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formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

lisaonatree

Did you step on it?

penny-anna

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

lisaonatree

Help it’s on its way!

By the way, are the bricks all the same colour?

penny-anna

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

damndinarzade

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

secondmoredangerouseyes

Hey

penny-anna

Uh oh!!

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

BREAKFAST

transformativeworks

r2x2

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

cbarc

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

urfavhatesterfs

this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

This is the cutest thing ever. Godzilla says trans rights.

GODZILLA OFFICIAL???

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)

kaijuyuri

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

kaijuyuri

my proof

magicratfingers

me in my brain me in my selfies

kingpin-of-steel-act3

ihatenearlyeverything

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

oatmealbrain

And boy are they clumsy

hydrangeafae

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human