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hour 1 of shift: i love helping people and making people happy yay yay yay later today i am gonna go home and have fun and eat a tasty meal and work on my projects and

hour 6: if youu go to the store and buy groceriers you are a piece of shit

hour 8: if i wad 1 apples tall i could live off of one apple for a week... oh but it would rot away... no.... i hate the rot i hate the apple

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.

mumblesplash

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

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lord-kitschener

bintilleil-deactivated20200510

runasulienadanika

you: six seven

me, an intellectual: truth over solace in lies, beauty that blossoms and dies

nev-k

Illustration I did for the spanish fanzine Lis en Fleur #4

tanadrin

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

jadagul

https://xkcd.com/2567/

tanadrin

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

bigscaryd

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

nordenflycht

there's an xkcd for that also

keepcalmandcarriefischer

himejoshibutch-archived

i hate yaoi. what's worse than one man? two men!!!

girlkaramazov

the illicit pleasure of scrolling past a “WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS???” post…. i will continue not to talk about it 🫡🫡🫡

cute-animals-only

cats are cats

maetersart

Nautilus Mechanicus

oc / Aida

There are two warring factions vying for aesthetic control of my wardrobe: the mall goth lesbian collective and the cool cyberpunk lesbian alliance. The goths are winning right now (mostly because it's really hard to find clothes that fit what I want for cyberpunk vibes unless I want to spend like $300 on a shirt and fuck that)