ArgleBlargle

@teacupesque

I love you with all my brain. This is a blog mostly about things I find beautiful and the art/music I create (which is not a lot). Feel free to be at ease with me! They/Them Pronouns. Opinions are my own bc of legal jobby reasons, and I am an adult. Icon from Veil by Fukuda Ikumi.

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sakana-no-yama

crazysodomite

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yearofdoodles

YAY FOR 500 FOLLOWERS THATS HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!! 🎉 maybe for doodle requests, mb in some colourful clothes? presaux or art gifted them to it perhaps? dealers choice if it actually likes them or not

It definitely likes them

blueumbriel

Choose your fighter looking ahhh

a-queer-man-of-a-few-words

You can't keep doing this! You can't keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You need to be better!

multivs-tmblr

after getting Jax’s WHOLE backstory, i fear I need to quote Todd.

“You can’t keep doing shitty things, and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You NEED to BE BETTER!”

#tadc spoilers

tiredfiver

The only thing I will say about the final is

HAVE NONE OF YOU BEEN TO A MOVIE THEATER? SHUT THE FUCK UP

TADC movie spoilers kinda

There was too much focus on Jax. He took up most of the movie for nothing. His development was nothing but gags. He's still a mean asshole no matter what his trauma is and how he deals with it and I never want to see him again.

I wanted to see character development for literally any other character and got nothing.

Also, the teens talking nonstop next to me ruined the whole experience. Someone even had to shout shut up because all of the younger folks were commenting on everything and wouldn't be quiet even for the new episode. With no captions and my loops on to tune out the yappers, I was struggling.

Please don't talk at the movies. At least whisper.

#the amazing digital circus #teacuptalk

batsandboba

do not start gambling. go outside and locate a bug. now post it on inaturalist. bam. nature's gacha game

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.