Temple Dragon

Travel Photographer and Writer. Reiki Master and Teacher. Environmental Scientist. Artist. Cosplayer. Sci-fi geek. Cat slave. Trans nb they/them. Aroace. Disabled CFS/ME. Long coat fancier. Rainbow chaser. Reviewer.   xfilesherosjourney.wordpress.com

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch

[my-dailydreams]

[valtsv]

i just think it's important to understand that love is not the antithesis of horror in fact it's often the catalyst

[valtsv]

"but if it's horrifying then it's not really love it's corruption it's lust it's obsession" you are not only wrong but you are also boring. go away.

[beeezah]

how could you leave this in the tags!!!

[paucaronte]

"i care about you, asami, more than i've ever cared about anyone"

[xenagabrielleforever]

[jeniferprince]

Entwined 🧡

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[spiltspit]

Happy pride to my fellow aro & ace homies ! ⚔️

[madnessofmen]

idk why but this is very amusing to me. got bored with the small and nearby, looking for the large and very far away now.

[byjove]

me: why are the pillows always so fucked up

my cat:

[thillius]

This looks like a painting with like the composition and lighting

[chloematis]

And now it is :)

[lantuille]

still standing

[kristina100000]

incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[imapuppetqueer]

Gotta catch em all

[gingik]

[thingsbydiana]

Ace dragons over the years~

[shutyourmoustache]

“No, your grandma didn’t speak in tongues, but she did sob. You called her a dipshit.”

[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)