Mark Maggiori western painting study, as a warm-up

yeah u can put "i hate jkr" and "fuck terfs" in ur tumblr bio but. can u listen + reflect when a trans woman criticizes hp fandom without immediately getting defensive.....

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

I've come to the conclusion that loving young royals doesn't mean I can't be critical about it, maybe especially bc I love the show so much I have such strong feelings about it, good and bad and I can love parts of canon and agree with it and appreciate it but I don't have to love it all. I have accepted that it's okay if I don't accept the ending and I don't have to force myself to support it. It's okay to not agree with all of canon and it's okay to not side with all of the creators' intentions/views. Loving a show doesn't mean you have to take everything the writers say on face value and that's the only version that is allowed to exist. Canon isn't everything and fandom is about curating your own experience that makes you happy and not miserable. You don't have to dismiss canon in every aspect and ignore it entirely, that's certainly not what I want but there is a fine line between being canon respectful, allowing some parts to exist and sometimes, yes, you just have to say "fuck canon" and move on for your own sanity and wellbeing

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Isn't it funny how today it’s pretty common belief on here that the idea of 'cringe' and shaming of people who like 'cringe' things is bad. That the big fandoms back in the day that people like to make fun of - superwholock and john green books and twilight and homestuck and whatever was popular at the time - certainly had elements very deserving of critique, but how that critique largely drowned under people pointing and laughing at, the mostly teen girl, fans. Like, we are pretty agreed that this was bad, right? That it’s cruel to actual people and makes it difficult to have genuine conversations about the actual flaws of the media and fandoms in question, right??

And yet here we are today and I see people doing the exact same thing to newer fandoms with the defense that the fans are cringe or, if you're trying to be all moral about it, problematic and possibly evil for liking a popular media. Like, I don’t care about reylo or our flag means death or taylor swift or romantasy novels to any particular extent. I don’t have a horse in this race. But I keep seeing their fans treated as acceptable targets for harrassment or bullying. Posts talking about how immoral they are and then their screenshoted 'proof' is mostly just. Women being passionate about a thing that they love, or god forbid daring to defend it or being bummed about everyone else harrassing them. And I think it's kind of scary how we keep repeating this cycle of designating a media as inherently problematic, therefore all of its fans are problematic, therefore they are deserving of every ounce of mocking and public shaming they get.

something i always find interesting involving the story of Icarus is that he was also warned to not fly to close to the sea. I understand that because he died trying to reach the sun thats the bit people focus on but it wasnt the only way he could have.

this isnt me disagreeing with you at all either! i love your interpatation of the myth and always love reading them!

-mongus anon

no yeah!!! i think there’s also a somewhat weird misconception with that, in a general sense. because the sun isn’t what killed him, even though it’s treated as his killer. it was the plunge into the sea that sealed his fate. both extremes played a factor in his death! you’re so right in the fact that the sea aspect of it is largely overlooked in comparison!! where are my icarian sea stans.

the world would be a much better place if people could accept constructive criticism and admit when they’re wrong

I reopened anons!

I need to constantly remind myself that it's not 2016 and there's actually people that like me and my art 🤧🤧🤧💕

there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.

I'm not very good at suspension of disbelief for horror movies tbh there are a lot of times where I'm like. Masturbation would've fixed this.

while we're here let me just say seeing how many cis women have gotten access to top surgery before literal trans people is going to be my villain origin story

Here's a fun game: if you had to assign an Avatar the Last Airbender character to each of the MunchyMc peeps, who would they be?

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anogie i love you and i love atla so much but i was going crazy trying to assign the characters so i decided i'll just say what kind of a bender munchogies would be

waterbenders: george, puffy

earthbenders: hannah, sam, punz

firebenders: dream, sapnap, velvet

airbenders: sylvee, skeppy

non-benders: bbh, ant

so like the thing with a lot of the #poignant swift lyrics is that theyre just bite sized and the entire song inevitably includes a few lines that are cringe and/or trying too hard (like the anti hero congressman one lollll)

feeling torn re: my bruce portrayal cause on one hand there is the batman that i love as an active critique of brutality and vigilantism thin blue line rhetoric repackaged in a bat costume and a man who learned better kind of narrative over time but then on the other hand there is batman unburied bruce who would not fucking say any of that <3