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like genuinely no shade to that anon but that sort of thing happens a lot where u guys find out xyz black artist is bi or autistic or trans and thats what makes u want to check them out and its kinda obvious u would not care to view them as artist like u do with white people unless u have a conditional interest in a shared identity and its like …at some point ur going to have to be able to consume things made from people not like u and if they happen to have similar traits thats cool and all but ur rlly limiting urself by ignoring art forms by brown ppl unless they have xyz other minority status etc etc

i genuinely love that the way k.a applegate resolves the issue of needing the alien on the team to be able to drop plot crumbs without totally solving everything for the human kids is by making aximili-esgarrouth-isthill a jock who only tangentially paid attention to when his teachers were explaining, like, the andalite equivalent of how to find the cosine of a triangle, and now he's in an astronomically rare circumstance where the fate of an entire species depends on him remembering how to do that. and he's cold sweating trying to recall the answers to homework problems he didn't do. and also he's always lying.

ax is literally experiencing like if you got teleported back several hundred years and everyone was expecting you to explain the precise mechanisms of how cell phones work to them and if you don't come up with a sufficient explanation they're all going to die. And he's not enjoying it.

My favorite was when Ax had a horrible infection in one of his glands and they figure they have to remove it, so they ask him "Where is the Tria gland?" and Ax, who's delirious by this point, literally complains "You said we wouldn't have to know the glands for this test!"

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

"visual art should be totally comprehensible just by sight, it should not require an explanation" is ultimately an argument in favor of cultural hegemony.

any image could easily explain itself to a viewer, and any image could require an external explanation; it's entirely dependent on what the viewer's background knowledge is, it's not a property of the image at all - and "what can a person be assumed to know" is inescapably a cultural, political question.

If you want visual art that's totally comprehensible just by sight, then go read a fucking comic book.

Something to keep in mind…. building muscle is so hard people compete to see who can do it best. If you’re a woman worried about “getting bulky”, i promise you that you cannot achieve that physique by accident. Now go lift weights to increase your bone density & protect yourself from osteoporosis and improve your insulin resistence and eat a fiber + protein dense meal with some carbs to refuel and fat for satiety + energy 🫵

trans women this goes double for you especially the part about eating 🫵 you are not immune to your bones becoming tapioca in your old age pick up the weights and the fork sister we’re all gonna build our new bodies if i have anything to say about it

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.