As someone who does ceramics, that twisted, broken up fork would make an excellent tool for slipping and scoring, or maybe even just texturing. It would make a super cute bug print, or make easy, perfectly spaced lines at a farther difference than a typical fork. It can be used for creating, rather than just feeding some giant machine. Just because it wouldn’t be particularly good at being used as it is expected to be used, which is not to say that a creative person couldn’t find a way to make it work, does not make it useless. In the right hands, even the most seemingly “useless” object can be functional, or even groundbreaking in the right hands.
Also, people aren’t objects, and you dont need to be able to “use” them in order for them to exist.
Although the third item may not be useful as a fork, it may not be a fork at all. It might be a spongulator or breckinaid or wizmark. I don’t know,
it’s none of my business, I’m not a toolologist or a breckinmonger; I am only am amateur curator of mysterious artifacts. I
(Whatever that particular strange item is, I’m sure that some archaeologist has one of its siblings in a drawer somewhere, labeled as a “ritual object.” We’ve probably been making them since the Bronze Age. Scholars probably throw up their hands helplessly when another one of these comes up; they debate their origins, label them as a fragment of a lost conversation with unknown gods.)
But the picture presents a series of items, presented as if they already have a relationship with each other, in which one of the items has failed. And, like, I’m not pretending to be an Art Critique here, but I feel like we got over that in the early 1900s with the Surrealists, yeah?
That’s the literal entire plot of The Ugly Duckling (1843).
Just because something’s been plonked down in context with some other things that it vaguely resembles doesn’t mean that it’s somehow Bad, because it fails to Resemble the Other Things, especially if it’s a pile of things that somebody arranged. The person who arranged the photograph deliberately arranged a context to make it seem as if the item had failed at being a fork. But if they had taken the same non-matching item and lit it artistically, then that same artist would be demanding accolades for their Very Original Picture of a Breckinaid.
Figure 2. Breckinaids are frequently exploited by artists and upcyclers, due to their abundance and versatility. They are commonly thought to be more useful, beautiful and valuable than forks, although, of course, that is not everything.
However, all that being said: as OP says, people aren’t forks or breckinaids (or even wizmarks). And we are not measured by our ability to fork or breck.
Although, obviously, we are all obligated to give a fork about each other.
These images are not explicit. These pictures show two adults, engaging in consensual kissing. That’s it. It isn’t violent, it isn’t pornographic. It’s literally just two adult humans sharing a kiss.
It’s ludicrous and insulting that – especially in 2018 – this is flagged, either by some sort of badly-designed algorithm, or by shitty homophobic people.
And to just restate something that I reblogged a little bit ago:
the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression.
I am so lucky. I am so massively lucky and privileged. I’m rich, I’m white, I’m a CIS male in a heterosexual relationship. I can look just about anywhere in the world and see myself represented in art and media. My experience has been normalized to the exclusion and oppression of people who don’t share that experience.
That. Must. Change.
I can only imagine what it must feel like to fight every second of ever day just to exist in a world that is filled with people who share my demographic (but not my values) using their wealth and power and privilege to attack you, simply for being who you are, for existing. I can only imagine how terrible and suffocating and exhausting that must be.
According to marginalized and vulnerable people, this change in policy will directly hurt them, and that’s indefensible.
The ridiculousness of this policy change can be simply illustrated by the image here being flagged. Why was it flagged? Because homophobia is rampant and too many people who should stand up against it are cowards who don’t want to risk their own wealth and privilege in the service of people who can’t defend themselves.
I applaud and admire and respect the hell out of everyone in the LGBTQ community here who have formed networks and friendships and relationships and support structures for each other. You have worked so hard to create and maintain a safe space for each other, and I’m embarrassed, appalled, and furious that people who look like me are making your lives – hell, your very existence – so hard.
I’m just one person, and maybe it won’t matter or make a difference, but I stand with you, not just on this website, but in our entire universe. I see you. I love you. I value you.
It’s not because it’s gay idiots the bots just don’t work because it’s tumblr and they never fix things for real. Examples of other posts that have “adult content”:
I’m screaming tumblr’s system flagged themselves. Can we get more ironic?
“Labor Day on the Beach” by J. C. Leyendecker, 1932
It’s quite sad that this artwork and many others like it are being censored from tumblr soon. If nothing else, this should serve as a reminder to always archive as much as you can, and keep copies on multiple HDD’s, especially works of art and anything important to you!
What I really want to know, is does the body decompose? Does it just stay there forever? I’m not an expert on moon science, but I want answers.
moon science fact: since there is little to no atmosphere on the moon, your body would probably not decompose, but it would get hit with like hella amounts of radiation from the sun and be kinda radioactive
I’ve always wanted my corpse to be eternal and radioactive
I did this last year and inexplicably turned out to be eligible for Medicaid in WV, which I STILL have. Absolute and total lifechanger that’s letting me go to school instead of having to work full time.
Copying @xfreischutz‘s tags because it was a really good point. The dates for now are the same as last year. Get out there and get you your health insurance!
(Personal note: I qualified for Medicaid in Pennsylvania last year and I wasn’t expecting it. It really does help if you do it.)
NOTE – the Trump administration has allowed the sale of short term and catastrophic coverage plans. DO NOT BUY THESE. THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU. THEY ARE PREDATORY.
Make sure, if you qualify for ACA coverage, that you are purchasing a plan that is at least Silver tier!
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