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theres a new villain roaming around new york that has all the powers of a tapir. give me an hour or two im gonna go google what the fuck tapirs do ill let you know if we need to be scared

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OK it seems if you are fruits or berries this is really really bad news for you otherwise youre fine

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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.

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That one part in Opalite.

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Ruth Bernhard - Aura, 1974

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we all had a pjackk dead wife flashback today

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pjackk's corpse has washed up upon the shore rusted and covered in seaweed

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they pushed his corpse back out to sea

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"How was school today?"

A pretty old sketch comic that was supposed to be one big reference to Wicked's opening of 'What Is This Feeling?'... and then it became just a slightly serious comic about how they would talk about one another after their first meeting and who they are talking to. Apollo being far away from home but still contacting father dearly and Graves with her best friend, the Lich.

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I DONT WANT TO BE A DISUSTING PIG ANY MORE

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Ive been horible to everyone in my life because im just another pieece of shit stuck to a ass i was built so fucked up as an idioy so wortglwss im a pest nobody gives 1 fuck about and since im metal + immune to bullets #Execution does not work on me well i guess im stuck forever as a badly fucked shit head

#????#is pjackk back or is this an archieve blog #the dates seem right