#but my history class is important

[iridescentis]

i have a 3hr break 😭😭

who allowed this

[read-write-thrive]

I wanted to get a head start on palasaki week and now I’m building out a reverse AU. why do I keep doing this to myself I can’t keep starting new stuff without finishing the old stuff 😭

[ghostpebble]

thinking about that time in history class where i didn't know the answer to a question asking something like "who was the man that did blah blah blah in blah blah blah" so i just said fuck it, wrote "john" because all guys back then were named john, and turned it in

and i got it right

[swampybogg]

☠️🥀

[picaroroboto]

When photography first began to be popularized, many painters were worried they'd be out of a job. This might seem ridiculous to us now because we think of photography and painting as two different mediums with their own strengths and weaknesses, but that's only thanks to decades of technological and cultural development in the meantime. Even early photos could capture portraits and landscapes far quicker and easier than any painting, so in response painters began moving away from direct representation of reality and narrative and towards abstraction. Various movements and ideas that had been in development beforehand coallesced into what we now call "Modern Art" and everything that entails: abstract art, cubism, surrealism, color block, so on and so forth. And regardless of what you think of modern art it has solidified and stuck around.

Common knowledge says that history repeats itself, and the same thing goes for art history since it is a part of history. What we see now with the rise of AI "art" is the established forms being challenged by new technology. The painters of the 20th century ensured that painting survived by defining what was essential and unique about painting that other mediums couldn't do; what all artists of the 21st century have to do now is define what is essential about human-made art that AI can't do. What does it mean for a piece of art to be "human-made" - why is it important that it's "human", what does it mean that it was "made"?

To be honest I'm not sure how creative jobs will survive in a world that values profits over meaning. But I think it's absolutely essential to emotional/mental/spiritual survival as an artist to learn to love the process of making a thing more than the finished product. Because AI can make a finished product, but it can't make it: it can't make decisions and follow impulses in the moment, it experiences none of the psychological benefits of achieving the flow state or the satisfaction of working with your hands. That's what it's all about, that's what will keep us human, not just art but the act of making art.

[fiapple]

Okay, you know that scene in Catwoman v.1 where Selina begs Maggie to scream, cry, lash out, & curse her rather than turn to a darker version of herself?

I need you to understand that, if it were written with any sense of integrity, that would be the attitude Bruce has towards Jason post-resurrection. At least after becoming privy to the fact that Jason does not personally blame Bruce for his death.

In my opinion, Bruce would sell his arm for a penny on a streetcorner providing it gave Jason non-homicidal means of coping, for Jason to view him as responsible, as a second murderer. For him to curse "hereoism", & vigilantes, & the whole fucking lifestyle- decry it as an unbelievable farce & leave it all behind to go back to being Jason Todd of Crime Alley, who only did what he had to do to survive. Bruce would be so far beyond willing to carry that weight if it meant his boy would be off the track of his homicidally self-destructive rampage. If it meant Jason realizing he is more than just a revenant, that he is alive, that he can have a life.

The only way it makes any sense to me is if Bruce would accept, even embrace a world in which Jason views him as a horrible dad, an irredeemable piece of shit who is directly responsible for his murder, if it just meant that Jason did not have to utterly sacrafice his sense of humanity & compassion to make it through the world. He'd give near anything for it or it makes no sense. That's his son. His son who was dead but is now alive, for all he does not seem to grasp that himself.

Also he should have let Jason pop the clown. Not even for ethical reasons, but in the chase of giving Jason a chance at the realization in the world they do live in where Jason will not allow himself to view Bruce that way. Because he refuses to harm his son, or let him be taken in another explosion. Not when he just got him back, not when his son has not even gotten the chance to truly come back to life.

(I also think it would be a far more interesting jumping-off point post-utrh for Jason, but that's somewhat besides the point.)

[vioyume]

Anyone else just go along with pieces of bible stories from other media (ARGs, TV shows, games, etc) and then just put the pieces together yourself just because you can’t be bother reading the actual bible?

[theoogtree]

Okay Lysandre literally just. "Whether or not I commit a world extinction event lies on your shoulders" sir I am a 10 year old that got my first Pokemon 4 days ago.

[passsionfish]

I dont really make posts like this but

look I don't watch the news and Im not gonna lie I don't really understand politics and all that much but, even so, even from the little info ive gotten from just tumblr. its uhm i dont think its that hard?? to understand that all the stuff going on in palestine right now is incredibly fucked up? I dont pretend to know how like. the land and stuff works but i know there is nothing that justifies killing so many people.and KIDS god its. a lot. its really fucked up. I dont really like cursing idk it just doesnt really, i dont feel the need to so know im using it now to convey my strong feelings. so this is me trying to help how i can with just like. internet uhh exposure sorta thing? yknow. talking about it.y eah. if you somehow are seeing all this and thinking its fine? please block me. I dont want you here. Free Palestine

[navysealt4t]

trying to remind myself high school doesn’t determine my entire future. trying not to cry and explode everywhere. kinda failing

[like-eachothersghosts]

it sucks so much ass that i can’t use any of my paintings for my portfolio because they’re all fanart :( you might say ‘oh jey, why don’t you just paint other things?’ very easy answer to that. i don’t want to :) i paint for myself and i don’t want to have to do things i won’t enjoy for the sake of a portfolio

[crossbackpoke-check]

about to be sooo nosy so. my apologies. but. morgan frost? girlfriend? do share (or don’t! again this is so nosy i’m sorry)

for legal purposes i can neither confirm nor deny anything about morgan and his girlfriend but afaik i think he’s single right now? at one point (within the past four years 😭) he did for sure have a girlfriend and that is the extent of my wag knowledge

[nordic-language-love]

Can someone please tell me the benefits of giving kids smartphones

[mainepdf]

why is my fucking period here

[thedeafprophet]

i think before the game ever wrote about revolutionaries, it should have been required to take a history course on the long 19th century and the age of revolution and learn like, what actually happend. and the context

because frankly in my view early rev writing is just... insulting, historically

[polutek]

I think its time to redesing my ponysona

(I'm doing my best not to do what I'm supposed to do today)