[livearound]

dni lists don't work and i am well aware of this but just know that if you are a zionist/pro-israel and/or you think the israel/palestine situation is a "neutral situation" please know that you are extremely unwelcome here and will be made to feel that way. free palestine

[d3athwish]

me, mentally flipping through the various daydream universes i’ve crafted up like records in a crate: hmm, which fantasy shall i indulge in tonight?

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[moonlit-bunny]

what do you mean riverdale betty's actual actual irl bf looks exactly the same as jughead omfg

[demaparbat-hp]

Cradled

[gayvampyr]

trying to explain why i like horror to people who don’t: ok so you know how it’s fun to be deeply disturbed and unsettled

[orangeblossombitch]

☆ Treasures of the Sea ☆

[coyging]

[moonlit-bunny]

ugh im supposed to Do Things but i fell asleep again 🫩

[godlessondheimite]

i’ve seen so many stories where revenge is awesome and cool and the best thing you can possibly do. just once i would like to see a story in which revenge has two victims, the target and the pursuer. but i guess society has not yet come as far as i have in deconstructing destructive notions of honor and valor entwined with hate. maybe someday someone will write this. not me, though.

[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.

[miasma-my-asthma]

A lot of queer usamericans and brits really think deep down that they are inherently more evolved and progressive than other cultures for not speaking a language with grammatical genders and for having estabilished gender neutral pronouns. Just an excuse to act chauvinistic and spread xenophobia and racism under a "progressive" banner.

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

[ceruleanheaven]

how to become good at everything no practice no effort no motivation no passion no talent fast free

[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”

[whatachaos]

Ling and May will learn to love each other sO MUCH OKAY they had to grow up too fast let them be silly siblings (they will support each other through everything I just know that okay they make me cry)

+ some Greed angst 'cause I wanted to cry a little 😎

[vintagecamping]

Blustery morning walk on the Oregon Coast.

Oregon

1981