last night I forgot how to draw this character… actually, no, I just forgot how to draw foxes at all all of a sudden lmao (yesterday was a weird art day, I could draw backgrounds and paint bg stuff but characters? Couldn’t do it. not yesterday.)
I think my powers are returning today. Art’s wild.
seriously i wish people understood that queerbaiting has almost nothing to do with the actual content of a story. two men can gaze soulfully into each other’s eyes for 45 minutes straight and then at the end be like “oh yes my good pal friend no homo” and its still not anything more than homoerotic and kind of stupid writing.
queerbaiting is a marketing technique to get gay people to buy a ticket. it’s hemming and hawing whenever someone asks about subtext, giving long answers that don’t mean anything to sort of imply “maybe you just need to wait and find out. ;)” it’s interviews where the actors talk about how much they love that particular relationship, and they think they will ~surprise~ you with how it turns out. it’s every single trailer showing these two people almost kissing, even as the creators talk about how offended they are that anyone would think it’s gay. it’s disney’s 65th First Gay Character that they sort of imply might
actually be a main character this time but is yet another nameless
asshole. it’s evil, because it’s completely deliberately misrepresenting the actual media just to make a buck.
tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism
I’d like to clarify:
dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain.
dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)
so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.
but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing
in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement.
so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.
related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this
tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal
a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:
you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:
I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.
As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.
My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:
and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:
And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.
I think you might be onto something…
Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.
This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.
Love
STATUS: DAY MADE.
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This post has been on my mind constantly for ages.
it got better
People who use drugs:
If you want to quit, please be aware of PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome). This is a state of mental and emotional imbalance while your brain learns to adjust without the substance and basically figures out what level all the chemicals and transmitters should be at. You may have symptoms of derealization/dissociation, depression, anxiety, etc.
Or, in less clinical terms, everything will feel mentally and emotionally uncomfortable and like you'll never feel normal again.
However. This is NOT your new normal and you did NOT permanently fuck yourself up on drugs. PAWS will last somewhere between a couple weeks and a year. It's horrible. But you deserve to know that you can tough it out.
Exercise helps (when does it not, really) and some people swear by megadosing Vitamin C for some reason. If you take opiates you might try a kratom taper to avoid or lessen PAWS, but kratom is addictive in and of itself, so use your best judgment. Honestly, you pretty much just have to outlast it.
I really wish they told kids this during their useless DARE program because a lot of addicts hit PAWS, figure "Well, I screwed myself up forever and will never feel normal without it" and start using again. NOT TRUE. The condition is not well-known so please spread for the sake of educating people. People need to prepare themselves for PAWS and know that it is temporary.
!!!!!!
I’m so so SO wonderfully surprised to see such a genuinely important and informative post about drug addiction on my dashboard !!!
PAWS is brutal! For me, while early stage acute withdrawal from heroin/fentanyl was absolutely agonizing, at least it was a relatively short period of extreme intensity. By the 72 hour mark it had peaked and begun to calm down, and usually by a week and a half/two weeks clean the acute symptoms would be over with
PAWS lasted for six months
During those six months I experienced nonstop chronic pain in my legs and extreme fatigue, making even simple everyday tasks a huge battle. I would ache and be unable to get comfortable and my muscles felt so heavy and sore and I was restless and sad and crying so much
I ended up in the psych ward for the first time in my life because of PAWS
But it got better! I swear to GOD it gets better. Right around six months I noticed I was no longer constantly thinking about my legs being sore and I had actually started to really feel present and enjoy things again and the fog was lifting and the heavy shadow of my addiction was becoming lighter
I’m almost two years clean now and a large part of why I won’t go back is the fear of reliving PAWS
Thank you for this post and helping to spread the word to suffering addicts that the are not hopeless and that recovery is possible and just takes time. The only thing I wanna add that I think is equally important on this topic is —
If you know someone who is struggling with drug addiction and trying to quit, you NEED to understand PAWS and it’s symptoms. Because we get accused way too many times of having relapsed when we’re actually just progressing through an important and painful stage of sobriety.
When my body began to hurt nonstop and my severe depression and exhaustion set in, my family spat at me constantly suspecting that I was using again. So I had to choke back tears and pretend to be fine so many times so that I could placate them based on their incorrect beliefs about how addiction works. And sometimes it really made me want to relapse because I thought “what’s the point of even trying to stay clean if I’m going to be treated like I’m using anyway”
I don’t want anyone to go back to using because they feel like I felt! So pls keep doing what we’re doing right now — talk about these things and learn about them and spread awareness and understanding.
It saves lives
Today’s update is live! A new challenger approaches…
Read today’s update https://traversion.net/comic/00-20
start at the very begining: https://traversion.net/comic/prologue-1
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night crowd reblop
Person: “What’s your favorite song?”
Me with no object permanence: “UhHhHhh, it’s hard to choose.”
Person: “So, what hobbies do you have?”
My mind: *goes blank*
Some guy: what’s your favourite film?
Me: I have never seen a film in my life
Someone: tell me something about yourself
Me: *sweating* who??
Update!! We arrive at the bureau, but surely the calls aren’t leading from inside the house? A malfunction, surely, and nothing more…
Read today’s update https://traversion.net/comic/00-19
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Anonymous asked:
Are you a Gold Star lesbian? (Just in case you don't know what it means, a Gold Star lesbian is a lesbian that has never had the sex with a guy and would never have any intentions of ever doing so)
astercrash answered:
Does masturbation count?
Regardless, fuck off
alright a little explanation for listeners who might not have run into this stuff before:
the concept of a ‘gold star’ is all about assigning some kind of moral purity to having not fucked someone in particular.
By pretending this is a thing worth giving a shit about, these people hope to make incredibly sexy people (bisexual and transgender and also you specifically reading this) feel like they can’t participate in the lesbian community because they aren’t pure of twat or whatever.
I will never assume someone who asks about this is asking in good faith. I will tell them to fuck off. They are exclusionists, they are doing an evil thing and they are wrong. Period.
Love you lots bye
people are going around spamming this ask just to try and re-normalize the definition. it’s a terf initiative.
unicornlilac asked:
do you ever wonder why sharks never get any visits from the tooth fairy??
bunjywunjy answered:
teeth fairies are forbidden from visiting sharks because the massive influx of new teeth into fairyland would devalue their use as currency and completely tank their magical economy ✨🦈🦷✨
how could you possibly know whether the tooth fairy visits sharks? have you counted all the loose shark teeth in the ocean & checked whether that number remains consistent from one morning to the next?
alternatively, if you are right this would finally explain the reason for the rule about delivery via pillows; no shark has a pillow
dude, I just asked the sharks, it's not that complicated
favourites among the replies
I wonder if shark teeth are as smooth as the sharks
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Shark teeth have serrated edges, like you’d find on a steak knife.
I’m not sure if I want to get close enough to one to find out if they have non-serrated parts of the teeth.
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Here you go Mr. Shark have my baby I trust you with him
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farewell, from Shark
Shark Boy's alternate origin story
People will say “write what you know!” But I know so little
“Bad books on writing tell you to ‘write what you know’, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
—Joe Haldeman
What a perfectly brutal comment.
write what you know: write the feelings you have. write the smells and the sounds and the sights you experience. write the worlds your own imagination builds.
that’s what it means. it means, instead of trying to write what you’re Supposed To, or write What Sells, or write what everyone else is writing, you should write the things that you yourself see and care about and think. that authenticity shows and it makes readers care about it too.
this image was created by AI using the prompt “Brutalist Amusement Park”
color me amused and brutalised
new nightmare fuel thanks
