#i wish we could afford to do this i wish ppl would just be fucking allies to trans and jewish ppl about this

[nomairuins]

anyways sry its not srs eventually ill get it together . and be a person again. one day

[pokedext]

I know everyone is giving their own theories to the more conservative younger gen z, but I think it’s a symptom of something beyond sexism. That’s too easy a solution to explain. Also too simple to blame the democrats bad tendency to drive for the middle route.

I think the efforts of undermining and cutting education by the Republican Party is in part over time paying off. An educated population does not fit their end goal for society.

It pairs well with the huge amount boomers retiring and the huge demand for jobs especially lower skill jobs. My generation is in a weird spot cause we actually largely were pushed to get a college education. Which for us has finally allowed some downward trickle. Plus the trend of inheriting money from the more well off boomers as they die. They actually put an article out in Times about this. At first I scoffed, but then had a conversation with my own father.

I kind of my entire life expected nothing given the recession really fucked up the economy for my gen x parents. I also didn’t get the good luck being the tail end of Y… But after my father’s disclosure of his current standing I realize long term it’s going to pay out really well for Gen Y. We will have the assets and education. The political environment will harm us a lot less than it will for Gen Z.

Which who if I even try to talk to them about being wary of trades seem to think they pay really well. They do for young adults. At my age I make the same amount as seniors in them, with a lot more room to grow. Also better options with my disabilities that aren’t aging well. I feel like my father being the only college educated besides my grandmother I can see side by side how this stuff pays out. My uncle’s have less and frankly can’t afford to take it easy. Yeah they have their needs met, but they’re living on the cusp of lower middle class. They have no upward growth, lot of physical health issues from their careers, and the current economy does not favor their disposition.

The college debt thing is bad, but your odds of being able to retire go way up. Especially now that there’s better routes to loan forgiveness. If Gen X and younger would just use this with grants at community college I think they could leverage better than us… However cause they’re falling into the republican spew of just skipping college they’re being groomed into the next servitude generation. Which there’s a huge shortage for ppl willing to do that, but not for long as working geographics change.

Since Gen Y isn’t largely having children that also is limiting how well rounded the generations below us are. As in ppl like myself who are educated with decent household incomes aren’t bringing up anyone, the line of our ideology ends with us.

It also really benefits Gen Y competitive wise if Gen Z and younger don’t persue college education. Which is actually amazing despite that most of us still don’t vote that way. I just wish the concern would resinate in younger ppl.

I feel really bad for all these young ppl. Hindsight is bitch, that I learned myself. I already have to redo my own college education, but I know for my body it’s not optional. I cannot much handle my hybrid white/blue collar job. Yet I’m still slotted better by generational wealth and stupid luck.

For the love of god do not think boomers in blue collar jobs thrived without other inputs. Silent generation established strong labor laws and unions that have been dismantled. Also a lot of boomers were put into college by the silent generation. My great grandfather slaved at odd end jobs to pay for my grandmother’s future. He always deserved more than he got in life, but he made sure his kids wouldn’t share his misfortune. He would never tell ppl blue collar work pays well. My other grandfather older, but also part of silent gen with gen x kids did blue collar work to pay for college for his kids too. They know that shit doesn’t end well. So they didn’t want their kids to persue it.

[destinyc1020]

sometimes I think the kid as in Tom was not meant to be this famous. Like his moves are suspicious to me. I would not be surprised if Harry is his publicist. He doesn’t move like a celebrity should idk the complete disregard about the discourse around his name in the last few months has made me realize that he operates in a very short sighted arena. Like I will be honest I am so dumb founded by his lack of response to this whole thing. I mean, this play is just a play right? It is not meant to make or break anything for him. But now it’s breaking him. The very community that he is entering aka the theatre community ( esp black theater in south London) is not happy. So this has now already created this persona about him to the people consuming this art.It really saddens me because I know the kid doesn’t have a bad bone in his body but he lacks foresight. I’m sure Sydney Sweeney would have made a statement if she was in the situation because she cares about pr. I bring her up because we all know Tom has better character than her but she understands her position in this business. Tom doesn’t. Im really frustrated. I wish there was something we could do but like today with his twitter he is not on top of shit! It’s hard to defend him. If Fran comes out of this and speaks and says she wishes he would have done more then it’s really really fucking bad. He missed the chance to be lauded by the community now he is being scrutinized and honestly he deserves it

I understand your frustration Anon, but I think you're catastrophizing things just a bit.

First of all, British theater will be JUST FINE, they LOVE Tom over there (do you forget he started off in British theater?? 🤔 He's not some nobody).

Second, the tickets for all play dates have already been sold OUT. They sold out in like 2 HOURS. People are gonna be sat for this play regardless of whatever "issues" are going on inside of the Twitter app.

Most ppl attending that play probably have no clue what was going on online anyway on Twitter. 🙄

The only people complaining about this casting were racist ppl who o more than likely didn't have a ticket to the show in the first place.

Third.... Sydney Sweeney is nowhere NEAR as famous as Tom is, so while she might be good at "PR", when you're SUPER famous (like Tom is) you do have to think extra hard about your actions (and non-actions).

Lastly, while it's frustrating.... You have to keep in mind that you're just a fan, and to know your place. You don't know everything, you don't see everything. We don't know what Fran might come out saying in the future. She might talk about how Tom and the rest of the cast was super supportive of her, and bought her cards and flowers, and helped her to feel welcomed.

When you make assumptions, you.... well, you know the rest lol 😆

I'm just saying, while it cad be frustrating, I think that as a fan, you have to realize that we don't know ALL the facts, we don't know what will happen in the future, and we don't need to hate on someone in retaliation.

Jmho 🤷🏾‍♀️

Either you're a fan, or you're not... It's your own choice. I personally don't feel like celebrities are perfect, so I afford them some grace, even if they've disappointed me in some way (depending on what it is of course).

Just take a deep breath and breathe.....

[stylesloveclub]

ok first this i funny bc i think the last ask i js put in was not as an anon which is fine bc it's really not that deep but i signed it as my anon name (which i adore btw tysm for that) and i js think that's quite silly

ANYWHORE....

