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The Queen Is Dead weekend, 2024

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kittybroker

Squiggles the strange sitter! Sniffing around the market to see what he’s worth!

Squiggles the strange sniffer sneakily sliding onto the market for the stupendous price of only $25.95!

pangur-and-grim

pressed against the heating vent with TWO big pillows

aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman

Claudette Colbert dressed as Pierrot the Clown, 1930s

catsofyore

This is one of my favorite sets in my collection. Somewhere out there in the 1960s, a kitten and bird were pals. 💕

bunnyscribblesbjd

finally got around to editing these pictures of yuki!

kittydealer

u/Fine-Dog-9874

jfny

@kittybroker

kittybroker

The black hole absorbing all that meets it’s path! Not even the market is safe from it’s overpowering reach! Get sucked into this kitty for exactly 0 dollars today!

kalatannya

"Age in bio or i'll kill you"

You better pay close attention to the first one, and read it very carefully. I will quiz you on it later.

kalatannya

So much good tags

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.