if you dislike your art that much why do you keep making it?
hope this helps
if you dislike your art that much why do you keep making it?
hope this helps
Hey Kas, I’m so sorry about everything that’s happening in Ukraine right now. I’m trying to read about it but all I could find so far were articles and posts written by Americans and videos by Americans, and as you said, they just don’t understand the magnitude of the situation. Do you know any reliable sources that explain what’s happening exactly?
Thank you Jackie and of course I can help you with that. Here a list of reliable Ukrainian sources:
These are the sources that I personally follow, I'm currently working on a couple of posts so I will make this list longer soon.
I have a fondness for graffiti, the tags that crop up around your street, the names you see over and over. It’s like hello stranger. I don’t know you, but I’ve seen your name on postboxes my whole life. I know you print your own stickers and believe in aliens. Sometimes I’ll be on the other side of town and see a tag that’s local to my parents house and I think, oh it’s you! Still carving your name into bus shelter glass. I love the sharpie scrawled blabber and the toilet stall drama, the nick is a bitch doodled on a fence post.
When I was a kid someone had spray painted miss piggy on the side of a bridge that we would pass to get to my grandmas house. I loved her, I used to make my parents drive back around so I could see her if I forgot. One day when I was older they sandblasted piggy away and I was pretty sad. She wasn’t hurting anyone, she was just the little guardian of the bridge.
I was reminded of miss piggy recently when a new piece appeared on my bus route from college. Scratched in white paint over brick it said ‘Why Not?’. Everyday I would get on my bus in the dark and I would travel for an hour and everyday I would think, I can’t do this. And then I would see the tag I would feel a little bit less alone, like at least someone is out there and wants me to be brave. And I would, every day, even though it was the most depressed and anxious point my life.
Suddenly cave paintings made sense to me. Living alone in a world where you know there are others, but you don’t know where they are or how to find them. And then you see a painting of a bear on a cave wall and think yes. People have touched here.
My point is, even if you sandblast, paint over, fine and erase you can’t take away the fact that we are all just humans living together in a mess of colour and language. All throughout our existence too. I think it’s pretty cool.
wishing all my asian american mutuals a very safe and good day today
what's happening right now is absolutely awful and so unfair... to all my black mutuals and non mutuals please take care
What Chris Pratt was attacked for: going to a homophobic church, following the worst people on Instagram, supporting cops
What the MCU cast did: made the most dramatic posts telling everyone to stop and delete their accounts
What Tessa Thompson was attacked for: being a Black woman in the mcu and playing the "first" queer marvel character (in theory, nothing has been done yet because marvel is a pussy and not the good kind)
What Brie Larson was attacked for: playing a strong female superhero
What zendaya was attacked for: being a Black woman in the mcu
What the MCU cast did: absolutely nothing
Make it make sense
Maybe this take is too hot for some of you but trans actors deserve to also be considered for non trans roles
since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past.
i wish the innocent black lives that were lost to police brutality were as defended as random white youtubers who wanna cry because they got called out for being racist and generally out of pocket
Take this with you
to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this
*watches Antoni help people connect with their loved ones using food, knowing how he deeply misses that interaction in his adult life and feels distant from his own family*
*watches Bobby help people create safe, personal homes for themselves, knowing his experience with homelessness and lack of supportive foundation for much of his youth*
*watches Karamo help foster beautiful, understanding communication in parent-child relationships, knowing his own struggles with fatherhood*
*watches Tan and Jonathan encourage people to take time to care for their image and show the person they want to be, while firmly insisting that each person is beautiful, sexy, & gorgeous in what makes them feel good, knowing their own struggles with their identities growing up in environments that pressured them to conform and fade away behind someone else’s ideal image of them*
the mere fact that john boyegas career could be ruined because he's standing up and speaking out against racism while rich white celebrities careers are safe as they do the bare minimum, if anything, is fucking disgusting.
“I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.” John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park June 3rd 2020
if you can’t take direct action but still want to support the black lives matter movement, here are some petitions to help you do so:
black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.
i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.