#thats the seed of fascism

[ask-the-crimson-king]

just some idle thoughts.

what is there to do anymore? why should i keep fighting? every day i wake up and find a new monstrocity that just lets me know how much the state despises me and how unsafe it is for me to even fucking exist anymore.

what is there to do?

it doesnt feel like anything is working. everything is so overwhelming and nothing feels like its changing. people are too divided to do fucking anything anymore. fascism is here. it is now. and there wont be anyone to save us from it.

im terrified about facing extermination. im terrified about i and my friends facing extermination.

im so so tired of having all this anger, all this rage, all of this want to change and being nothing but useless. i have no license, no means of income, i live in an isolated area and im riding that sweet sweet poverty line hard. i cant go out and organize because there arent people around. even if there were, gas is now stupidly fucking expensive and we're about to hit a depression-era recession.

everywhere, down the long winding roads here, i see signs from people who want me dead. i hear their conversations with my family. the slurs, the hatred.

what is there to do anymore?

i have so much anger. so much frustration, so much fucking rage and its so fucking useless.

what is there to fight for? wouldnt it be easier to just let it all happen? cause it sure feels like its going to, no matter what.

but i cant. i know i cant. i have to be angry, i have to fight, i have to. i cant surrender to it. but man is it tough.

i just dont know anymore. collective action is the only way to combat this, but its hard when you're the only one in your area and you have no way of collectivizing because you dont have some of the base requirements of being an adult marked off yet.

goodbye, civil liberties. goodbye, right to exist. i wish i knew about my identity five years prior. maybe id be a little safer, and maybe i couldve already started my journey. maybe not.

i'll find solace in my music as always. im just tired and afraid. i know thats what those who are in power and want to eradicate my existence want. and im very sorry to say that there, they've won.

Seeds we sow, But don't know what we grow. Make or mar, Sear flowers on this field of blood. Hope we seed, We water and we wait in need. With Heaven's call, Unavoidably buying the fall!

Now there's one sun and there is one moon, dear, And whichever god's the one for you. Just remember that the one you choose here, Makes enemies no matter who.

Oh well love is here and so is hate, But mainly death is what dictates. Love is endless, immortal they say, So might be true! Fair enough, but be that as it may, Death is just a kiss away. Death is just, A kiss, Away...

#rant #politics #im just so tired and so done #it almost doesnt feel worth it anymore #''oh well love is here and so is hate #''but mainly death is what dictates #''love is endless #''immortal they say #''so might be true!'' #''fair enough but be that as it may #''death is just a kiss away.''

[noneedtofearorhope]

i’d love to see the tables turned and all these anons and shit try and justify the mass death, misery, suffering, exploitation, and slavery that NECESSARILY comes with the state.

like, if we assume for sake of argument that the state is necessary for insulin production (which to be clear, i don’t think any of us agree with, we all believe that life would find a way), the state is unnatural, it’s human made, and thus needs to be justified. unless there has been recent research that finally gives conclusive evidence that diabetes is human caused, it’s just a fucking shit fact of life. diabetes doesn’t have to justify itself, and no one, anarchist or otherwise, has to make a justification for its existence.

i shouldn’t have to stress this so much, but fash jacketing just seems all too common here lately, but again, we don’t believe the state is necessary for insulin production. but if divine powers came down and showed us that it was, it still wouldn’t be justified to cause the death and suffering of others thru the state just to extend the lives of diabetics. in this case, we would do everything we can to alleviate the suffering of those who are dying. the focus would be on quality of life and end of life care. just like it is for any number of diseases that have no cure even under the boot of state and capital. just like it is for the elderly, as again, fact of life is that we all die eventually.

#i know this is probably not gonna be received well #people get angry when they are reminded of their mortality #but i think someone has to lay it out #accepting that death is a part of life isn't fascist #the drive to extend life and even eliminate death at all costs is what is fascist #your life or the life of a loved one doesn't matter more than the life of anyone elses #you can ask that people go out of their way for you #that they inconvenience themselves #even that they bear some suffering for your sake #but the moment you enforce it you've crossed the line #thats the seed of fascism #if not fascism outright #ok i thought i was done before but now im actually done #until i make my next post lol #not proof read because editing tags is a pain lol

[insurrectionary-frybreadism]

i hope this is okay to ask and im sorry if it isnt but is cottagecore actively harmful or is it more thinking youre woke/helping people by having a garden alone thats the issue? if i someday (unlikely) have the opportunity/money to have an area of land with room for a garden would i be hurting indigenous people doing so, and how could i prevent that? ive never had the opportunity to have space for a garden and have enough food to eat but i am white so i want to try to do good if i do someday (1)

Is cottagecore actively harmful?: yes, absolutely. It harbors the seeds of fascism and colonization within it inherently. It's literally just modern trendy Lebensraum. I could say more about that but i do not personally have the energy for it rn and I also wouldnt be saying anything new. I do however encourage you to search my blog for cottage core stuff as theres lots of people who have talked about this in depth with great sources.

