#sparowhawk

1. What’s your strange superpower? I seem to be pretty good at not dying and getting into college. Does that count?

2. Childhood hero? . . .I really liked Robin Hood. Also pirates in general.

3. Best thing you can cook?  I make good chocolate chip cookies.

4. You have any wilderness survival skills?  Welp I essentially grew up in the wilderness. I’m better in a forest than I am in a city.

5. First ever OC? When I was really little I had a bone shard that was really sharp. I gave it a name and dug holes in the side of a hill for it to live in. I don’t know if that’s what this means.

6. What book to movie adaptation disappointed you the most?  They fucking changed the end of 1 of the books about Hannibal Lector. Ugh. Also I generally don’t like movies anyway, unless I haven’t read the book previously.

7. You’re on your way to fulfilling a dream–what set you on that path?  Determination. That’s not even an Undertale reference.

8.  50 bucks to spend on food. How do you use it?  Never let me shop for myself I will buy donuts and candy and bad things. I hate sweets for how they make me feel after I eat them but man they are nice going in.

9. You can fly anywhere in the world but you have to make it home using other transportation. Where do you go, how do you get home?

Either I go to England and I don’t come home, or I don’t fly anywhere at all and just hide in my dad’s land.

10. What award do you want the most? A diploma from college so I can start living what’s left of my life.

11. Favorite dessert?  Ice cream.

I’ll tag: @koganebunpai , @arourallis, @itstrickstersugar maybe? if you wanted to do it? aa idk

You know what fucking pisses me off about art class

The teacher says “Art doesn’t have a definition, it’s anything” And then makes you draw a goddamn box over and over.

And then they dismiss people with natural talent to make everyone else feel good WHICH WOULD BE FINE EXCEPT FOR THE SHITTY WORLD WE LIVE IN.

If you’re a fish no one makes you climb a goddamn tree and if they do they’re the bigger idiot for thinking you can.

If you’re not an artist and you like drawing, that’s totally okay, but rest assured you haven’t lain awake at night wondering if you’re actually good and torturing yourself with the fear of other artists out there being better.

And even if you’re talented and don’t care what people think, talent isn’t just something that came out of thin air. You had a natural advantage and you did the thing and the difference between you and a person who “Can’t draw” is that you kept at it even when you wanted to die. 

The “Can’t draw” person, on the other hand, either did something else, or became a person who likes art, or both.

But here’s the fucking problem. When those “Can’t draw” people, or even people who “Can draw”, but ESPECIALLY the “Can’t draw” people or the ones who gave up and became teachers, try and define art, they often completely ruin it for the people who are actually artists.

If anything is art, then a chair is art, or a soda can, but you know that’s not true. Art went into it, but it is not in itself art. The whole Bearded Baby fallacy exists a lot in art, defining what is or isn’t art and while that’s great and all, some lines need to be drawn- no pun intended.

Art is the purest form of talent, inspiration, hard work, idealism, love, and masochism to have the sheer courage to exist in a world both so entitled and thankless at once. 

People who can’t draw, and money, and anything outside the artist are often what decide if the art itself is “Worth it.” They want art for nothing, all the time, even though they desire it, and they refuse to acknowledge all the hard work that went into it. They collect it and sweat over it and argue but as soon as someone tells them to pay the artist they get all entitled and ballsy.

People also think that women can’t have self esteem and you know what that’s called? Being a fucking asshole and a sexist pig.

Art is something the artist often spent years on, maybe their entire life. Art is something that not just anyone can do. Art is a fucking beautiful thing and you can eat my entire ass if you are actually that entitled.

Of course, people can think that, but that’s where modern art comes in. Some asshole thinks they’re deep, and because they either have no actual talent, or they went to some prestigious pretentious school, they think it matters. And to this dull and materialistic world, who is so used to fuckin’ bowls of fruit and shit and all “Great art” being in the past, it probably does.

But art to someone who actually gives a shit, who wants to be remembered, who tries their damnedest and who gives their best to their work, is like a child.

You don’t let the world define your child’s worth, do you? At least, you hope to god the world doesn’t, even though you know it does, because society’s rules are fucked and skewed and everywhere but right. But you created the art yourself. You put the work into it, and you alone should be the one to decide if it is “Art”. 

U know what

I got sai and got rlly excited n tried to mess with this picture but only ended up using the blend tool