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get over yourself not everything has to be built around what would be the most revolutionary act. some things are about being human. some things are about having reasons to exist within yourself, and having the strength to keep supporting others.
like I'm so sick of the flavour of reactionary leftism that's like Oh If It's Not Radical It's Worthless! like this is how we get burnout in our activist communities. this is why people drop off the radar.
is it radical to eat a sandwich? is it anticapitalist to breathe air? it's against my class interests to pay rent but being homeless is fucking exhausting. it's unjust to buy food for less than it's worth but how useful am I when I haven't eaten?
why do anything if it costs us everything? like this is for real something I struggle to express clearly but feel very very deeply. we are looking for a better society. we need to remain people for that. and people need food and shelter and water and warmth to live but people also need art and friendship and community and joy.
you're going to make a big thing about oh this is denaturing the movement this is an op this is all about reducing resistance to unjust power. but I have been in anarchist and radical community for like a decade or so and I have seen. how it weakens our chances of fighting back when we are too busy cutting back to the bone to let ourselves live. people burn out. and you think this is how the powers we're fighting live? you think they're also cutting the bare necessities out from under themselves? no man obviously fucking not
and that's not to say art is above reproach. art is a way of conveying meaning and ideas and we have to be critical of what it means, what it says, and what it costs. but there's also a difference between eating bread bought from a supermarket that commits wage theft and honey from an overseas farm, vs eating the egg of an endangered condor sprinkled with gold flakes mined exclusively by children. that doesn't mean we should eat nothing it means we should be aware of what we're balancing our enjoyment of food against.
and that's not to say enjoying art or community or food are Intrinsically Radical Acts that will smash capitalism. it's just to say. not everything has to be politically radical and capitalism-smashing to be important.
eating a sandwich is not a radical act but I make a very good sandwich and I'm more able to act when I've eaten.
anyway it's 2:20 and I have work in the morning (not radical but necessary) and I gotta sleep (not radical but necessary) but all things considered. have you tried trying to be happy and help others be happy instead of setting yourself on fire right off the bat?
christ almighty some people are sad fucking miseries huh
#red said#we're not getting in to how this only comes up when it's marginalised or underserved people enjoying Things#I'm not doing that#bc i need to do the Unradical Necessary work of trying to sleep#but i truly loathe this dour contrarian politics-of-misery#i believe in a politic of revelatory joy. sometimes that requires misery on the way. but if the goal isn't joy for those around us#and connection between us#and just like. a world where people have the space and ground to be happy and fulfilled and well#then what the FUCK. IS THE POINT. IF ANY OF THIS.#again bc this WILL be misinterpreted#no that doesn't mean LET PEOPLE LIKE THINGS NOBODY'S ALLOWED TO CRITICISE ANYTHING#but it does mean. when your critique of something begins and ends with It Exists Under Capitalism And Is Not Radical#like uhhhhh ok???? but will it move me? will it help me carry on? will it connect me to others???#will it tell me things i find useful?#will it feed me? and is the food poison or just made less than perfectly?#just shooting yourself repeatedly in the foot and yelling WHY AM I MISERABLE#we have to be willing to sacrifice and to face pain for it. but happiness and thriving for all of us is the point.#but we don't have to sacrifice purely because Wanting Things Is Not Radical. we sacrifice to prevent harm. or to bring about justice.#not to like. prove how Real we are.#and I'm just gonna say it like 90% of the people i personally have met irl who are this level of Dour Communist Killjoys#are also fucking. cosplayers with rich parents escaping their middle class guilt by playing povvo and treating their actually poor pals#as if they hold more power than them#obviously can't extrapolate this out to everyone#but for real consider growing an appreciating for what we need to not just survive but actually live#give us bread but give us roses
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I legitimately think about padawan Dooku saying “every Jedi is a child his parents decided they could live without” to Yoda at least five times a week and I go insane about it every single time
#bc like!!!! that’s sort of the crux of it isn’t it!!!!!#‘I wonder sometimes if that is what drives us; that first abandonment#we have a lot to prove’#like are you JOKING ME#how is the entire thesis of the prequels arc just thrown away in some off brand legends novel#I feel like this is a real linchpin in the prequels era that nobody really seems to acknowledge#I would also argue this is the main point of the acolyte#the fact that the Jedi all come from somewhere#they all have parents and families and people that gave them away#whether it was for a good reason or not is almost irrelevant#it’s almost worse to think that the parents did love their kids and missed them and wanted them#we talk a lot about how the Jedi aren’t baby snatchers but what we’ve failed to discuss is the fact that#even if they aren’t (they aren’t) that does not magically make the inherent trauma of abandonment just. go away#star wars#star wars the clone wars#the acolyte#star wars prequels#this will get discussed in the ties that bind btw#like. a LOT
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So do you guys actually think that Jason's entire story, relationship to the others, and philosophy amounts to him being a rebellious teen who wants his dad's attention? Like are you 100% serious? I thought you were joking about that but too many of you are saying it with your whole chest.
