elleras
girlkisser, girlfailure
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ella. she/her. 18. also @spotconln, @speakingvariety, @blaneyism.
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elleras · 11 days ago
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do not fix your dark circles let the world know youre tired of its shit and ready to kill a man
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elleras · 15 days ago
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The beauty of romanticism in Disney's Cinderella (1950)
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elleras · 25 days ago
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college aus are kinda crazy. they would not be doing all that. There's midterms
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elleras · 27 days ago
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oh the feminine urge to drop out of college and become a young broke indie film director
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elleras · 28 days ago
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elleras · 28 days ago
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PTX headlining Madison Square Garden, NYC 2019 // 2024
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elleras · 30 days ago
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she jack off my trades till im master of none
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elleras · 1 month ago
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does anybody wanna frolic with me. does anyone wanna fucking dilly dally with me
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elleras · 2 months ago
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Make the most of the next two months
Get all your vaccines
Travel while we have a functioning DOT
Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt
Attend drag shows
Don't skip any of your classes
Read and buy history books
Find your out-of-state networks
Learn to carry cash
Get birth control solutions
Support the Biden/Harris administration
Postpone large purchases and save money
Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information
Feel free to add on.
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elleras · 2 months ago
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Meet Me Next Christmas (2024)
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elleras · 2 months ago
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joe biden, you stupid fuck. listen to me. Crimes are legal for sitting presidents as long as they’re official actions. Listen: Joe. You have one chance
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elleras · 2 months ago
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Other steps are good to read, just want to highlight this part:
Under a Trump presidency, there are going to be so many issues that it will be hard to accept that we cannot do it all. I’m reminded of a colleague in Turkey who told me, “There’s always something bad happening every day. If we had to react to every bad thing, we’d never have time to eat.”
An elder once saw me trying to do everything and pulled me aside. “That’s not a healthy lifelong strategy,” she said. She’d been raised in Germany by the generation of Holocaust survivors who told her, “Never again.” She took it personally, as if she had to stop every wrong. It wracked her and contributed to several serious ongoing medical conditions. We can accept our humanity or suffer that lack of acceptance.
Chaos is a friend of the autocrat. One way we can unwittingly assist is by joining in the story that we have to do it all.
Over the last few months I’ve been testing out a terribly challenging tool. It’s a journaling exercise that invites you to reflect on which issues you’ll spend energy on. It asks: what are issues you’ll throw down on, do a lot for, a little for, or — despite caring about it — do nothing at all for? That last question can feel like a kind of torture for many activists, even while we’re intellectually aware that we cannot stop it all.
Unaddressed, this desire to act on everything leads to bad strategy. Nine months ago when we gathered activists to scenario plan together, we took note of two knee-jerk tendencies from the left that ended up largely being dead-ends in the face of Trump:
Public angsting — posting outrage on social media, talking with friends, sharing awful news
Symbolic actions — organizing marches and public statements
The first is where we look around at bad things happening and make sure other people know about them, too. We satisfy the social pressure of our friends who want us to show outrage — but the driving moves are only reactive. The end result wasn’t the intended action or an informed population. It’s demoralizing us. It’s hurting our capacity for action. Public angsting as a strategy is akin to pleading with the hole in the boat to stop us from sinking.
Symbolic actions may fare little better under a Trump presidency. In whatever version of democracy we had, the logic of rallies and statements of outrage was to build a unified front that showed the opposition many voices were opposed to them. But under an unleashed fascist — if it’s all you do — it’s like begging the suicidal captain to plug the hole.
Let me be clear. These strategies will be part of the mix. We’ll need public angsting and symbolic actions. But if you see an organization or group who only relies on these tactics, look elsewhere. There are other, more effective ways to engage.
When the 2016 election happened, I came out, joined orgs, and went on hormones. The third is still happening, and I’m now in a university. The key is figuring out what you can do, and with whom. You will not save the world alone, but you can do good with other people and in specific circumstances. I can’t even begin to list all the things I did before the COVID pandemic and even during lockdown. Find out what you can do locally, be cool, and keep in touch.
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elleras · 2 months ago
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hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you
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elleras · 2 months ago
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god please take all of my mutuals' suffering, double it and give it to donald trump
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elleras · 2 months ago
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i got too optimistic and forgot kamala harris was dealing with the combined powers of racism and misogyny
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elleras · 2 months ago
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"All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right, well only a woman knows how to treat a woman right!" CHAPPELL ROAN on Saturday Night Live
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elleras · 2 months ago
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“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.
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