- further on what is art: the viewers are interpreting this as art, but the intention of the “artist” was not actually art, so is it art or not? who gets to decide, the viewers or the creator?
- the act of placing the glasses and watching the response (and the response itself being that the viewers treated the glasses as art) as performance art
like is this a critique of postmodernism? does the critique betray itself since (one could argue) the viewers interpreting the glasses as art makes them art? or is that so ridiculous that it doesn’t matter? i could go on
everyone has that one thing they were obsessed with learning about as a kid that never goes away like it could have been years since you last looked something up related to it but the passion is still there man
do me a favour and reblog with what your childhood obsession was like I am so curious about everyone else’s because it can be the most specific thing and it’s amazing
When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.
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I love this comic. I love it so much.
Excuse me while I also talk a bit about Family Guy here.
I used to enjoy Family Guy. Yeah, it was crude and crass but the writing was clever. Some of the jokes were extremely funny. But as time went on, the more they started to care less. Or at least that is how I feel. And the more feminist I became and the more I learned how harmful certain ‘jokes’ are, the more I began to hate. Especially when it comes to Meg.
Meg is not a terrible charecter. She isn’t evil, she’s not a villian. Yet she gets treated like complete and utter crap because….honestly, I don’t know why! The writers say they don’t know how to write teenaged girls but I call bullcrap on that. Meg has been abused by not just Peter but her mother and brother too. Her mother, who should be trying protect her daughter, demeans her in every possible way and that is suppose to be funny. That’s the joke. Meg in pain is the joke.
And isn’t funny.
People say, “It’s just a cartoon” but we know that media influences how people think and having Meg being hurt physically and emotionally is dangerous because there are going to be people who see that and think that is okay. And the way Chris is portrayed also shows how children learn from their parents and can end up being abusers.
This comic really is fantastic
I feel like this is the spiritual sequel to Boy’s Night that none of us knew we needed but we absolutely did
Also, I feel like this brings up a pretty interesting point: Even though Hank Hill is often confused and disappointed with Bobby, he is never physically abusive towards him or anyone in the family, and is willing to show his son he loves him. Bobby may be a constant source of confusion for him, but he’s not below learning to accept his son for who he is, and given that Hank takes a lot of pride in being a red-blooded american man, when american media is so obsessed with the ideal of “comically” abusive and negligent fathers, that’s pretty damn important.
This is a really, REALLY good comic, because it critiques so many things at once: abuse, masculinity, TV families and cartoons, and comics. It’s wonderful!
I know some people will probably
disagree with me on this, but I genuinely believe that beginning
artists need support and encouragement MORE than they need criticism.
Drawing has an extremely steep learning curve, and most of us start
at the bottom of that curve, so it can be incredibly easy to convince
yourself that you are not good enough, and never will be. Criticism
has its time and place on the road to improvement, but sometimes
criticism can make the incredible challenge of learning how to draw
that much more frustrating and demoralizing. Artists often grow and
find their own answers to their problems, and encouragement and
kindness (especially from a skilled artist) can be a powerful tool in
facilitating that growth. If you’re reading this, pass along some
kind words to a fellow artist in need.
concept: it’s been raining for years. there are fish in the offices and whales in the streets, yet strangely the trees are still thriving. it’s very pretty but no one knows what to do, really
