Climb a mountain and turn around

Travel, music, pretty people, interesting stories. I love my fandoms, but my tastes are eclectic. Expect The X-Files, Fleetwood Mac, Brandi Carlile, Alias, the Pacific Northwest, Kenya, the Netherlands, and everything in between.

[andremichaux]

THE X-FILES | 6.08, "The Rain King"

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Amboseli Kenya

RUFF Etienne

[shay-the-writer]

fuck. me.

[sophsun1]

The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

[jacindaelena]

among rice fields by breathing.tokyo

[television]

“Liar.”

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) - 2.07 • “Lie to Me”

[calebwittebane]

are we serious

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

If you EVER think Anthony Head is anything less than an angel then you’d best remember that I have always been a huge fan of his and we’ve always had a little contact over the years and he heard I’d come out as Trans and was having a hard time and that I was kind of sad that the photos I had from conventions with him were of me with long hair and no binder and they were all signed to “Sarah” and so he invited me to spend the day with him at his farm and he picked me up from the station and we just hung out and had lunch and he insisted on paying and took loads of photos and had them printed on photo paper the same day so he could sign them to Jay, along with other photos of him as Giles and Uther and he literally spent five hours chatting with me and got all of the pronoun stuff right every time and then he dropped me off at the station, gave me a final massive hug, waved me through the ticket barrier and insisted I message him when I got home so he knew I got back safe. (More HERE)

[neverwhere]

i’m not crying it’s just raining on my face 

[lightcastlenineteen]

NWSL Pride is going well so far 🔥

[frankencain]

do you guys also have favourite The Characters in-law. like characters from media you know nothing about but you just kinda like looking at them when your mutuals put them on your dash

[unliikelylovers]

it’s been said before and it’s not even close to the worst thing but it sucks how our current robber barons are such philistines. like these guys aren’t even building libraries or concert halls. they can’t even pretend to enjoy art, and they don’t see any value in signaling that they appreciate art

[higglety]

this current batch of the fithy-rich is BORING. They're BORING. Oh you have a yacht that's bigger than anybody else's yacht but functionally no different from one of your fancy houses? BORING. You have yet another fast car? YAWN. You ate a burger but like, a special burger? whatever. FUND AN OPERA ABOUT ANOTHER RICH GUY YOU HATE, DIPSHITS. How about you put a concert hall with your name on it in every city in the US and fund their operations for the next decade, if you're so rich????? unless you're too poor to afford that????? How many people do you, personally, directly employ, and what are their salaries? Do you pay well enough to command the loyalty and willing service of any masters of their craft? It would be so easy to win the absolute love and adoration of the masses in this climate but no, they wanna build bunkers and play politics in order to save a few more miserable nickles.

[wexler]

[duckprintspress]

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[xcrimescenedonotcrossx]

؂ 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑪𝑨𝑵‘𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑹𝑶𝑳 𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑬𝑶𝑵𝑬 𝑾𝑯𝑶 𝑲𝑵𝑶𝑾𝑺 𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑻𝑶 𝑩𝑬 𝑨𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑬.

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

[inadvertently-biblical]

Abbott Elementary - “Books.”

[tony-x-ziva-is-tiva]

Gifs by ziva--david / deleted blog

[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.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)