#if you think you're punk you're punk

[plague-vulture]

"punk clothes are too expensive" you're trying too hard. diy ur shit. punk etsy stores sell stuff for like 5-10 bucks sometimes cheaper if you rlly wanna/need to buy stuff. allow urself to be ugly

#if you think punk is expensive you're doing it wrong #punk #diy punk

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

I've seen several posts discussing the trade-offs of using a mobility aid, and how many mobility aids can cause health issues later on. While this is absolutely true, I want to emphasize something else very important.

It is not normal for your mobility aid to be causing you new-onset issues.

If you are experiencing new pain, muscle weakness, contracture, etc. it's important to look into it asap. Your doctor might have gone over possible issues and their danger levels at prescription or followup appointments for your aid, if they gave you educational material about these issues check that first. If you're experiencing an issue that you're not 100% sure is an expected (and safe enough to not be an emergency) side effect of use, get in touch with a doctor to make sure you're not having a fixable problem and/or a medical emergency. An occupational therapist was able to help me the most but depending on your condition and the issues you're experiencing you might benefit from a physical therapist or a specialist more. Another important thing of note:

Open pressure sores/bedsores are an emergency.

It can feel silly to go to the hospital for a small wound, but if they're not treated and you aren't repositioned to take pressure off the sore you could develop a bacterial infection and die. More than 24,000 people die from pressure sores every year. If you spend a lot of time in bed, sitting in the same place, or in a wheelchair/powerchair you need to learn to recognize the early signs of pressure sores and seek out ways to prevent them. There are special mattresses and cushions specifically for preventing sores. If you have paralysis or another condition that might mask pain you need to either check yourself regularly or have someone check you regularly for sores.

Less important but still good to think about, I recommend talking to someone who specializes in joints (i.e. an orthopedic doctor) about how you position yourself in a bed, couch, or chair if you spend a lot of time in one. Take a picture of your setup, bring it to them, and ask if there's anything more you can do to prevent joint or muscle injury.

#cpunk #cripplepunk #actually disabled #cripple punk #physically disabled #if you're in the U.S. and thinking ''how the fuck am I going to afford all these doctor visits'' I recommend medicaid if you can get it #most government programs are shit but medicaid is actually pretty good in a lot of places about covering care for disabled people #for me almost all of my visits have been covered including hospital visits which are a big expense if you're uninsured or underinsured

[andthebeanstalk]

the average person doesn't expect you to be a perfect ethical consumer, that's not possible for the vast majority of us. but what youre saying is it's better to do nothing at all and choose the worst possible options (sweat shops, overseas shipping waste, idea/product theft, all wrapped up in SHEIN) than to put even the tiniest effort in where you can.

[they are referring to this post]

What I said was "some people are doing literally everything they can to survive and have no extra bandwidth to spend extra time and money on their purchases, and it is cruel and therefore un-punk to gatekeep punkness and add additional shame to these people's lives based on that fact."

I think it's still a good thing to try to ethically consume; I literally never said it wasn't. I had never even heard of SHEIN before. Rather, I am much more concerned about what I saw as arbitrary gatekeeping based on ability and income.

And frankly how dare you claim that I am supporting sweatshops and abuse by saying that this additional work you are demanding (in this case, presumably, vetting every clothing company you buy from) is not always possible for people. It is not a light accusation to accuse me of supporting abuse.

"How dare you say we piss on the poor", Etc. 🙄 this isn't Twitter. You are determined to enforce moral purity, but you are failing to see the nuance.

Because when I say "no extra bandwidth," I mean no extra bandwidth. This is not the "car shows it's on E but actually secretly it has a lot of gas left" situation that abled people constantly assume disabled people mean when they say they are at their limit.

This is "at a certain point, people will hit a wall in terms of money and time and energy, and any energy spent after that comes directly out of their life force."

So the argument "okay but just spend a little more time money and energy actually" is not a valid one.

And the argument "if you are not able to do this specific task, then it means you're not doing anything else to make the world a better place" doesn't exactly impress me either. You said yourself that it is impossible to be a perfectly ethical consumer for most people.

How do you know what else people are doing to resist oppression? How many hours per week until your standards are met?What if someone works 3 jobs? Does that mean it's harder to be a good person if you're poor?? Why do you get to decide what specific avenue of bettering the world is the most morally repugnant or acceptable? What kind of proof of goodness and effort would make you satisfied enough to lay off on the shame?? Who are you helping??

