Why did “be critical of your media” turn into “find all its flaws and hate it” why did people become allergic to FUN

Because people confuse “critical as in critical thinking” with “critical as in criticizing something,” so they think that “look for something bad, no matter how far-fetched” is what “being critical” means.

They also don’t realize that “literary criticism” means…

Okay. What literary criticism IS, is like taking a mechanical clock apart to see all the gears and learn how it fits together and approach your next clock with more knowledge of what makes it tick.

What they THINK literary criticism means is, you take the clock apart and beat all the pieces with a hammer, then scream at it because it doesn’t tick for you the way it used to.

OMG SOMEBODY PUT IT IN WORDS

It’s all well and good to use “be critical of what you consume” to mean “don’t follow things blindly and acknowledge their flaws” but this mindset fails to take into account that everything has flaws. An unproblematic fave is just a fave you haven’t looked at from all angles yet. If you go through life like this hoping to find something morally pure to consume you’re just going to be miserable.

dermatologists HATE me. everyone hates me. i’m so alone

*logs in to tumblr*

some of my favorite boat names I’ve found on vessel finder

when is tumblr removing the ability to login 

same day as it removes the ability to log out

No wait I was looking up why a blow job was called that and I found a historian who researched it and you’ll never believe what his name is

JOHN GREEN

I was born in the wrong generation, take me back to the paleoarchean era. I want to be insentient. I want to be bacteria