so as we all know midterms are a terrible rotten creation and the person who made them deserves to burn in hell (maybe that's a stretch but they certainly get zero brownie points from me 😠) and ofc you absolutely feel that way when you're studying for them. and YES okay, you studied bc failing bc you didn't study and failing bc you don't understand the material are two very different things. the minute you find out you're absolutely CRUSHED bc you work sooooo hard in this class and are always studying and doing what's required of you but it just doesn't make a single ounce of fucking sense in your brain. so you trek back to your place all mopey and sad and on top of that you have work tonight, and don't get it twisted you love your job (otherwise you wouldn't have met harry) but all you want to do rn is curl up in a ball and shovel loads of junk food in your fat gob and wallow in the feelings of pity and being a failure :(((((((. but you can't bc for whatever reason the government says you're legally and big girl and have to take care of yourself (fuck that) so you put on your little uniform and walk the few blocks it takes to get to Pleasing. ppl can tell you're sad and just not your regular chipper self when you come in, but they also know it's best to leave you be in these situations bc you're bound to start SOBBING if someone asks what's wrong and as much as your coworkers love and care for you they cannot afford to be down a staff member so you crying is not any option 💀💀. so you're going through your shift and it's honestly better than you thought it would be bc it's keeping your mind off your grade and how bad it is and your friends and making you laugh, but then the snob of the night just has to come in and ruin the whole mood. you already know you won't like serving him the minute he opens his mouth, all "listen honey..." and you tune out the rest of his words until he finally orders. his date looks bloody miserable, and you wish you could tell her to run for the hills, but at least she's getting a free meal from a five-star restaurant. so yada yada yada things are going relatively fine with the customer until *uh oh* his pasta got messed up. he asked for his cilantro on the side and it, unfortunately for you, came with none at all. you're on the verge of apologizing when he starts chewing you out "what the fuck is your issue? are you really that dense? i get you're just some dumb waitress but you have to have at least half a brain to work at a place like this...." he's so unbelievably rude, causing a scene and grabbing the other customers attention, making them stare as he just yells and yells and yells :(((((. eventually, one of your coworkers, jenny let's say, comes over with the cilantro and slams it on the table and "we're sorry for the inconvenience sir, please enjoy your meal" he doesn't thank them or apologize to you (though his date does which is unnecessary but appreciated) and jenny ushers you away and is all "go see harry hun, it's fine" bc she's one of your closer friends from work and knows more about your relationship with harry than the others. so you run over to his office with a short nod of thanks to her and you don't even bother knocking before you push the door open. and harry's about to scold you until he sees you're crying (which you hadn't realized until just then) and he's pushing away from his desk and rushing to you and "puppy? what's wrong, my sweet girl?" :(((( and so you run down the whole day, from your failed midterm to the shitty customer just a few minutes ago, crying and blubbering into his pristinely pressed shirt. you don't notice that he makes a short call during your rant to get the customer who yelled at you kicked out, but it doesn't matter bc it's short and his full attention is back on you in no time. "baby, m'sorry, so so sorry about your midterm and the mean customers" :(((((( and he wipes your tears away until your cries have settled down to soft hiccups and "c'mon puppy, we're ending the night early"

AND THIS IS TOO LONG HOLD ON

-tummy r*ding anon 😵‍💫

1/3 🥸

[cosmicdream222]

im literally kicking myself in the foot for not doing something more worthwhile with my existance... i never knew of manifesting until recent years and while society likes to say its never too late sometimes it feels like that is it too late cause to learn any skill you have to have already learnt the techniques then have good practice abilities on top of it, like you cant just waltz into a sport for instance and take a gold medal you have to do it step by step but to do that again im fucking regretting so much rn cant i just bash my head into a wall and slowly die? or music for instance cant just pick an instrument and be good at it right off the bat again shouldve just fucking picked something and stuck with it

also i never had the likes of tiktok or anything internet for entertainment when i was a kid so in a way it shouldve been perfect chance to really do smth but as always situations got in the way and im regretting existing a lot rn. like why so many ppl so good at their niches or whatever it is they choose to do and theres so much more available now than there was back then but i cant seem to pick a single damned thing that i could realistically do at my age and still feel accomplished bc id just end up feeling behind or regretting not doing it sooner

sorry for ranting abt myself there just if only there was time machine or a literal realistic way of shifting to another damned reality cause this aint it like why im wasting so much of it doing fck all? it should be shameful honestly but like at the same time its kind of impossible with current economy being so crappy

for instance if u want to own a business (which i would do if i could even afford one with my own money but then u got to ha e the job and the know how on running it) seriously my ancestors had so many more things that were successful in their lives and some did have businesses bc shops were affordable back then, education used to be affordable too and housing etc etc. id be more inclinced to then have a family of my own if that were the case but it is not soooooooooooooo then its like even if you want a bog standard job it can still take months just to get something basic. i once did manage to manifest a free bus ride and my teacher not coming to college for a few days but thats abt it. other than that lifes kinda average sadly its not the 1950s and elvis is still dead asf.............. not fair

the other thing that puzzles me and sorry for making this so long but if we are supposed to have had past lives a) why havent we known about it before now and b) how come some celebs dont reincarnate or do the celebs that pass away just get a free pass to heaven and decide to stay put? (in which case i wont blame them but its also not fair that i have to still exist... or fail to exist i should say)

My dude, I understand where you’re coming from and I have been where you are. But you say you wish there was a way to travel back in time or shift realities - there IS a way to shift realities, travel back in time, and live whatever kind of life you want. Seriously. That is the whole reason I created this blog!! So please read through all the information I’ve collected instead of just complaining ok? 😭

All of that stuff you mentioned about your current reality is an illusion. Time is an illusion. It does not matter what you’ve done in the past. The economy does not matter. Your present circumstances do not matter. Past lives only exist if you believe they do.

Look around tumblr at void, loa and shifting success stories. I have shared many of my favorites. People in very difficult circumstances have regularly completely change their lives overnight, wake up in new houses, shift to alternate realities, change their genders, change their ages, bring people back from the dead, to say the very least.

None of it matters because we live in the literal matrix - a VR simulation - and you can have anything you want NOW.

[agapintheskin]

I doubt Bible is gonna leave BOC so BibleBuild are done as a ship. It just sucks... from the standpoint of him not having anything to do while MileApo have a project after project lined up.

It's been two months but he's only getting model gigs when he's an actor. I almost wish that he could leave to go to GMMTV where all of the actors have tons of things to do and aren't just promoting clothes or perfume :(

I mean B doesn't have to be part of BOC to act in one of their shows, and BOC could lend Bible to whatever show. that's not the part that would make it impossible. Just weird and nonsensical probably unless it's a guest role.

And I sure hope BOC will give Bible acting roles very fucking soon. I mean idk he might already be casted or even be filming stuff that's still under wraps of course but it doesn't look great rn.

Comparing BOC to gmmtv is a little- like BOC can afford doing one thing at a time. They're not the same. And gmm are casting new ppl basically every week - idk if they could do right by him? Right now he's one of the 3 biggest faces in BOC, in gmm he'd get swallowed whole. I'm not against the idea in general but it doubt it's a realistic one. But yeah that's a whole different story, the rest of the BOC boys are nowhere to be seen either and I just hope that we simply don't know and they're actually being casted.

[closetartist]

Can an American love a po’ man?

That mi a wonder

Cause see, I’m an American and I had this Jamaican luva

Shh shh shh, it could be worse

Im so glad I’m not another…

I done seen them white women going through it. Cultural differences that just too vast.

Third world to first world, pussy flying out first class to fuck on a nga who can’t afford that!

Cause ykno how them bums get down, it’s like universal law

Need a place to stay, act like you love the woman no matter how she stay

She could be fat, wicked, & uglaaayyyy

He gon service that anyway

Desperation a make you act a way

All that aside, I’m sure my man loves me genuinely

I mean, I’m quite the catch

Young, fit, a freak & hella bad!