Clothing is a fundamental human need, and some of us have to buy cheap fucking clothes quickly. Billionaires are buying their seventh yacht this month. The people who own fast fashion companies are abusing their workers and putting local affordable clothing stores out of business - and this applies for basically every company with price points that low because governments are failing to regulate corporations to enforce basic human rights.

I have $300 to spend on a new wardrobe as my old clothes have fallen apart or become too small. Do you have a way for me to get a new winter coat, 3 flannels, 10 shirts, 3 dress shirts, new sandals, 10 pairs of pants, 5 bras, 12 pairs of socks, and 10 pairs of underwear within that budget and also definitely 100% ethically sourced, with free returns in case it doesn't fit? Or will I simply have to use the cheap stores?

I have about an hour to spend on this per week. Should I continue to wear small and tattered clothing until I have the time, money, and energy to meet your standards? Did you know there are more empty homes in this country than homeless people? If I decide to splurge on only 100% ethically-produced products, and I can't make rent, and I become homeless, are YOU going to be there for me?? Or are you busy litigating the endless tiny shames of poverty in your own community?

So I ask you again, are you sure this is where you want to direct your punk energy? Because energy and time, as it turns out, are limited resources. And I would never expect you to secretly have more than you claim to have.

#original #punk #hopepunk #cripplepunk #i swear to god #reading comprehension website #how dare you say we piss on the poor #jfc 'what you're saying is we should do nothing' - what I'm saying is YOU are doing nothing by enforcing this boundary #you have to give people more credit than this. i believe you want a better world too. and it would be cool if you used your energy to #instead ask 'how do i fight for the people in my community to be clothed and have the time and income to shop ethically?' #or 'how do i support activism that pushes for regulation that could control these companies?' #monitoring how poor people spend money is a supremely Republican thing to do. as is demanding clear moral purity from every scenario. #you want a better world too. you want to demand your peers do better. - fine. good. #but you need to be asking if you have remembered and included everyone's needs when making statements like this. #capitalism is all for forgetting about poor and disabled people and refusing to believe their limits. #shame is a necessary weapon in fighting greed but it IS a weapon. be so careful where you point that shit. enough shame can kill a person #and a lot of us are already defending from it from all sides. #shaming a person who is already at their limit for not doing more is an act of cruelty. think very carefully about what that means please. #i literally don't even know what SHEIN is lol i just know classism when i see it #but I've had friends whose clothes were visibly falling apart with no income and so much so shame so deep in their hearts they were dying #and if they had seen that post it would have made them even sicker and gotten them no closer to the dignity of being properly clothed #shame is a weapon and /you need to be careful!!!!/

[deritosmi]

(long overdue) Can Hobie be a Teenager?

(Here's a lil pre apology for the faint school essay accent)

THIS IS MAINLY USING DETAILS FROM THE COMICS, AND HOBIE ISN'T BRITISH IN THE COMICS, SO YOU COULD ARGUE THAT THIS ISN'T CREDIBLE. BUT I DON'T REALLY CARE.

There has been a lot of (in my opinion-- unnecessary..) discourse on Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk’s age since the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse. For most of the part it was for shipping reasons… But that’s not the focus of this post. A reoccurring statement I’ve seen in this discourse is: “Hobie looks way too old to be a teenager.” 

This is where I say the line-- ‘erm, actually…’ 🤓🤓 and explain why Hobie can be a teenager ‘despite’ his appearance. 

Yay!! Arguing about Hobartholomew Laurence Brown! 

…

What have I gone through, experienced, for me to write this…?

Hobie Brown is the Spider-Man of Earth-138. (I don’t know why, but my intuition tells me that the year is 1983. Though,) generally it’s anywhere from the late seventies to the early eighties. 

Anyways, the points are the standard of living and circumstances. 

In Earth-138, America becomes a totalitarian (something something here something something here) with Osborn as the president. So, the inflation that took place during the late 1970’s - early 1980’s may not apply to this argument. But, the lack of technological advancements 

(okay I know they had laser guns and mutants back there but stay with me) 

medically speaking could be a reason for Hobie looking older. 

If not for the lack of technological advancement in medical care, then how difficult it was to access it. 

As the years have progressed, generations in general have been looking younger than older generations when they were at the same age. 

There are many reasons for this happening, like having less responsibilities, better health care, things are easier to access because that’s just how capitalism works (not a very good way to justify capitalism because everyone suffers regardless), less manual labor, more sitting in chairs for hours on end and not going outside or interacting with nature or people regularly, I could go on. 