And what the fuck is this "Bruce antagonizing Jason is fanon!" Shit I've been seeing? You guys are aware that a parent can love their kid and still be a shit parent right? I know you guys don't want to fathom the thought that maybe your blorbo might also occasionally have to face responsibility for consistently endangering children but let's not start being delusional now.
Bruce does love his kids, that doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt them. And I'd also argue that for the most part he feels in the right for it, and he's said multiple times that he believes it's for their own good, so you can't even argue that he's sorry about it. It's okay for you guys to admit that your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the character wouldn't do that but don't sit here and pretend that it's not a facet of the source.
#you can argue meta until you're blue in the face#but I can't ignore the ingerent abuse of Batman and Robin because DC is always drawing attention to it#Stephanie and Jason directly died because of Robin#Stephanie wanted to impress Bruce to live up to his idea of a sidekick and prove her worth#Sheila only sold Jason out when she found out he was Robin#Damians life certainly got worse when he became Robin/moved with Bruce#if you bring up racist retcons I'll kill you btw#how are we supposed to read children dying and being tortured and traumatized constantly#and just ignore that these are children#I can ignore the reality of child sidekicks in campy light hearted early comics#but if DC wants to deal with serious topic they're going to have to deal with some serious implications too#Also that post that's going around about “Bruce loves Jason and it's Jason who's causing all the animosity” is such bullshit#what the fuck are you even talking about#and let's not act like Jason is the ONLY one at fault and Bruce is just a poor loving father#is Bruce spreading that utter bullshit about Jason's death and who he was not an act of violence?#was he not the one to cast the first stone by disgracing Jason's legacy and using a version of him that never existed as a cautionary tale#and I know some of you are going to argue that with most of the kids there's nothing Bruce could have done to stop them#and this is the one time in which I will ignore all the very real ways that he could have#but I still think that in universe the characters have a right to be angry about it#Jason always since his debut as red hood been a vehicle for calling out Bruce#he's so heavily steeped in meta narrative because his run is when they started dealing with the real BAD cases#The Cult Garzonas onscreen murders were getting more common#AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME THAT BEING ROBIN DIDN'T MAKE JASON'S LIFE WORSE#THERE WAS NO REASON TO MAKE HIM ROBIN HE COULD HAVE BEEN VERY HAPPY AS JUST A NORMAL KID#But Bruce made having a place in his home synonymous with being Robin because the narrative dictated it had to be#what was homeless orphan Jason going to do? say no?#it was basically coercion and it doomed him and he has every right to blame the adult that put him in that position#dc#bruce wayne critical#bat family
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Listen you gotta be healthy and take care of yourself and your chronic conditions but also sometimes i want to hold someone until my joints feel like they’ll explode, i want to place their hand on my chest to make my irregular heartbeat go even faster, i want to stay up talking to them just to fuck up my already poor sleep like i just kinda want to love someone so much that it doesn’t even cross my mind to worry about those things
#wlw#wlw mood#sapphic#sapphism#lesbian#does any of this make sense or do i just sound deranged#my b if so#posts directly inspired by lack of sleep and my heart going absolutely crazy for no reason#the heart thing is so real#it’s been acting up so often lately because my medicine schedule keeps getting a bit off which always gives me hella breakthroughs#like it feels like shit when it’s acting up and makes me feel like shit but also#wanna see if we can make it worse🥵🥵#sorry i kind of want to be a little self destructive to prove to myself how much i can love someone#and that some things can trump or are at least worth suffering through the Issues™️#actually though if this sounds weird or crazy ognore it im embarrassed#pls chalk it up to the bo sleep and heart issues instead😪😪#im gay and i like sleeping
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Transandrophobia truthers are so damn racist and white oh my fucking god y'all actually piss me the fuck off every time you tokenize Black and brown men for your stupid as fuck "mra but make it trans-inclusive" ideology created by a creepy guy with a corrective rape fetish(something I'll never let up on for as long as I live, btw). If I ever see another one of y'all say "Black and brown men face discrimination because they're seen as overly masculine and that's why masculinity in men is oppressed in this society" I will literally kill myself. Stop using Black and brown men as brownie points for your bullshit arguments about misandry being real when you don't have the slightest idea how racialized oppression works. White boys are so annoying and dumb istfg.
