Je suis un ananas

RATED E10+ FOR ANIMATED BLOOD, CARTOON VIOLENCE. I am not a Lennon apologist despite my username, it is merely a pun. Pronouns: he, they||ART TAG|| THE HIRASAWA PIC SPAM (and other things)|| ABOUT ME|| PATREON|| REDBUBBLE||

[whompthatsucker1981]

[weirdmageddon]

have you guys seen this guy haunted daily by randomly placed white rugs on dream islands yet

he’s started posting daily rug sighting updates now

[weirdmageddon]

[lennonhead]

I imagine new followers are like "?????? 😰" and old followers are like "oh that Lennonhead, up to no good again, tsk tsk" in a fond tone

[lennonhead]

it's so unfortunate that I don't live in the 1960s for real though. I want to get intimate with a sharp-eyed, fucked-up remorseless old war criminal who escaped being hanged because he was seen as more useful alive in a logistical role

[lennonhead]

errrrrmmmmm I do need a cute evil boyfriend though... unfortunately I desire specific evil criteria. no Gamergate idiots. I don't want my boyfriend to have played video games besides railway simulators and Paradox wargames. he must have zero opinions on vagina bones

[palinasin]

[only-cat-memes]

[lennonhead]

it turns out I don't have to go to Sendai next week, but I still do kind of want to go to Sendai

[oeing-oeing-clay]

omg did you seriously invite the torturer 😐

[lennonhead]

HIRASAWA AND THE WEEKND?????

[lennonhead]

I hate that the major psychological issue that controls my life is cringe and I can't talk openly about it because people would laugh at me

[bluenix-art]

request from @outofmyowncharacter! (ft. Jean)

Workplace shenanigans

[witchpassing]

maybe the cold and squirming thing from beyond the stars isn't in the mood for tentacle rape this evening. maybe it'd like to bottom for a change. have you considered that

[adequately]

そっくり！　ランキング！

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[ordr]

Thanks for sexualizing peoples trauma fuckhead

anytime

[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.