All of da men dem wan try dat.

& did I mention I’m a boss?

I get my own my own money, I travel, & I floss.

That’s just the African American way, you reach a status & you want to flex so the ppl dem got something to say

But honestly, that ain’t even meh

I just love to travel, learn new cultures, & go on about my way, yea, I might have my fun, give a nga di bun

But I keep it playa, they always know whats up

I mean that is, til I fall in love

Vulnerability comes and the front is up.

So know I ask, can a well off woman love a po’ man? A modern day bum?

What if his spirit is far from dumb? What if it wise and full of love. What if he meets every mark but jus ain’t got no bread?

This shit got me thinking I wish we met BC so I wouldn’t be so in my head.

Instead we could just be in bed, or in di yaad, you’d climb the jelly tree like you always do & quench my thirst. I’d appreciate it so much & hold you close. I wouldn’t have no I’ll thoughts, just gratitude. I wouldn’t worry about what you can contribute to my IRA. I would even have a concept of money…

But those days are not today. So I must say, I think it’s time for me to move on baybeh.

Ima drink my rum & tequila, put my mask on, & masquerade the New Orleans way.

[underhercovers]

It's so cool, when the ppl who you think are cool, also think your cool, and you just get to vibe and be cool together ☺️☺️☺️

I finally got to link back up with an old college class mate. We met freshman year and had the same fashion class, and did make a bit of a connection. I always thought she was so cool, but we never really hung out over those college years due to her financial struggles to afford school. I don't remember exactly how we found each others IG, but we've always been in each others CFs.

Anyways, I finally got to reconnect with her last night, at a car meet. My bf is a part of the street car scene (which is so fucking cool, and makes me feel so bad ass, like I'm in the movies), and I would post to my CFs in real time the nights I was out. She had reach out a few times about joining, and I would always let her know, but she wouldn't show, it was later confirmed she was worried about keeping up, like I thought. So last night when my bf told me there was going to be a car meet, I kept to my word and let her know, and we ended up making arrangements to come pick her up to join us.

The meet up was so fulfilling in many ways, surprisingly I had been on her mind while on hiatus, she actually noticed I had disappeared, which was surprising bc right b4 I went on hiatus, I invited her out to dinner, and I just didn't think it went as well with her bc she never reached out to invite me to anything she was doing, and it was incidents such as so that made me feel bad and unwanted, and pushed me towards hiatus. Honestly idk, I've always thought so highly of her bc she was always doing the things I wanted that I thought were cool, I loved how cool she dressed and that she was part of (what I will compare to NYC) Club Kid scene for our city. Like I would see her post and think about how badly I wish I could be apart of it, but like I said, we were cool in college, but not close, and I didn't want to ask her directly about joining bc I always worry about being group with inauthentic ppl (users and clout chasers). But surprisingly she actually wants to hangout and club together more, plus one of her friends is an up and coming DJ, who's pretty popular, and she said she could get me on their list for free entry to the events!!!

I'm just so frankin happy and excited about this, it's so nice to know ppl feel the same way I feel about them, now I just gotta save up some time or something (i work at an Amazon, iukuk), so I can make it to one of the events!!!

[ajcrowlor]

thank you for saying this bc oh boy do cyclists in Montreal get fucking /weird/ abt bike superiority

not everyone is rich enough to afford a good and safe bike! i live in [a] capital of bike theft so on top of being able to afford a good bike you gotta be able to take into account that you may need to buy a new one (or parts) before the summer is over, and you have to do so much fucking research if buying a second hand one to be sure you aren't just giving money to a shop that buys stolen bikes

we also have shit weather but ppl will still argue "it's perfectly fine and safe! l i bike in the winter! and so can (read "should") you!" not everyone is a strong enough cyclist to manage this, and again, more money needed for a separate winter bike (bc you can't just change tires, the salt will fucking kill your main summer bike's frame)

also, where do you park your bike overnight when you live in a tiny-ass apt without a lock-up where the landlord doesn't allow bikes chained out front? (which often get stolen anyways?) you're gonna park your dirty bike in your living room? oh wait you live in a studio? so next to your kitchen or next to your bed?

(okay yeah solve these issues by buying a yearly bike pass... which is still $100... and not lart of the bus/metro/train transit systems... and then have to hunt down bixi stations close enough to your home and workplace and pray that there's a bike to get into work and a space to park it once you get there and that the bixi system isn't just fucked for you personally... so that you don't risk being regularly late to work)

also okay you just biked to work and spent an hour doing (possibly heavy) physical activity and now you're gonna spend your whole shift sweaty like you just went to the gym? it sounds like a nightmare to have to work like that, and is extremely selfish to force that on others; you're gonna subject customers and coworkers to the fact that you smell like a fucking gym bro, for the next 7 hours?

and then they always ignore disabled people and parents bc the disabled people and parents that they know are happy little cyclists and no other type of disabled person or parent could exist

there are some people that just. cannot physically manage biking, yet alone doing it to work on a regular basis

poor parents may not be able to afford multiple bikes for kids that'll outgrow them next year, and single parents may not be able to safely monitor multiple children biking alongside them (and those bikes with extra child seating are. fucking expensive. and may only sit up to 2 larger kids.)

(also i absolutely do not understand how regulations for car seats can be so stringent but you're allowed to strap a toddler baby to the back of a bike like an afterthought. i genuinely ???)

and i am pro bikes! i fucking wish the city was even more bikable! but i fucking /hate/ how pro-cyclist discourse is so often ignorant of anyone who isn't able-bodied and rich (and v white)

heck, im 32 but i can't really bike; i learned pretty late and therefore had training wheels late, and never really got confident biking anywhere but inside big parks, and then outgrew my bike in my early teens and haven't biked since. i absolutely would not trust myself biking to work because i have shit balance (and shit lung capacity)

Bike to work advocates have the easiest job in the world. Driving sucks. Public transit sucks. Everyone hates commuting to work and all you need to do is sell someone on taking a nice bike ride through a park instead of doing that. And yet they still fuck it up because like 90% of bike activism stems from a weird ableist, classiest, racist superiority complex for some reason, instead of ways to make biking safer and more practical.

[golbrocklovely]

I fully agree with you, if he hasnt walked a mile in another person’s shoes, someone who hasnt had it easy, hasnt lived a life of privileged or had that cushion where he knew if he fucked up he could easily move back with mom and dad, then he has no right to tell people how it is and how its supposed to be based on what he’s read off self help books. Its not like he spent years helping malnourished children in a extremely poor part of the world and went “wow these people with so little still manage to be happy by doing this”, no he bought philosophy for dummies and ran with it.

