#reading practices

[the-everqueen]

i think maybe the problem with kuang's "yellowface" is that there ISN'T a constructive way to write that kind of story. either you do what she did, and make the white protag a parody of personhood (which further obscures the material and systemic realities of racism in the US, while allowing white readers a sort of...distance from id-ing with a Bad Person). or you write something very subtle, with the understanding that readers and reviewers might totally miss the mark, rendering your "critique" worthless. either you write a popular, obvious satire, or you--idk, don't, i guess. because i'm not entirely sure who this book is FOR. we KNOW whiteness hates us. we KNOW we're the Other. we know how they think about us. and white people based entire (economic, social) systems around antiblack, anti-indigenous hierarchies that profits off our creative labor while denying us personhood. so they're aware, too. no matter how much they pretend ignorance.

[tothechaos]

hello my fellow Horror And Houses fans.... i have come to recommend the book "horror in architecture" and its sequel "horror in architecture; the reanimated edition" by joshua comaroff and ong ker-shing to you all. ive been reading horror in architecture for the past couple days and it is excellent

[bruciemilf]

I think Bruce's anti-murder philosophy would translate better if it wasn't portrayed by writers who obviously want him to kill someone lol

[umulata]

good news! not to worry: the match is officially freaked

[gomzdrawfr]

light study with cowboy Price

alt version + ref used:

[mebis-art-dump]

She is so cool

[ethicopoliticolit]

Dwelling too long on problems of rabbinic self-definition or the issue of originality in traditional literature may be missing the point, however. The question is less to determine if the rabbis thought they were doing something ‘new’ when they wrote the classic texts, than to consider what this enterprise is all about on its own terms. [Para.] Let us consider, then, the issue of the relationship of Torah to the vast body of literature that attempts to comment upon, elucidate or explain the Torah—that is, the great traditional texts of postbiblical history. Or, to use the language of the tradition, let us ask: what is the connection between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah? In place of the modern issue of originality I would suggest that the Oral Torah had a different goal: namely a special kind of interaction.

—Barry W. Holtz, “Introduction: On Reading Jewish Texts,” Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts (Summit Books, 1984)

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) you guys even fuck w/ the flash on here???

[blackynsupremacy]

black girls,

make the content you want.

i’m serious.

idc if you think it’s gonna flop.

idc if you think you’re a terrible writer or artist.

idc if you believe that character/celebrity/athlete/whoever likes black girls or not. (who cares what the fandom says anyway!)

idc if you’re the first and only one to start that _____ x black reader tag.

make the content you want to see!

do it for you most importantly! (you will inspire others ofc)

in conclusion, you won’t get it if you won’t make it.

[the-everqueen]

on the other hand re: kuang the book *i* want literally couldn't have been published by a major publisher or accrued starred reviews because the nature of writing novels for a living in our current world hinges on one of five publishing houses wanting to buy your book, at least if you want to make any kind of living, and like...i DO want nonwhite writers to be making a living, i DO understand that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house and it's unfair to place that burden on the like, handful of nonwhite writers that publishing has deigned to let join the table, instead of creating a better system together. and i know from experience (this fucking website) that when nonwhite writers make really subtle, artful, critical works, sometimes white readers just reduce that to "oh this is about being [insert identity here]" because they didn't like how the author handled one minor plot point or because the author didn't literally spell out "this action is racist" alongside certain characters.

[applestruda]

doing some background practice again! this time its impulse's base

[starscream-is-my-wife]

This is part 1 of a continuation for my other post where LL Megatron gets trapped in the G1 universe, I was thinking about how someone would go insane in this cartoon world and thought "what if Megatron had someone else to accompany him" so, I gave Starscream an existential crisis

Edit: pt 2 here

[lokh]

sketchies..... wanted to practice drawing various snakes

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

[akiiame-blog]

Maybe this could cheer some people up, but I finally drew a Mario x Peach proposal

[buppkizz]

engie birthday pt 2...a gift from spy