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meng/alistair (24) ✨ he/him nb ✨ demiace ✨ art: art-neto ✨ star wars, lotr, asian dramas, comics etc. ✨️ filmmaker + writer ✨️ 🇨🇳🇱🇦🇺🇲

[rad-neto]

hello everyone! i almost forgot to announce this here as well, but my newest book: The Journey of Long is now available to order online!!

(ft. cover art by Lucas Kerr/edibleteef)

Link to order: here!

[redstonedust]

what happened to "cool as fuck grandma" as a character trope. i miss "cool as fuck grandma"

[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)

[rad-neto]

started playing kcd2 not too long ago and i spent the entire gaming session making and selling potions. i only just left troskowitz to go to the blacksmith and now im getting fixated on forging things. sorry hans, looking for u is going to have to wait i am playing medieval peasant simulator

[animentality]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[bugshroom]

there should be a pill you can take one time that will shrivel up your uterus and abort it through one last horrible period

[mushroominawaterbottle]

there is the line between bisexual and aroace and i am using it as a jump rope

[chipper-smol]

the realization that the unhealthy trait you’ve given your favorite oc for funsies is actually something you unintentionally do is like watching a five year old innocently and perfectly mimic your bad habits

[creekwyrm]

how to tell mutual they intrigue me greatly and i would be honoured to be allowed to grow a friendship where i may study them up close without saying any of that

[creekwyrm]

how to tell mutual i know i havent interacted with them directly in like five months but i still think of them highly and semifrequently and their art is still a source of inspiration for my own

[bat-bleed]

Give him a solo dc

[blizz4rd1203]

Who the fuck is that thing tolling for

[panicatthecriscodisco]

[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[rad-neto]

fully support this dc comics boycott bc yeah. it IS fucked up that they've mostly been centering white lead runs rather than give their poc characters the spotlight. i am DESPERATE for a solo duke thomas run.

but the arguments i've seen against the boycott are genuinely so stupid. "this will hurt local comic shops!!" as if the only comics they sell are dc 🤨 "but... but what about absolute green lantern??" absolute universe is NOT the mainline universe. where is this attention to poc in their main universe comic runs??

superhero/comic fans really yuck my yum because so many are WHITE men (emphasis on the white) who are misogynistic and racist chuds with hundreds of characters who fit their preferences shining in the limelight near 24/7 and yet they still feel the need to bash anything that is non-white and/or non-straight male centered.

[haljordangetpregnant]

I gave him this fuckass house as a joke

Billy loved it

I now feel so bad, guys

[rad-neto]

writing my first fic in like... six years and im gonna be so honest i am struggling.

it's slightly easier than writing an original book i would say but still

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment

[breakingboob]

Nestle has:

Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.

Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.

Used slavery to produce their cocoa.

Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.

Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.

Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.

Price-fixed food items.

Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.

The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.

[theeretblr]

Nestlé is LITERALLY the largest food company in the world and have one of the worst track records. Pls avoid their products if you can

[nyaahilism]

Flint, Michigan

[creacher-art]

They looooove draining springs and then hopping onto the next one.

They are diabolical.