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

[diana-andraste]

The Black Sun, Bill Mayer, 2017

Gouache, with gold leaf, on watercolor paper

[helpthellama]

Trying to not buy a hatsune miku figure, even though I am not a miku fan, bc it's so pretty but over £100 before shipping but the saxaphones are getting louder

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Is your girl blorbo a good liar?

Yes, she is

She can lie if she really has to

No, painfully honest

No, terrible even when she tries

Other/nuance

Voting ended onJul 5

[gayvampyr]

trying to explain why i like horror to people who don’t: ok so you know how it’s fun to be deeply disturbed and unsettled

[weepylucifer]

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

[wizardshark]

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

[saspitite]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING

[elizapad]

Happy Pride, cave dwellers 🦇

[angelbabymikaa]

i’ve been so well-behaved i deserve to light things on fire now

[yesornopolls]

The world’s average height is 159cm (5’3”) to 171 cm (5’7”). Are you in the average range?

The world’s average height is 159cm (5’3”) to 171 cm (5’7”). Are you in the average range?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 30

[dogpuppy]

[footlongdingledong2]

vomits

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

a body count not as in homicide nor as in sexuality but as in the trail of people from my childhood and adolescence i should’ve been a better friend to and taken better care of but i was too busy being caught up in my own heartache to recognize their own and therefore our relationship tapered off in an extremely unsatisfying way that continuously manifests itself as a thrumming sense of grief in my chest. anyway which restaurant chains have the best free pre-meal bread?

[questions-about-blorbos]

Does your Blorbo know how to perform a CPR?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 13

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[ashlgcostumes]

Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry

[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]