[inkystaar]

(•̀ᴗ•́)و  ✧  Pistol, Armory, or Gestalt. It Xae He Shy or anything from here. Bodily a minor, plural system, hard of hearing. Hub blog; see below for other blogs.

see: about us / strawpage. our atabook. part intros. blog list. media recs.

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[galaxiagorgeous]

[kiva-la]

“hi i’m sailor mars welcome to jackass”

[luna-azzurra]

Desire should make your characters a little stupid. Otherwise what are we even doing here.

[isabellecantread]

if youre a cis boy you have to wear girl clothes even if you dont want to. if youre a trans boy come to my office and receive one trillion dollars

[noah-wyles]

this is how argentina's legacy ends not with a whimper but with a big loud funny bang

[noah-wyles]

this is how argentina's legacy ends not with a whimper but with a big loud funny bang

[r0zeclawz]

did you know that its impossible to throw an egg really hard onto your bedrooms wall right now try it

[mousegirlheart]

[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)

[circemo]

everybunny

[heckyeahponyscans]

I watched the live action version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.

Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:

Also, in CGI this song called "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" does not take place at night.

[naamahdarling]

[blackwoolncrown]

fuck.

the internet is like, broken broken.

[blackwoolncrown]

Me: Hey can you pull up common phrases including the word 'survive'?

AI-fucked internet: Heh! Sure thing. I-- cheeburger, cheeburger, cheeburg

[the-haiku-bot]

AI-fucked internet:

Heh! Sure thing. I– cheeburger,

cheeburger, cheeburg

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[librarycards]

people on here who have been on 10-15+ years like myself...i don't know how they claim that there were never any Black bloggers on here, or that it was always such a white website. trudy gradientlair was on here. thisiswhiteprivilege was on here. there was a feminist citation project sara ahmed was involved in on here. there was someone on here whose username was wretchedoftheearth and that was how i learned who fanon was when i was 12, by googling those words. tumblr was the only place i knew i could go to get accurate & compassionate info about what happened to trayvon martin, when everyone around me irl was rabidly racist. the amount of reportage and scholarship that happened on here before the first big wave of bans was so huge and so much has been lost. where were you when it was happening??? why weren't you paying attention??

[dumbtrannybitch]

it's cause they never engaged with non white bloggers so they never noticed them disappearing. they got the tumblr they wanted, and those of us who aren't liberal/conservative fandom bloggers were robbed of our black and brown friends, and worst of all black and brown bloggers were robbed of a dpace that once was a legitimate vector for talking about black issues. at least some members of staff know what they are doing, it's like the war on drugs in this website the way they crush black people on this website.

[nyokoko]

I literally published an essay several years ago about how a lot of people stole the intellectual work that Black feminist bloggers on here published regularly to build this website and its reputation as we know it. White people love them some revisionist history.

The reason Tumblr became the bastion of intellectual discourse that it was known for--the reason the term "social justice warrior" even EXISTS as a derogatory descriptor--is because of the work of the Black bloggers who migrated to this site from 2009-2014 from LJ and Jezebel's forums. Myself included.

[lost-in-fumes]

if "29" is your idea of an older woman you have a flickering pale aura and you will not survive daylight saving time

[smis-happens]

New meme:

type in “I’m” in the tags and use the first tag that appears

[sanguine-humor]

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

[sanguine-humor]

he keeps me sane

[depsidase]

[trans-pickles]

i don't think bodily autonomy for minors should be a luck of the draw type thing where you have to cross your fingers that your parents are chill about it.