[gaytrees]

this my mainblog.

river. late 20s, tme, they/them, white usamerican, disabled (physically, emotionally, cognitively) & broke & unemployed. the pronouns come with blue hair.

i like shitposts, art, learning, and discourse (unfortunately). mostly keep my opinions in tags. not super into fandom anymore but 90% of what i like is video games and artsy horror movies.

[corpsebanger]

I took your skull off display because my guests kept saying it looked noticeably gayer than the other skulls

[sandmandaddy69]

[cryptvokeeper]

[girlballs]

captain picker isgonna finger himself

[girlballs]

his wife is. 44 years old.

[despazito]

The fucking that old man website when someone actually fucks that old man

[the-unnecessary-commentary]

[alexandersfolly]

Tumblr is stuffed to the brim with 18-25 year olds who talk endlessly about being a hole for old men and have a heart attack the second a consenting adult is in a relationship with an old man

[sailatina3]

[dogpuppy]

[redstonedust]

as someone who was on deviantart way too much in middleschool my relationship to the furry community is sort of like how athiest people still celebrate christmas.

[horrorobsessor]

a few of my faves from the replies:

[thepurpleglass]

[pans1es]

I hate modders sometimes because this is not a fucking high elf, this is a white woman from Nebraska

[polkadotmotmot]

Sonya Sklaroff - Rainbow Flag, 2017 - Oil on panel

[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)

[only-cat-memes]

[depsidase]

[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.

[doctorsex69]

DJing at the club: put your hands in the air and shake your ass a lil if you love baby animals!!!! everyone go crazy!! do it for the baby animals!!😄

[realhumanbaby]

How to be a person. How to tell the story of my self without accidentally believing it. How to have casual sex when I am already in love with everyone. How to stop disappearing. How to listen to your story without becoming your story. How to sit in an empty room without becoming an empty room. How to take literally anything personally. How to not disappoint everyone. How to leave the house. How to forget that I'm not changing, I'm not growing, I'm not waiting just around the corner. I am here and I have been here the whole time. I have loved it the whole time. The story of you coming home is my favourite story. I'm so sorry but the first half is you leaving. [...]

[ukester-deactivated20250112]

[my-dailydreams]