Personally i think the people that preach the most like he does are trying to convince themselves they are happy, so they go on these rants and spiels trying to convince people it should be like this or that because that is how their life is currently like and because they really aren’t happy. Not to sound like a jerk because i’d kill to have that life where i can be my own boss, follow my own schedule, and my biggest headache is “i need to edit & film” and not “how the fuck am i going to pay rent”, but Sam is over here complaining about editing all the time and how “its starting to feel like work”, yeah im not gonna feel bad for you buddy when you’ve had the means to hire editors and a team, no one told you to disassociate from friends or move and buy A second mansion and just abandon the first one. His issues are rich people problems and for him to have the audacity to say we shouldn’t put all our joy into vacationing!!! When the majority of us cant afford to travel every other week like him is absurd.

The same way Colby gets called out for the littlest things, i WISH someone would call him out and tell him if he feels like ranting to go to a therapist first and then if he still can’t scratch that itch, to actually take the time to get out of his comfort zone and learn about people and society instead of being so generalized with his thinking.

i don't think he would have to go that far to understand struggle. but i do think weirdly he can come across with a lack of empathy. i think he genuinely cares, but i don't think he fully grasps how bad some ppl have it. hell, even i to some extent don't. but bc my lows have been deadly to some extent, i care for those who have struggled more than me, bc i could barely make it thru.

and you nailed it right on the head. i think internally he struggles to find himself, to find things that make him happy, and bc of that, he tries to project this air of "i'm so happy and you can be just like me if you follow along." and it's just… not realistic.

i personally believe that regardless of life circumstance, you can still bitch about how life feels. even they have bad days. my issue is that maybe venting to us isn't the best way to go about it. go vent to your influencer friends who understand you gripe. i will say tho, when they do complain, they also immediately follow it up with "but we don't really have all that much to complain about" so… win some lose some lol

but i do get your point that they could easily hire someone to help take the stress of editing out of their life, but instead don't forever whatever reason bc they want someone they can mold into the perfect editor for them.

side note, and not related to this at all, on xplrclub they talked about how they might be hiring this one editor who's gonna basically do sam's half (or at least help out with that half) and i'm just like…. WHY THAT HALF??? they bitch constantly that they don't want anything flashy that a lot of editors do now-a-days, so clearly they want control on the back end of the editing. why not just hiring someone to cut the video up and make it make sense, and then the two of them can split between the music, subtitles, transitions, ect???? that would be SO much easier. also i basically said at this point they should just hire a fan to edit bc even i at this point could make a video like theirs lol

anyway back to your ask

oh yeah, when he talked about not living for things like vacation and trying to find happiness or positivity in the mundane, i get it. but like…. wrong messenger. you can actually afford a vacation. some of us can't and will never be able to. so like, if we some how miraculously can, shut the fuck up and let me enjoy it sksksks

highkey i would love for snc to both go to a therapist. like, i just know they need one. we all do tbh. but at least they can afford to go to one.

[cosmicanger]

yea winter and Johnny Depp are very similar, they both take their stylings from how homeless people layer (most non-Black fashion is literally make an object pulled from the poor Black experience but pricing it where most poor Black people could never afford it, “luxury” is just anti-Black classism) and both do DARVO when someone with less power than them tries to hold them accountable.

I do not have the power to “cancel” winter in anyway so I do not understand pinning me as the violent one when I cant do anything to winter. winter and followers have “cancelled” me with the power winter has through social capital. winter and the abuse by proxy is violent. also why we acting like I called an actual proBlack person a c**n like winter has the fucking Beatles as his header like y’all acting like Im coming for Rick Owens Malcolm X when winter barely know any theory and Malcom X wouldve called winter a c**n too and Malcolm X was calling Jackie Robinson a c**n like and Malcolm X aint even the most the radical Black person from that era like 🛑 stahp (also this is a prime example how Twitter is slightly more “progressive” than Tumblr cause calling a violent Black cis man a c**n wouldnt be dragged for this long 🤣) like he couldve just taken the initial crit a while back and got over it but i bruised winter’s ego so winter continues to enable violence onto me that I cannot do onto winter or would need to cause I can fight my own battles, winter hiding behind a block and using Black MaGes he tokenizes as shields, disgusting.

this is gone too far and everyone sees all of this even if they don’t like my posts or winter’s cryptic shade he throwing at me. people see what has been happening on both sides so yea anyone enabling winter in any way at this point aint shit to me. people are afraid to be vocal about winter cause they see what is happening to me for so long. like im not the only Black person who dont fuck w winter, like goddamn. i dont wish this bullshit on any Black person who actually isnt a non-Black apologist.

the other thing, i admitted have a slightly above beginner knowledge of fashion history. I like fashion a lot more now cause I can sew but I more deep dive into theory and art. So my slightly above level fashion history I know can keep up with winter and other platformed microcelebs on here but none of come even close to me when it comes to art, craft, film, theory so again none of this shit is merit based.

people gain social capital by enacting anti-Blackness, enabling anti-Blackness indirectly or centering non-Black content/non-Black content creators. In this global anti-Black world, power can come from social capital. like if I did not need to post non-Black content to get likes to gain social capital to use to b00st Black f*nding on here, i would only post Black content. And you say, oh some blogs only post Black content. yes but the actually pro-Black ones dont have a lot of social capital to use because they are also “cancelled” for calling out the anti-Blackness on here and the radical chic/neoliberal ones or the very conservative ones are the most popular.

it is not “cool” to try to materially help Black “publicly” online and no one wants to admit that aloud, that’s why they only share Black f*nding when it won’t affect their social capital much. everyone knows if you post Black f*nding often, the algorithm fl*gs your account and brings traffic down on your account, which in turn affects your social capital. like ppl truly do not care that Black f*nding is life or death. yes a like can materially affect ppl, Black or non-Black. posting non-Black designer & non-Black art is more important than tryna materially support poor Black ppl everyday? like it’s not much labor for some of y’all to copy paste a link or text. yea Tumblr is a sea of anti-Blackness and abuse apologism.

this bs w winter could be settled easily but winter has too much hubris. the reason winter and others get more likes for posting the same thing as me is because winter and others have a lot of power for being anti-Black and a lot of anti-Black non-Black followers. I will continue to run a blog that is better than all of the ppl who hate me on here combined. 9 out of 10 ppl on Tumblr are very anti-Black.

