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hey im forrest! aka gloom. he/it/they. bi ace babey 🖤🩶🤍💜

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this is my main where i mostly just reblog stuff i like.

if i'm talking about an oc of mine you don't recognize, chances are that they're on my toyhouse!

rosebud is my current webcomic. i won't be posting it on tumblr but here is the comicfury site for it!

if you like my comic and are interested in supporting me i have a patreon!

sometimes i post art here but i also have a general/oc art blog at @gloomyforrest.

i’m currently insane about murder drones. sorry! i post art for it on my md sideblog @trauma-bot

i am an adult and sometimes i reblog adult things. be normal.

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elliespectacular

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happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

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.

lizardsister

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

drpepperwhoree

remember that pride is still a protest

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cremsie

There's so much to be proud of!

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captainsnoop-deactivated2020041

there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever

#it me gloom