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Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · last wk.

bluesky is so good for libbing tf out... I am just so excited, both because the dems won big and because they won with candidates who weren't sclerotic old fucks with no imagination

cookstrr!@itscookstrr.bsky.social · 2w ago

got distracted by Patrick Stewart dying but here's the link to my It's Bunlith! article nyairhasablog.wordpress.com/2026/10/28/i...

It’s Bunlith! (First Impressions)

If this is what the highs look like with this show, keep ’em coming!

nyairhasablog.wordpress.com

cookstrr!@itscookstrr.bsky.social · 2w ago

started reading Eleanor Johnson's Scream with Me (!!!) and got hit with this gorgeous passage about the role art plays in politics (!!!!) which I also happen to discuss in my recent review of It's Bunlith! on my blog

White text on a black background that reads: "Now, this turn to art may seem avoidant or apolitical; for me, it's anything but. I have long believed-and long argued, both in my teaching and my writing-- that art is where the most complex social problems and traumas get worked through and processed, sometimes long before a culture is fully prepared to grapple with those problems and traumas in mainstream public discourse. Art is where we store, analyze, and hone our secret social fears and hopes, our desires and demons, long before we're ready to talk about them clearly or articulately on the news. Studying and teaching art, for that reason, is always political, and always has the capacity to do real activist work. Moreover, the power of art to represent and immerse us in complex social problems exceeds -and sometimes confounds- what an author's or director's own vision may have been, because art takes on its fullest life once it interfaces with an audience. Sometimes, it takes years--even decades-for a culture to consciously recognize that a particular work of art was handling some thorny, complex, or not- fully-articulable topic. Often, innovative works of art speak to contemporaneous sociopolitical dynamics that are just starting to get serious attention in the public eye. The power of art is to create an experiential arena within which readers or viewers can witness- and to some extent experience-those dynamics. Art, that is, both reflects and accelerates social change, and does so by inviting readers or viewers to participate in the imaginative world the artwork creates.
Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2w ago

glad patrick stewart got to do just about everything he felt like and have a good time doing it, from star trek to shakespeare to american dad to random old PC games like Lands of Lore. nice full life

cookstrr!@itscookstrr.bsky.social · 2w ago

started reading Eleanor Johnson's Scream with Me (!!!) and got hit with this gorgeous passage about the role art plays in politics (!!!!) which I also happen to discuss in my recent review of It's Bunlith! on my blog

White text on a black background that reads: "Now, this turn to art may seem avoidant or apolitical; for me, it's anything but. I have long believed-and long argued, both in my teaching and my writing-- that art is where the most complex social problems and traumas get worked through and processed, sometimes long before a culture is fully prepared to grapple with those problems and traumas in mainstream public discourse. Art is where we store, analyze, and hone our secret social fears and hopes, our desires and demons, long before we're ready to talk about them clearly or articulately on the news. Studying and teaching art, for that reason, is always political, and always has the capacity to do real activist work. Moreover, the power of art to represent and immerse us in complex social problems exceeds -and sometimes confounds- what an author's or director's own vision may have been, because art takes on its fullest life once it interfaces with an audience. Sometimes, it takes years--even decades-for a culture to consciously recognize that a particular work of art was handling some thorny, complex, or not- fully-articulable topic. Often, innovative works of art speak to contemporaneous sociopolitical dynamics that are just starting to get serious attention in the public eye. The power of art is to create an experiential arena within which readers or viewers can witness- and to some extent experience-those dynamics. Art, that is, both reflects and accelerates social change, and does so by inviting readers or viewers to participate in the imaginative world the artwork creates.