@punkeropercyjackson @punknicodiangelo @pinkpinkstarlet
#like none of the dumbasses i've seen say this shit have been poc and HEY IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT#because actual black and brown men know that their oppression is not based around masculinity but around RACISM#because if it was about masculinity then feminine men of color wouldn't face the same oppression and would be privileged over them which#is not true#it's also worth mentioning that black and brown WOMEN also face these same issues of being seen as more aggressive/strong/violent and thus#more dangerous even more so than our male counterparts so it's not an 'anti-masculinity' issue it's a fucking racism issue#plus once again feminine women of color also face these stereotypes#when we are masculinized even while presenting as feminine that isn't anti-masculinity you dumb fucks that's just racialized misogyny#and misogynoir#it is incredibly telling that white transmascs who use this argument never even mention women of color and that's because if they did then#their entire headass argument would fall apart because it's not about MASCULINITY being oppressed it's about RACISM(which newsflash women#experience too) and masculinity being assumed of black and brown people(women included) is just another facet of the white supremacist#gender binary not any form of masculinity being 'oppressed' in this society lol#don't even get me started on how these men misuse butch lesbians in their arguments as well and act like they are man-lite ugh#sorry but as a black woman i am officially pissed off rbn#like y'all love to spout 'intersectionality' and shit maybe *throws book at them* ACTUALLY READ UP AND LEARN WHAT THE FUCK IT MEANS#stop misusing words created by black women to prove that men are an oppressed group on god you mfers are annoying#anyway the lesson learned here is that white trans men are just as insipid and racist as their cis counterparts#pos the lot of you#racism#transandrophobia is not real#op
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Sometimes love feels like you’ve splattered yourself against a wall and there’s really no dignified way to get back up from that
#my stuff#a year after our breakup and like 9 months after we last spoke i texted my ex this morning#just to say i hope they’re ok and meant to say so at the fucking event on tuesday#no response of course#just like the last time i cracked during the night we were supposed to be at Teeth of God and instead they were with someone else#i feel like i’ve uselessly smashed myself against the metaphorical wall between us#pulped myself against their indifference to me#how do you stop feeling that pull? that draw to care for someone you can’t anymore?#ever since we’ve stopped speaking i’ve only ever dreamed of their back. of them facing away from me and out of reach of touch or voice#surrounded by others who bar my path#and in real life that’s exactly what happened. i didnt even see their face. idk if they even knew i was there. that part really eats me.#that i spent 40 minutes screaming inside just to prove i’m still alive and they didn’t even see i was there#what a waste of time and energy#and yet it gnaws on me all the same
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lesbian masterdoc and the unforgivable damage of making people hear compulsory heterosexuality and think of "can lesbians have crushes on men?" (no) instead of "are heterosexual women settling in unhappy marriages with men bellow their worth because of economic and social pressure?" (yes)
#not claiming the theory was without flaws but it sure didn't describe some virus mental affliction that exclusively plagues lesbians#for starters the theory was primarily about marriage. so it did recognise the historical fact of lesbians forced into marriage to avoid#honor killings and the still present possibility and threats especially when it comes to cults and strong religions#(once again mentioning as a Jeová's witness in a brazilian periphery my girlfriend accepted the tool of losing her entire family and social#circles to reject an arranged marriage at the age of 17. and she's bisexual. but THAT is what compulsory heterosexuality alludes to)#but more often than not when it addressed lesbians it was as the inherent threat they pose to heteropatriarchy#that they mere existence proved women were not all born to serve men. and that their lives often proved women are much happier and#accomplished when away from the burden of men.#and this acknowledging just how much loneliness was a reality through lesbian's experiences#at the same time I can understand the frustration of that feminist theory being reduced to 'comphet is when lesbians in high school were#pressured into picking one of the Backstreet Boys to lie about finding attractive'. and even more so when that non universal and much less#serious example somehow morphed into 'comphet is when bisexual women either lying or confused about being lesbians have sex with men and#find it unfulfilling' because accepting that narrative erases and harms lesbians#so I understand the 'comphet isn't real' posts especially because written like that it tends to refer to lesbian masterdoc and following#fiasco. but at the same time that wasn't the original intent of compulsory heterosexuality the actual feminist term#this is just me complaining about how social media butchers theory tho unless they are specifically naming Rich and the many other feminist#who wrote about heterosexual marriage as an institution I won't bother lesbians for venting frustration about neoliberal erasure of lesbian#the original theory sure didn't claim lesbians were immune to all this misogynistic violence but the term was never exclusively about them#and tended to ask more of 'where do we stand as women and feminists as a group much more interested in destroying heterosexual marriage than#simply making it more bearable?'#this got a little messy and senseless I'm tired#.txt
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my professor is so Mr Keating coded that I’m out here with dead poets déjà vu every romantic lit class
literally WEEK ONE he goes full Keating by screaming mid-lecture to shock us into full-body understanding of interrupted narratives
you don’t understand the amount of future fic credits I need to give this man
#i adore him#free coffee and biscuits while we discuss romanticism and listen to his eccentric little speeches#all in the most mr keating mannerisms#like the time he asked us to play god just to prove a point#or today when he reeled off quotes from king lear then keats and marx#in two minutes#WITH a quote voice#literally how is this real#CO Posts#dead poets society#mr keating#dead poets fandom#dps#dps fandom#academia
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"Jews don't talk about hell" bla bla
Yes we do!! We are just normal about it!! We do not act Catholic about it!!
