Fragmentation

❤Rey | Canadian ❤  Welcome to my disorganized "blog" of things! Art blog: https://reyrichelle.tumblr.com/

[omtai]

love pickles. a little pickle never killed nobody. Unless you’re in one. Then shit ain’t funny.

[teaboot]

Well I wish I had a pickle Any pickle would suffice A bread-and-butter, cornichon, or kosher would be nice I would pay a hundred nickels You could ask for any price I would eat them in a relish, off a fork, or finely sliced I would steal a million pickles on a pickle-plucking heist Then I’d sail away forever to my pickle paradise But oh, if they did catch me If they had me dead to rights Then the only pickle left would be the one I’d be inside

[puppygirllaika]

*pointing at your landlord* you know that thing would eat you if you died, right?

[wolvesintheflowers-deactivated2]

I laughed to hard at this fucking thing.

[nattousan]

[fvckw4d]

Do not forget that discord is still planning on moving forward with age verification and has only "delayed it" until "the later half of 2026." They are hoping you will forget while they quietly roll it out when no one is looking. Continue to message them about it. Continue to talk about it. Make it clear this is unacceptable. Discord is one of the only places left you can even talk about or share adult content in private at scale anymore. They will tell you "its not that bad if you dont use it for nsfw" but fuck them and fuck people who say that shit.

[felixcloud6288]

Who's that guy people like adding into images?

[felixcloud6288]

The guy standing straight and his hands are touching each other. He's usually transparent.

[spectator-lawful-evil]

OHHHH that one

[spectator-lawful-evil]

You Know I Had to Do It to Em | Know Your Meme

You Know I Have to Do It to Em is a photoshop meme based on a picture of Twitter user LuckyLucianok17 standing on a sidewalk in a preppy but

[felixcloud6288]

This was the one.

[kat4884]

i’m completely normal and sane

[felixcloud6288]

Oh... Gonna unfollow you now.

[kat4884]

i’m completely weird and insane

[felixcloud6288]

Really? Gonna follow you now.

[nights-at-crystarium]

dashing

[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.

[darkswamplurker]

I'm fully 100% on board with "Know why you think things, and be able to explain the reasoning", I'm always saying this

...but can someone explain the "Art should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art"; what the hell does this mean? Why would you ever want something to have problems?

[z0mborb]

I think it's less saying that, and more saying "art will always have problems; art is made by people, and people are fallible, and even the best thing you've ever read/played/heard/watched has problems, and thus saying 'this art is problematic' is sort of a useless statement on a macro scale because yeah, all art has problems"

[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.

[darkswamplurker]

I'm fully 100% on board with "Know why you think things, and be able to explain the reasoning", I'm always saying this

...but can someone explain the "Art should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art"; what the hell does this mean? Why would you ever want something to have problems?

[exalteranima]

Depends what the "problem" is. It's not just shorthand for "this is racist/sexist/etc."

Back in the day art critics would've called Marcel Duchamp's Fountain problematic because he just used a mass-produced porcelain urinal and didn't "make" it himself, ergo it's not "real" art. And that's the point. Duchamp was obviously making a statement. Why a urinal? Why did he "make" it this way? What even is "real" art? These are all questions Duchamp wants us to ask about the work.

You could say the same about Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, even fucking Piss Christ. They want to confuse and question our preconceived notions of what art "should" be. They all want us to break out of our "standing at the museum nodding and pretending we understand why this work is important" modes by making something that genuinely doesn't make sense at first glance.

And this wasn't just limited to modern art or abstract expressionism. Go back far enough in art history and you'll find artists who were considered problematic because their subjects weren't religious figures, or they painted common folk instead of monarchs or historical/classical heroes.

[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.

[deafmic]

today at work i got a ticket from an admin who somehow managed to delete all the users in his company's software instance, including himself, and literally erased everyone's logins. by mistake. he not only locked everyone out but wiped them all from existence. i don't even know how he did it. there are like 5 major checkpoints that will warn you and stop you before you get to that point. they shouldn't even be able to fully delete users like that.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

happy pride

[lindleland]

[learningtogirl]

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

[soyalexnajera]

[fagstaynight]

some people on the internet have only been on here for five minutes

[cowboyspones]

i will never get over this one i’m afraid

[parkchanwoohoo]

[coffeeeandbaileys]

[d0uble-0h-se7en]

@captainjonnitkessler

[byjove]

My dad was a public defender when I was a child and he would have to drive all over the district to visit various defendants in various jails which I thought was very interesting and I liked to hear about his experiences in various jails and how different they all were. He drove me to school every day and sometimes I’d skip in and tell my classmates “My dad is going to the jail in [TOWN/CITY] today!” mind you, I went to public school in a not very nice little town so my teacher’s first thought wasn’t lawyer, she had other students with incarcerated parents. This was also occurring in the south where everyone is nosy as fuck so she eventually called my mother, presumably to scope out why her husband was a jail bird and if the chargers were relevant to me and my education in any way. My mom had to explain that my dad wasn’t an inmate who kept getting transferred and that going to jail is his job.

[maxwellmcgrath]

remember when mattel released a t-rex extroyer toy that vomited its own skeleton for no apparent reason

[segamascott]

wdym for no apparent reason it's because it's awesome