#joy is resistance

[averys-place]

Especially for all my American siblings. Sending love and hope from Australia 🫶

To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

[never-quite-buried]

Correction to video: these girls were SIX. Not twelve. In no world do these babies look 12 they were SIX.

Remember their names. Sidra Hassouna. Suzan Hassouna. Remember their names, remember their smiles and their laughter.

[queenpinkireellylikethisname]

Songs for Palestine...

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[anticrapitalist-rage]

This morning I stood barefoot in the first frost, watching my breath curl through the air, deliberately delighting in being alive.

I've been really struggling for a long time. Things are looking pretty bleak, on a personal and global scale. It's increasingly difficult to resist the yawning void of grief and despair. That's the point, though, isn't it.

I'm working hard to pull it together. I refuse to wither and fade into complacency, yet another slow sacrifice at the altar of capitalism. The Horrors will not consume me, I will not succumb to apathy.

If I am ground into dust by this relentless machine, may the last grains of me jam its gears.

[llfreude]

Life is like vibration of sound And man is but string work If a blow hits him too hard, He loses resonance, never to find it back again. Any sound of him will cause but displeasure And he will never unite to the well-adjusted choir Without ruining its harmony with dissonance

Quote from Müllner's theatre play Die Schuld (1813) Found in Ludwig van Beethoven's personal notes.

[inkandrhythm]

In light of... everything

"We are asked so often (especially by the internet) to shoulder every burden every day. Let me just say to you, that you do not need to shoulder every burden today. I think we will all be better served if today is for doing things that are close, things that we’ve gotta get done, things that bring joy, things that we care about.

My answer to the question “What do we do now?” is simply “anything.” This is not the world I wanted to be in today, but it is not the end of America. Presidents are not dictators. There will be plenty of fights down the road, but some days you fight, and some days you live. I think there’s a pretty good chance that today is for living."

--Hank Green

[skeletonpandas]

[fullbodycringe]

Amazing work guys, no notes. If some over-serious wannabe bureaucrat comes in and "fixes" this, I hope they know they've killed one of the tiny but rare pieces of magic left in the world

Fun thing I learned today. On Wikipedia's List of Cetaceans, where a photo is missing it says [cetacean needed]

[aire1111]

"Joy is resistance" is clearly a mossad slogan

[odinsblog]

iconic

[the-squeerrel]

friendly reminder that if you like train rides and you just want to take a train ride with no specific destination, you can do it. it's fine. if it will give you joy, then it's important. and you should spend your time and money on it. and if you're not sure if it will be fun, then take a short one and try it.

it might be a cliche, but you really do only live once. carpe diem. please do something fun for yourself, even if you're worried that other people might thing it's weird. it doesn't matter if they do. what matters is that it gave you joy.

it's just a train ride. it's not harming anybody. just remember to take some water and nice snacks with you.

you need fun in your life, just like you need water and food and sleep and meeting other people.

Poland-specific info on tickets that could be useful for somebody who just wants to spend some time in a moving train:

a jeśli mieszkasz w Polsce to Regio ma bilet weekendowy (nielimitowane przejazdy od 18 w piątek do 6 rano w poniedziałek, w długie weekendy / święta odpowiednio dłużej - od 18 ostatniego dnia roboczego przed świętami do 6 rano pierwszego dnia roboczego po świętach), a InterCity ma Multiprzejazd (bilet na nielimitowane przejazdy od 00:00 we wtorek do 24:00 w czwartek)

They need to invent train rides for people who don't have anything to do or anywhere to be

[houseofpurplestars]

A Resistance fighter mid-air, jumping for joy after defeating a zionist tank with an RPG.

[thebookewyrme]

Yes, and, something doesn’t have to be your definition of praxis to be a good and important part of the human experience. Humans, as individuals and as a species, can not live on work or praxis or activism or whatever you want to call it. Taking care of your physical and mental health is every bit as important as anything else in your life. And more than just taking care of it. More than just “getting by” and being “fine”. Joy is important. Joy and fun and pleasure are important to humans for us to thrive.

So yes, joy and excitement are radical acts of resistance in a world that wants us to be quiet miserable cogs in the machine. And one expression of joy and excitement is art, and one source of joy and excitement is also art. Take joy in the things that bring you joy, no matter how “silly” or “childish” or whatever else. Take joy, spread joy, and you’ll be doing as much for the world as any killjoy spouting “media isn’t praxis”.

There's been a lot of "um, watching movies isn't praxis, sweetie, go do something that's actually helpful, media is never actually useful or radical <3" sentiment going around online lately, and hasn't exactly helped me feel passionate about my media studies work OR about my original art.

If media is soooo useless in the Glorious Revolution, fine, I'll just fucking stop writing this stupid fantasy story and doing all this research for a video series about the fucking Hays Code. Fuck it. If media is so worthless to the leftist utopia, I guess I'm just wasting my goddamn time.

Ugh.

[hilacopter]

me remembering that antisemites are so so upset and mad over my existence and they can't do anything about it

[cosmobrain00]

if femzai doesnt look like the worst girlfailure on the block I dont want her

[jeeaark]

final showdown pt2.

This was one of those battles where I survived it without a single reload. So. This entire scene? Accurate. Embarrassingly Accurate. (except the healy dealy. that's Greygold flair)

Wanted to get to the crown as fast as possible, but had to fly by Emps. Literally stopped next to bud to personally yell/reassure the fool I was gonna save their ass and then risked the opportunity attack.

(which. I forgot to bring my dex 18 gloves and discovered illithidism had shit dex, so....IS FINE. GG IS ALL FOR STARTING A NEW COLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP SCARS)

BUT SQUID BUDDY MISSED. so. I like to think Enthralled Emps had put some effort into jumping through some rather large logic hoops to miss. Unlike Greygold who put JACK effort into dodging.

I originally intended to leave Emps completely alone, risk the attacks. But. Brain tentacle surprise happened. Right next to the squid. Emps rolled high in initiative.... But not as high as Lae'zel. Game-wise, ✨I panicked✨. Story-wise? I don't think this could have been any more in-character. Albeit, I found myself quadruple checking to make sure knockout mode was ABSOLUTELY on