please don’t add sugar

she/her | 23 | elenoir on ao3 | commissions paused & taking requests

[rpfofficial]

talents include: biting people, bisexuality, media analysis, meowing, and Kubrick stare

[fagstaynight]

heartwarming: transfem named mary sue and transmasc named gary stu have had a beautiful nonbinary baby named donut steel

[15-lizards]

Mysaria trying to pass Medicare for All, Daemons trying to get Martial Law declared, Baela and Addam being the heads of the wildlife management, Orwyle is busy running Westero’s first planned parenthood, and Rhaenyra is trying to take out the oppositions nuclear war capabilities. Absolutely no agreement and nobody is in lockstep. Welcome back the modern Democratic Party

[merlin-gifs]

MERLIN | 3x08 “The Eye of the Phoenix”

[distractionsfromthefood]

[aprimoon]

A lovely commission I got to work on for @kirlenawrites for her fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/81866016/chapters/215369786. Go read her work!!! 𐔌՞ ܸ.ˬ.ܸ՞𐦯

anakin really should wear a dress more often ⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵‧˚₊⊹

[cogentranting]

Observed today:

Two little girls playing gently with a daddy long legs.

Girl 1: can it die?

Girl 2, in a calm happy even tone: of course. Like all living things it can and must die.

[avant-garth]

Brugmansia arborea

These pretty and hallucinogenic plants are used in shamanic ceremonies.

[thememedaddy]

[bandagedthoughtsblog]

[rotsnovelization]

Revenge of the Sith (2005) dir. George Lucas

[subaru-copilot]

it gets to a point that is just weirder if they didn't fuck

[subaru-copilot]

you did all this and it was not even because you wanted to bang him? weirdo

[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.

[limitedmedicine]

【Rippi/リッピ】

fuzzy bugs series

w140×h130xd90mm

@shiba0607

[archamion]

Day 4 | What Could Have Been | Elia with the Mountain’s Head

— for @eliaweek done by dana_delion

[smumjii1]

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.