It's a Cowbell

20+ yo, spooks easily

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[vixvaporub]

Chainsaw Man | チェンソーマン – Chapter 41 ⊙ Before the Storm

[parapetowki]

"The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same"

goodbye Marjane Satrapi, rest in peace 🕊️

[scamcall]

sleeping beauty

[charl0ttan]

bro dont even worry the outgroup is gonna love you. just try to be entirely different

[skelotan]

Literacy crisis WHO? This was said in the most vocal fried Californian accent ever. I hope The Girls enjoy some Russian lit this summer.

PATREON

[charl0ttan]

wait you had an entirely unique and first of its kind knowledge gap thats completely unaccountable for because everyone knows the thing without fail? does this mean youre mentally deficient & we can get mad at you for it? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please? please?

[nerdfuckerrr]

if the media has dragons i’m in

[nerdfuckerrr]

they may not even appear all the time and sometimes they’re not even “dragons”. but if the media has it it’s automatically all i need

[segamascott]

[rontology]

[retroactivebakeries]

the siege warfare princess wants to come over to your house and play ^_^

[retroactivebakeries]

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[gaitiem]

I'm still trying to get better, but I've had to come to terms with the fact that it's gonna take a while, maybe forever, and I'm realizing that I'm gonna have to live with myself as a failure for a while.

I can tolerate that in myself; I know I've tried, I couldn't have failed if I hadn't tried. I've tried getting a good education, I've tried holding down a good job, I've tried finding a good therapist, none of it panned out, not for lack of sticking with it to the bitter end. The awkward part is convincing other people of the same, that I'm not just holding out on them, not just taking advantage of them, that I have something to offer, that I'm worth something. Not enough, never enough, but I need to pursue love that I'm not worthy of or I'll never know any love at all. When you're scared, do it scared; when you're unworthy, do it unworthy. It's the only option that I have.

[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.

[nextlevelsmp3]

[the-wolf-emoji]

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[linuswatchestv]

[pissvortex]

Excuse me heroin addicted teenage Walmart employee can you unlock the cabinet full of things to put up my ass please

[pissvortex]

Yeah I was hoping to need to have it rescanned by one of your other employees at the self checkout as well as having it visually inspected by the elderly receipt cop as well