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A Mutual Understanding Between Nerds

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

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.

just-another-cat-blog

pride month!!!

lemonsharks

Is that a miette?

jeanjauthor

Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!

lost-and-cursed

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

saxifraga-x-urbium

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

xylophonetangerine

witemglitch

It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon

sanrio-stud

phony-time-traveler-deactivated

People you don’t understand this show was complete anarchy

wet-monsoon

DELETE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ask-me-about-loom

I remember when Chris Hardwick (Otis’ VA) was on Rob Paulsen’s (Peck’s VA) podcast and he told a story about how sometime after the cast found out the show was getting cancelled, they started goofing off in the recording booth and singing an improvised song called “Dick Tits”. When someone from the network happened to walk in, the show’s director responded, “What are you going to do, cancel us some more?”

atelier-tamamoland

this is why ftmblr has 24k members but all of the transfem communities combined dont reach even half that even if you include all the catfishing bots and fetishizing shit

atelier-tamamoland

it's because people who aren't trans women or adjacent to/safe for trans women do not have people obsessively stalking them and their friends to mass report and harass them over any and every thing

raccoonmilf

The girl who sold the fent laced pills that killed my little brother but never went to jail or got so much as a fine just got fired from her job lmao and a reporter from the Charleston news station reached out wanting to talk to me about her lmao get fucking wrecked bitch I’m manifesting recurring abortive rabies upon ye

#learning a lot about the raccoon girl #sorry to hear about your brother #drugs tw

camestela

(i love being 30 post incoming again) but like i love being 30 because i'm finally dressing how i wanted to do when i was a little girl like whimsical a little dark, very inspired by those fairy illustrations i used to google

like this type of stuff, this kind of vibe....i used (Still) to go crazy for it, i would google them secretly wishing to be a fairy (or to kiss one i guess)

and now me (ok maybe corporate fairy mixed with 70s suits but still)

did-you-know

The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source

aclockworknick

he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident

wellshitcaitlin

OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder

thoughtsofadame

its so different to know it was an accident and that NO ONE was aware until after. its not like this was one ignorant guy cutting down a fucking relic.

optimysticals

I’m glad it was an accident and not like the perks who purposefully cut down the Sycamore Gap Tree.

uspiria

Ginger Snaps (2000) dir. John Fawcett

laguzmage

This scene happens with literally 0 context or build up whatsoever

sirduke

Nobody tell me what anime this is bc I don’t care but this looks disgusting where’s the flavor

cybercrime-the-digital-criminal

“You know it from anime and manga,” bitch isn’t Beef Stroganoff a Russian dish

cybercrime-the-digital-criminal

I just realized that they don’t even make the corkscrew noodles-

cybercrime-the-digital-criminal

I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who got aggressively offended about this.

calstone-light-o

they did actually fail for making that

angremlin

“this happens with no setup” is such an understatement. This song is cut to immediately from a scene of the main characters getting their asses kicked in a fight. It’s the best thing that has ever happened.

uncle-beanbag-mojave

Don’t hide this in the tags

my-personal-hellsite

Kick their asses again

angry-eevee

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.