#we do NOT ignore the concept of hell in jewish theology#gehenom is a real part of judaism and theres lots to research if youre interested#it hasnt been saturated with dante's inferno or whatnot bc we are not obsessed enough#but there are multible aspects that are talked about#like how hell takes a break on shabbos#ect ect#STOP ERASING GEHENOM FROM JEWISH DISCUSSIONS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO SOUND CATHOLIC#we are nothing like christians anyway and you dont have to prove anything!!#!!#jumblr#q#Judaism#jewish#actually jewish#jewish theology
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Having a fearful moment where I think one of my friends might be transphobic.
#personal#we were talking about video games and the topic switched to Hogwarts Legacy#because my friend is still an active Harry Potter fan in 2025#and let me start with the fact that I’ve always tried to assume they just didn’t know about how awful J K is#but yesterday proved that they are aware#because they were upset that the girl characters don’t have the option to wear pants and can only wear skirts#I replied by saying how that would line up with J K’s terf nature and she’d probably hate to see a woman in pants#to which my friend said ‘but she put a trans character in the game!’#what I should’ve said to that was ‘that doesn’t excuse her history of transphobia and trans misogyny’#instead I said that wasn’t even a good portrayal#I mean for fucks sake she named her Sirona Ryan#like making a character based on the people you hate doesn’t make it okay???#that’s a real ‘I can’t be racist I have black friends’ excuse#and I might have to be an adult and ask my friend if they can really overlook J K’s history of transphobia and racism that easy#(and the rampant antisemitism in that game)#for the sake of a bland game and even blander new movies#like having an attachment to books you read as a kid is understandable#but I lose that ability to understand when you’re actively putting more money in her pockets#I’m stressing cause I can tell they didn’t like that I brought up how J K is a bad person
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i think i got very lucky with my parents :,)
#everytime i think they don’t understand how im feeling they always do something that proves me wrong#we were planning to stay over at a relatives house and then we had dinner on their bed that we were supposed to sleep in and my fear of food#and fear of contamination couldn’t deal with that so i told my dad over whatsapp and he said okay then we’ll go :(#also i was feeling very tearful one morning and i called my dad upstairs and asked him to take me to a mental health professional because i#was on the verge of a panic attack and he sat next to me while i ate and took me to a doctor immediately after:(#because i ran out of my medicine#my mom is the same :( she actively tries to get me out of situations where food is involved like if my cousins ate something and didn’t wash#their hands afterwards she makes me sit in the front seat of the car so nothing accidentally touches me and flares up my obsessive thoughts#and anxiety :(#i feel so bad when they do this because i feel so fucking stupid for feeling like this in the first place but it does feel very very real#and dangerous:( i don’t know how to stop:(#like if anyone eats i feel so happy for them but if i make contact with them i feel physically disgusting#so if other people eat in their bed i’m fine with that but i just can’t sleep in that bed afterwards#my parents are the same people who held me in their arms and cried with me when i said i really really wanted them to let me die:(#so i really really love them :(#✉️
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10 year old me would be seathing right now if they found out I'm applying to college to major in the arts. Just saying
#personal post#also when i was 10 i proved id never get a time machine because i waited every day outside for future me to appear#and like now id be funny if the real reason future me never visited past me is because that mf would beat me shitless#like “haha... remember how we promised ourself wed never go to art school... well”#and id cease to exist lol#its okay because 10 year old me was also a judgemental bitch so#every age before my current age is awful (except 15 and 16. 15 and 16 never did anything wrong and deserve the world)#and anyway 10 year old me had no idea what they wanted to do with their life anyway so who are they to judge#fuck off 10 year old me mind your beeswax
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ok yeah i think i might be entering the critical Autumn Madness period actually
