yaoi phd

Loren | 26 | he/him | gay | libra

[goorduard]

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[boyslash]

I’m getting off now.

If I don’t see a bunch of Condesce stuff in the morning I will be dissapointed.

[badshah-cornelius]

Hey man did you get to see any of that Condesce stuff you were looking for

[boyslash]

i did actually

[petulantpony]

makes a weird little noise to indicate that i want you to touch me inappropriately

[zapatism]

lol ur watching the world cup finals sorry im too busy HAVING SEX

(texting my dick guy) we gotta have sex rn i just blogged

(dick guy) im watching the world cup

[wherepetalsbecomeprayer]

[circusheart]

No death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me

[armpits-are-crying]

nope. funkytown again

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

come on

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[pseudomantis]

[blasesaint]

[milliebugydementia]

lets modulate epigenetic stress with mama

[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.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

[angel-advise]

can't look up what snartly means because i don't have a dictionary account

[depsidase]

[megpie71]

As a former humanities student, I feel it is my duty to reblog this one.

[tonyzaret]

For the typical “gamer,” there is nothing unusual about spending upwards of 10 hours a year “gaming”

[dogpuppy]