(sorry for pushing my anti-capitalist propaganda here, but, uh it is my blog, so.) 

Oh! And also, Hobie, he is an orphan, and has been since childhood. He’s a squatter, a black dude, in America, also, he’s Spider-Punk, meaning he has to fight 24/7 365, and he’s had to fend for himself for like, his entire life. There are some obvious differences between his circumstances and the average teenager's.

This added to the fact that it was during the late 1970's-- early 1980's, it would only make sense for him to look, well, old. Or at least, older. Technically, he doesn’t really look older, we just look younger. We came second. But pretending like we are the main characters and the only perspective that matters is ours, yes, he looks older because of the general standard of living and his circumstances. So, yeah! Hobie could totally be a teenager. (And, in my honest opinion, he sounds like one in the movie and acts like one in the comics, but I won’t lose my mind over you thinking otherwise or whatever…)

Thanks for reading this thing that I wrote instead of doing school work!

#Hobie brown #spiderverse #atsv #Spider punk #🤭🤭 #thecatandthebirdie I hope you see this and think this is good bc you're so cool I think I'd explode

[ozlices]

ty for the people following me bc of the watcher posts. this is a watcher hater club now u can all vibe here knowing we are mentally standing outside that pretentious hollywood hq building w pitchforks and torches

#mine #watcher #i literally dont think ill ever be over this and i truly do not ever want to be #bc i dont care what absolute pr BULLSHIT they pull but they do not deserve to get away with this. #they rly dont. #and tbh since i havent spoken abt it yet imo shane is the most egregious one for being involved. #how fucking DARE you build your career off being an anti-capitalist ally & spouting 'steal from the rich' #just to pull THIS SHIT as successful as you are. #you fakeass wannabe punk bitch FUCK you shane madej. #you're right. some insufferable people did also meet you. and you're WORSE than any of them for doing this #hosting a show called puppet history just to shit all over internet history & success. #FUCK YOUUUU FUUUCCKKK YOOOOUUU #TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO!!!!!!!

[tomsmusictaste]

Yellowcard // With You Around

#yellowcard #with you around #when you're through thinking say yes #ryan key #sean mackin #ryan mendez #josh portman #pop-punk #lyrics #pop-punk lyrics

[wishful-seeker]

May Apollo bless this scorching hot bath and make my knees shut up and put out the buzzing fire in my joints.

#pls help #The level of annoyance my pain creates is the equivalent of having a fly in my ear #It's a type of pain that cannot be ignored #And you cannot think of anything but it #cripple punk #physical disability #CRPS #tw bugs and nasty story ahead #so flash back to when i worked at a kitchen that had so many flies in the back outdoor rest place #that 50 would land on you bc you're covered in food #and no matter how much you shook them off they'd just land on you again #until you give up from extreme exhaustion and just let them crawl on you #thats what the pain is like #i was also dealing with this pain on top of those real flies back then #im happy im too disabled to work at hell holes anymore

[icewindandboringhorror]

