#punk ideologies

[waywardsou2]

Shitty photos but I wore my battle vest for the third time ever.

Little bit of backstory but I made this during December last year and never wore it because some of the patches on my jacket were "not appropriate" and my dad was "disappointed" with what I wrote on them, so I got really discouraged from wearing it. I wanted to wear it to my first day of College but he saw it and told me I wasn't allowed to wear it.

But today I said fuck it. It's been several months and I put so much fucking effort into this and I've never even worn it. So I did. And I felt awesome all day

The patches I have on there are

- "Fuck the system"

- "Dead men can't cat call"

- "cowabunga dudes"

- TMNT

- "the earth is our mother"

- "punks not dead"

- "If you aren't angry you aren't paying attention"

- "people before profit"

- "Punks respect pronouns"

- a spiderweb

- "we all bleed the same colour"

(feel free to borrow any of the sayings if you would like)

[stoned-in-shibuya]

An ecopunk idea my husband has said and is the most rebellious way to save the environment:

Make sure to carry seeds with you in the spring and just... randomly plant them to help out the environment.

Him: what are they gonna do? Arrest me for helping Mother Nature?

[aquaticfreakshow-sys]

It's punk as hell to defend a community from people making a mocking joke of it, actually.

No, don't fakeclaim people, but speak against harmful concepts and beliefs. If there is a community actively creating stigma around something, actively creating misleading information about something, it's punk as fuck to defend people.

[ - Max ]

[nightmaretour]

Anti-technology people who insist they're not ableist crack me up. What about people who rely on machines to breathe, eat, keep their heart functioning, or otherwise stay alive? "Well not that technology, obviously!" Ok what about AAC users, people who use hearing aids, or otherwise use technology to interact with the world in ways they otherwise couldn't? "Not that technology, obviously." Okay, my mobile phone is my memory, my sense of time, my sense of direction when I get lost, my ability to contact someone when I need help. It is my personal freedom because without it I would need full time care and supervision. But yes, that technology, right?

I hate how technology is made and utilised under capitalism as much as the next guy, but to pretend that technology doesn't greatly improve the lives of countless people, or even allow them to continue being alive, is to be willfully ignorant to the existence of disabled people. A world without technology is a world where a lot of disabled people don't get to survive. Capitalism is the problem, not the technology. Technology can (and should) exist just fine without capitalism.

[dreamspring]

question to my punk & goth friends out there - i saw this video saying that punk and goth are not music based subcultures and as someone who isn’t really engaged in either deeply i am so confused

here are some comments ???

[oh-look-a-homosexual-punk-bitch]

Friendly reminder that burning the American flag is the proper way to dispose of it, so don't be mad at the people burning them, there just following flag code^^

[moe-broey]

Close ups on the pocket details!!! I'm SUPER happy w how the top pockets look 😳😳😳

I think the variety of pride pins with the moral panic button/Mr Faggot beadwork just. Really sells it. Shadow the Hedgehog voice Pee Your Pants. If you're going to be a shithead about me I'm going to be really annoying and do a bit about it. Plus the little golden angel pin... ALSO really pulls the whole thing together. "God help you" Right in front of my guardian angel? Really? 😒And how could I not make mention of. The Skull. I love you The Skull. It's a button (not sewn on yet, pinned) that I filled the details in w nail polish. Oh yeah! Besides the bottle cap pins (acrylics sealed with mod podge and a prayer), the biggest addition there is the chain lining the pocket flap! I think it looks SO SLICK

The pansy was gonna go on the queer side, but then I got the boutonniere idea! And I think it looks nice! Kinda adds to the asymmetry of the floral print/plaid blocking. And... of course.... I have... my friends...... 🥺 Biggest additions here are the glow-star pentagram pin, soda tabs and the heart locket!

I don't really have many new additions to the bottom pockets. Not yet! The only thing I did was stitch one side of the handcuff chain, and rearrange the pins holding up the other side. The cuffs/scorpion was just an impulse addition before going to a concert. But I do like it! And it looks even better now! Meanwhile, that other pocket, I actually have no idea what I'll do. Sakura is just there cause she matches really well, esp w the angel pin actually!

[sinfulxmadz]

Get angrier. Be louder.

