A Visionary

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[fkajackiebrownx]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head🖤

📺Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 2x07 "Lie To Me"

[sandushengshou]

Santa Clarita Diet | 2.01 "No Family is Perfect"

[noah-wyles]

IM SO UPSET

[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)

[titsay]

[butt-rice]

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

[purlturtle]

Jaime Murray: pops back on Insta and posts Bering and Wells

The Bering and Wells fandom:

[lonely-night]

omg it's been 84 years but welcome back captain

[soulakuarian]

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[brumleys-bones]

My therapist told me to post this lol

[biomic]

[raccoonmilf]

Me, surfacing for air: “You saw that fish? That was a parrot fish that has not transed its gender. They do that, you know. Trans. Their genders. In the wild. It’s natural. It’s free. It’s in the ocean. Not all of them do it and that’s ok it’s up to them. Sometimes cis male parrotfish do it too. It’s all the same, in the end. Ok, I’m going back down.”

[hmantegazzi]

It's through the DMRT-1 gene, and we have it too! Here's an article about what it might mean for future trans health procedures, as the gene editing tools available today (the article is from 2023) aren't precise enough to manipulate it safely:

What if We Didn't Need HRT Anymore?

DMRT-1 and what medical transition might look like in the future

[raccoonmilf]

Holy shit that is so cool!!! What a wonderful world we live in where fish are providing insight into the next generation of trans healthcare

[apod]

2026 April 21

Three Sky Arches over Snowy Alps Image Credit & Copyright: Angel Fux

Explanation: Why are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a high mountain peak in the Alps near the Swiss Italian border, an adventurous astrophotographer expected two arches of our Milky Way galaxy to be visible during the night. These were the inner arch looking in toward the center of our galaxy on the left, visible just before sunrise, and the outer arch on the right visible just after sunset. But there were three arches. The surprised astrophotographer soon realized that the sky was so dark that an entire arc of faint zodiacal light was also noticeable – sunlight scattered by inner Solar System dust. And it artfully connected the two Milky Way arches! The next morning a helicopter picked the astrophotographer back up, and after 40 hours of processing and combining that night’s images, the featured triple-arch 360-degree panorama resulted.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260421.html

[requiem-on-water]

Momoire

[dragosballz]

movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

[inertial-reel]

No but you don't understand. Rocking up to Welding class with 100% barbie pink tools is such a POWER MOVE.

"Jeremy, I'd really like my orbital sander back ^_^"

"... didn't know it was yours..."

(Legit excited, no sarcasm) "Someone ELSE has the original Box 20-Volt Brushless Cordless Detail Sander with Dust Management?!?!?!?!"

"...no..."

Teacher walking up like "Miss Woods, is that a nail file"

(Elle, blasting compressed air to get rid of the nail file sand)

"Actually, its an emery board. But yes! :D It's a finer grit than what we have, and I've always found these easier to handle"

"...Ok, fair enough."

Elle making friends with the 6 year old daughter of one of her classmates. (Child care ain't cheap, I get it. Bring your kid to class)

Elle learning how to drive a forklift/motorcycle/semi-truck

Elle giving an impromptu lecture in the break room about what gifts to give their wives/girlfriends/mothers

Fucking laser cut "bless this mess" sign on her locker (I lied. It would totally be live, laugh, laser)

Elle's car breaks down and 20+ dudes coming out to show her how to fix it. (And realizing her mechanic is ripping her off)

Every single guy in the building filled with instant despair when she gets with one of the butch lesbians in the program.

Gimme plzzz

[kla1991]

Proposal: She takes her car to a mechanic and it's beat for beat like the original movie scene at the dress shop, where the mechanic *tries* to rip her off and she nods along and then eviscerates her with precise technical details.

The rest of Elle's class now shun that mechanics' shop and tell everyone else to as well, so that place ends up going out of businesss, which allows someone else in the class to open up a sparkling pink and perfectly trustworthy shop of his own.

[sapphicstrawb3rry]

Light from Uncommon Stars ✨🍩🌌🎻by Ryka Aoki

Thinking about violins, The Whispering Star (2015) by Sion Sono and Lee Young-ae in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005). Read this mostly in a daze and loved it so much. Was nothing like what I thought it would be — intertwined cosmic tales with fantasy elements, destiny, trauma, love. At its core it’s about finding belonging, finding your passion and your person. I probably sobbed a few times, listened to Paganini and Alexandra Streliski’s music on repeat and yearned for a nice warm donut. I get fuzzy warm feelings when I think about this book ☁️💫

[lexsreadingcorner]

The thing about Light from Uncommon Stars is, when you read the description, sure it sounds like there's some strife but it mostly sounds like a cute coffee shop romance. And in tiny ways, it is. But if you go into it thinking it will be all warmth and donuts and gooey love, you will not be prepared for The Horrors. Cuz fuck, it goes from zero to one hundred so fast, so many times. Aoki tricks you by not putting some of these things fully on page, starting something shocking/traumatic but bouncing off it quickly, or fading to black, or just not describing it to the level where you'd think "exactly what genre is this again?!" that will occasionally leave you wondering if That actually happened.

And even the romance isn't what you'd expect. Lan and Shizuka have what my autistic ass can only describe as a very autistic relationship. It's kind of refreshing tbh

It's a very good balance, a very fun book, but definitely one I'll always remind people to check the trigger warnings for.