#hope is a radical act

[thoughtportal]

DR ADAM LEVY ClimateAdam ROSEMARY MOSCO

[timetravelsong]

𝐒𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞,

𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧?

excerpts from a book I’ll never write

[greenhorizonblog]

Your apathy does not make you cool, or noble, or interesting, or intellectually superior, it makes you a coward

[official-neue-bundeslaender]

found in berlin mitte. somehow gives me hope 😌

[nightguide]

Miley Cyrus explained:

schizophrenia Madonna's whore complex: Cyrus knows fully well where the situation will go until and after she finds a disorder in her life coming off as a meaning (surprisingly she is Muslim) as a well meaning like to wonder off the norms to find that peace she was willing to be with her entire life, even if her imagination/intuition has a strong profound outcome to her fanbase's life even if they are not really part of her fanbase (world as an outcome) hence her legacy being too good to be true to share it with someone who has that kind of energy on the inside who has been quiet their entire lives to share that story with, or so she knows that her lyrical value has nothing to share with the public that attains with by no interest but to accept that she is actually a strong willing person on the inside to face the norms despite no wealth handed to her, it shows her credibility to her family's roots to how they share their fame by name and sincerity (like the Pakistani networks) they adore that she implemented it into her work like she has nobody but herself to agree with about her lifestyle changes that go on without hate to mature her but with reasoning that makes a strong believing woman she is right now, she has a strong adolescent-like figure looking out for her somewhere else is how she can die with that feeling like she did her job well done with her predictions matching her fate elsewhere. it's a social reasoning with wealth that makes her who she is that she cares deeply about.

schizophrenia Hollywood: she does not like to lie, she has a reason to battle with her addictions alone, but now she is strong enough to face it without struggling with meaning (everybody has a reason) she knows fully well that her childhood gave her reasoning that meant for her life to continue for a reason (end times reasonings with fame) she discussed this multiple times on interviews alone about the misogyny of the music industry and misandry of the world become her which melted her fame into honour, hence her status on Disney that made her well to carry on for living her with reason than reason living with her

schizophrenia hate: she knows now that she has a following risking to follow the battle ahead of them (the art of letting go is within them via Lovato)

[bitstitchbitch]

I know it’s easy to let go. Give up hope. Throw your hands in the air and walk away.i feel it too - those moments when I wish the world would crumble to pieces because we don’t have to try if there’s nothing to save. We’re walking a tightrope and it’s simpler to fall than to fight to stay upright.

but it’s not too late. Hope is powerful. Dreaming of a better future is powerful. Look at where we are today compared to a hundred years ago. Look at the medical advances, the social rights advances. Look at us actually making progress towards creating a safer, more sustainable world. I don’t know if it’s going to be okay. But I know it definitely won’t be okay if we stop trying.

[lilyimmsim]

maybe it will all work out in the end. maybe there is a plan and it has changed many times but we're heading in the right direction. maybe it will all be okay. maybe it's okay to believe that we will get there.

[godloveyell]

However rough things may be as this long post points out, all hope isn’t lost. We can’t completely undo the damage we’ve caused, but if we’re willing to put forth the effort, we can salvage a lot of it.

Doomerism, as tempting as it may be, only serves the Powers That Be. They want you to give up hope, except this world as the only way things can be, and stop fighting for something better.

Though this would have to be a global effort and given what things are like…

Sorry to be all gloom and doom, but when it comes to all the government shitfuckery involved with COVID, I can’t help but think about the Smallpox campaign in the 50s and 60s, how WHO and all the governments of the world were like, “Let’s do some good by wiping out an endangered species for a change.” And everybody corroborated and made it happen. Smallpox is effectively extinct, only existing as frozen cells in a Petri dish in a select handful of labs.

I keep wondering what if we had put forth a similar effort when it came to COVID. Maybe we couldn’t have made COVID go extinct like we did with Smallpox (because they are different organisms after all), but how many strains could we have kept from emerging, how many people could have been saved if we embarked on a global effort to get vaccines, equipment, and medicine to where they needed to be?

Combatting Climate Change is going to require far more effort and coordination than tackling Smallpox or COVID. If we’re going to tackle it, we’ll have to radically change our way of life and think of ourselves as a global community rather than as a citizen of X Nation.

[toastysol]

I don't get why everyone's surprised that the brotherhood use the correct pronouns with Dane. I think people have forgotten a major aspect of the fallout environment. The bombs falling destroyed conventional societal norms. This includes any political agenda to erase trans people from history and the future. Also this is fiction. The brotherhood of steel are not a conservative christian political party. They care about what they dub "abuse of technology", this includes the biproducts thereof. The only people who fit that category are synths and mutants who they view as abominations that need to be exterminated. If trans people even counted as abuse of technology (which they don't and shouldn't, as the technology used for transition is helpful and not hurtful), they would be so far down the list the brotherhood wouldn't care. Why would they care. It's really not a big deal imo. It's a big deal in OUR world, but not theirs. Not by a long shot.

