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Hello! I'm Toasty (or Toast), and welcome to my blog! I like bugs, books, trains, talking objects and other random things.

I also like writing, mostly about my story/project/headworld, Fern and Fangs, and mostly about Stanley and Monty, my main OCs and muses (I love them). My side-blog, the-toastyverse, is dedicated to my OCs.

I also have an obsession with crayons, specifically Crayola crayons. Don't ask.

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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.

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Masculine girl who's pink and wears pink and her room is pink but she's still undeniably masculine and gender non conforming and big and likes having longer hair and kicking ass and cussing and being gentle and kind and not taking shit and making her friends smile and taking up space and being empathic and teasing and being rude and caring and biting and not conforming and having hope and being herself.

Susie Deltarune, you are all I've ever wanted from a female character.

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