reminders of the passage of time moodeboard

#my blog is in his last year of middle school. he'll be off to high school next year (at least I think so..? 13 yrs old is usually 8th grade #at least from my experience. 9th graders are usually 14. 10th are 15. etc. etc. and then you're in 12th grade #and graduate high school usually 17yrs old.) ANYWAY.. wow he is so ancient.. #maybe he's still in a preteeny early teen emo phase or something.. I hope he gets some black and white striped armwarmers and black eyeline #r for his birthday. Maybe an MP3 player of course. Though because I don't really like most alternative music and he is my son he's actually #not allowed to listen to metal or pop punk or emo rock whatever stuff. I open the mp3 player and pre-stock it with only #disco and funk and classical music. he can have a little chiptune or techno stuff as a treat (sometimes emo adjacent maybe more #scene. I think a lot of scene kids were into that more.. emo's weird eccentric brother)) #Also he starts taking iron pills his 13th birthday because he's probably incredibly anemic just like me #so on and so forth and et cetera (I'm just being silly.. I am not pro-controlling your children down to whatmusic they #listen to or etc.etc. lol) #THOUGH I love that it's in january... january is one of my favorite months if not my favorite. yeeaaay #just such a nice cool month. I like that it's the start of the year mostly and that it's sometimes snowy here. Like where I live nov - dec #isnt really actually snowy?? You always associate those winter Months with snow but I think snow happens later on this coast #so it's more like Jan - March or even april sometimes. Though that may just be climate change lol.. But it's cool that Jan is winter AND #ACTUALLY snowy. plus the Beginning Of Year vibes and energy.. hrm... nice nice.. ANYWAY #AND this is not even my first tumblr blog. I had a different one before it I think.. #evviilll to be on one website for so long lol.. Very thankful that most websites I used to use as a 10 year old or whatever #are now defunct. There's something weird about how humans are just creating endless streams of words and pictures and all of this stuff #and it just goes out into the void and stays there long after the person themselves has forgotten it. not even like 'oh no what if i said #something bad!!' but more just the general sense of.. people create so much more ideas than they can actually hold in their heads. nobody #remembers exactly word for word every post they've ever made or etc. It's like parts of yourself that you've externalized and then fade awa #from you but they're still you but they're not so you just have little snapshots of yourself in time floating around entirely unbenknownst #to you. like making clones of yourself and then forgetting you did so but every once in a while going 'shit... there's clones out there.. #of me and I don't even have track or awareness of them anymore.. what an odd concept..' etc. not EXACTLY like that ghbj..you know what I me #n.. or maybe you dont.. hrmm... ANYWAY #I am just now slightly recovering from my most recent mysterious illness spell and etc. so I would like to post more again and mAYBE even #do a costume if I'm being ambitious.. but after so many times of being randomly stricken by problems I'm now fearful of ever being too #hopeful lol.. always like 'I would like to go to the grocery store tomorrow! .... MAYBE.. if i CAN.. possibly... NOT getting my hopes up'. #etc. etc. etc. every statement has a caveat and a backup plan and so on and so forth and such is life.. anyway. happy birthday evil tumblr

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Diane: Hobie has a size kink this! Hobie has a size kink that! Sure being tiny next to him is all cute and errythang. But can you do THIS

Diane aboutfaces and gives Hobie a big smooch on the nose. Hobie seems unphased and barely reacts to this.

Diane: No. No I don't think you can. I win. Jealous? I know.

#yeah you're tiny and cute but can you smoochie his nose #can you tippytoe and kissie kissie his forehead #exactly 😌 #the perks of being 5'11 #spiderman #atsv #spider man #gonna write more about this cause I think Hobie liking taller girls is funny #cause it's so hard for him to find ppl taller than him #marvel #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spider punk #spiderpunk #hobie x oc #hobie brown x oc

[marypsue]

Of all the many, many things I've seen people argue might qualify a person to call themselves 'a goth', the only one that I've ever looked at and gone 'well you genuinely just do not have a single point to support your argument there' is 'politics'.

#are you perhaps thinking of punk #'goth is a music and political subculture!' tell me you have absolutely no fucking idea whatsoever what you're talking about without telli

[gildeddlily]

1/1 Fandom: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies) Relationships: Miles Morales/Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen/ Hobie Brown Additional Tags: HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!, making fun of whoever said that there was gonna be a love triangle, Pre-Poly, Bisexual Miles Morales, Bisexual Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen, Bisexual Hobie Brown, it's the spider gene, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everybody Lives, Silly, Random & Short

Summary:

🕷 Admiring someone was normal, right? Watching them just do and talk and laugh and yell, thinking "Fuck, what would I do to be them". Ganke would have told him that it was normal to admire someone, but that staring at someone as if they were the only source of water in an endless desert might not be admiring. Miles would have ignored him, as now he ignored Ganke's voice in his head. or being young and through puberty, real puberty, is hard. Even more when you only seem to know hot people, who can play instruments 🕷

#don't know why #but here I am #posting this #help #into the spider verse #across the spider-verse spoilers #spider man across the spider verse #miles morales #gwen stacy #spider woman #spider gwen #hobie brown #spider punk #punkflower #plus gwen ig #THE LOVE TRIANGLE WASN'T REAL #if you think there was one #you're too straight for being real #bisexual pride #pride month

[rocksanddeadflowers]

What's one hobby you have that you'd recommend other people try?

Oh I have so many this is hard to answer.... I think maybe just simple hand sewing skills? Just because a lot of it is really easy once you get the hang of it, and it's incredibly useful and multi purpose. You can make new stuff or save your old favorite things! I love mending my clothes a lot (saves money in the long run and saves me the heart ache), and there's plenty of different kinds of hand sewing skills you can learn depending on what you need them for. I recently even learned scotch darning to save my favorite sweater!

(Sewing is probably my oldest hobby too? I remember being very little and denied real sewing needles so I made my own out of Christmas ornament hooks and fixed my brother's stuffies with them and made my stuffies clothes. I got my needles not long afterwards.)

