Do not go gently into that good night

Belle. They/them. I have a lot of feelings and a shitload of opinions and I don't usually make a lot of sense. (French) Revolution supporter. D&D enthusiast. Icon by @artisticappeltaart

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater (06.02.2026)

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[foldbaron]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 🌈

[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)

[natequarter]

i am going to get a bad grade in sleeping, something which is normal not to want but terribly easy to achieve.

[firstprinced]

[loveridden1999]

constantly trying to see the inherent good in people is a humiliation ritual that i continue to willingly participate in

[ruffboi-mags]

[depsidase]

[viralthings]

We asked the waiter to take a photo of us at dinner

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[darling-peony]

Do not go gentle into that good knight. He likes to be fucked much harder than that.

[ripcurlreef]

pardon me while i burst into flames

[sentrysvoid]

Dead Poets Society dir. Peter Weir | 1989

[patt-off]

oh your pronouns are he/they?

well that’s mathematically incorrect becuase you can still simplify the fraction since both sides have “he”

making your pronouns technically 1/ty

[patt-off]

>:)

[ncah-czerny]

[hollanders-left-tit]

god bless

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, not gonna lie, it is so refreshing to have a major cultural moment that's just FREE. You don't have to pay a cent to watch this on NASA's YouTube. There's not a single ad, not a single sponsor plastered anywhere. It's just smart people doing cool things.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Closest thing we got to an ad was the jar of Nutella that escaped.

[thatsparrow]

[knitmeapony]

...said Brennan Lee Mulligan to Sam Reich.