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➺ intro post!

hello there i’m RJ :)

my pronouns are he/him and i’m bisexual :)

i have a side blog!!

i am physically disabled (bone and joint issues 😭) and have autism and adhd 💪💪

this is a multi-fandom blog, i don’t really keep much of an aesthetic or anything i just post what i want to

i’m 20 so i do post and reblog whatever i would like, its my blog and my space :)

that’s all about me i think :) i’ll update as i see fit <3

#intro post

icantspellthings

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

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.

puppiegracie

whitaker is not robby's new langdon and he never has been. and robby does not see himself in whitaker. that's not the point of dennis regurgitating robby's teachings, "oh it's like robby when he was younger..."

it's to show dennis looks up to robby. and that's what gets robby. because dennis is a person who saw him curled up on the floor like a baby, crying and whimpering, completely breaking, and stayed through it. saw all of it. and still, still respects him, trusts him, likes him, looks up to him afterwards.

he saw robby at an extremely vulnerable moment and did not "abandon" him. thaaat is the root of the attachment. that is why robby is so careful to keep dennis from seeing the uglier parts of him. he is desperate to have at least one person who still thinks he's good. who still looks up to him as the "captain" of the ED.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, it isn't, for either of them, but it's soooo interesting. dennis is not langdon, dennis is not robby, dennis is dennis.

beetlesyourjuice

shoutout to my teacher when i was 11 for casting me as romeo and then a year later casting me as hamlet. you were insane for making pre-teens do dumbed-down shakespeare, but you clearly clocked my transgender shit well before any other adult in my life.

#literally me but i played mercutio and horatio

octoboogie

more of this guy 😎

once-a-monarch

Cute animation for the like button for pride month!!

snailifier

happy pride, yall. happy pride to everyone who's getting or has been misgendered. happy pride to everyone who's had to defend their choice of partner (or lack thereof). happy pride to everyone who can't come out, and to everyone who didn't get to choose who knows. happy pride to everyone who has to choose between being themselves and being safe. i see you. i love you. there is so much joy to be had in being who and what you are. we're in this together and we're going to be better than okay.

drpepperwhoree

remember that pride is still a protest

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when reblogging, please add the pride tags I've included! if not, anybody liking your reblog will only see regular tumblr hearts :)

#technically!#i got the philadelphia pride flag but alas :( that wasn’t an option

cbartonscoffee

happy pride to the old men yaoi!!!

hestiagf

good morning soft sad freaks on an unprofitable website

retquits

this is miss jpeg.

she is NOT brave. she will NOT show up to the function. she is bad at both COMMUNICATING AND EXISTING ! if you walk a little too close to her she will CRY and SKITTER AWAY like a BUGE . ☝️