run away from me again, beloved one

25 | he/they | queer none of us are free until all of us are free Icon: a headshot of Yoo Jeongyeon from TWICE Header: the photo of the Cosmic Cliffs, an orange nebula, from the James Webb Telescope

[gaynfl-moved]

[fealty-to-thee]

More characters ending disabled and happy NOW

[ghostofava]

mommy is not feeling fly like a G6 today

[wren-kitchens]

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

[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.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Oh my god this just showed up on my fyp

[starryspeculation]

this post goes out to translators. translators who for the last 40 years have been told their jobs would be useless, their place would be taken by AI, and yet. they are still doing it for the love of the game. translators who do it in a crunch. translators who are asked not to translate "literally" by their employers. translators cursed at for "changing" the text by an audience that can understand 1 word between them. translators who find clever cultural equivalents. translators who are always to blame for the ambiguity of the authors. translators who give us a glimpse of another world. translators who take up the impossible task of making a text understandable in another language where none of the cultural connotations match, when no word can truly capture the same meaning as another. just. translators man

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[captchacomics]

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

can we bring back captcha comics

[kushblazer666]

[jasper-rolls]

[honeyslim]

No offense but these are absolute classic images

[wizard-loving-wizard]

lou 🥰🥰🥰

[wildlocketparadigm]

the face of a man whose about to accuse people of slurs <3

[daughter-of-sapph0]

i'd rather every single person on earth have free, reliable, easily accessible, and judgment free access to hrt, even if they regret taking it later, than have one single trans person kill themselves because they can't access or afford or are prevented from taking hrt!!!! i'll forcefem a thousands cismen before i let one trans girl die!!!!

[dovesndecay]

I see a lot of folks defending their vitriolic repugnance towards toddlers with cries of "but my sensory needs!" as if children are not also in possession of sensory needs. As if you, an adult here on Tumblr.com, do not have the capability and resources to learn the skills or acquire aids for coping with competing access needs. Or, y'know, just the option to leave, the way children most often do not.

You're holding an actual child to higher standards than you hold yourself, but it's the child that should be removed from public and community spaces. For your comfort.

Go fuck yourselves.

[jan-jan-binks]

I keep thinking about the whole "not like other girls" phenomenon from the 2010s that now gets labeled as pick me, male attention seeking behavior probably wasn't that. It was more so a bunch of young girls and teens growing up and experiencing misogyny and sexism and the gender roles that get forced onto them that they don't fit, and lashing out at the first superficial thing that resemble said gender role because they haven't read or looked into it beyond the surface level of consumerist "girls like shopping. Girls talk too much. Girls should always look pretty. Girls are bad at maths. Girls like pink things" stereotypes propagated by pop culture and being like "no I'm not that. I'm not this."

They wanted to burn the barbie pink alter, the symbol of it all, and went to stake their claims on more "masculine" aka "respectable and unmocked by society" things and associations. Because the societal script "girl" is both infantalized and mocked and sexualized in the eyes of the patriarchal order and "less than". Always "less than".

It veered into internalized misogyny eventually but maybe there was a point. In not wanting to associate with the shallow gender ideals or the social script. The backlash against the girl who thought she's not like the other girls was too much in my opinion.

[mewwon]

the vivid sensory-memory of sucking water out of a washcloth as a child

[hbmmaster]

calling things "cutes" is so uh. what's a good word for when something is cute but slightly more cute

[hbmmaster]

the word cutes is autological

[gaytanic-panic]

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"