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People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

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I would really like A Pizza

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your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. i would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

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2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago

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malls are dying because they don't have blacksmith, apothecary, alehouse or peddler's

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I didn’t know this on my first read, but all the fuckery with Jonathan’s letters is SUCH a classic gothic lit element, seen primarily with women. A great example is The Woman in White, where the female characters have to go to wild lengths to make sure the mail they send is actually making it out of the house. Even when they know it’s being tampered with or stolen, they have to mask this knowledge, because they live in the power of the ones doing it and would only endanger themselves if they brought it up. Being in a position where the only power you have is putting words to paper, and even that is being stolen from you.

Anyway this has been post #462 of how much I love our gothic Heroine Jonathan Harker

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Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive,  But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point  Every time I see them it boggles me

(their account)

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Color theory: there are several colors

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I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

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rip magneto you would have loved killing elon musk

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Happy 10th anniversary, The Witcher 3!

This game is what inspired me to get into landscape painting more seriously. Here are the related landscapes I've painted throughout the years :)

all available as prints

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The Growth of Sauce Cat.

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And even if you did all that and you got a bad grade, even if you failed, even if it was the worst thing you ever wrote, I promise you, I PROMISE YOU, you learned something.

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but you won't build you the the muscles.