BLESS ME ANYWAY. I WANT MORE LIFE

i feel like there's a real issue on tumblr with people being unable to meet art where it's at. of course you can critique a piece of art/fiction and you definitely should, but if you walk into a shop where, let's say, they only sell kitchen appliances made out of wood. and you go in there because you heard that this shop is selling a new spatula and then you go into this shop owned by a woodworker who has historically only made kitchen appliances out of wood and it turns out, who would've thought, the spatula is made out of wood. you would seem like an insane person if you went and complained about the fact that it was made out of wood. like yeah man, the shop owner is a woodworker. that's what he does. and maybe his spatula has a different shape than you'd expect, because that shape is easier to carve out of wood. it's still a spatula though. and of course you can be scepticalabout somebody becoming a woodworker at all and you can criticise the type of wood chosen for the task or the personality of the woodworker and you can definitely criticise it if the woodworker hired a fucking zionist to help with the wood carving. you can and should definitely criticise and talk about those things, but like. don't criticise the spatula for being a wooden spatula in a shape that's pretty solid and makes sense for a wooden spatula to be. that's in no way shape or form productive. and you don't have to like the woden spatula! nobody says you have to like it! just criticise it for what it is, keeping those parameters in mind instead of judging it for what it is not. anyway, I thought christopher nolans the odyssey was a pretty good movie