[possibilistfanfiction]

same english football fan here! ty for your answer - v rare that i get to talk with someone who both enjoys football and cares to engage with the context of wider issues in & around the game… i relish the opportunity lol

100% agree about the impact of ‘99 team. i’d say it bled out beyond creating this stagnant image of what the uswnt ‘should’ look like into football more generally. i grew up playing & ‘lesbian’ was one of the worst insults on the pitch - you could see people actively leaning into this hyper-feminine presentation to avoid it (like with tobin…). definitely fucked with my little gay brain, a sport i love subconsciously teaching me i was an insult…

i don’t enjoy alex as a player. at all. some set ups definitely need the player to draw fouls, slow it down etc but i don’t think she’s good enough outside of that? (espec not if you’re going to sideline christen lol) idk comparing her to someone like grealish in eng men - can play a false 9, drawing fouls is a major part of his game but he’s almost stupidly creative on & off the ball. lbr alex’s face fit for the old guard scared of changing dynamics & it’s perhaps kept her more centralised than her talents deserve? (i’m also a bit bitter at her 6 month training holiday at spurs as a former spurs player lol)

could spend pages on christen. watching her play for man utd was a delight - the shift she puts in off the ball, can tell she is someone who gets the game on a fundamental level and reads patterns, not just good w the ball at her feet. agh, so much of your response i haven’t even mentioned - i may return for more football chat lol

first of all i would be remiss to not be like holy shit congrats on playing w spurs?? badass !!

also yah i think that their impact changed women's football in general for sure, but also women's sport more broadly & even just body image for DFAB ppl in general. that sounds like a rly wild claim but i think if we look at diet culture & how the "ideal body type" for women rly started to become a little more "athletic" in the early 90s (e.g., britney spears!) it's impossible to look past brandi chastain's iconic image. & its odd bc that actually has nothing to do with the uswnt itself but it was at the time of this rampant like low-fat, low-carb diet culture rise (i'm sure we all remember the horrifying 100 calorie packs). i think about this, like, every day lol like it’s ok to perform some kind of masculinity (eg sport, muscles, streetwear etc) as long as ur thin, white, wealthy, family-oriented, patriotic, christian, able-bodied, neurotypical, straight, etc etc. it’s just so anti-Black at its core in clear service of the state. i think of it in light of a radical fat politic now & especially during the olympics when its like becoming more & more clear that the surveillance of Black & brown queer femme bodies is more apparent in sport than ever ... the uswnt has this standard that is tied to class & performance & race & sexuality etc. anyway that's a lot but... i rly do think it's true

it's odd too, i think football afforded me the opportunity to perform or present androgyny in a way that my conservative christian family & community deemed okay bc i was just a "tomboy" or, the even more respectable, "an athlete." for me i found an incredible amount of quiet freedom on the field bc of that, even tho i couldn't name it at the time. as i got older i too leaned into trying to be feminine (like tobin) in a way that was just so horrifically dysphoric for me. tobin being a huge homo now is like... soothing lmao like yah babey me too!!

anyway abt football i too don't think alex is great. sure she's scored a lot of goals but like ........ she isn't a wonderful player? i don't love comparing women to men players just bc the game is different in (the best) ways for women but even comparing alex to sinc or viv like... she's boring at best? that's what i could say about her as a player lol. as a person i think she's a democrat so like white women approve of her but she's also so diluted in any opinion that conservatives think she's fine. which is also gross lol

(don’t get me started on how “equal pay” as a crusade without any discussion of a radical, intersectional politic misses the mark so terribly its not even on the same planet but ... )

cp puts on defensive shifts off the ball that are... absolutely nuts. watching her play is truly beautiful bc i don't think anyone in the world plays like her. she's so smart & sees like 20 plays ahead, her finishing is beyond. it's fun to watch her play with tobin honestly bc i think their vision & workrates are so similar but their styles of play are so different (in a fun way tbc lol). i wish we could know what 1v1 days look like at their house lol

anyway pls message me abt football et al anytime!! (if u wanna connect off anon lmk)

[radio-charlie]

I guess something i wish i could talk abt more is how the scarcity of help being offered certain communities brings about some difficult moral dilemmas. because of how the govt treats them i cant just make posts here and there with details that might get someone in trouble. i do have a few friends v involved in this type of work that i could trust with the information but they are basically running on borrowed energy at this point. so idk.

I just want to say that you know how on socmed there was this brand of SJW thought that was like, oh someones an abuser? write them off cut all contact, tell everybody to do the same. Deplatform them make sure everybody knows abt their shit etc. Sometimes you really cannot afford to do that. Not if you are trying to help ppl with few resources and allies. We would really love to be able to tell certain people to get the fuck out of our face or pretend they dont exist. But if we do that then the ppl we’re trying to help would be deprived of a vital service that v few other ppl can provide. Looking for other ppl also takes time and energy and not many ppl who give a shit abt such things have a lot of those anymore. And yet sometimes someone does shit so terrible that you just have to jettison them anyway, before even figuring out a back-up plan. Its hard to tell what is better sometimes. Whether you’re really just going with your own feelings, as opposed to what is actually right.

Dirty, complicated world forces you to play dirty, complicated games to do the right thing. Like it or not, this is how it is. Save your idealism for your fanfic.

[janiedean]

Without going into terfism, how then do you think feminism should fight to become the norm? Normal ways don't work and women and afab people keep being oppressed everywhere in the world. Like, peacefully opposing the patriarchial system didn't work. We need to take stronger actions.

I mean I don’t think you’re completely right in the sense that this question requires a lot of space to be answered and honestly I’m running on very little brain juice these days but:

'everywhere in the world’ is already a thing that can’t be used here as an argument because like a woman who lives in saudi arabia is more discriminated/oppressed than one who lives in any western european country and even within that a woman in europe can be discriminated bc sexism and not lawfully and what a woman from saudi arabia needs is not what someone in the united states needs so we can’t presume that if a thing works here then it works somewhere else

this goes also with cultural backgrounds bc like a woman in japan might be societally discriminated for wholly different reasons than a woman in italy and so on so I’d like to state that each single country has different issues and presuming that there’s one feminism to rule them all that would solve every issue is like... would be nice but that’s not how it works

‘peacefully opposing the patriarchal system didn’t work’ is a statement that honestly leaves me a little iffy because like... since feminism existed (as in, a century and a half roughly) as you know an ideology that you call like that women in most of western countries have equal rights as men, can vote, can divorce, should receive equal pay by law (then the fact that they laws aren’t apply is another problem), won’t get their kids taken away if they’re not the breadwinner, can work/study without people thinking it’s just for men, can get an abortion or are on their way to (never mind regressive places but I’m speaking in general), can press charges against rapists etc like... it didn’t work? it did work, the problem is that since we lived in a patriarchal society until that happened we still live in societies that didn’t shake the sexism away but like... when the french revolution happened in 1789 it didn’t automatically destroy all monarchies, and women having gotten equal rights doesn’t mean we don’t have to work at dismantling what remains of patriarchal society - and I’m talking about western countries or like y’know countries aligned with that set of values bue like it didn’t work? it did work. if it didn’t I’d have been married with kids I didn’t want and having barely studied until junior high if I was lucky at this point in my life unless I was like rich or coming from a class upper enough I could afford to do something better with my life and so on instead of like studying to work in politics hopefully and I’m speaking just about me 