[saturnniidae]

Modern au Astrid who is absolutely terrible at sewing so, after many failed attempts, she begrudgingly goes to Hiccup and makes him sew band patches and stuff on her jackets and pants for her

[fbfh]

god fucking dam it your magnus chase headcanons permanently altered my brain chemistry. what do you think he'd be like with a gf who died in the 70s who still wears flowy shirts with super deep v-necks and flared jeans and big hair and blue eyeshadow and plays queen and fleetwood mac etc.?

AAAAAAAAAAAH this is so cute. I don't usually do magnus chase asks since I haven't read the whole series but I feel like I can characterise Magnus well enough and this ask is SO cute so yes aboslutely. this is what he sees when he looks at you /hj. just soft big hair covered in flowers always doing shawl twirls covered in enough turqoise to get into stevie nicks's house (no questions asked)

magnus... he can't keep his eyes off you. like actually. you have his attention 24/7, anytime you look at him he's just... admiring you. he's lost on most of your media references and slang, but he's here for it. he dances around with you to fleetwood mack and donna summer. he lets you braid flowers into his hair and watches the way the shimmer in your eyeshadow catches the light. everything about you is so... flowy. you are hands down his comfort person. anytime he's stressed he just listens to one of your records you're always playing and he can feel the edge of all his problems falling away. he loves when you lay in his lap, cozy sunlight making you both glow. you ramble to him about the 70s, what your life was like, about how your parents just didn't understand you and what you believe in. then you tell him your takes that your parents thought were sooooo crazy and wild were "women should have rights, racism is bad, gay people should be allowed to exist in peace" and he realizes how far humanity has come and how far we have to go. more importantly, you're heart skips a beat when he agrees with you wholeheartedly. and like, dying wasn't great. it kind of sucked. but if it means you get to meet magnus and spend eternity together... you wouldn't change a thing. everything he does makes any lingering regrets about your time on earth just... fade away. you like that feeling, and magnus likes how he feels around you just as much.

[waywardsou2]

Calling all fellow Punks

I've been doing some research recently and I've come to the conclusion that the punk opinion on school is. Ditch it. Don't buy into the establishment and don't feed into the government's scheme to keep us working for the rest of our lives.

Which I am all for

But...

Since I was little I had a dream of completing university. Obviously I haven't been punk all my life so I wouldn't have realised any of the corrupt shit that comes with school. But I still really want to complete university regardless. But it makes me feel like a little bit of a traitor. I really need to know if this as bad as I'm making it out to be.

@ace-up-your-sleeve @safety-pin-punk @coveredinredpaint

[2ndfamily]

Sirius being a poser is so real like his fascination with muggle punk subcultures is born from this extremely aesthetic/superficial place in that he wanted to 1. look cool and 2. be contrary to his family. He doesnt know anyyythinnggg about non wizard politics he was raised in an extremely sheltered rich ass fascist wizard family. And two of the most important things about sirius are that he is vain and that he loves antagonizing his parents cmon thats why he does like half the things he does

[just-a-weirdo-343]

[deancasforcutie]

"growing up is hearing impassioned completely wrong lectures about history you personally remember really well" but it's specifically the puriteens (+nominal adults they've become) saying the friendly homoeroticism of aughties shows was always intended and received maliciously. bullSHIT we called it HoYay and thought it was awesome

[sophieinwonderland]

I just wanna say I agree with what you said about anti-endos going against punk ethos. I would absolutely love to know why they want the label "punk" so badly when they are actually anti-punk. Maybe they just want to be edgy and think being punk sounds cool despite not actually knowing what it means? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wouldn't necessarily say it's just about being "edgy."

I think that a lot of people like the appearance of supporting punk ethos. People love looking like they're fighting for social change and battling oppressive systems of control.

Especially in the West, the idea of free thinking is integral to our culture.

But far fewer people want to make a commitment to free thinking and making social progress. Analyzing your positions to decide if they're truly your own or if you're just going with the crows is something that takes effort.

Nobody wants to be the pro-conformity person. But many of these same people also don't want to go against the crowd. They don't want to risk taking a position, even one that is morally correct, that might go against the most vocal groups.

Hence how we have anti-endos claiming to be punk, despite their whole ideology being the exact opposite of what punk stand for.

To them, it's better to just pull out the most Orwellian arguments for why, actually, they're the punk ones and the endos are the ones who aren't punk. 🤷‍♀️

[oh-look-a-homosexual-punk-bitch]

If you saw someone stealing, no you didn't, you didn't see shit, it is always morally acceptable to steal, unless it's from a small business, or from a person, then AND ONLY THEN do we have a problem