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therapyspeak jigsaw: are you in the right headspace to play a game that could possibly hurt you?

therapyspeak jigsaw: i’m not your therapist, it’s not my job to explain to you why you’re being lowered into the acid vat

shittysawtraps

therapyspeak jigsaw: well now you’re guilt tripping me by screaming for help

nananna065

Meow

b0tster

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

femme-4-butches

Meg Allen's BUTCH photo series.

bobdylanyaoi

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

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.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

spiribia

I really love the hunter / handler dynamic in monster hunter so I’m pleased they managed to pull one off in a way that convinced the player base that having a poindexter that can’t even fight following you around and telling your shredded hunter behemoth self what you’re allowed to do can actually feel really awesome. Like others say Alma isn’t really your personal assistant, you’re more like her bodyguard. It’s her mission and she asked the guild to assign you to her. Yet everyone praises this and you don’t see the droves of “I don’t get to drive the plot, I’m just a tool to these NPCs’ interests” you see in so many other video game stories. It’s a kind of witchcraft to me how they somehow managed to pull it off so you get 700 upvote posts that are like I properly felt like a tool the guild throws at its problems this game, it was awesome.

eclogues

fuck therapy i’m becoming a knight

salamanding

this comic was originally meant to be a metaphor about my current depressive slump, but o was ironically too depressed to do more than 7 pages. i also didn't realize that it's kind of just Kafka's Metamorphosis but ✨for girls✨

punishedsaints

theonion

februarytrash

being sad and horny is a privilege

bgm05

casual pokemon player meme: I would like to have sex with this animal

competitive pokemon player meme: Bro thought he could switch his 252 Spe Borgulon into 252 SpAtk Choice Codpiece 2x Funny Dance STAB Mega Booboobus Peerless Tsunami 💀

motherfucker-unlimited

minttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

uwuppa

nyawave

m0nteverdi

Pokemon is the only community where the competitive crowd is funnier than the casual one

nightingem

this is the top post of all time on r/stunfisk (the competitive pokemon subreddit) and is has been a running joke for so long. sometimes i reference it and forget and have to explain it.