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[dirtandleather-deactivated20171]

[mywhisperedcolors]

[recaption]

[thealienemily]

[before-life]

by Ray Yen

[bled]

[bled]

by sean fitzgerald

[love]

via weheartit

[plantinghuman]

[tevruden]

[x]

[angelwalking]

#get with the program the new humor is benevolent surrealism (x)

[agentsnark]

I always wanted to know what to call it.

[froborr]

This is something I’ve been meaning to talk about, and I may do a full blog post at some point, but here’s a capsule version:

The Benign Violation Theory of humor, which is probably the best one out there, suggests that something is perceived as funny when it is simultaneously perceived as violating how the world “should” work and as benign. Something like the “gun” meme, for example, is funny because it violates our sense of how a joke should progress, and at the same time it’s harmless. 

Racist/sexist/etc shock humor violates our sense of how the world work–in either a “that’s not true!” or “you’re not allowed to say that!” way–and therefore whether you find it funny is based on whether you find it benign, which is to say either you think it’s harmless or you don’t care about the people it harms. (This is the root of the punch up/kick down distinction–jokes that punch up are funnier than jokes that kick down because the people they target are less vulnerable and therefore less likely to experience harm.)

So yes, science agrees that if you think racist jokes are funny, the reason is that you don’t care about the feelings of the people the joke is about. There’s a word for that.

[flyngdream]

[bled]

by Giovanni Esposito

[infected]

Hogwarts, photo by electriceternity

[lesbianbettyboop]

yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

[lesbianbettyboop]

don’t just like this, reblog it!

[fvckrender]

PERSEVERANCE// Day 1362 — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2YJ9gLV

[existential-celestial]

• #poem• — tread this dusk: the sharp curve of the season . the year turns in a day, a sole demarcation in every September . (full morning, full night): how do you measure what is bright? what is oblivion? . push a little further: the wall of time collapses fully in our traversing . the night is a giant? the darkness trembles against our little light . we cross the threshold; we do not flinch. . . . j. p. berame // post-equinox // no. 092317 (at September)

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[hazy-october]

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Autumn is here! 🍂

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