#didnt he have classes today?

[epaily]

i would much prefer my brother but my normal bus driver is really, really good

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

this one's for all the yuri enjoyers out there — nsft under cut

meronia event prompt(s): scar

[todayisafridaynight]

the elderly and their matching gloves

[hajihiko]

I I want draw a little creature doing the will smith My Wife pose so I can out text in place of th wife. For situations where i have thoughts but cant put them into drawings. Because just talking doesnt compute

[queenerdloser]

saw someone claim in a discord chat that classic books are usually "not about anything important" and while i'm practicing self-care by not responding to it in that chat, it actually steams me enough i have to put my thoughts somewhere.

i get the pushback against classic canon. i do. for many (MANY!) years, the only voices we were told that were worth hearing were rich, white, straight cis men. a very small portion of the population, usually from england if not europe. that sucks! it's a very small portion of the human experience! i get it so much from that viewpoint and i wholeheartedly agree that what is considered a "classic" needs to be expanded to include women, people of color, and marginalized viewpoints from every spectrum.

BUT. and there is a but! to then go on to say that what we consider to be a classic in this sense - books written by, say, dickens or shakespeare or hugo and so on - have nothing to say or are actually only hyped up or considered a classic because a white man wrote them... yikes! i'm sorry but that's simply just. not true. all of these men - yes, even the most rich, privileged, sheltered among them! - had things to say and their books are about something. and it's also frustrating to me to paint them all with the same brush when some of them were actively using their privilege to say something and to help those who didn't have their power. i'm sorry, you're going to stand around and tell me charles dickens wasn't writing about anything? that mark twain wasn't writing about anything? are you serious?

classic books aren't your enemy. the attitude about them can be infuriating when people push that great books can only come from white men - when they push that we should only care about books written by white men or that white men are uniquely capable of genius. but the answer to that is to expand what qualifies as "classic" to recognize that literary genius exists across all communities. the answer is not to say "well toni morrison was saying something and charles dickens wasn't." (also don't think these people realize that the canon DOES have a small - and it is very small! - inclusion of marginalized authors in it. i mean obvs it can be bigger, but a lot of these arguments seem to pretend that we only started including nonwhite people in the last ten years or s/t.) they were both saying things! they were both saying interesting things! they were both examining their society and critiquing it from their unique viewpoints! dickens' point of view is not simply gone because he's making his viewpoint from a privileged spot - it's important to recognize how it informs his viewpoint and how he writes his characters, but pretending that he simply just doesn't have anything interesting or worthwhile to say about the state of society... jesus christ. jesus christ!

i love sf/f. i think it can and does do a lot more work than people assume it does to "say something" about the world. but it bugs me so much when people pretend that the classics and literary fiction are on the lesser end of the spectrum (or that they're "only about divorce." shut the fuck up! you're using the same damn rhetoric of people who try to claim that sf/f is "only about aliens" or w/e! stop that shit!). you can recognize where the classics need to expand or that people writing them may be coming from privilege and still not wholesale dismiss the work they did, the experimentation they performed, the influence they had over the history of literature, or the very real, interesting, thought-provoking, beautiful, scathing, politically relevant stuff they had to say about the world they lived in.

[orcelito]

Bought a stupid suit thing. Disgustang.

[bmpmp3]

man in his mid 20s who says tee hee

[skrunksthatwunk]

not me spending like three hours on a late assignment (it's only like 5 days late) only for the submission box to be closed 💀💀💀

[broke-on-books]

No way that just happened

[whoviandoodler]

[Image description: a digital drawing of Thomas and Varian from Transatlantic in sepia tones. Thomas is sitting on a sofa smoking, one leg bent and resting on the couch. In his right hand he has an open book and in his left he's holding Varian's glasses. He seems to have just looked up from his book at a new arrival. Varian is lying on the couch, his head on Thomas's thigh, and sleeping while covered by a cardigan. End description.]

that awkward moment when you boyfriend said he'd just lie down for a second and totally wouldn't fall asleep (he has so much work to do, he can't take naps), but now he's been sleeping for an hour and your leg is cramping so badly but you don't have the heart to wake him because he's been exhausted for weeks

[huntersapprentice]

watched Knowing the Unseen for the first time

MY LITTLE COUSIN ....... ENA SHINONOME .. I CARE YOU SO MUCH

[elegyofthemoon]

jumpy cat gif theres so much exciting news this morning im scared itll end super badly pls 😭😭

[todayisafridaynight]

seeing info only about the kiryu and majima statuettes but absolute radio silence on the ichi one is utterly sending me. Theyre hiding the fact theyre gonna make ichi pale as a cracker again

[bangcakes]

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[misfortunegirl]

bro i really am just.

😀

i am just fucking sitting.

[skrunksthatwunk]

pleeeeeease cancel classes cuzza the rain pleeeeeease please pleeeeeeease