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@thenonbinarysunstreaker

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thenonbinarysunstreaker

If anyone's interested I have a sideblog featuring (among other things) a lot of art, insects, flowers, and fashion.

@sunflowers-n-insecticons

#it's actually been around for a couple of years but i thought I'd at least mention it lol

ralfmaximus

Apparently somebody Did at least once

cranity

The Butcher

#iron lung

circeswhore

When you make love potions, you have to add the thing where they turn whatever they’re added to bright magenta and give off pink vapour in the shape of little hearts. Love potions don’t do that on their own when you make them. It’s like how they have to add smells to natural gas in case there’s a leak. The high magic council is really strict about this

gouged-doll

pluckedanarchist

repo really is the movie of all time tbh. it's about nature vs. nurture. It's about family curses (genetics.) It's about how grief changes you. It's about death. It's about parenting. It's about the commodification of the human body. It's about the unchecked greed of the healthcare system. It's about destiny. It's about how the medical system both creates and punishes addicts. It's about a bunch of goths having fun. It's about nothing at all.

milksockets

'campaign for dominate hair wax' in lürzer's int'l archive (ads, tv + posters worldwide) vol. 3- 2007

fealty-to-thee

More characters ending disabled and happy NOW

clowndraws

mimicry

#phm

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.