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wordfather

i love that almost everyone has their own unique bedrooms thats such a cute human thing

wordfather

no bedroom looks the same just like no human is the same. are you getting what im putting down here

wordfather

you walk into someones room and its like walking into a part of their soul This is so special to me <3

fluffycity

this reminds me of a series of photographs documenting how different people live in identical base apartments

#props to the queen with the curtained bed alcove

dickmaster

Cunty little thing isnt it

rumtastique

id be cunty too if I was wearing Yves Klein Blue boots.

exitwound

physically i’m here but mentally i’m a member of the strawberry cult in hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights

exitwound

literally the blueprint for cottagecore hoes everywhere

jstor

It is always thrilling when I'm looking for something on jstor and researching and then BOOM

one of my papers turns up

Like, wow. THE Jstor Dot Org knows *me*

The concept of thinking "wow this author is making great points" and finding out it was you all along 😭

rumtastique

I have had this happen in a slightly different context. reading a scholarly thing and the author says something and I think "wow, I am interested in that, maybe this person has found other people writing about that topic! lets check the footnotes!"

and then the footnote is me.

#scholar problems #simultaneously exciting and annoying #i need an adultier adult

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)

rumtastique

I feel the same way about the word "interesting."

When my students claim something is interesting, I press them to answer "is it? really? in what way? to whom?" because they think 'interesting' is good enough. but actually it is a cop out word that is often used on place of a tally doing the work to dig in and engage in complicated and demanding ways.

(honestly, "the writer is biased" is in the same category. yeah, all writers write from a particular position within a discourse. thats not a good enough reason to discard out of hand what they wrote. engaging with what the bias is, where it originates, and how it shapes the argument being made is far more valuable. but that's haaaaaard, apparently.)

captvreme

tawked

Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

birdwatchy-standaround

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

phaeton-flier

It looks like it would be so excited to run over when you needed a bowl

fruitpeels

Got distracted. Saw a cool bug

antique-scarecrow

I'm sorry how fucken old do u hafta be to be *predynastic EGYPTIAN*

#reblogging for the adorable art #i too love the ancient egyptian foot pot #i made one in high school!

holy-leapin-splits-batman

kedreeva

Mama and baby <3

#i imagine being a baby peachick snuggled into mamas feathers is like sitting in a cozy cloud #peachick peachick peachick

josilverdragon

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

publicdomainreview

Happy 1st of June! Here’s its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures

(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit… 😳)