i don't need to just keep practicing I don't need to just learn to contour or whatever the fuck else I'm 100% happy being bare-faced and the only times i ever felt compelled to do makeup was for other people's benefit!

watch the mfs with zero reading comprehension get ahold of this and act like I'm personally attacking them for wearing makeup

I have never worn makeup in my entire life and if you reblog you will give me the energy I need to continue doing fuck all

If I’m like adding tomato to your sandwich is yummy and you’re like “but I’m deathly allergic to tomatoes what am I supposed to do”

Idk dude. Not eat tomatoes I guess.

I’ve got this old post where I was like hey sometimes it’s fun to try to get a chore done while you’re waiting for water to boil or something. Might help if you have adhd. It’s free deadline.

And I still get people commenting on that post like uhm no some of us have anxiety so bad that we’d pass out if we did that.

Like. Probably don’t do that then?

the beauty of it is that we *could* have made it gay in the original, being queerbaited was a choice because people of this hellsite are so used to it by this point.

friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.

not to be that guy, but i do have an MA in literature and i'm currently halfway through my MLIS—i've been studying this kind of stuff a lot. i highly recommend you try to familiarize themselves with the six frameworks of information literacy (also available in chinese, french, german, italian, persian, portuguese, spanish, and swedish).

this document is pretty short, but the tl;dr of it is that all information (and to that extent, all art) is subjective and ongoing and ever-evolving and requires conversation. it's not a perfect document (kinda patronizing at points tbh), but it's a great start for understanding healthy and literate ways to engage with information in nuanced ways.

while this post was primarily about art and this document is primarily about information, i still want to people to see this because art and information work in tandem—art imitating life and all that. i'm sure i don't need to give examples of art having a tangible effect on our world, and i especially don't need to give examples of the reverse.

i point this out because those with low media literacy are those more likely to not critically engage with art, and those information literacy are those more likely to fall for fake news. it's the same problem just focused in different areas. it's seeing something presented to you and taking it purely at face value without any sort of critical thought or investigation.