#it’s just so honest

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[kiisaes]

momma's boy

#got emotional over how katsuki was loved from the start by everyone #and in my honest opinion i think mitsuki would be super crazy proud of her stupid son #and also would think it's so funny he looks just like her #bnha #mha #bakugou katsuki #bakugou mitsuki #fan art #becki draws stuff n stuff

[bixels]

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!

#personal #my art #Fuck your fake ass 'i am very smart!' intellectualizing “observations” and open your god damn ears. #do something for fucks sake. it's sickening seeing videos of ai crap and seeing rows and rows of repliers using their one brain synapse #to type “wow! very exciting!” “haha this is kind of scary! but in a really interesting way!” #and then they go about their day without a second thought while creative industries burn around them #i go to one of america's top tech schools too and it's enough to make you wanna tear our your hair #every day it's seminars and talks about “the potential consequences of ai!” when the consequences are happening NOW #NO MORE DISCUSSING NO MORE INTELLECTUALIZING NO MORE SOCRATIC SEMINARS NO MORE DEBATING. ACT YOU COWARDS #people are getting hurt RIGHT NOW. stop pretending to care when you clearly don't! just be honest and say you wanna make money #my time here has really made me hate academic spaces. you people are so god damn useless and cowardly.

[necrytalkie1]

hu ming paintings

shooting practice (2004)

enemy coming and... (2005)

enemy invassion alarm (2006)

big ant (2006)

today, I took a rest (2007)

#hu ming #ok 2 rb #literally just making this so i can look at them more easily lol. shes one of my favorite artists ever i have to be honest #art

[justanothersquidblog]

The Cuntification of Acht Ahato Mizuta Dedf1sh

#my art #splatoon #splatoon 3 #callie cuttlefish #callie splatoon #im gonna be honest i just added her cause it felt right #but i realized this can be also read as #calf1sh #so yay! #dedf1sh #acht splatoon #acht #mizuta ahato #ahato mizuta #side order

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

#it's such an ugly word but like. self-pleasure is good‚ actually #it's good to know yourself and what you like and lovingly treat yourself to it! #like similarly 'meretricious' is extremely tempting if you ignore the underlying metaphor #but. hard to. #language #and quite frankly i think people who whip out 'masturbatory' in this sneering sort of way #are leveraging‚ if we're honest with ourselves‚ a particular framing of it as a gross thing that boys do #because like. when have you ever heard a *woman's* self-indulgent art described as masturbatory #like don't get me wrong we absolutely still dismiss it! but we dismiss it in other ways #that are usually about how embarrassing her *yearning* is #and so even our sneering is reinforcing an idea that men Act whereas women Feel #anyway this was prompted by some things but i shoved it in the queue so now i forget what lol #so here you are getting some contextless thoughts on the use of 'masturbatory' as sneering dismissive assessment! #just what you were hoping for i'm sure :)

[lotus-pear]

HAPPY 114‼️‼️ take these silly doodles i did

#watching dazai have an aneurysm while chuuya yelled at him to stop bitching was so funny #also not him just sitting there while dazai used his broken bloody arms and legs to pull fyodor out😭 #bitch you have gravity manipulation USE IT. #i'm gonna be so honest i don't think meursault arc is over #sigh....ada reunion in 2025....manifesting #anyway i loved skk this chp they were stupid asf as usual #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[kyurochurro]

troubles that come with tribbles...

(aka a good excuse to draw one of my fav episodes and fav crew members while coming back from a heavy week at uni ;D)

#churro art #my art #digital art #illustration #fanart #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #james kirk #james t kirk #jim kirk #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #nyota uhura #tribbles #AHHH I LOVE HOW THIS ONE CAME OUTTTT #IT CAME OUT SO SMOOTH AND CLEAN AND IDK I JUST LOVE HOW THESE 3 LOOK HERE!!! :d #okay quick honest moment: uni has been HEAVY this past... jeez 2 weeks? #so ive been a bit burnt out and riddled with headaches #not to mention barely any time to indulge in star trek SOBS T_T #but its okay!! im really enjoying my time in class and with my peers; i have some real awesome professors!! just... so much homework LMAO #anyways this past week ive barely drawn its kinda killing me... #but i started this yesterday as a sketch and just took the first half of today to draw this out and gosh im so in love with how it looks!! #helped a lot as a warmup AND a brain break LOL #u know me if i have the chance to draw uhura im GONNA TAKE ITTTT shes such a cutie #also can i just say that the green uniform shirt LOOKS SO GOOD ON KIRK I LOVEEE ITTT i cant believe ive barely drawn him in it ...

