Once, Ever So Often...

Probably old enough to be a tumblr mom (I've been here a while). Married. Here for the fandoms, feminism, and other assorted cool people. There's no other website quite like this one and I kinda like my quiet little corner.

[averyterrible]

apparently, chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming. jiangshi time.

[averyterrible]

@post-brahminism check it

[imasithduh]

I need to make sure @gothiccharmschool sees this.

[gothiccharmschool]

This is AMAZING.

[dddreamscape]

Mutuals do this

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

You've heard of parallel play, now get ready for perpendicular play.

[amuseoffyre]

Hot cross buns?

[wool-and-flax]

Tryna cleanly peel off the price sticker from your new book

[woolandflax]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[megustamemes]

Sofa sitting positions

[depsidase]

[pancakerabbit10011]

[feefal]

Curious pond greets butterflies

[eroscestlavie]

This just pissed me off so baaaad 😂

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[kraken17]

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

[tendergenderbendermemer]

The turning signal would be like the red flag pirates used right after the black flag, and right before attacking as a scaring practice.

"fuck, the signal. There will be no quarter given now"

[ravenclaw-timelord]

Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter (2026)

[automatuck9]

[prokopetz]

Okay, so this is one of those good news/bad news scenarios.

The good news: the final boss fight's battle anthem is a symphonic metal remix of your own theme song.

The bad news: its tenor is sinister rather than triumphant.

Is there something we need to talk about?

[thecolossalennui]

#it just recapitulated your leitmotif transposed to a minor key#what did you DO

[wnwnmemo]

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[lanotteviene]

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

[threeture]

the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[my-dailydreams]

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]