Me: You tell me. Supervisor: This is a data error. Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out. They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience. Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry. Me: Appreciate it. Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted? Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats. Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card. For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was. Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud. Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent. Roommate: That's what they all say. Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now. Fitting end to his legal career. end id]

[nintendo-wheee]

[modernmusess]

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

[bowelfly]

Richard Scarry's Monastic Menagerie

[domydreaming]

love listening to my own playlists. I am so correct and intelligent and inspired

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Feels like a bad idea maybe

[loopofrosewood]

because the thing is (i am not on mobile rn picture the index pointing up emoji for me please and thank you its important) is that wynne's possession was never about being possessed at all, which is why it basically never gets brought up in that context, right (seriously there are exactly two companion comments on it total and it's entirely missable for the player); it's about her literally relying on her faith in her (and others') ability to be Such A Good Mage that they don't just fucking murder her right. she dies during broken circle because she was always going to die in the circle. the only thing that keeps her alive in there is her faith that the former is true (and, of course, to annul the circle you have to kill her.) she's on borrowed time and as soon as she loses this belief in this in asunder, where she asks shale to destroy the phylacteries after seeing the sheer mass of them (and also her son got imprisoned), she basically immediately dies afterwards and gives up faith.

you cannot save her from this system because she is already dead and thoroughly enmeshed within it and she died before you even really truly met her. you don't get to know what she was like before dying and being possessed by a spirit of faith (i.e. resigning herself to the circle, with all that entails) because that's the whole point. genuinely devastating to me.

[deadbeatmaker]

a nervous breakdown? I’m actually very confident in my breakdowns. I’m experienced.

[guiltfactory-moved]

everything is a reference when you're crazy

[mooreaux]

I think they should have been in Inquisition and also married

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[sewer-swan]

please stop trying to convince me the cause is righteous and convince me the tactics are effective

[cparti-mkiki]

[synthetic-ultramarine]

"visual art should be totally comprehensible just by sight, it should not require an explanation" is ultimately an argument in favor of cultural hegemony.

[synthetic-ultramarine]

like, you know who this is. you don't need an explanation as to who this is and what he's doing. And why is that?

[synthetic-ultramarine]

any image could easily explain itself to a viewer, and any image could require an external explanation; it's entirely dependent on what the viewer's background knowledge is, it's not a property of the image at all - and "what can a person be assumed to know" is inescapably a cultural, political question.

[hunter-rodrigez]

If you want visual art that's totally comprehensible just by sight, then go read a fucking comic book.

[synthetic-ultramarine]

Comic books are very contextual; we know that a cloudy-shaped text bubble represents thoughts, and a round text bubble represents spoken words. we know that non-letter symbols in the place of a word represent a character saying a swear the publisher isn't allowed to print. We know what panels are and what order to read them in. We know what a superhero is. we know about genre conventions like themed supervillains, superhero costumes, and secret identities. None of these things are explained by the comic book; they are assumed to be background knowledge the reader already has. 250 years in the future, any or all of these things might need to be explained to a casual viewer by an art historian. Even in the present, someone from a different cultural context might also need an explanation; think about the little "here's what order to read this in" tutorials that were included in english manga volumes when manga was first getting popular in the U.S.; the same image required an explanation in the U.S., but did not require an explanation in Japan. That's my main point with this post: when we ask "does this image need an explanation?" that's not a quality of the image itself, it depends on the viewer.

The question of whether art should explain itself gets employed in the art world in a number of ways; some people will say art should be immediately comprehensible to the viewer as an argument categorically for figurative art and against abstract art. others will say art that is immediately comprehensible is low and commercial compared to more esoteric and conceptual art. Because comprehensibility is contextual, I think all these attempts at hierarchicalizing art based on its comprehensibility are wrong.

TLDR; Yes, I'm defending hard-to-understand art from people who insist that everything should be straightforward, but I'm also defending straightforward art from those who think it's crass and lowbrow; comprehensibility can't have any bearing on an image's artistic value, because, again, it's not a quality of the image itself, it depends on the viewer.