All Work and No Play Makes Fe a Dull Boy

Frank-Elias (Fe for short) - 28 - he/they - 🏳️‍🌈 - British and painfully white - I blame this website for everything

[kr1g]

Jeans pants pocket egg incident

Egg in pocket ben d down

Forgotten egg in jeans pocket

Bend down jeans pants pocket, egg (forgotten)

Forgot I had an egg in my pocket and bent down

Egg in my jeans (pants (pocket))

Foegot about the egg (in my pocket[JEANS PANTS])

[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.

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[segamascott]

[zoesupreme]

I think overall there will probably be devastating long term effects on the movie industry from a horror movie based on a youtube video based on a 4chan post making 7 times it's budget on opening weekend but I think the movie itself is probably preddy good

[zoesupreme]

what studios are going to take away from this, unfortunately, is not that building practical sets instead of green screen stages and taking a risk on a 20 year old first time director can sometimes pay off and elevate a really thin script into something more substantial. they are going to start asking themselves how do we make a movie out of that one post that says notice how there was no wednesday this week

[helpthellama]

Being gaslit by my parents by saying I never had this particular doll is doing my head in

[klodwig]

[onion-souls]

Slenderman is a tall good boy and there’s nothing wrong with tormenting and killing amateur filmmakers

[arbor-viridanus]

What did amateur filmmakers ever do to you

[onion-souls]

I live in New York City

[whump-polls]

spin the whump trope wheel

opinion on the trope you got?

love it, a favorite

like it

neutral, depends

not really my thing

hate it

nuance

results

Voting ended onJun 1

[just-let-me-drink]

[childmagazine]

someone from 1997 wished me good luck. it’s like someone from so many years back knows your struggles and i just, i think i’m gonna cry

[that-space-boy]

reblogging for luck from friend in 1997

[lezarus]

one of the worst parts of entering an established fandom is reading through the tags and realising with a dawning horror that fans have collectively decided to give one of the characters a horrible, non-canonical, cutesy nickname

[lezarus]

a lot of crazy tags on this post but this was has me feeling like i’ve just crashed landed on another planet.

do you mean ODYSSEUS??????? there are ppl out there calling ODYSSEUS from homers epic poem the odyssey a cutesy nickname???? they’re calling the guy from whom we get the concept of the hero’s journey the same thing as the dog from garfield????????

[helpthellama]

I've applied for my first PhD... It's a touch real now

[helpthellama]

My body has decided to get tonsillitis...

[occasionallysubtle]

some monday reminders :) these are up on my shop in various forms

[calamitys-child]

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

[captain-price-returns]

[turnways]

Actually, yes, at some point as an adult iIt is your responsibility to learn about history and politics outside of what you were taught in traditional k-12 education