I prefer visible mending for most of my things, but I practice making it unnoticeable too. I've fixed bedspreads, clothes, bags, and all sorts of things! I've also made new clothes and other trinkets out of scrap material, and decorated things too! (<- personally obsessed with patch work things lmao.)

Admittedly if you get into sewing as a major hobby a sewing machine is very helpful, but I still prefer hand sewing where I can bc I find the machine to be a little stressful. I usually use mine on bigger projects to save time, but I mainly hand sew.

Also I know you quilt so I dunno if that was the answer you were looking for lol... I don't know much about quilting but it is still sewing, and really cool to me. (Long arms look terrifying to me however.) But yeah knowing how to sew by hand is really helpful and fun! It's relaxing for me when I have the energy to focus and feels fulfilling. Even if it's not a good hobby for everyone, if it's a skill you're capable of learning, it's very useful.

#eek i think i lose this ask in my drafts?? #love getting asks like this tho <3 <3<3 #bites you (affectionate /p) #idk how much hand sewing goes into quilting unless you're doing the whole thing by hand? but i assume there is #i also really love baking!! it's especially nice making food from scratch so i can control the ingredients better #makes the little treats a bit healthier and less likely to cause a flair :) #honestly i have a bunch of silly hobbies but they're all either miscellaneous arts and crafts / punk diys #or like. traditional house wife skills. #a skill being stereotypical of trad wife stuff does NOT inherently make it yucky obviously pls know that they're usually very useful to know #i just think it's pathetically ironic that they're my favorites/what I'm best at #my asks

[punkeropercyjackson]

"I only draw the line at wanting to kill people" in reference to cops.Why were you following someone with the spanish word for punk in their url then

#no because the way i was thinking last night to make a post about how i genuinely want all f*scists to drop dead as painful as possible #and end it with 'do you think my url is a joke'💀that's on me for not speaking load enough ig.a mutual i'd never spoken to too????? #don't care + didn't ask + my blog is blatantly afrolatino themed and you're a christian blogger without their race in their bio #punk #pastel punk tag #hopepunk #afropunk #autipunk #seapunk #genderpunk #traumapunk #solarpunk #acab #anarchism #summerposting

[teatitty]

So lets talk about this for a second:

Obviously we know through his many appearances in Vigilantes that Mic ends up more of an entertainment hero who dabbles in both battle and rescue [namely crowd control] but I would like to posit another way in which his quirk is suited for rescue work: dealing with traumatised and scared individuals who have to give statements

Mic's voice quirk is never shown its full capabilities but we know from his introduction that he can hit incredible highs and low bass which brings to mind for me that he can do a shitton of impressive things with it we just never get to see. Namely? Getting into that perfect hertz register that calms stress and soothes anxiety. Similar to how a cat purring is known to help with panic attacks and other health concerns, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Mic was a hero who gets called in to deal with people who need that soothing register and calming presence, such as kids curled up in corners who want to accept help but are too scared to do so, or a young adult who needs to give statements after getting battered etc

And given that we know he's great at crowd control and just being an overall People Person [we see it in the main series on rare ocassions but thank you vigilantes for showing it far more consistently], he probably would know when to be the big bombastic MC and when to be a gentler hand. There is, after all, more to being a rescue hero than just clearing debris and putting out fires

#bnha #yamada hizashi #meta post #idk how to cap this off but you get it #I also think he works for this bc if you're scared to go to court #what better way to feel safe than to go with a guy in full punk leathers who is over 6 feet tall and can burst an eardrum

[tomsmusictaste]

Yellowcard // With You Around

#yellowcard #with you around #when you're through thinking say yes #ryan key #sean mackin #ryan mendez #josh portman #pop-punk #lyrics #pop-punk lyrics

[squisheebugdoodles]

@gyapona sent me this gender sheet from twitter user kr00bs to do a couple of months ago and it took me a bit to get to it but it was super fun! i was a little stumped on the soul section so there's a couple different variations on what it feels like to Me!!

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#squisheebug doodles #art meme of sorts #my gender is void #there's a LOT more music that's applicable btw but i am obsessed with the amazing devil and cavetown has been #a solid factor of my music playlist for years #folk punk and folk in general are also big big ones for me!!! love me some folk!!! #work songs nd shanties my beloved <3 #anyways!! #i forgor to share this before so i wanted to share it now!! #this was really fun and even if you don't think you're an artist i highly recommend it!! #squish sona