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2027 Artfight will be my year

#dude I could only get one attack this year holy moly....#work and life stress is KICKING MY ASS #shout out to everyone

catdile

attempt at. clip studio's animation feature

song is "I'm Your Man" by Mitski I love Mitski

chalroe

From Lost In Translation by @quekerahkerah (which is so fun, go read it rn!!!)

solanumwarrior

It's in the small things

artandbrimstone

champion of death, how far is your home now?

#The emotional BOMB that went off FRAME 1 #OP THIS IS WONDERFULLY EXPRESSED #I love love love how each finger count is included for every mile he strays away #i'm ugly crying thank you for making this IT'S SICK #jrwi #jrwi chip

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.

courtjulester

avoiding my statistics homework so this is my vision of hummingbird UI credit to this post for the actual joke

Played sasasaap a month ago and LOVED this interaction between them. Really happy with how this came out and am sharing a rough doodle since work is still kicking my crabbing butt

#in stars and time #start again: a prologue #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat isabeau #sasasaap