‘around the world’ issue: until people don’t put two and two together and realize that most places where women don’t have equal rights and are oppressed are theocracies we aren’t going anywhere imvho but like... you have to look at each single situation and support the activists there? like if a woman from saudi arabia who’s fighting for equal rights in saudi arabia tells you that they need this this and that you don’t go like BUT ACTUALLY I THINK, bc she’ll know better than you (and I’m using saudi arabia as an example bc idt we can argue about those women being oppressed)

and with that I mean that I’m done with western feminists speaking over idk iranian feminist refugees but that’s another problem entirely

in your own country you also have to be intersectional and work with other men too because ding ding if you’re like some people whose marches I went to who go like ‘if men want to be here they march in the back and anyway you don’t bring your male sons to this type of events’ then you go not fucking anywhere bc you have to work with the men who are not sexist, you have to take into account the issues of each single category of woman there is and not presume everyone has the same issues and like... not actually decide that by being a woman you automatically know better than other women which would already be a great way to make sure ppl didn’t think all feminists are like the radfems

working on dismantling patriarchal remains of society if you live in one where you have equal rights which can be done peacefully by idk voting for people who are pro women’s rights/don’t want to take them away, supporting the right organizations, get involved with your reps etc etc etc like if you wanna do activism that’s how it works but violent protest esp in a society where you do have equal rights on paper doesn’t exactly work

also support feminists from places where that doesn’t happen

I’m not going to go and say WHAT SHOULD OTHER WOMEN IN PLACES I DON’T LIVE DO but like... if saudi arabian women went for violent revolt I wouldn’t blame them but that’s because they live someplace where they can’t drive without a man in the car last I checked and if they do you support them but again that’s what they need to do not what you need to do as a westerner and sure af going there and preaching isn’t your job

there’s a hundred different patriarchies supposing that you can dismantle them all the same way is like... we all wish

tldr: I’m not a gender studies history professor and I sure af don’t have a solution but I’d like to presume that sticking for feminism that includes everyone including men who are legit pro women’s rights without talking about any other woman, doing on ground activism, not vote for assholes and looking at what policies they preach, being intersectional and keeping in mind that feminism = equal rights/equality not doing actual regressive things like idk that time someone said separating male and female children in obligatory school was a great idea (it’s not) is how you make sure we don’t lose what rights we gained in the past century or so, and surely like violent protest or making generalizations or terfism are so not the ways to go imvho *shrug*

[llendrinall]

1/2 I love the way you write Draco and personally I think Draco would've been terrified during the war and somehow grew a pair and got the courage to work against Voldy on his own terms from inside the ranks. Working not for Dumbledore but for himself to get his parents out safe (Id think he polyjuiced 2 ppl/animals and imperiused them to act and think like his parents while his real parents were in hiding or something)

2/2 So I think he created a powerful organisation by himself as a teenager and kept it going long past the war. And the best part is it isnt even a evil organisation. Just one that has its hands in every single thing imaginable. The best part is that if another war broke out Draco's Organisation would be able to squash it in 10 seconds flat. The man is powerful and no one knows. Except for Harry who's his husband and knows fully well what he does.

 It’s not just a question of courage, though. Or, at least, courage as we usually understand it. It’s about relations and how stories work.

You see, there is a reason why so many characters in stories are orphans or become orphans at the beginning of the story. The reason is that parents get in the way. There is this expectation that parents should be the ones fixing things, the ones with authority and with the last word. As long as parents are around, children have to obey and they can’t shoulder the story on their own.

In this case, Draco’s biggest and most immediate challenge isn’t finding a way to bring Voldemort down, or avoid arising His Darkness suspicions, or circumventing the always vigilant Bellatrix. No, the main obstacle is his parents and the fact that they won’t listen to him.

This is how Lucius gets himself sent to Azkaban. He didn’t listen.

Draco doesn’t set to create a powerful shadow organization that gives him insurmountable power. He is just a scared kid who wants to protect his mum. Sure, his mother says everything will be all right and that professor Snape will help, and aunt Bella says Draco will bring victory and honour to the house; but Draco is not so certain. He wants to believe them but he would feel better if he had other assurances.

So while his mother takes aunt Bella to go talk to Snape, Draco fills a cauldron with white wax and milk. He spends the whole night in his bedroom working with it and by sunrise he has a life-sized doll that makes a passable impression of Narcissa. Animating her is a bit more difficult because one book says to use spit and a candle and another book says to use blood. In the end he goes by a third book that says to use something living, so Draco grabs a mouse from the dungeons, lights a candle, drops some blood, puts the mouse inside the doll’s mouth and look at that, a breathing, moving and talking Narcissa!

True, she doesn’t talk that much. The process to create a fake wife was obviously intended so the wizard could steal the human wife and leave the doll behind, not the other way around. But she is good enough. Just in case, Draco pretends to have a fight with his mother and hex her in the heat of the moment. Bella screams at him for an hour and Voldemort says that he admires the lengths Draco is willing to go, but that he expects Draco not to get too carried away. The way he says it, as if laughing at Draco’s desperation, is horrible, just horrible. But, if Narcissa looks a bit lost from then on, nobody questions it.

The real Narcissa is trapped inside a mirror and beside herself with anger. Draco has to keep the mirror in a velvet bag inside a wooden box because he is afraid someone will hear his mother’s screams. The important part is that she is safe and if only she stopped coming to the mirror’s surface to yell at Draco she could admire the room Draco made for her, it is very nice.

Draco sets to do the Dark Lord’s bidding and kill Dumbledore. He does, he actually does. If it had been Potter, Draco might have acted differently. But it is Dumbledore and Draco could never stand the old fart, so he doesn’t feel bad about planning his death.

It is not after his third chat with Moaning Myrtle that it occurs to him that Voldemort expects Draco to fail. That bastard! Can you believe it? He tells Snape about it and Snape agrees which is even more incensing. Voldemort wants Draco to die. Snape assures him that it won’t be so and that he will ensure Draco’s success. The Malfoy family will be forgiven, of course, don’t fret about that. But all Draco can think about is how he is going to ensure Voldemort’s defeat.

First point of his plan: put a curse on any and all of Voldemort’s true followers. Draco is not completely satisfied with the wording because he knows Voldemort has many incidental and opportunistic followers, so perhaps “Death-Eater” would be better. But then again, not all of his true followers have a mark in the arm. Also, Draco has a mark of his own and he doesn’t want to curse himself.

The fact that no one has attempted a curse like this since the fifteenth century doesn’t faze him, nor that said attempt was a failure. There are many documented cases from the thirteen century that were successful and Draco is sure he can do as well as them if no better.

It is not easy to lay a curse like this. Draco doesn’t have the power to do it. Fortunately, he has the good sense to realize what his medieval counterparts took years to discover: no human has such power. He has to borrow it from another creature.

Thus Draco signs his first magic contract with a spirit from the cemetery at Hogwarts. It’s not a ghost and not whatever-the-fuck Peeves is. It is simply a spirit, one who is happy to give Draco a boost in exchange for some warmth and a fresh bouquet of flowers. Now Draco can turn invisible and wander around the restricted section of the library where he finds a lot about curses but not enough about people with whom he could make a pact.

Next he binds to a spirit haunting the crossroads before Hogsmeade. The spirit is happy to do Draco’s bidding in exchange for a secret, any secret. So Draco tells him that amortentia smells to him like Quidditch leather, and the Hogsmeade Crossroads Spirit looks around all the magic roads and tells Draco about the dark creatures moving between them.

