fireandashes

she/her, loves everything all of the time. you can find me as FireandAshes07 on ao3! lover of all things books, movies, video games, and music.

[ladysantos]

typhon, father of all monsters

[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.

[chio-chan2artbox]

I got inspired by that one special PnF episode lol

[Human!Perry Poll] [Doofenshmirtz Poll]

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[icarus-is-lost]

“I asked chatGPT and h-“ well i asked hoid and he called me a slur

[thememedaddy]

[wowhead]

its gay asf for a man to be a paladin....who are you laying hands on? other men?

[fireandashes]

does anyone else ever listen to hadestown and just feel like they need to jump off a building

[lesbianmusicallover]

me

[fireandashes]

i’m so glad you agree tumblr user lesbianmusicallover

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[calicolen]

Stormlight lore is wild because some asshole killed a sheep which means slave fantasy John Wick ended up being unleashed upon the world's political theater changing geopolitical alliances enabling some fuckin old guy with the altered IQ of a bagel to kill the god of literal hatred and put himself on said god's throne of immortal crab violence inspiring space conquest powered by the cloned ghost of a reformed war criminal who sacrificed himself to stop bagel IQ guy from taking over the world, but at least slave fantasy John Wick got married so that's cool

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[icantspellthings]

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

[televisionenjoyer]

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

[audliminal]

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

[salarta]

Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference

You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"

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[cranberry-branflakes]

which heart did you get when you liked this post?

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[fireandashes]

it might be a rulette tradition to go entirely off the rails in the last ten minutes of the episode + torturing sam because i was crying laughing at josh’s adult male mannequin strapped to his chest

also anna garcia is the funniest person on the planet i hope she beats up more men

absolutely peak episode i want 10000 more

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 1 Part 21

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Zuko (ATLA: Movie)

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[fireandashes]

blue: it’s pride month. you know what that means

gansey: huh? what? you want me to search for glendower in, like, gay way? what? ronan what does this mean

ronan: *thinking about how all of his objects of worship are concentrated in one block* what

blue: no i want you to punch ronan in the face

[theskybetween]

happy pride Ronan Lynch, gay disaster dream boy of all time