[righteousruin]

Oh Christ,

Steadfast belief in restorative justice is psychosis, Grant??

[dreamteamemojis]

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[mangled-by-disuse]

hope is how we get better tomorrows.

does anyone know if its worth the potential disappointment to have hope for a better tomorrow

[iwatcheditbegin]

Green Party as a whole pisses me off. At this point You can’t tell me those people aren’t just folks who want to vote trump without the backlash from those around them.

They just complain, and claim to be about holding politicians accountable (which isn’t wrong) but they only seem to ever call out dems. And they don’t even have tangible solutions.

You want radical change you need to take radical action. Abstaining from voting or voting third party and falsely equivalating Harris to Trump has no net positive. All it does is punish US citizens, there is no meaningful result for the people of Palestine.

*this is not referring to Muslim voters who rightfully might be feeling conflicted

[birdmenmanga]

hour 20 of being awake means I can't actually articulate what is going on in my head. I know I'm right though.

[an-absolute-nightmare]

me: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :(

my so called liberal and open minded parents: india is not secular anymore it's turning into a hindu nationalist country :D:D:D:D:D

[myopicry]

(love that this blog is essentially me rambling and complaining in a very first world problem way but hey, isn't that what tumblr is for?)

self-flagellating self awareness aside, I do think it's very funny that when I realized I did not want to have sex with men and was not actually very attracted to men at all, I immediately attached myself to asexuality as a label since based on my experiences (which had been exclusively with men) I felt so sexually and romantically dissatisfied and ended up pretty sex-averse because of it, and I just felt so awkward and unnatural with the whole process of dating that I decided I was definitely aromantic and asexual because I probably felt that way towards everyone! yeah that makes total sense!

because there was no way I'd ever want to date a woman, that'd be way too subversive and totally didn't match my personality at all, and since I'm uncomfortable with porn and the way sex is portrayed in most media, I probably wouldn't want to actually sleep with a woman (even if I have fantasized about it and would be happy to participate if the opportunity naturally arose in some way...) and man, wouldn't a future with a woman be so unattainable even if I wanted it, since I won't come out to my parents about anything because that notion terrified me? and hmm, I am obsessed with male attention, which probably has nothing to do with internalized misogyny and my lack of social development as a child. also, I'm definitely not a girl so I can't even be gay like that, and I'm not really interested in sex with trans women** so that's probably not very lesbian of me-

sooooo turns out repression and internalized homophobia goes a long fucking way lmao

living in a male-centered world truly messes with your brain like nothing else.* I was somehow convinced that just because I wasn't attracted to men, it meant I would never feel love ever in my life because what else is there? actually being able to truly put men out of my mind and life recently has made some things a lot easier. I used to not be able to picture a future version of myself and the life I could lead, which I once thought was wholly due to a "gender thing", but now, being able to conceptualize a life full of love and romance exclusively with women suddenly clears a lot of the mental fog up, and I find myself being able to actually want something in the future. I want to find love with a woman, I want a girlfriend, I want a wife. I want to build a life with her.

I still have a lot of growing to do as a person, obviously. turns out building a self-esteem actually takes... effort! crazy, I know. but now I can move forward with an assured mindset where I don't have to pretend like the concept of love is stupid just because I don't understand it (yeah. I did think that for a bit... along with wanting a qpr... which. well. I have a lot of thoughts about internet asexual culture that are far too jumbled at this point to be any kind of meaningful blog post so maybe some other time lol) because I finally have some kind of life full of love to look forward to.

*I'm sure the internet didn't help much with this either. my generation does love simplifying every lived experience down to aesthetics since social media has made us so damn obsessed with personal branding and the like, and the wlw/soft sapphic culture and aesthetic I saw a lot of in these internet spaces really didn't work for me as I'm not really into such feminine rituals or makeup and dress-up aesthetics. kinda bleak that for a generation and culture that promotes diversity, we love boiling things down to easy stereotypes and consumerist tropes instead of embracing real lived experiences... **aside from the obvious, in reflection I think my lack of attraction here also majorly falls on the fact that a lot of trans women adopt a hyper feminine image to pass and as described above I think my type and interests just naturally leans away from makeup products and "dolling yourself up" so it wouldn't really work out based on what patterns I notice in the presentation of trans women