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analog-autistic

me when my friends pick up vocabulary from me and i pick up vocabulary from them

peterquillsuggestion

this dumb website is in need of some love, so reblog this if you like the person you reblogged it from!!!

my-dailydreams

#me when i show up to the bluray release date #and walmart doesn’t have the damn movie in stock

luckieangel

(hands in pockets. kicks rock) love fantasizing about being loved by that fictional man

p3rf3ctc3l3brity

Christian Dior FW 2025

johnny1note-deactivated20230521

thinking about her (the ghost barbie from the 2012 haunted beauty series)...

batmansdeadparents

Okay, but this entire collection slaps.

gothiccharmschool

The depths of my coveting for the Haunted Beauty governess Barbie are too great to explain with human language.

gothiccharmschool

I STILL covet that governess Barbie. I also want her outfit in my size.

stjohnstarling

A solid 30% of discussion about genre tropes on this website boil down to, "I wish this piece of genre fiction was a completely different genre, or not genre fiction at all," and boy I don't know what to tell you. You're buying clothes at the soup store.

lacetulle

Rami Kadi | Elementa

yoannlossel

"Les Jardins de Nuit" (censored version) - Mixed media: colored pencils, pastels, ink, and gold leaf on paper. I created this artwork in 2020 for my book Forgotten Gods.

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.