Meanwhile Snape and Bella are getting on his case because Draco is no closer to killing Dumbledore and apparently his last attempts were, according to Snape, “stupid and lazy” and Draco ought to be ashamed of himself if he is not to even going to pretend to take this seriously. So Draco makes a trip to Knocturn Alley to examine the vanishing cabinet at Borgin and Burkes and advance the official plan a bit. He also visits the Malfoy vault at Gringotts.

He stays three hours in there, in the dark. When nothing happens, Draco brings out a bag and puts it over his head and he carefully and very, very, slowly begins to suffocate himself until he can see colourful sparks behind his eyelids and his lungs burn and finally, finally, he senses a malevolent presence, something made of the last exhalations of those who died inside the bank. The Exhalation of Gringotts is strong and cruel and drives a very hard bargain, but Draco wasn’t sorted in Slytherin simply because every other family member was and because he wished to be in that house. He knows to be careful and cunning, so he lets The Exhalation of Gringotts believe that staring at the sky from sunset to sunrise and then giving that sight to them (The Exhalation of Gringotts is a them) is a high price in exchange for their strength and their knowledge of pain.

Draco actually enjoys the night he spends looking at the sky and he promises to do it again, just for himself, and indeed the very next Friday he does.

He lays his curse the first Sunday of May. Waiting until June 24th would had been better but he can’t afford to wait so long. He needs it now, a curse on the fortune of any and all true followers of Voldemort.

He gives the Hogsmeade Crossroads Spirit three more secrets (the time he wished a kiss for himself, the truth of Bellatrix’ rage and one of his smallest pet peeves) and he finds how well his curse his doing and who should be his next target. As suspected, many of Voldemort’s followers have enough selfish motivations to escape his curse.

Draco doesn’t have anything of interest to offer the ondines, but the goblins do and the goblins merely want some historical artefacts back which is easy enough to arrange. He has to make a couple of new pacts with the Spirit of the Empty Grave and the Susurrus at Whitehall but he gets the artefacts for the goblins who, it turn, give whatever that thing was (it looked like a comb but it was not) to the ondines, who are happy enough to join Draco because he was very respectful and polite and apparently they were a bit miffed that both Voldemort and Dumbledore had ignored them. Somehow all this translates into people coming in contact with the river Avon and being instantly cleaned from the imperius curse. Not that many people come into contact with said river but accidents can be arranged if you have a couple of swarms at your service, which Draco has.

The swarms are by far the most joyful of Draco’s associates and also the hardest to please. Giving secrets to the Hogsmeade Crossroads Spirit is dangerous, sure, and balancing the requests of the Spirit from the Cemetery at Hogwarts and the Spirit of the Empty Grave can be lethal if he is not careful. But the swarms asked for a song each and it is not so easy to compose an original song, let alone two. Fortunately, the swarms were so pleased with Draco’s effort that as long as Draco writes them new verses from time to time they won’t even ask for another song or melody.

Draco takes a bit longer to secret Lucius away because he is very busy and also a bit angry with his dad. If only Lucius had listened to him, Draco wouldn’t have signed any contracts nor sworn pacts or shook hands with half the forgotten magical creatures of England. Said creatures are actually very nice and have quite interesting things to say. Less than half of them pose a direct threat of madness and/or death to Draco. But he didn’t know that back then and he is angry at his father for the risk he was force to take.

At least Narcissa seems almost happy and relieved when Draco pushes Lucius into the mirror. It’s nice that someone here (other than the swarms) appreciate Draco’s efforts.

Harry wins the war. There is no doubt about that. Harry is the one finding and destroying horcruxes and the one who kills Voldemort at the end.

But Draco helps. Draco gets him time and space. Harry Potter is the most wanted person in England and he spends months without anyone being able to find him, no Death Eater or werewolf or ogre or troll or any of the creatures that work for Voldemort. None. Sure, there is that time when Harry gets himself snatched, but there are twenty other times when he was not, including when he walked straight into Nagini’s jaws. It’s not Draco’s fault that Harry was captured that one time and it is certainly thanks to Draco that he managed to escape. So there.

Voldemort falls and Draco is happy to think that he had quite a lot to do with it.

And then…

Harry comes to him freely. Draco is sure of that. He did nothing about it. He even rejects Harry at first! But Draco has made so many pacts that he can’t be completely sure that his longing and wanting of Harry hasn’t triggered something. The wax doll playing Narcissa wasn’t supposed to save Harry’s life. Draco is endlessly grateful that she did, but he is also worried that his want might have had unexpected effects somewhere else. He knows he didn’t do anything, not consciously or willingly at least, but he also knows that he has been wanting Harry long enough that he can’t be absolutely certain that he didn’t magic Harry’s attraction to him.

Harry is hurt at Draco’s rejection and persistent. Merlin, he is so persistent! So Draco gives in and takes Harry for himself. He also promises all of his own self to Harry, his hand, his heart and all his virtues whatever they may be. If there is the smallest chance that Draco forced this, he will atone by making Harry delightfully happy.

Which is why Lupin miraculously heals form his wounds and why Longbottom’s parents get slightly better (well enough that they can recognize their son at least), and why the proposed werewolf reform is approved despite the vocal opposition against it.

It works. Harry is happy and Draco almost believes he deserves it when Harry smiles at him. And then, a month before they are set to marry Harry comes to him and says “okay, Draco, what did you do?”

“I talked to the caterer like you asked me to?”

“No, not that.” Harry says and before Draco can ask if he was supposed to do something else he says “and don’t play dumb.”

“Um…”

“Draco, the house-elf legislation!”

“What about it?”

“It was approved!”

“Really? Those are great news!” Draco smiles in delight and gets up. They are amazing news. Maybe Harry will kiss him. “Aren’t they?”

“Draco,” Harry says slowly. It doesn’t seem like he is going to kiss anyone. “There was NO WAY it could be approved. We proposed it because it’s the right thing to do, but we were ready to negotiate for some smaller measures and try again in ten years.”

Draco nods. Yes, that sounds sensible. Even a decade might not be enough to change people’s minds about elf ownership. A hundred years would be more like it.

“The werewolves was hard to believe already,” Harry goes on, sitting down on the armchair Draco had vacated. “But I thought we were just lucky when twelve members got sick with a stomach bug and couldn’t come to the vote. Well, I thought we were lucky. The honourable members for Knightsbridge launched an investigation, you know. They said there was foul play with the members for Essex but they couldn’t prove anything.”

Draco hums and grabs a chair to sit, resting his feet on the edge of the armchair and showing off the length of his legs. He isn’t worried. There is no way they can find anything about the honourable members for Essex because there is nothing to find. That had been a legitimate Quidditch accident that made all of them late to the vote. The honourable members for Hampshire, on the other hand, yes, there was certainly foul play in there. Once the blue-folk learned how they were being taken advantage of they made such a riot that the honourable members for Hampshire didn’t have a single minute to spare to think about a stupid vote back in London that was destined to fail. That’s what happens when a hundred years of delayed legislation catches up to you.

