#the button ups

[jelliedfishies]

hhhhhhh i want to steal their wardrobes

[ultimatesilk]

hey guys just wanted to say that peter's wardrobe in homecoming was the cutest shit i've ever seen

[tacogrande]

i feel like kurt is one more outfit away from tyler durden 

[sonnywortzik]

detective loki in prisoners is like all of my aesthetic goals

why can't i just look exactly like u 

u son of a bitch

[stefinatelychen]

Take away the ties, the button-ups, the papers, the BMWs bought on credit.

It really irritates me whenever anybody questions the validity of an art career or dictates whether something is "real work" or not. Since when does coming into a solid white-walled office building with rows of grey cubicles to sit at a chair from 8 to 5 to pound out numbers and meaningless technical documents with 5-to-10-minute breaks where you morph into the kings and queens of small talk qualify as "real work" any more than birthing a company with friends from scratch or hustling nonstop for your art career? Oh, that's right, since forever ago.

Part of the appeal in being an independent artist is that it allows you to escape from it all. The politics of whatever office you work at, how boring and trivial and useless it all is, etc. You can, in a piece of art (writing, art, film, music), get away from these chains, these painful and stupid and mundane systems and parts of life and deal with them (by visually/verbally dissecting these things - shaping them into metaphors and then ripping them apart by putting your own new spin/commentary on them) at once. The act of standing far away (the escape part) helps you to see things with clarity and then dissect and analyze them, see why they create this itch under your skin and whether it's something that you can change.