Backstage

Personal / multifandom blog

[konakoro]

MUSCLE

RELAXANTS

[anonymous-leemur]

For my aro siblings 😎

[subaru-copilot]

it gets to a point that is just weirder if they didn't fuck

[subaru-copilot]

you did all this and it was not even because you wanted to bang him? weirdo

[guzhufuren]

A Song For Every Day of Pride Month (1/∞)

full playlist on youtube

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[kiyzeiin]

i need everyone to stfu. each time i see ‘blackwashing’ discourse tweets or post points i am filled with more rage each time like SHUT THE FUUCCKKKKK UPPPP!!!!! SHUT UPPPP!!!!

why are we unironically treating the word “blackwashing” as if it’s a real term now??? and using it to tell other poc they’re ‘blackwashing’ the character by making them darker or a realistic skin tone.. omg i seriously don’t have the energy for it. i don’t.

but when it’s whitewashing (which is actually harmful and has a real historical textbook documentation) oh “it’s just my art style… guys drawing different ethnic features is just so hard.. it’s basically impossibleeee 🥺🥺 please give artists grace when the source material doesn’t give us much eitherrr. if i did, it wouldn’t look like them anymoreee 🥺🥺🥺” <— literally saw a tiktok saying exactly this in simple terms.

[aroedmundpevensie]

they should make a kinnporsche spinoff series about pete doing his job. i would like to watch pete perform his duties competently for several hours at a time and there is as yet no outlet for this

[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.

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[kalichnikov]

Btw when people say "if you want to be a writer you need to read a lot of books" that means bad books too. This applies to all creative mediums and also even if you don't want to make it you should immerse yourself in some mediocre slop here and there and even abysmal dogshit on occasion. As a fan of the medium. If all you eat is perfect A5 wagyu prepared by a Michelen star chef youre gonna end up thinking a well cooked and seasoned grocery store ribeye is basically dog food and this is the path to spiritual rot

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[paraglide]

XG for Rolling Stone Japan May Issue

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[myfinalmessagefatdudesequalshot]

"all of them inshallah"

[chromyrose]

Egyptians continue to be hilarious