#choose mutualism

[gayahithwen]

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about community building. And because of it, I’ve been dreaming a lot about community kitchens. Like, just imagining all the things that can be done by creating a combination food bank and public eatery. Maybe have a cooking classroom in the building, so you can do cooking classes. Maybe have a studio kitchen or two that can be borrowed for free for people who want to make cooking videos. Let people donate the fruit from their trees and eggs from their chickens, and whatever other produce they can bring in.

Like, if you’re looking for ways to combine political activism, direct action, and community building? Sure seems like something worth exploring with your local party. And if there are local regulations in place preventing this (because the rich assholes in charge are fine with people in their own communities going hungry), reach out to the ACLU and ask them if their lawyers can find any loopholes for you. And if that still doesn’t work, seriously ask everyone in the party to consider taking the punishment for doing the right thing.

[gayahithwen]

Also, disabled people should be allowed to save their money. Like, if there's gotta be a roof, it should be set at like... half a million dollars. Let disabled people be financially independent.

Disability benefits shouldn’t be tied to the income of a disabled person’s partner/spouse/parent.

Do you hear me?

DISABILITY BENEFITS SHOULDN’T BE TIED TO THE INCOME OF A DISABLED PERSON’S PARTNER/SPOUSE/PARENT.

This is the straight forward way to deprive a disabled person of their financial freedom and independence and trap them into possible abusive relationships.

[platoapproved]

armand & louis playing out echoes of his relationship with marius

[ludinusdaleth]

WE HAVE OFFICIAL LUDINUS & LILIANA ART I REPEAT WE HAVE OFFICIAL LUDINUS & LILIANA ART

(from dani carr's most recent recap, please tell me if you know the artist, i have a few ideas who it is but no solid confirmation)

[gayahithwen]

"The world isn't kind"? Then make it kinder.

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

[hinamie]

Another blog noticed that Megumis scars are on the same position as Heian!Sukuna. And it's true! By that logic he should have scars under his armpits and on his belly (second arms and second mouth). You drawing it would be interesting

shoutout 2 megumi for making up fr all of yuuji's scars i no longer get to draw

[nibeul]

uncle aaron in spiderverse fucks me up so badly because here is a man who has done terrible, unforgivable things, and he loves his nephew very much

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.

[gayahithwen]

If you think waiting for The Glorious Revolution is the solution, because you think it would be easier to explain to a violent mob who it's ideologically correct to kill, than it is to explain to a NIMBY why they would also benefit from more affordable housing in the area? You're genuinely delusional. The current system needs a lot of work to make it function like it's supposed to. Blood is not oil. Pouring blood over the machine is not going to make it work better. But the oil of engagement and mutualism... that might make some creaky cogs start to turn again.

You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Since Minthara presents an exterior shell made of steel, and she's sometimes mean, and is an absolute badass in battle, she is often treated and perceived as someone who feels no emotions. And this often occurs to individuals who do put on such a tough exterior. It also does not help that many people perceive evil characters as incapable of doing or feeling anything other than evil. That love and evil are innately incompatible.

But Minthara is not emotionless, she does feel things. Sadness, grief, fear, loneliness, anger, anxiety, paranoia, vengeance, love. She can laugh, she can tell jokes, she can cry, she can smile, and she does get upset at things. If anything, she is emotionally repressed and emotionally guarded and the times where she does really express her more negative and vulnerable emotions is when it becomes too much to hold back and it comes out a little over the top. We have to remember she comes from a society in which such outward emotional expression would be rewarded with social punishment, religious scorn, or even death. So she really doesn't have the healthiest mechanisms to express her emotions.

She hides what she feels all the time as a means of keeping herself safe from punishment. She keeps it to herself cause she does not want you to see her as weak, as she would have been in the past. And she certainly does not want you or anyone else to punish her for it either. She hides behind little pet names and even using words from languages she knows you don't understand as that is the only way she feels safe being vulnerable with you. In her past, her love was rewarded with new wounds and new scars. She is terrified to open up to you, fearing that you will hurt her because she loves you. That her love for you won't actually be enough to stop you from hurting her. And she will only ever admit she loves you in contexts that have a high risk of death because there's really not much for her to lose at that point so she may as well tell you.

She also has a habit of intellectualizing what she feels and experiences so that they appear as "rational" and "logical" rather than emotional and to distance herself from her emotions. She says it takes a sharp mind to have sympathy for someone who suffers unnecessarily. She is trying to make it appear that emotions like sympathy is a matter of the mind, not the heart. That it is a mark of intelligence, because otherwise it would be the mark of weakness.

She blames herself for her own torments, like she deserved the awful things that happened to her. She frames the situation like she is more at fault and more deserving of blame, than the people who hurt her. It is the only way she can find any reason in what happened to her and any reason in her tormentors actions. That she did something wrong and induced someone's wrath upon her, rather than acknowledging that the person who hurt her is just a bad person.

