for whomst the jester jingles

A bunch of stuff mashed into a blog. If you'd like me to tag anything, lemme know! [Maple, they/them, 27]

[dominoroach-deactivated20231102]

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[blackstarcafe]

dramatics aside this is basically what it boils down to

[spring-spite]

i love olruggio witchhat so much. he’s a sun-coded black cat. he’s a lethally chronic procrastinator. he’s a girl dad. he lies to the police. his magic is warm. his kids bully him and they’re right. he’s in a decade-long magically induced situationship, but he doesn’t know it’s cursed and he’s in it for love of the game. he’s lowkey a celebrity but chooses to live in a cottage on the countryside with said situationship and their four children. he sleeps on the couch. he was a crazy child. he’s a bit of a picky eater. he has chronic anemia and is two minutes away from passing out at all times. he hates hurting things so much that he struggles to kill a disgusting giant leech. he’s a burnt out gifted kid. he is begrudgingly excellent at one of his jobs and on-purposely atrocious at the other one. he has a baby face and is nearly unrecognizable without his beard. he carries an enormous, inexplicable guilt. he’s the sky’s kindest, most radiant star. he’s the perfect man

[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.

[spectacledraws]

susie forgot that kris equipped her with JEVILSTAIL.. At least her real tail wasn’t found out..

[radiation]

I’m like an empty bottle.

[pjackk]

Yesss theres 30 of u in my car

[spideysirens]

You can never wash it all away

[paperandpencilsandskips]

How would history change if John f Kennedy was killed by registeel

[psychomaniac14]

well first off, pokemon would be real

[paperandpencilsandskips]

Only registeel would be real in this hypothetical

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[segamascott]

[gallusrostromegalus]

I've been browsing carnivorous plant websites and I need everyone to see my new favorite "X for Scale" image:

PUT BABY IN NEPENTHES PITCHER.

Source

[quiltwhere]

gleeble gnarp party!!!!

[ch-ricegirl]

[pissvortex]

I took her to my mouse hole then I squeaked it

[emil]

"Peggle make phone calls" has become shorthand for "fuck it, whatever" for me but no one ever knows what im talkingabout and it's also longer (longhand?)

[emil]

peggle make phone calls

[incorrectinfinity]

What makes us human is the Nintendo 3DS

[splattergutz]

i feel like i’m cursed forever but other than that i’m doing alright

[turnipfritters]