"If I have an area of land with a garden would I be hurting indigenous people"?: Short answer would be no. Just recognize that no matter where you are, as someone who is not native, you are occupying unceded/stolen indigenous land.

Does this make you horrible and irredeemable? No, not at all.

You can have a place of your own and a garden without it being cottage core, you can do that without settling the land. You can even go a step further in solidarity with indigenous people and look up whos land you occupy and contact said nation to go about signing over that land to said nation. And it doesnt even mean you lose ownership of the land you occupy, it simply means that that land would then be legally considered *insert nation* land and would be under said nations jurisdiction.

#ask #asks #anon

[hermitcrabofficial]

i feel like people either forget or ignore the fact that the epilogue is actually fanfiction

heres my hot and probably unsuprising take on this whole situation

i can understand that being deprived of "canon content" has people come to the conclusion that whatever just happened in the epilogue holds such a significant meaning that everyone practically considers it canon, but at the same time are completely outraged or in denial about the things that happened the way they did?

like. the ao3 formatting shouldve been a dead giveaway but i guess i can see where people are coming from, considering most of the diehard homestuck fans have been residing in ao3 after the end of homestuck and mightve probably formed some sort of muscle memory by not reading the tags and just going after any kind of new homestuck content like a. content deprived person

and the fact that this particular fanfiction has been written and endorsed by andrew hussie by posting this on the main website makes people come to the conclusion that this particular fanfiction holds more authentic and canon relevance and is in fact, a part of the overarching canon of homestuck

(not in the way as being "outside canon" like rose had explained, but rather in a way that this epilogue specifically attaches to the homestuck comic in a bigger sense than hiveswap does)

for example people are getting outraged by janes behaviour like shes acting completely out of character, and then theres people posting canon evidence explaining the reasoning behind janes apparent fascism (she literally grew up being brainwashed and controlled by hic her entire life)

people were hoping to see their favourite characters living happily ever after but homestuck has never been about that literally show me one scene where a character is completely alive and happy and is surrounded by their friends in a peaceful and harmless setting and are living happily ever after

that kind of scenario only exists in fanfiction and you know it

and the fact that the epilogue is basically an amalgamation of trying to set a happy ending with the endless fatal experience that is homestuck that leaves a lot of people utterly enraged and unsatisfied just goes to show that nothing makes sense at all, neither in a canon sense nor in a fanon sense

and really, it shouldnt make sense because thats literally what it is. a fanfic written by the author of the original material, trying to live up to his fandoms expectations by mixing the content the fans want to see with the content that happens canonically with both direction of the fans and the author and the content that the author has been trying to write all this time

but since even the author has been killed in canon, he never had any real influence beyond that point anymore, save for continuing the content through the character currently sitting in the metaphorical narration chair

within that character there also resides a clash between the fandoms view and the authors view of the character etc etc

and this just goes on and on and nobody is happy and the least thing hussie can do is setting this epilogue up in a way so that he can continue his story at a later date all while leaving the fandom the choice of accepting the epilogue to their canon

tldr: all im saying is that this epilogue was never intended to be hard 100% canon and hussie is leaving yall the option whether you want to accept this as your canon or not. homestuck has had so many narrative changes-

(in the sense of different characters assuming the narration and the change from forum-based command input to hussie assuming full control to hussie complying with what the fandom wants)

-over the past decade that it is pretty much impossible to write a coherent story in one unified direction with multiple characters with wildly differimg backgrounds and personalities, some of which have broken out of the narrative control of the author and are rebelling through a metatextual level

even more tldr: theres just. so much shit going on the characters have literal narrative freedom and are basically growing in the epilogue like plants in the soil that consists of their respective canon background, unhinged and uncontrolled outside the confines of their canon clay pot into the wild and vast space that is outside canon. what yall want are the seeds, the roots, the essence of the characters as you know them but the characters are growing indefinitely and uncontrollably by their own volition at this point and all you can do is watch then grow and like. cut some parts of the plant that you dont like. but you cant make the existing plant look like its roots.

#homestuck #upd8 #homestuck epilogue #meat vs candy #andrew hussie #artsy stfu #unpopular opinion #probably #i know most of my followers arent even homestuck but i had to get this off my chest #and this entire essay might not even make too much sense like im just ramblin man #tumblr mobiles readmore broke brb