She deserved what Ketheric and Orin did to her because she was "weak, passive, proud". That her emotional state had blinded her from the trap that was set, giving Ketheric and Orin ample opportunity to attack her. That if she hadn't felt those exact emotions, then it wouldn't have happened. She could have seen the trap coming, or she could have fought back.

Or if you attempt to tell her that her childhood was rough and her mother abused her, she immediately deflects by saying, "it could have been worse" and therefore, what she did actually experience wasn't really that bad. And yeah, sure, maybe she needed certain lessons given that she lived in a cruel and dangerous society like Menzoberranzan where she had to be prepared for violence at all times. But trauma is not born of love, it is born of fear, of pain, of agony, and her mother still tried to kill her. Regardless of her mother's intent, it was the first broken bond of trust and it left a mark on Minthara. Where she began to believe that her mother would torment her for torments sake, and she had doubts on whether or not her mother actually loved her.

When you encounter the first Orin imposter, it's pretty damn obvious she is terrified. And you kinda gotta squeeze it out of her to admit that she's afraid. Where it's "I'm afraid of Orin because she is capable of this, this, and this, and you should be too" rather than "I am afraid of Orin because she hurt me." And she begs you, BEGS, to keep her safe because she knows her fear makes her vulnerable to Orin.

She doesn't even truly acknowledge that she wasn't at fault for what Orin did to her until Orin is dead. She doesn't start putting the blame on Orin until Orin is dead. She doesn't go through the emotional process of sympathizing with herself until Orin is dead. And she doesn't admit that she undoubtedly has trauma, until Orin is dead. She gets so wrapped up, and so lost in her own fear and paranoia that she never has the room to properly process the things that happen to her. That her primary concern right now is keeping you, the others, and herself safe and her emotions can wait because wallowing in them will only make her weak. Only does the distance of death give her the room to start healing. Only problem is that there have always been threats and they never end, they never stop. So it is rare for Minthara to ever have a moment of peace and safety to work through what she feels and they just get backed up. Ignoring your problems does not make them go away.

So you wanna know what will happen when an embrace Durge betrays her? She will fall to her death, a knife in her belly, blaming herself for your betrayal. All her worst fears have come to pass and you were indeed a lover who hurt her because she loved you, and that she was a fool to ever trust you at all. That if she didn't love you, maybe you wouldn't have hurt her. She doesn't understand your reasoning, she can't make sense of it, she doesn't know why you'd betray her, so it must have been her fault for thinking you'd be different. That if she hadn't been so loyal, so devoted, that she could have been spared. That her belief that you would rule together is what damned her. She will die blaming herself for her own murder before she ever gets a chance to start blaming you.

[celerydays]

lazy mornings 💛

[gayahithwen]

If you believe in democracy, you should vote. If you don't believe in democracy, you're a fascist. So, assuming that you're not a fascist, but you live in a bipartisan country that needs massive voting reform, you have three options: 1) vote with your conscience for the party/candidate you personally agree with, whether or not they have a chance. This option is likely to split the voter base and give fascist politicians an advantage, but at least you've got your superior morals to comfort you when people are dying who wouldn't otherwise have died. 2) vote for the fascists, in the hope that making them look strong will incentivize people to take up arms and join your Glorious Revolution. This is a political position that supports violence as means to an end, which means it's likely to lead to a situation where the most violent become leaders. All they need is to find a cause to turn the violence you sanctioned against their political enemies until there's no one left to oppose them. Voting for fascists is ultimately (and it really shouldn't come as a surprise), supporting fascism. 3) Vote for the big tent party that's not actively making things worse. This on its own doesn't do very much, but if you get engaged politically (join a party (doesn't have to be the big tent party), check out RunForSomething.net, write opinion letters to your local newspaper, check the track record of politicians, and push for the issues you care the most about)... well, then at least you're showing that you care about democracy enough to oppose fascists, and the more people get engaged, the more politicians feel challenged to actually follow through on at least some of the issues. Which is, you know... democracy. I'm not calling people who don't vote fascists, by the way. Just... complacent.

Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

[stuckinapril]

[vanweezer]

coreys in my sketchbook 1/∞

commissions

[moyazaika]

yo so i just finished 'anything will do' by @suiana and bruhh this game ,,, i thought i was getting into something sweet and soft why tf am i left with a HOLE in my heart ,,,

deadass thought ai was just gonna let me hit and then he became existential and oHHHH MYY GODD the tone was just so introspective and endearing?? fr the entire game and it's writing felt like one of those lovely conversations you'd have in high school with your friends - the one you'll randomly remember now as an adult and feel ashamed for forgetting.

5/5 game - <3 what are you doing if u haven't played it yet???

two of my fav (non-spoilery) scenes!

1 - self explanatory i hate this guy (affectionate)

2 - i really loved this description. it just felt so thoughtful. devastating, really, when you know how ai really feels and the sort of things he's been thinking about in the game,, but sweet. in a sad way.