Help I'm Alive

Amber. 34. Gingerman Fox.

[fairycosmos]

hey is anyone else sick of having to adapt to horrible conditions over and over again

[fairycosmos]

the humble woolly mammoth

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i'll always meet someone described as not friendly, and it's just a person who doesn't smile or talk a lot unwarranted. I feel like I have to continuously explain to people that this is not inherently hostile behavior

[lislass]

Look! I found the uncropped version of the photo! Moxxie's smiling in this one. Aaww! (˶′◡‵˶) ♪ ♫ ~ Oh, and Stolas is there too, of course. (>▿⁰)◜🪶💜

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[some-pers0n]

From the perspective of an outside observer, it seems as though being a fan of comic books is a form of masochistic torture

[some-pers0n]

Every time The Comic Mutual gets online and liveblogs about reading an issue it's like "I swear to god all these authors need to put in jail I hate this everything hurts but at least there's Scrimblo Jeremy. I don't know how I would do this without Scrimblo Jeremy" and then you look up Scrimblo Jeremy and he's the third cousin twice removed of some iteration of Jason Todd

[nondelphic]

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

[oneefin]

number theory* diagram

[michaelrotonal]

these relationships are always increasing numbers as well. so obviously we need six eleven to mean somethimg

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

imagine if that's the date it finally happens

[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)

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

why did they brand a handprint on a man in 2008. gay marriage wasn’t even legal in new york yet.

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

KURT HUMMEL HADN’T EVEN DONE THE SINGLE LADIES DANCE ON GLEE YET

[hungry-skeleton]

Fucked up that if you make a minor social blunder you can't ask the person if they hate you forever now because that within itself is another social blunder

[mohansabbot]

@tvarchive tv appreciation week ↳ day 1: first tv obsession

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021) by Micheal Schur and Dan Goor

[orathearsonman]

i love game changer because the most incomprehensible bits will come outta there and i just know im NEVER going to be able to explain “Sepia tone. I’m gonna kill him so much. Al Pacino” to ANYONE

[daily-dropout-screenshots]

actual visceral screams of terror

[quietwingsinthesky]

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s not love at first, or second, or third sight. it’s not love in the wedding bed the first time, whether they grit their teeth through it or decide together to forgo that binding step and try to get around it as long as they can. it’s about sharing a bed with a stranger while you learn their nightmares and how they hog the covers. it’s about sharing a name before you even know each other’s hobbies. the appearances you have to keep up, and the connection you find in both being exhausted by them, laughing together because isn’t it ridiculous how you not only have to be married but you have to act like it’s perfect and lovely for everyone else watching. it’s love that creeps up quiet and slow, between shared secrets that make your wedding bands mean something for the first time, and trying to protect each other from the trap you’re both in. and it’s about having the mortifying thought of “oh my god, i have a crush on my wife.”

[pseudomantis]

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

[pseudomantis]

Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it

Starts running away cutely

[jonnywaistcoat]

[animentality]

[anglaised]

everytime u go outside ur spending $60 automatically its crazy $60 is the new $20

[pursebeer]

Stop buying food and coffee and make it at home. I'm begging everyone.

[anglaised]

ok well i filled up my car with gas and got cat food for my cats so idk how this applies to me also the “don’t buy coffee anymore” thing is rlly annoying from ppl acting like buying coffee is the reason ppl r struggling to keep purchases under 20 dollars instead of capitalism inflating prices for shareholders to buy another five houses like. eventually yall gotta stop doing the “no more avacado toast!” thing to ppl bc there is no budgeting that is enough to outrun inflation

[fenrir-kin]

"Stop buying food" "make it at home"

... how tf am I supposed to make food at home without buying groceries? When I was going through debt help, the charity I spoke to was horrified that i was keeping food purchases to £80 a month for just me. £20 a week. They said £80 a week wasnt enough to live on, never mind a month.

Like I know that poster meant "dont eat out as much" but goddamn. Shit is just expensive right now.

[sharigax]

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

[rukafais]