[c-ptsdofficial]

sure i exist but at what cost

[anxietyproblem]

[hollanderthoughts]

Well of course there’s shame. There’s always shame.

[hollanderthoughts]

of course there’s also love…

[hollanderthoughts]

Which comes with a lot more shame. Yea.

[xanaxfarts]

Tania Font: Deconstrucció V (2020)

[trainingseasons]

I need a day between every day to recover from the day before

[beardedmrbean]

[stonelions]

he thinks he's being so smooth with his little face on my leg. i SEE you, villain

[carpethedamndiem]

Artist: Welder Wings

[lost-in-fumes]

if "29" is your idea of an older woman you have a flickering pale aura and you will not survive daylight saving time

[captainclash]

he’s my inspiration

[greengableslover]

THE WITCH (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

[dopamineforthedepraved]

Xenomorph frogs - Sculptures by Li Changchun

2018

[cumonangelxo]

i’m at the age where too much noise irritates tf outta me

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[bitchycode]

I wanna be nice but everyone annoys me

[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)

[mist-the-kittycat]

Babygirl u don't even know how much more awkward I can make this interaction