how can I kelp you

kazoo, they/them, 25. mostly a reblog account! MDNI.

[decompose1]

real exchange i overheard between two of my bosses. ????

[decompose1]

why is this getting notes again everyone STOP talking about white collar & rich guy shit i am a BLUE COLLAR DYKE!!!! THIS IS A JANITORIAL COMPANY!!!! i will NOT let you make this about white collar businessmen the poors are funny too ok

[animentality]

[gaphic]

a chainsaw is a lot like a hot glue gun

[gaphic]

when you have one in your hands you start to get Ideas about your surroundings

[what-even-is-thiss]

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

[what-even-is-thiss]

Applies to everything from BDSM parties to your sister’s godawful interior design choices to weird bachelor pad meals eaten over a sink.

Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.

[autumngracy]

[jorolle]

"And it seems like it's worth your time, right? And, by the way, there's actually- the superpower inside of feeling alien is admitting that you might be an alien."

Into the Mud Podcast Ep. 81: The Superpower of Feeling Alien with Project Hail Mary's James Ortiz - What James Ortiz would say to people who feel foreign and alien

[threedollarsdotcom]

letd go eat parts of that guys car

[escuerzoresucitado]

[distantwave]

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[goodnightwindy]

4 days until wet rat wednesday

[goodnightwindy]

3 days until wet rat wednesday

[goodnightwindy]

1 day until wet rat wednesday

[goodnightwindy]

happy wet rat wednesday

[public-universal-sister]

Despite all my wrath I am still just a rat in a bath

[wlwgif]

DERRY GIRLS (2018-2022) 2.01 Across the Barricade

[smithsonian-official]

tumbleweeds are such an interesting plant. oh i need to spread my seed so im going to run around for a while on my once in a lifetime adventure

[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)

[priorwalterxxxii]

last day of pride month lets all look at this tweet im im love with again. happy Pride bitchh!

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[sykesarchive2]

from the bottom of my fucking heart. how are we supposed to live under these conditions.

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

You come from a long line of people who have survived, in many cases survived real horrors, and found that survival worthwhile. Find something to be moved by. Find something or someone to move.

[probuccalfat]

dead serious normalize having an average boring ass life where you have enough to meet your needs we do not need to be remarkable we just need to be alive

[homunculus-argument]

Day 154/365 of listing something good I saw today:

The misc goods shop had Thriller playing on the radio, and someone's kid was fully dancing to it in the passageway. It wasn't crowded at this time of the day, barely anyone else there but me and the kid's family, so it's not like he was bothering anyone. Party on, splendid little guy.