Clog With A Blog

Hi! I'm Chloe! 24, She/they pronouns, writer, artist, fan of many things (though generally not a direct fan of whatever my icon is at any given time, I’m just matching with @officiallanxichen.) I talk about art and poetry and wizards over at @wizard-studies. On this blog, we love and respect puns. [ID: Icon: Elphaba from West End’s Wicked, in profile facing right. Background: a colorful abstract painting.]

[shuckstruck]

where’s that justin mcelroy post when i need it

[shuckstruck]

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[lyouve]

Books are so cool because there are no fucking ads in them

[aardvarkingmad]

There are no fucking ads in them NOW.

I've been buying books for decades, and I remember when the plague of slick, stiff paper ads inserted in the middle of paperbacks fell upon the book buying public. Usually cigarette ads, as I recall, probably because that was after cigarette ads were forbidden on television and radio. They were annoying as hell because they tended to make the book open to that point by default--and you couldn't cleanly pull them out, either.

Fortunately, this plague on book buyers was fairly temporary, probably because it wasn't a good investment for the advertisers. A given book's ad can only reliably be expected to be read by ONE reader, and there was no way of tracking who it was, whether it influenced their buying habits, etc.

And good riddance.

[thehumantrampoline]

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

[ethereal-ecologies]

Hirō Isono

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[polarity-disturbed]

Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

[polarity-disturbed]

Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

[polarity-disturbed]

And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[penandinkprincess]

"ummm actually that wouldn't happen because-" playing!!! i am playing!!! come play with me!!! i even set up the sandbox with extra shovels!!! don't smack the barbie out of my hands!!

we are doing improv!! pick up a blorbo and yes and with me!!

[shanalikeanna]

IM PLAYING IM PLAYING

[hellallamerican]

a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

[cloudabserk]

dry erase markers + xenonite

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[ranaeley]

Obligatory truck I don’t trust reblog

[drizzledrawings]

Studies I did last year.... currently longing for the passion I once had

[alienatedartt]

atlas

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I've noticed in recent years that, at least within mainstream usamerican culture, the sympathetic petty criminal archetype has largely fallen out of favor. you still have plenty of stories of noble nights, benevolent aristocrats, sympathetic mercenaries, but the idea of a thief with a heart of gold is increasingly rare. often petty criminals are just used as uncomplicated cannon fodder, so the protagonist has something human-shaped that they can kill or mutilate without remorse. you see this with dnd players often. the wicked king or the cruel dragon can be reasoned with, but a highway bandit robbing caravans to eat is perfectly fine to torture to death with sorcery

[contemptible-scoundrel]

this is no less common outside of fantasy, either. god knows how many books, films, games, about sympathetic soldiers, police, even mercenaries. sometimes they try to reckon with the inherent violence and cruelty of these careers, but they rarely have the fangs for a message sharper than "sometimes good people have to do bad things." but a thief? a mugger? god forbid, a drug dealer? uncomplicatedly evil vermin, all. again, just used as cannon fodder, purely to provide something human-shaped to hate and brutalize without conscience

[contemptible-scoundrel]

there is an obvious racial angle to this, as people grow more leery towards "those people are evil and inhuman because they look different," the message shifts to "those people are evil and inhuman because they are criminals," paired with heavily biased (and significantly more publicized) criminalization of racial minorities to achieve the same goal of publicly condoned repression and violence