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going into a bougie supermarket makes me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik standing in the russian palace

The best part of bad highly collaborative art like movies is that you get people of wildly varying competency so you get to see talent individuals making interesting creative choices get dragged down as the ship piloted and crewed by buffoons steers directly into an iceberg

The best part of bad highly individualized art like novels is that you get a direct look into the very special brains of some of the oddest and most overconfident people on the planet.

The best part of bad commercial art like video games is that you get to witness a production dumpster fire that by any measure of decency should never have seen the light of day but thanks to sunk cost the biggest chumps in the world still gotta try and sell you on it.

#what the fuck happened here

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

reblog it, because Russia can´t

Thanks Obama 

Wtf

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now

Domestic silk moth is just being friendly

Now the moth is banned in Russia

…well what the fuck is this

Art.

forget Hal and Liam “Inviting Angst” O’Brien for a moment—if something happens to Shadia, if she’s hurt or killed, it is going to WRECK Thaisha. She’s the irresponsible one, at least towards her family. She’s the one who runs off again and again into danger, while her children and husband stay safe at home. They were supposed to be safe at home. How will she possibly cope if she loses forever the chance to be a better mother, not because she was off having dangerous adventures but because she wasn’t there to protect them?

And you know the discourse would be non-existent if Hal and Thaisha's roles were swapped. Hal isn't "safe at home" either. He's taking on a bunch of very dangerous people in the city. In fact, I'd say that the Schemers' whole deal is that home is very much not a safe place to be right now. Also, irresponsible? She's trying to save the world not going fucking cave diving.

I think some of y'all don't know what people in their 30s look like.

In the real world people in their 30's mostly don't look meaningfully older than people in their 20's. Once you stop looking like a teenager you sort of just look like an adult for several decades.

honestly you all are so annoying because motherhood IS interesting but fandom people are simultaneously obsessed with deciding that every woman has motherly qualities and completely disinterested in actually exploring motherhood as a role that informs a character. I do think exploring a character being a mother can be wildly interesting if they are canonically one, but because of misogyny, people just view motherhood as a totally unremarkable naturalized state that all women must inhabit!

And if a character is a mother in canon and is a bad one, or even just realistically flawed at it, fandom will drag her through the dirt and beat her with hammers. A bad mother is pretty much the worst thing a fictional woman can be.

Aabria is god's strongest soldier for making Thaisha a mother.

We want Flawed Female Characters! No, not THOSE flaws. 😕 Those aren't sexy, COOL flaws. You know, the ones that I don't think actually SHOULD be considered flaws, that I might even feel personally judged for. The "unjustly martyred by the court of public opinion" kind of flaws. So like a "flawed" woman who's actually kind of a Saint in a way. I didn't want, like, FLAW flaws. What she did was WRONG and that makes her a BAD PERSON, and how can you justify that? If you still like her after what she did, that makes YOU a Bad Person too. Ugh, disgusting. 😕 But anyway, WHY isn't anyone writing flawed female characters?

RIP Julien you would’ve loved vaping, dating apps, doing bumps, and Instagram reels.

Man posting nothing but thirst traps and passive aggressive instagram stories about honor.

I must have very good taste in CR mutuals cause I am seeing some excellent discourse on how Bolaire could either be a weapon who has outlived his use and is doing the best he can with his condition or he's a malicious serial killer who lied to Hal about his motives and who Thjazi hated not because he was an object but because he was a bad person, because at the end of the day the most important thing is that either variant can have psychologically and physiologically freaky sex with Hal.

this rhetoric about art ESPECIALLY books being “traumatic” is inherently right wing and censorious. to insist that a work of fiction can corrupt is deeply puritan moralist thinking and it’s STUPID. some things SHOULD make you uncomfortable.

I am thrilled by Liam, Marisha, and Taliesin at the same table, but I think I may be even more thrilled that the Schemers table is just the arts & culture scene of a mid-sized city. These people should be on a nonprofit board together. She Should Be At The Fundraising Gala.

Imagine being Shadia Fang rn. Your uncle was just executed. The guy your mom failed to set you up with died, but don't worry, he got better. There's also an ancient godkilling relic that needs your dad carnally and you have until Wednesday to perfect your new juggling routine