#nothing feels real and time is some kind of thick jelly and I Forgor.#it's getting real difficult to order my thoughts & speech again. you know how it is. or oh well i hope you don't!#i cant believe i wrote this poem less than a week ago? it's like a singular moment that feels like a dream and is suspended in Nothingness#and i remembered the moment & experience that led to its creation but not the actual poem itself - not something which happens usually#might as well have dreamed it#so i just. uh. rediscovered it. feels like an eternity has passed#but it's only been four days#what have i been doing these past four days?#mystery#i remember a few things but cant account for the rest of my activities. bit scary innit!#merely writing these words is proving a uphill battle also. slurry in my skull#we Are struggling
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Isagi losing to Rin again will be very and I mean very mid writing on knsr’s part
If he can’t beat Rin here he might as well give up on being the number one striker atp
#passagi this assistsagi that people will be insufferable and with good reason#if you can’t show off your ability to consistently score goals compared to your fellows then well..#we’re almost 300 chapters in and still haven’t made it to u20 yet there’s likely to be another training arc(short) before u20#if the series ends at u20 then this is literally the last time for isagi to prove himself against rin#this is Isagi’s story so I expect to see him at least become the number by the end of it the real question is how long till we get there#forever praying we get a bllk part 2 manga and we can follow his journey to number 1 there#if that I’ll be ok with him losing to rin again (still mid)#blue lock#bllk#isagi yoichi
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the ep5 ending i did NOT see that coming
#the judge from hell#he’s proving to be a real obstacle in her path and she in his and it’s just so funny and amusing to me#daon was being even more reckless this ep but he’s won my favour again with how he deduced that the suspect was faking insanity#also the fact that he's a human and is up against a demon#like we know justitia is putting them criminals thru a punishment they very much deserve#but in daon's pov the culprits both just “died without facing legal consequences”;
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"Can I?"
Something twists in Toey's chest and it hurts. For all of his history of running away from his own feelings, P'Q, now that they are together, now that he is Toey's, is nothing but direct. He's gentle - he always has been - leading Toey softly forward in their relationship, asking if Toey is comfortable at every step. He looks at Toey so softly, his gaze lit by starlight.
Why does this hurt?
Maybe it's all too fast for Toey. He feels a little guilty for considering it, especially after his 2-year lovesickness being the cause of the entire scheme to get them together. Maybe it's just like when they kissed in the haunted house - Toey starts to panic when he isn't sure about what's going to happen next. But P'Q is being direct. The secluded guest room, the dim lights - it's extremely clear what he's talking about.
It's been too long. They've been standing in silence. What did Toey do then? Close his eyes? Lean in to kiss P'Q? Does that mean yes? Does he really want to say yes?
"we don't have to if you're not ready. Come on, toey, let's go to sleep"
The twisting feeling is still there, but when his boyfriend takes his hand, Toey doesn't hesitate to wrap his arms around him. P'Q smells like paint thinner and cigarettes. Toey molds himself around his body, pulling himself in so tightly until his heart starts to steady again. P'Q's long fingers card through Toey's hair, and before he knows it, he's fast asleep.
#one dialogue and ten seconds of screentime is all i ask 😭😭😭😭 alloace toey i would have done you so well 🙏🙏🙏🙏#why the FUCK#did they do us all like that#ppl online saying qtoey got boring and they are RIGHT#you know what would have made it better???? ACE TOEY LIKE IN THE NOVELS#honestly fuck them#like the ship still reads very strongly as aspec (demi) and ofc ace people can still!!!! have sex!!!!!#but if they bothered to explore the ways that toey being ace would work in their dynamic it would!!!! actually be so interesting#and do NOT tell me that they couldn't pull it off i know satang has it in him to pull off guilty/apologetic/anxious thing#asexual guilt!!!! is such a real thig actually#idk man i can't rest until i prove to everyone that this is how it should have been#we are the series#qtoey#q#toey#we are the series episode 15
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