wait, you mean that by spending decades joking about how schools are disease vectors because children are just naturally disgusting, adults were ignoring a structural problem they had created? how surprising and not at all precedented
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wait, you mean that by spending decades joking about how schools are disease vectors because children are just naturally disgusting, adults were ignoring a structural problem they had created? how surprising and not at all precedented

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It makes the dream work
Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!
Poll for my own amusement i’ll look up real data on this later. If you grew up in an Anglophone country:
Were you taught some English-language etymology e.g. Greek vs Latin roots, French borrowings
yes
no
can’t recall
i did not go to primary school in an anglophone country
If you were taught English as a 2nd language in primary school hit the third option. If you learned some stuff but not other stuff hit the first option. If you learned all this stuff in like, middle or high school hit the second option. I’m asking about being taught this stuff during k-5 education (5-11 years old) while you are learning how to read.
Asking bc i was throughout 3rd-grade reading class, we had a unit on Greek roots a unit on Latin roots where we’d focus on like 2-3 roots a week (eg -graph- -phon- -pod-) and basically learn all the most common words with that root or variations of that root (phonograph, pedestrian) and we’d be like quizzed on our ability to derive the meaning of a word from it’s roots and affixes etc. I don’t know how common this was but it was pretty useful imo for understanding how like the actual language worked and then how to guess the spelling of a word you heard out loud or guess the pronunciation/meaning of an unfamiliar word (not as useful now that we all have pocket dictionaries orz)
Is there anything worse than talking to a non-Tumblr friend about something, and KNOWING that there's a PERFECT Tumblr reference for the situation they're describing to you but it would take 10 minutes of convoluted explanations to set up, and not only would they probably not laugh at the end but also they would definitely look at you different after.

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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.
#'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)
You're a doctor. You've been taught the phrase "first, do no harm."
A patient comes in with a flesh eating bacteria that is rapidly spreading up their leg. The only way to save their life is to remove their leg.
So what do you do? To help the patient is to accept that you must also harm them.
You're a good doctor. Of course you remove the leg and save the patient's life, because trying to exercise a choice that will result in no harm is impossible where there are only two bad outcomes, but one is unquestionably worse.
This post is for for leftists in the US who still think either not voting or going with a protest vote in the next two major election cycles is an acceptable choice, when you know full well the Republican will cause more harm.
everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters
Oh My God Damn
being aroace is a little sad sometimes because wdym everyone is so, so, so pretty but you can never appreciate it the same way they do, and most times, they don't even see it?
i have never seen a 'truly' ugly person. i have never met a mediocre one, as well. why am i forced to be a dejected observer of beauty when in the museum of mirrors, of windows, people never see the muse?
and it does and will sound hollow aloud, and some beauty does take a little, or even a while, to notice. it doesn't mean it's not there. do all paintings get appreciated on the first look? do all paintings get analyzed on the first look, too? the meaning doesn't get worn out of the canvas if you don't notice it.
you're all so, so handsome.
This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes
reblog to feed her notes
How is she doing this

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Tree Sparro! Shape is a bit off (the angle of the back), but... something something not conforming to society's expectations?
It's always really exciting seeing a bird that's like a common bird but a bit different and rarer (the black cheeks distinguish it from a house sparrow)
fingers on my temples, in deep concentration, brain bulging: if i was a supermarket, where would i put the eggs?
so far what this post has taught me is that there is one nationality who seems to be unaware of the fact that many different countries exist in the world with their own different forms of supermarkets... "um just look at the fridge in the back" - what?
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oh, of course. because he died for our sins.
Updating my pinned post AGAIN TwT Sorry for the spam!
Anyway here's the obligatory directory of where to buy a print version of my aroace comics:
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(or e-book if you prefer)
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Also here's where to find my partner and I's online shop on socials, and here's where to find more of me in particular.
Squatters' rights apply to grandmas. If someone's not visiting and looking after their grandma, but you will, after a set amount of time once you've settled in, that's your grandma now.
Someone tried to do that with my grandma once. The guy tried to become her kid so they could inherit the house and money.
My grandma people pleases in a way where she lies all the time, so it was really hard to figure out whether or not she wanted to be in that situation, but after she was started to disown my mom (who would travel a couple hours every week to see her) we started fighting the guy. We’re now in a legal battle because he’s been using some sort of squatter’s/tenet’s rights to keep her house, and has had access to the grandma credit card(cuz she just let him borrow it). And my people pleasing grandma is now staying with us, and says she seething hates the guy.
Idk who needs to hear this, but this is your reminder to go clear out unwanted squatters from your grandma.

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That’s how I move in the shower.