people getting pissy at the calart post sounds an awful lot like denial of privilege to me
i swear if i hear another person say “you can be a successful artist in the industry as long as you ~work hard~ and ~*~believe in your dreams~*~ without addressing the inherent advantage that some artists have over others im gonna punch something
like people try to fight this shit in “regular” academia all the time so why should art be any different? why should the art education system be shielded from this criticism?
Imagine after the events of Fusion Cuisine Connie nervously explains to her parents as much as she knows about Steven and the Gems, because now they’ve met the Gems, and even more then that she never wants Steven to think she’s ashamed of him ever again.
And they look serious after she’s finished, and she has to sit and nervously hope they wont say she can’t see him again, and why do they look so *serious*, aaaaahhhhh!!
And then finally her mom taps her chin and says…
“Do you think he’s eating right?”
“Huh? Um. I th-think so? I mean, he always has food…”
“Not like that- I mean, is it possible his differentiated biology means theres some… vitamin or minerals he might not be getting enough of. Let alone the potential for food allergies.”
“M-maybe?” And connie glances between her mom and her dad, who are discussing that really if the gems don’t eat they would probably not know what to look for. And Connie is confused, but happy, because this is how she knows her parents show they care about something.
And the next time she goes over to his place she’s sent along with a bag of mineral supplements and a note from her mom saying he should probably avoid alkaline solutions.
No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.
They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.
They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.
They were young adult rebels with a cause.
where my punk-rock apostles at
I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.
Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).
So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.