“But that was then.” Harry says, his arm coming to rest over Draco’s leg and his whole body unconsciously turning towards Draco. He couldn’t be too angry then. “Today the legislation to end house-elf ownership has been approved, 59 to 57, and freaking Thurman Goldfich changed his mind. So tell me, Draco, what did you do?”

“I merely expressed my wishes to some of my associates.” Draco says, which is such an obscene understatement. He had to deploy the goblins in twelve constituencies where they put the local economy to a stop and then waited for the corresponding representative of the Wiz-Parliament to come talk to them, at which point the goblins expressed their views on current economic trends and how unfair it was to use slave labour and how unless they were willing to impose tariffs on house-elf labour they might as well stop doing business with the wizarding community altogether because it wasn’t worth it.

Draco ventured that this would go down better than any inter-species solidarity argument. If wizards thought that goblins were just being greedy and that by freeing house-elves they were cunningly avoiding their tariff they would be more open to it.

Then there was a small aquatic incident that could had been tragic but for the heroic intervention of a free house-elf (finding a free house-elf was the hardest part of the ordeal). Madame Borricane who was not a member of the Wiz-Parliament but who had six nephews who were, witnessed the house-elf’s heroics and talked incessantly about it for the next two weeks. Enough that four of the nephews changed their vote if only to show to Madame Borricane they were the one good nephew who listened and ought to inherit her fortune.

The Hogsmeade Crossroads Spirit made a wizard arrive late enough times that his electors got sick of him never being in time in the Wiz-Parliament to argue their case, so they removed him by expedite vote and he was substituted by this wonderful nightmare of a liberal witch who was mad enough to vote in favour of house-elf emancipation without any other pressure. She even convinced two other honourable members all by herself. Draco is going to get her a goblin-made present and he invited her to their wedding.

The Susurrus at Whitehall gave three MW-Ps nightmares about becoming house-elves themselves for a week and constantly reminded the honourable member for London Bexley that his ancestors were once slaves and that there is no species distinction when talking about slavery, so the honourable member for London Bexley got his head out of his colossal ass and voted what any moral person with an ounce of historical sense would.

And finally, yes, thanks to The Exhalation of Gringotts Draco got the brilliant idea of putting a swarm to constantly whisper into Thurman Goldfich’s ear about his family name and legacy. Goldfich doesn’t care at all about house-elves, but his name will be recorded as the one who made the legislation possible. He will go down in history when there was no other way that unremarkable man would ever be remembered.

And because Harry is looking at him with those eyes of his and that smile, Draco tells him everything.

“Let me just say,” Draco adds, trying not to grin too much because he feels like he is getting away with it, “that lobbying is perfectly legal.”

“Uh-huh.”

“It’s just that I don’t use money or offer traditional benefits.”

“I don’t think you offer any benefits at all.”

“Oh, no. I do! Just not to politicians.” Draco answers and Harry laughs which is the greatest sound ever uttered on Earth.

“As long as you restrict the use of curses, I’m okay with it.” Harry says and what’s more, he finally leans over and kisses Draco. A sweet unhurried kiss, and kiss that says I will marry you in a month and I will kiss you then and every day after. “Now, let me hear those songs you made for the swarms”.

[trickstarbrave]

I know ppl wanna dunk on communes and like I get it I hate the almost certainly white idea that we’re going to move away into a perfect self sustaining village and never have to work a day in our lives and be free from oppression and be artistically liberated and I need you to know that’s not what I’m abt to talk abt. What I’m going to talk abt is a hypothetical wish fulfillment fantasy I’m hyperfixating on

I know I’m never gonna like own a house likely. Like have you see me??? Have you seen the housing market??? Even if I get approved my children would end up working off the mortgage after I’m dead with the way the economy is going (unless we destroy capitalism entirely in which case disregard all of this post). But I hate the idea that I’ll just be renting indefinitely, because most of the time you are renting you can’t do SHIT. You can’t do anything cool. You have to ask your shitty landlord if you can paint the walls and they’ll say no so you put up stick on wallpaper and hang painting that u have to carefully remove abs patch up w absolutely 0 damage or visible marks at all by the time you move out. Hate your kitchen backsplash? Too bad. Hate your cabinets? Get used to them. Tub sucks? Your landlord won’t replace that piece of shit you can barely fit in until they have to. Wanna get different flooring or paint the walls? NO. You’re stuck with it because it isn’t yours to do with as you please, it’s just a box you put your stuff in, so suck it up or move somewhere else you’ll be unhappy

I hate it. And the solution was: friends and I pool our resources to own land as a group (there are legal ways to do it but u will have to pay up front a cash most likely). It is in a space that suits us. We devise exit plans. Next we move on to phase 2: buy manufactured homes, rvs, third wheels, extra large sheds we convert into houses, whatever we can. Maybe some ppl start w a third wheel rv and a tent until they can save up, maybe some ppl wanna convert a shed into a cottage. We get the permits and bc the structures our technically our property on the land (yknow like how trailer parks you can own the house but u pay land rent to the landlord) we can get approved for our own loans on them (at higher interest but still cheaper than a whole house) rather than the hell that is trying to group buy an entire fucking house together. It’s our land so we can have a little community garden or whatever if we want, or a cool fire pit, maybe a movie projector, who cares. They are our things we can rennovate if we want to. I can see my friends casually bc we’re now kinda sorta neighbors. We also get our own privacy bc we wouldn’t be in the same building necessarily, we would be in our own places.

If someone wants out they can follow their exit plan, we buy the shares of the property, and the structure can be removed or moved (for a lotta money for the manufactured homes and sheds sometimes good lord), it even rented out for relatively cheap in as ethical way as we can rather than for profits if needed.

There are many problems with this I know get in the way of it w me like 1. I’m still broke 2. My friends may have jobs on the other side of town or smth 3. My friends are also broke as hell 4. I’m sure getting the sewer lines and electric would be hell for this tho we could also do solar and 5. I’m disabled so living out on a piece of land w my friends and gardening and shit isn’t necessarily going to be smth I can do easily or the best fit for me it may be hell and repairs and renovations will suck

But what makes me the most mad is this is a very shitty, basic ass fantasy. “I could live in an rv on a piece of land near my friends” shouldn’t be a cute, unrealistic fantasy. If I went back several decades and told ppl I can’t even afford a house and I’m pining over shed conversion into a living space rather than the full house ave white picket fence and family sustained on one person’s income I think they would assume I’m from a dystopian future. Because I am. Bc I think living like that in a space of an apartment but I own all the fucking walls and I can paint them and the cabinets and get a nice tub and put up a greenhouse or garden and just be able to own the space is unattainable entirely. Like. Unless there are big changes on a societal level I don’t think I could even do this. Just owning my living space in a capitalistic hellscape is becoming impossible and it Sucks