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petruchio

im literally always saying this

lustcannibalism

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

#jean

capacity2

It’s actually crazy how bad feeling bad feels

hustlerose

i have been informed by literally every french speaker on earth that “une pipe” is slang for blowjob

elvyn

Qifrey

#wha

a5ce

I won’t run away no more, I promise

#wha #wha spoilers

vamptits

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

halberdbooks

Yeah

malinaa

what if we all explode

derring-do

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

avantgarden-er

Me: wow… i really have been so unplugged today… [sees that I posted every hour on the hour] well. Okay

j3llym00n

i cannot BELIEVE i haven't posted this here. This was almost THREE YEARS AGO.

Please enjoy my accidental magnum opus.

#star wars

pinene

I don’t like when you guys say “atp” to mean “at that point” or whatever. It means adenosine triphosphate

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.