[cattnipt]

Once a weapon always a weapon !

saw this post and have not stopped thinking about it since so this is inspired by that

#jrwi #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #just roll with it #I'll be honest drawing this took so long that I've started to hate it #happens ough #catt art

[staticbluue]

HAPPY NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES DAY!!!

I usually don't manage anything more than a doodle for this international holiday, but this year Neil gets the colored, shaded piece he deserves!!

#neil banging out the tunes #btw i really enjoyed drawing neil and i have pet portrait commissions open #so if you like this drawing and have rats/know someone who has rats #please consider commissioning me 👉👈 #commissions open #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #animal art #rats #oh also he's playing out of touch #to be quite honest not for any tumblr reasons as it's not thursday #it's just my absolute favorite song #my art #fetch me neil #april 13 #4/13

[ruporas]

thinking about wolfwood (ID in alt text)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #from awhile ago! i forgot to upload it here i think #i realized looking back at this. wolfwood has shrunk even more. DFGMKSGMS im sorry everyone has to bear with that. short woowoo #is engrained into my bones.... but anyway. im a big fan of vash yearning if that was not obvious from my previous comics. #not to say wolfwood doesnt do the same ofc... but im just thinking about vash's layers of repression in emotions and how he holds it #all together for the most part.... and when he yearns it's not like a dopey lovesick smile or anything. his cheeks are red but he's all “:( #bc he's Shy about it. and troubled by how much he's thinking about ww. but he can't help it and even less so when ww is right there #it's a very honest expression from someone like vash i think. and wolfwood can start to tell when he's faced with it and in turn #also gets embarrassed . silly the both of them #ruporas art

[cowboythewizard726]

woah-ho-ho-dude don't mean to alarm you or anything but has anyone ever told you that you've got some pretty beautiful majestic gorgeous eyes right there just a pair of completely absolutely striking ocular organs you've got in there man like jesus those are some pretty stunning irises dude like wow man

#gotta chew on this guys face #WOAH #laios../...save me laios.. svae me.... #kabru can u fight be honest #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #dunmeshi laios #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #im not. #gay. #or anything #im just #really observant #alright #alrigth #LAIOS #hey boy do you l #smile emoji #hes so beautiful #big fan of this freak jesus christ

[officialspec]

character redesigns for an old project idea

#characters by me and steve cat_gh0ul as per usual #oc #ocs #candy #alex #my art #ill be honest im just posting these so lesbians in my notifs can bark at them. bc im an ally

[junebugdunes]

this guy amirite

#im gonna be honest i liked papyrus a normal amount for a long time #but everyone on here draws him so fun and silly so i decided to rewatch a playthrough just to see him again #hes a really cool character #papyrus #undertale #undertale fanart #my art

[itsumilucy]

OKAY THIS SCENE

The look Lucifer is giving is enough to start but the fact that if you listen closely you can hear him go "ugh this guy." I CAN'T EVEN.

Lucifer is just like "Yeah sure did all the hard work but why not show up after it all."

#hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin hotel #alastor #lucifer morningstar #I loved this finale so much #The morningstars just kicking ass too #Tbh everyone was just awesome this last episode #Nifty is the mvp for Adam though lets be honest #Excited for what they do in season two

[haliaiii]

yusuke doodle I colored in :)

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #p5 #yusuke kitagawa #my art #art #digital art #fanart #sketch #procreate #haliai art #I’m getting back into persona! #just started okamura’s palace #haru is super sweet I love her 😔 #yusuke’s probably becoming my favorite character tho #he’s so malice mizer coded imma be honest