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band brainrot but too shy to post - 20 | he/they | fin/eng | finnish (fyi header is my pic, don't steal it😔)

[depsidase]

[gaytanic-panic]

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[sociallyawkwardrevolution]

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

[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.

[nepptunii]

patron saint of being passed around like a blunt by the fandom

[hare-brained-schemes]

me lowkey

[bible-of-fun]

[wolverinequeen]

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

[ethanredotter]

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

[wolverinequeen]

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

[official-sachsen-anhalt]

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

[ask-finny]

((Two kinds of people))

[thulium]

[fucking-relax]

the facts are that tension and worries are helpful in specific brief moments, but not so much for longterm. Relax. save it for the appropriate moment. i present Cowboy Hamster, who allows it

[i-like-reblog-maps]

What month were you born in?

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Voting ended onMay 28

Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!

Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]

I have gotten the OK from my teacher to collect data using a Tumblr poll, btw. I’m also going to have to send her this post as proof of where I got the data from / proof I didn’t just make up the numbers. So. Behave

[edgar-allan-possum]

[agendermetalbender]

[mollyjames]

Cleaning gets easier when you remember it's a thing you're doing to make your life less miserable, and not a thing you're doing as punishment

[mollyjames]

[salmonpiffy]

PHM spaceships gijinka

[girlstunts]

paralytic states - against me! / famous last words - my chemical romance

[girlstunts]

the ocean - against me! / mama - my chemical romance

[sarastussielu]

what the fuuuuck i got accepted into my childhood dream university major, i'm gonna become an astrophysicist yall🥹 i kinda fucked up my final exams in high school and the previous time i applied i didn't get in, and this time i was among the first group that got selected?? i was prepared to stress about this all summer and maybe even try to switch majors and now i don't have to do any of that?

[clleanlliness]

what doesn't kill you makes you cry on public transport

[kotitontunmanaaja]

jokseenkin kehno tiedeviestintä ja laaja tieteellinen lukutaidottomuus ei muuten ole millään yksinoikeudella amerikkalainen ongelma

meillä suomessa on vielä 1970-luvulla käytetty tuskin lainkaan paranneltuja 50-luvun oppikirjoja ja 1940-luvulle asti maantiedon ja historian opetuksessa käytettiin 1800-luvun topeliusta. perheeltä ja vanhemmilta opitut yleiset totuudet ja asenteet voi meikäläisillä siis edelleen olla pahimmillaan yli sata vuotta vanhaa "tutkimustietoa".

ennen kuin kukaan suomitumputtaja polleasti sanoo "tutkijat sitä ja tätä" mistään historia-, kansanperinne- tai kulttuuriaiheista, on erittäin suositeltavaa, kiehtovaa ja ihailtavaa oikeasti etsiä tämän hetken tutkimusartikkeli aiheesta. jos jonkun blogitekstin tai populaarin tietokirjan päälähde on samuli paulaharju, katsokaa sitä paulaharjun töiden vuosilukua ja googlatkaa mikä sen ajan yleiseurooppalainen poliittinen tilanne ja kulttuuriympäristö on ollut. lupaan, että samuli paulaharju ei ollut suomen viimeinen (eikä ensimmäinen) kulttuurintutkija.

tää ei ole helppo suo rämmittäväksi ja mun isoin muruni hampaankolossa suomalaisen historian kentällä on nimenomaan kehno popularisointi ja huono tiedeviestintä ja osallistaminen, oman piirin sisään jäävä lyttäys ja nipottaminen, mutta fantasiakirjailijoiden ja bloggaajien "uudet" löydöt on yleensä jotain, mitä esim. tämän päivän folkloristiikka ja kulttuurihistoria aktiivisesti tutkii ja on jo pitkään pohtineet ihan järkevillä akateemisilla periaatteilla, joihin kuuluu nimenomaan pitkällisten perustelujen ja monipuolisen kulttuurisen kontekstin hallinta.

kalevala ei ole tietoteos. MUTTA kalevalan lukeminen vastakarvaan - vaikka onkin kiehtovaa ja tervettä luovassa mielessä - ei sinänsä ole tieteellisen totuuden avain yhtään sen enempää kuin sen pitäminen historiantutkimuksena. kunnollinen kansanperinteen, kulttuurin- ja historiantutkimus ei ole suomessakaan onneksi yleensä sitä että joku vaan sanoo omaksi huvikseen jotain mitä oma eno tai mummo on hokenut.

[left-reminders]