Back At It Again

you can always tell how little people actually care about art based on how much they hate modern/contemporary art

''bring back renaissance art'' I bet your ass you can't even definitively tell that movement apart from others

"posing next to art we think we can do'' can you though. can you

>sees a post about the superiority of renaissance art.

>it's baroque.

Year of the tiger getting ready to hand things off to year of the rabbit! 🐯🐰 明けましておめでとうございます!

Do this tomorrow.

The best time to destroy a golf course was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

This is probably my favorite image of all time I first saw it years ago and it has stuck in my head since then. The only vibes I’ll ever need

rice fills me with joy and happiness, but more importantly it fills me with rice

if you want me to consume a new media you MUST catch me at the exact moment when the stars are aligned and the air pressure is equal to the current degree of the sun’s peak against the horizon and all the cosmic energies are perfectly unified (aka my old interest is fading out) or i will nod and say “im adding that to my list!” Knowing theres no chance i will check it out

“unless its a book!” “unless you tell me it has gay people in it!” “this but only for live action shows” “theres a good chance i’ll get to it eventually” no wrong this post is not for you this post is ONLY for bitches who could have a treasured friend recommend them something that sounds grown in a lab to be your personal catnip and, with no choice in the matter, immediately know it will never be the right time to watch/read/listen to it

*survives the horrors by being such a silly goofy guy that my presence fundamentally changes the genre*

I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work

(Part two)

i haaaate when iris by the goo goo dolls comes in when i’m in a store how am i supposed to act normal when you can’t fight the tears that ain’t comin or the moment of truth in your lies when everything feels like the movies yeah you bleed just to know you’re alive

You may find yourself drawing Kermit memes at 2am, and think to yourself how did I get here?

every single server with a “vent channel” is awkward, creepy and toxic so i came up with the idea of a “medical status” channel which i didn’t even have to write rules for everyone just read my mind and is perfectly using it as intended and hopefully it speaks for itself

its so insane to me that a woman not wearing makeup is seen as unprofessional like how did people come to the conclusion that a womans natural face is unprofessional 

‘children should not be exposed to literature about bigotry, violence, etc because they’re Not Prepared For It’ is like one of the most privileged opinions you can possibly have. i hate to tell you this but a lot of children face bigotry and violence in their daily lives! for children of colour and children who are victims of abuse and children in poverty, these things are Actually Happening to them In Real Life! what you are advocating for when you say children should be shielded from these things in media is for the white children with stable loving nuclear families to be shielded from acknowledging the lived realities of their peers!

I saw an experimental standup show by a comedian (his name is Corey White tho he’s not active anymore) who talked extensively about the neglect he experienced in his family of origin and then the sexual abuse and violence he went through in the foster system etc, and at the end he was talking about getting a scholarship to attend a private school. He found The Metamorphosis by chance on the shelves in the library when he was like 15? And when he read it, he saw this character, Gregor, and how he was rejected totally by his family for something that wasn’t at all his fault, and yet his love for them was constant and unconditional.

And being a fifteen year old boy who’d been brutalized his whole life by the people who were meant to care for him, for no reason at all, Corey broke down and cried in the middle of the library. And obviously this stuck with him because he was given this national platform (an hour-long stand up special) and he finished it with this memory. That story and the message he took from it stayed with him long into adulthood, he said suddenly he didn’t feel totally alone in his experience as an abused child. Who would deny a young person that kind of catharsis??

People have even gotten to the point where they’re saying that children can’t experience stories about death, as if death is something “too grim” and “too upsetting” for a child to possibly understand. But children are exposed to death all the time. Children have grandparents who die, parents who die, siblings who die, friends who die, and they know what it’s like go go through that grief. Overall, to act like childhood (which people paint with a very broad brush, sometimes they mean six-year-olds and sometimes they mean middle schoolers?) is a period of complete and total innocence and that children never experience any suffering, any grief, any bigotry, is really deliberately ignorant. People are talking about a fictional, idealized, archetypal Childhood and fictional, idealized, archetypal Children who are nothing but innocence have never experienced any kind of suffering

Caitlyn Doughty, of Ask A Mortician, wrote in one of her books about how her first encounter with death came from watching a child fall off one of the elevated aisleways at the mall, when she (Caitlyn) was eight. And how much it fucked her up, to have that be her first experience with death, and how so much of the driving force of her crusade to have a healthier and more open understanding about death comes from knowing, viscerally, the difference being equipped to process it makes.

And I think the “children aren’t prepared for it” argument is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because people are running on this idea that if you just shield people from something as long as possible they’ll magically develop the maturity to deal with it and that’s not how it fucking works. You’re just leaving them deliberately unprepared and playing chicken with the universe, which doesn’t play chicken.

Also, and I cannot stress this enough: stories are the preparation. Ideally, people explore and experience difficult things in concept before they encounter them in reality. But even in retrospect, having the means to process something that’s already happened to you has major benefits on its long-term effect on you, and there’s much comfort to be had in realizing that you’re not alone.

This is also part of why it’s important to let kids self-pace their development and their exploration– it’s not that information can never be traumatizing to kids, it’s that what kids need and when they need it *varies.*

And why it’s important to teach them HOW to self-pace (e.g, skills like assessing their feelings about content, stepping away from upsetting content, seeking out support for processing content, etc.)

for context these are the poems

also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list: