#down with the status quo

[embraceyourdestiny]

People are waiting for things to be history while it’s happening so they can say “oh why couldn’t we do anything to stop it?”

You can do something to stop it.

Murder is happening right now. People are being killed right now. Starved out. Infected with disease from manufactured conditions. Their homes and community being torn apart because of sickening and disgusting wishes from the people in power above us assuring it happens.

Stand up. Do something.

Don’t wait and say we should’ve done something to help when we could’ve. You’re complacent if you aren’t helping now.

#og #free palestine #free gaza #save rafah #save rafah city #save Gaza #help palestine #save congo #save sudan #stop the bombs #stop the war #stop the genocide #stop killing civilians #end colonialism #end colonization #down with the status quo #fuck the status quo

[archiephd]

So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

[...]

Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

#indigenous action #2024 elections #voting #on one hand i think if one opponent is a mask off fascist white people have an obligation to vote against them As The Least We Can Do #but if that's all we're doing? that and bullying other people who see a futility in participating in a colonial institution of 'democracy'? #sorry but um. shut the fuck up #if we spent half as much energy on direct action to support each other in ways that help people REGARDLESS of who wins what election #as we did on yelling at Other Leftists about voting i think we would get a hell of a lot more actual shit done #and sure as hell help more actual real life people who we claim to be helping by yelling at other people to vote #i'm talking to me here like #our current blue harm reduction candidate actively supporting a genocide should make you feel like maybe this shit doesn't fucking work #because it doesn't <3 #harm reduction as the least we can do needs to be a call to action via vote AND actual action or it's not a call to anything at all #the least we can do needs to be motivating AND convicting #it's the least we can do so fucking do it. it's the least we can do so if that's All you do sit the hell down or stand the fuck up #for people who the status quo serves it needs to be the ballot AND the bullet or our ballot means fuck all for real liberation

[sort-of-a-hero-that-way]

Dennis shielding Dee whether it's physical harm or a verbal confrontation. And thinking about ada's tag alongside the gifs

They're both of equal threat to him...

#sorry i forgot who the 1st gif is from #i know its subtle but on one hand dennis distrusts strangers #bcuz they dont get him and they disrupt the gangs status quo #but dennis also just...doesnt like anger and will always calm people down #usually he puts his hands on their shoulders and massages when they get riled up and eases their tension #but here he's acting as a shield bcuz the threat isn’t coming from inside #it isn’t their emotions and their anger that needs to be hm let's say treated/controlled #it's an exterior harm it's coming from other people #dennis here understands dee's anger and sees reason behind it but he'll handle it instead #shields her away from it and speaks out #to me dennis doesn’t like anger and doesn't like himself when he's angry #so since he's calmer and more rational than dee in this instance he'll take over #cuz he knows anger doesn’t lead to anything good #he will always be the last to snap and he prefers running away to anger anyways #i feel like I've tackled too many subjects in the tags now I'll shut up #dennis reynolds #iasip #trash twins

[fluffydice]

I think one day I’d like to write something about Kusuke and Kusuo trying to have an actual sibling relationship, but I also think it would be painful. There’s a degree of bittersweetness in any universe that Kusuke mistreated Kusuo surrounding them making up, whether from Kusuo trying to learn to recover from it all (or at least not be in survival mode around him) or Kusuke being forced to learn things about himself while trying to connect with his brother/become a better person.

#they drive me crazy and I’m unsure if it’s in a good way or not #Ill be straight up I don’t like Kusuke #but I’m also more sensitive when it comes to familial abuse #And I know with families that experience that (especially between siblings rather than a parent and a child) it’s very fucking complicated #I think I get Kusuke’s character uncomfortably well even if I usually boil him down to simply an antagonist in my fics #my closest hint at that is probably in Status Quos tbh #saiki k #tw abuse

[cak31ssuperi04]

Henna not being back in any capacity in the second Mariposa movie gives me two impressions:

1). untapped potential for a 3rd movie where we get Henna reformation or some such.

2).

Mariposa: I wonder how Henna's doing out there.

Willa: ..... what if she's dead 😧

Mariposa: 😨

Honestly it's entirely possible that she IS dead; a lot of her control over the Skeezites hinged on the promise of invading Flutterfield, and we can see their patience wearing thin throughout the movie. It's possible her failure to follow through would be the final straw, and that her lights would only be able to carry her so far when her entire army is against her. I do like the potential for another sequel to tie up that loose end though, in no small part because "dramatic revenge declaration followed by offscreen death that's never mentioned" is just kind of anticlimactic. Even if it's been a decade and that ship has sailed at this point. We could've had it all. Two fairy trilogies. Also consider: The Skeezites don't seem to be a threat--or even present at all-- in Fairy Princess. They're not once brought up unless in past tense. Regellius brings up Flutterfield defeating them when that's not necessarily how it happens in the first movie(which she does point out but focuses more on the method than the outcome so it's still unclear). Yeah they succeed in driving them off, but if Mariposa's quest or the fact that they've been terrorizing the kingdom for centuries says anything, it's that there are probably way more hanging around than Henna's immediate army. I'm imagining a midquel where she manages to get the Skeezites to hold out for a little longer so she can get her Revenge Plan in, and Flutterfield deals with them for good.

#My biggest thing at the moment would just be that Mariposa specified that it never came down to a fight #so I'd have to consider a Non-Fighty way to do that. Big magic. #She does have the flutterflower so I guess traveling wouldn't be that much of a danger but that gift was framed as more for #sentimental value than for protection. #Bringing Marabella back to life restored flutterfield to its status quo but didn't get rid of the skeezites or anything. #And like yeah they have the thistleburst lights now so maybe transportation is no big deal #maybe the skeezites stopped hunting butterfly fairies when they realized they had some form of defense. #But they're such a non-presence it's still just weird. Walk with me here. #It's still been too long to bring the series back but. Mariposa 1.5 where we find out where Rayla and Rayna and Zinzie went #pieceofcake.txt #cakeasks #Was so deep in Henna Denial when I found out she wasn't going to be the villain in Fairy Princess that my mind just instinctively went #'Oh wow she's aged a lot since the 1st movie' #In my mind if she survives she could maybe eventually get a redemption but she wouldn't continue living in Flutterfield #cakeart #The dialogue for the image was heavily paraphrased but inmy defense my internet has been supreme dogwater lately #So I was working off memory at like 4 am

[takaraphoenix]

What do you think about the changes to Luke’s confrontation with Percy ?

Got this ask, got really confused, realized the final episode was out, went to watch it, came back here.

So.

Mh.

As with the majority of the many changes this show made to the books, I have... mixed feelings on it.

Part of me loves this much more than the books - much - more. Because it made so much more sense. Luke, trying to recruit Percy instead of just... flat-out trying to murder him again.

And! That Percy was the one who figured it out, on his own. I love how clever this show makes Percy.

It was a really tense and interesting confrontation.

Now here's the part that made me dislike it. Because it made so much sense.

In the books, Percy not taking Luke's side made complete sense, because Luke just flat-out tries to murder him, for the second time, and he is screaming and throwing so much stuff out in such a frantic way that he does sound like he lost his mind. It's very easy to conclude "My guy, you're being brainwashed by Kronos".

But this Luke? And this Percy?

The Percy who literally spent the entire damn show MAKING Luke's points. The first half of this show, every single conversation between him and Annabeth was basically Percy reciting Luke's bulletpoint list of why the gods suck and demigods shouldn't do their bidding.

And now, what? All of the sudden, just because, what, daddy dearest showed up once and saved Percy's life from Zeus, he is Team Olympus? C'mon. That was weak as fuck.

A very brief summary of a point I've made in the past, I don't want to drag this argument out again but it's important to bring up in this context: PJO is inherently a story about keeping the status quo. It follows the very tried concept of giving the villain (Luke) a very good and valid motivation to rebel against an oppressive force, but undermining the good points he makes by adding something that nobody can argue is bad (Kronos controlling everything in the background), so the hero fights the immediate problem instead of the shared oppressors, instead of just giving the very good and valid motivation to the hero and have them fight for real change.

And in the books, at least there really wasn't much of a reason for Percy to join Luke, and Luke doesn't even really ask for it either.

But this Luke asked. This Luke very coherently expressed himself.

And this Percy has made his exact talking points in the past. And nothing, aside from Poseidon stepping up once in his fucking life, has really changed. If anything, I'd say the bad - Ares, Zeus, ATHENA - really outweigh the good.

Why is Kronos worse than Zeus? Because he ate his children? Zeus did worse things to his own children in mythology, to be quite frank. Show Percy is too clever - too knowledgeable about mythology and the past of their godly family and good at putting one and one together - and too bitter toward the gods to so fully dismiss Luke, in my opinion, especially considering we removed the "I will immediately try to murder you with a killer scorpion" and added Luke explicitly trying to recruit Percy.

And I'm not saying "Percy should have absolutely joined Luke's side", but I am saying that it felt far too much like a 180 on Percy's part to be defending the gods and pretend that Luke isn't making sense. I liked that Chiron called that out in the end, but... Percy's reply was even weaker because there was no foundation for why he would be so stubborn about this.

Even if you don't pull through with it, I think that an angle of doubt, an angle of temptation, should have been played up here.

#Percy Jackson #PJOTV #PJOTV Spoilers #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #Luke Castellan #PJOverse #lords have mercy this awakens my need to do a rewrite AGAIN #where Percy DOES join Luke because LUKE IS FUCKING RIGHT #THIS Luke even MORE SO than the books Luke. I need to lay down #ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REMOVE KRONOS FROM THE EQUATION #AND YOU WOULD HAVE THE INCREDIBLY VALID REBELLION #OF THE OPPRESSED AND MISTREATED DEMIGODS AGAINST THE GODS #I'll never get over just HOW much more enticing that storyline would be #than 'and so he fought the gods' battles over and over - but he did it for his FRIENDS though!!! #because it truly Does Not Matter. he still fights FOR the gods and for THEIR status quo

[uncanny-tranny]

"The world isn't a safe place, so get used to it!"

Man, as somebody who's survived multiple, long-lasting instances of abuse from a very young age, I was under the impression that the world was, indeed, so safe and conforming to my desires. I'm practically stunned to learn that this is not the case, and I have been severely humbled

(Sarcasm fully intended)

#mental health #mental health advocacy #abuse apologia #trauma #abuse tw #abuse mention tw #if your response to somebody talking about trauma is to go 'the world isn't safe!' that is a reflection on you; not the world #and if the world isn't safe because of human action: we can change our behaviour #not only is this abuse apologia but it is also kind of... lazy #and i *hate* the word 'lazy' but it's simply the only word i have to convey how asinine the whole 'get used to it!!!' is #if living in the world is to be used to abuse and some of the worst shit imaginable then. i don't think that's right. or normal. #again like... i actually truly just fucking despise the way most people talk about trauma and abuse... #...and pretty much anything that isn't like the bare surface-level 'mental health is important!' type deal... #...because it has always cpme down to 'how can i help maintain the status quo (people being abused and tormented)?' #or 'well you were [x] so you deserved it!' or 'you shouldn't want for ANYTHING if it makes me sad/annoyed/frustrated!!' #but maybe i'm naïve but i know this shit can change #and i don't think silence and letting people go about believing that shit is how it'll be done

[torgawl]

i forgot to make a post about this but one of the reasons i believe megumi will be saved and come back, and how that will tie with a major moment in the story (either related to sukuna or the merger), is because of his name. or, to be more precise, because of his father and the legacy he chose to leave behind. toji's character has been the catalyst for almost everything in the current timeline of jjk. he was behind gojo's awakening, riko's death, geto's spiraling and defection which ultimately led to kenjaku's possession of geto's body, the lack of options to release gojo from the prison realm when he was imprisoned by kenjaku, he was the object of yuki's study to break free from the status quo, etc. quite literally, if we do have a plot, we have to thank toji for it. toji, who turned the world upside down and changed everyone's lives by breaking the chains of fate - literal symbolism used in regards to him and other concepts within the story like binding vows, specifically the one sukuna made with yuuji. toji, the one who linked the six eyes, the star plasma vessel and tengen (subsequently relating to the merger) by achieving a state of no cursed energy and reaching something akin to enlightment. such a bringer of chaos who was looked upon as the key to save the world by yuki, who knew there would have to be a change in the souls of the population of japan and cursed energy as a whole to finally break free from the cycle of suffering (breaking from the samsara and achievement of nirvana). now, how does that relate to megumi? the irony in the role toji plays within this story as someone who was born without power. the fact his influence caused nothing but destruction yet he birthed a blessing. what if megumi's name meaning blessing isn't just a coincidence or cute detail symbolising toji's love for his family but a sign for what's to come? what if the blessing yuki saw in toji's achievements as well actually translates to something more meaningful. more precisely, what if megumi is, quite literally, the embodiment of it?

#sorry i am once again obsessed with the existance of toji fushiguro #now that the new chapter hints at the merger i cannot stop thinking about this #i made a post about this before but i used to think gojo's death linked to other happenings in the manga with tengen would be the key to #deal with the merger and take down the status quo and the ce monopoly japan holds #now that gege added uraume to the conditions of the culling game and the story is heading in that direction #it feels fitting that there's some sort of relation #yuuji's manipulation of souls megumi's soul... idk idk but i wouldn't be surprised if megumi came back and i am actively waiting for it #if it doesn't happen i will be actually surprised #there's also the whole sukuna and yuuji sort of being a whole i am so scared of yuuji in the sense i'm afraid he'll sacrifice himself in #the end and the story will end just like his grandfather said #idk the merger can also add other variables to all of this who knows what's about to happen #anyways i'll shut up now agsjshsj #jujutsu kaisen #jjk leaks #toji fushiguro #megumi fushiguro #jjk 💭

[geekgirles]

Me watching Gabriel mercilessly roast Lila and her #offended face after three seasons of everything always working out in her favour:

#miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #ml season 5 #ml spoilers #ml season 5 spoilers #revelation spoilers #ml s5.20 #revelation #Gabriel is still a prick and is only trying to set Adrien and Kagami up #but st least he took Lila down a peg or two #ml meme #yes I know the rest of the episode went back to the status quo of Lila alwags getting away with everything #just let me have this please

[diverbots]

Do you think Ramattra wouldn’t hesitate to beat up Max or would he stop for a moment and hold back cause like. He can’t hurt his own people, and Max hasn’t done anything severe to warrant it, in the end they’re both sort of just pawns to a whole dilemma. Their numbers are dwindling as is.

Max can obviously see this and just goes, “Are you afraid you’ll kill me?” Ramattra flinches, “I won’t.” “I could make you kill me.”

#text #Something something Max quite literally gambling his life away. #And the two having opposite ways of thinking i.e. upholding the status quo vs #tearing down the system. #Anyways Blizzard (shakes cup) Maximilien lore?

[vodkaandsnakes]

On this day, February 25, in Type O Negative history:

Type O Negative play The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ (1994)

Bloody Kisses is #12 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart (1995)

Bloody Kisses is #169 on the Billboard Top 200 chart (1995)

The soundtrack for the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts is released. The soundtrack features a collaboration between Type O Negative and Ozzy Osbourne called "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (originally by Status Quo). Somewhere out there in the ether, a Peter-only-vocals version of this track can also be found- it's definitely worth listening to as well. (1997)

Type O Negative play the American Theater in St. Louis, MO (2000)

#type o negative #peter steele #josh silver #kenny hickey #johnny kelly #heavy metal #goth #gothadelic #roadrunner records #bloody kisses #october rust #world coming down #private parts #howard stern #pictures of matchstick men #status quo #prince of darkness #stone pony #billboard #billboard 200 #heatseeker #mound city #ozzy osbourne #sal abruscato

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

Not the corporate bootlickers in my notes defending late stage capitalism and the ultra rich 😭

#of course they're transphobic and also talk like they're from warhammer40k #anyway block yourtoradorasextendedwarranty #idk where the cracks these incel losers crawl out from #they live in a world in which they side with the status quo that is globally maintained yet they still seem unsatisfied? #always got to keep punching down #the nerve of anybody wishing for a better life

[takumishu]

Just going to accept that I'm gonna have a permanent "Ugh, well fine, whatever" reaction to RFTA Edgeworth because honestly the direction they took for his character works in some ways I do find interesting, and does not work in others. And by others I mean please stop comforting and reassurring him and let there be weight to his actions here narratively.

#send post #c: Edgeworth #It's not that ''character did not do specific bad thing they were accused of and the focus is more on their enthusiastic #participation in a violent status quo rather than specific individual wrongs'' can't work. Like it does work in theory. And it especially #does w a lot of who Edgeworth is as a person and professionally being affected by him being a public figure and him taking care to try and #balance a moral compass and controlling his image and his own sense of justice; him being target to an especially nasty rumour mill and thi #contributing to his drastic complete disappearance from the public eye works and makes sense. #I just feel like there's something lost if every character is reacting to him like ''but you didn't know so it's fine!'' every time he beat #himself up regarding what he's participated in? Like sure ultimately the fact that he had to leave and work on himself and he came back a #new man is the narrative saying ''yeah there was something wrong going on here'' but it undermines the feeling of This is His Fault and He #Still Did Bad when he's the only one saying it. Then to the audience it feels more like exaggerated guilt and self-hatred rather than guilt #based on something Actual that he did wrong even if he wasn't the sole perpetrator; or even a willing one! Bc yadda yadda participating in #the system as it is without inclination towards change or moving against it makes its crimes your own. #Silver-lining is he really had the worst time of his life and I love watching him suffer (affectionate) so I had that at least #I definitely put my foot down when Lana said ''It was us who acted corruptly not you'' though like we were almost there... you almost had #it and then you said this at the eleventh hour and now I have to grumble about this lol

[aflamethatneverdies]

saw someone tell people to read decolonisation academia in a post with a bad take that i don't wish to engage with, but it's funny telling people to learn about decolonisation from universities. Academia ime so far has been 'vague gestures that this land belongs to so and so people' or adding a text or two in the course from some not white author. would not recommend learning decolonisation from academia.

#decolonisation may be violent #may require a systemic change #not something that the generally very white liberal academia is willing to grapple with yet ime #in fact it really feels like they have diluted the meaning of decolonisation #because you see it everywhere in contexts where it is not necessary or needed #also u cannot even have a thesis on Palestine in white western academia advisers tell you not to incase it is marked down #i'm sorry but academia does have an agenda they cannot go against they cannot publish truly radical texts #people lose jobs in academia and elsewhere for supporting Palestine as a cause #decolonisation from academia is a joke #at the end of the day academia supports the status quo #people will do well to remember that

[annabelle--cane]

recently saw someone say be more chill is bad because it's a "neoliberal musical." I don't think you know what that word means.

#even going by the most generous reading and accepting that you can apply a global economic term to a musical about mentally ill teens #bmc comes down as pretty anti the idea that any one person can/should meaningfully change their social standing unaided & alone #the whole end of the show hinges on the fact that the status quo hurts everyone n so everyone must decide to change for things to improve #No One Knows What 'Neoliberal' Means And No One Except Me And My Mutuals Understands Be More Chill The Musical #be more chill #marina marvels at life

[psychterminal]

Status Quo - Roll Over Lay Down / video live

#video #hard rock #boogie #status quo #roll over the lay down #live #Youtube