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♉ Sun, ♍ Moon, ♐ AS, ♏ MC || Roy, Ro, Megatron, Azalie, whatever idc / 27 / OCD / She, They / Pan, Poly, Genderfluid / Arab, Native American / USA || Gamertag is 'yaboiroyharper' on pretty much everything || Main fandom was Transformers, but there's literally everything you can think of here lmfao || Learning Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic || All posts (including personal) are ok to rb unless tagged "do not rb" || WARNING: Explicit language present || PayPal.me/roshann6669

[knockmeoutbabe]

I love how we all come together on tumblr when Ao3 goes down, like citizens gathering on the town square to listen to the town crier

[mens-rights-activia]

😪😪😪

[mens-rights-activia]

From 6 years ago....

[50-shaeds-of-fae]

[only-cat-memes]

[throwbackblr]

[my-balls79]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

English sauce I'm cryinggggg

[reverendsicko]

My partner and I noticed you from across the bar and uhh... give us the amulet

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

misty and moody in the fanal forest

[asergu]

[mens-rights-activia]

me: lol what if every onion article came true all in one year

2016: 

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2020:

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2026:

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

[knockmeoutbabe]

i forgot, did someone get the tampons and stuff you needed? i was going to and then totally slipped my mind

Yes, someone bought them! I should be good until at least August or September! You might see them in the list again bc I replaced the listing that was purchased and will need them again later, but I do have some for now 💕

[beardedmrbean]

[sustancy]

[ink-the-artist]

i am. quite high rn and unreasonably delighted by the little pride flags that appear when u like queer posts. that shit is so cute

[i-dont-exist-ehehehehehe]

What pride flag did you get?

gay

lesbian

Pansexual

Intersex

bisexual

asexual

aromantic

aroace

nonbinary

rainbow

transgender

Remaining time: 4 days 15 hours

[stonedrunkwizard]

Another week's worth of bird people.

[imgnnafurgf]

Bruce "I think they have a piece of my soul I'm never getting back" Wayne talking about his 15 doomed situationships

[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)