May 2013
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April 2013
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Anonymous asked: It is more about don't liking a female character because of her flaws while at the same time they like a male character and they justify the same flaws.
gingerhaze:
From a message:
I don’t think you can really say that there’s no such thing as a bad female character. And the way you’re approaching this is (possibly unintentionally) indicating that you believe that. We very much do have a problem in fiction works where some writers over-sexualize female characters instead of developing their personalities -This is a problem because in same...
If you don’t have a massive alternative universe in your head with developed people and stories you’re lying
March 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
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I’m directing my thesis this semester in a direction inspired by Keith Haring. My plan is to come up with a bunch of designs and ultimately print those on to products I’d eventually sell. The only problem I’m having is coming up with a theme or focus for the designs. I’m finding it difficult to not just be a knock off of Keith Haring, but the simplicity and almost universal...
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I finally saw Lincoln, and it may just rank among my favorite movies ever. It was just phenomenal.
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I really should put some serious thought into what I’m doing for my thesis this coming semester but instead I’m making my fingers raw trying to learn Iron and Wine songs on guitar.
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I reviewed "Big Easy Express", a documentary about... →
brofisting:
I also talk a bit about authenticity of experience, and what that might mean, if anything.
I push this essay a lot but your review is really touching on ideas described in Jean Baudrillard’s essay “Simulation and Simulacra.” While I don’t think there’s a good argument for how artificially created events (a deeply flawed phrase) are not real...
December 2012
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Used to be that I never had sex dreams , now when I do they are never erotic and usually stress induced.
November 2012
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gingerhaze:
I walk in front of a car just about every week because I’m a dumbass. This has become a far too frequent fantasy.
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Einstein’s phrase “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” defines much of my experience at MICA. Every year it’s gotten increasingly harder to find the motivation to pick up a pen again and it’s shown no signs of getting any better. Here I am right now skipping class because I didn’t do any work yesterday and now I’m struggling to get myself to sit down...
October 2012
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You Are Not So Smart →
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
Over the past few weeks we’ve been reading a whol stack of articles from a site called Your Are Not So Smart which bill itself as “a celebration of self delusion”. These are favourites so far:
The Benjamin Franklin Effect - You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm. Selling Out - Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by...
September 2012
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August 2012
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kaeferlein replied to your post: Today I claimed the title of being the first to fall asleep in the senior studios
nope, actually i did that yesterday
YOU FIEND!
Today I claimed the title of being the first to...
its only the third day of class
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AJOHNNY: If I ever become a freshman-year writing... →
ajohnny:
If I ever become a freshman-year writing professor — not that I ever plan to go down that road, but let’s pretend — I’d assign political interviews and news commentaries as study texts. Few sources better promise the effort of separating a text from its surrounding prejudices, what I see from …
In regards to the Huffington’s Post article about Paul Ryan’s stance on...
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUUUCK: Arizona lawmakers gave... →
methodistcoloringbook:
veggielezzyfemmie:
Arizona lawmakers gave final passage to three anti-abortion bills Tuesday afternoon, including one that declares pregnancies in the state begin two weeks before conception.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy; a bill to protect doctors from being sued if...
OH HOW WONDERFUL
Just a week before my senior year starts, I realize I some how miscounted for 2 studio classes and now my schedule is pretty much worthless and my senior year is going to be a giant fucking crisis. Good. Good.
