It’s late so I have no real positive inkling about how coherent this will be.
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts engaging with the concept of “don’t look away, bare witness” and how anyone looking away by not reblogging or engaging is privileged and therefore a bad person. I reject this premise wholeheartedly for one very critical reason: the world will not get better if the only emotions we have are anger, exhaustion and trauma. None of those truly lead to anything productive in the long run.
This is not to say don’t engage with different perspectives, unlearn things or simply sit in the uncomfortable nature that comes from our global society. But learn to take breaks.
There is massive difference between “looking away” and “hitting pause”. It needs to be more acceptable on the internet to hit pause. To seek joy, to sleep and wake up rested. There is also the fact that our brains are not able to process the 24/7 news cycle - if we try, we end up making the nuanced into simple paradigms.
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The thing about racism is that it’s so deeply rooted that even the most mundane ridiculous things can be racially coded. And what pisses me off is that when one aspect is proven after so much pushback and degradation from white ppl, the next aspect will receive that same amount of vitriol. Not a single “hmm. Maybe if I was wrong before due to lack of cultural context I could be wrong again. Due to lack of cultural context.” Like it took years for y’all to realize long nails are associated with black and Hispanic ppl but NOW we’re doing too much by “gatekeeping” gold jewelry? Ok man just suck my dick atp
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I think I’m having a stroke. This fanfic makes just enough sense that I’m following along, but it’s cantered off a bit to the left and I’m left questioning my sanity with every sentence.
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man h*rmes really just. did not have the tools to help m*teion properly process all that despair. and how could he! no one else had them (the flowers were always white!). but he cared about her. and he wanted her to go out and learn how to deal with despair and more (in the course of your long journey you will learn from those you meet. learn to walk and run and so much more). and it’s just so sad to me. if he knew how to handle his own despair, if he knew that everyone had to find their own reason for living, he wouldn’t have needed to send her out in the first place.
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But anywaysss my new years resolutions for 2024 are
•To master human anatomy (2nd year in a row😭)
•get a scholarship (full ride, stretched but good to hope.)
•do sims renders (ik how to do them but I’m a big procrastinator.)
•Make one god damn real life friend before I graduate🧍🏾♂️
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Nine people you’d like to get to know better.
I was tagged by @erisenyo :).
3 Ships: Klaine (Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, Glee), Zukka (Zuko and Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender), Romitri (Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov, Vampire Academy).
1st Ship: Probably Ron and Hermione.
Most Recent Song: Walk Of Shame by Darren Criss.
Most Recent Film: Twilight.
Currently Reading: I recently re-read the Vampire Academy Series. Before that, I read Jurassic Park, which is v different from that Jurassic Park film, and is extremely gorey, and is totally awesome, and I love that.
Currently Watching: I’m always rewatching Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Fun Fact: I watched at least 1 episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer every weekday for about 8 years, give or take, sometimes more, sometimes missing a day, or a few, and I’d watch that before I got ready for school, among other times.
Currently Consuming: Chips and a Burger.
Currently Craving: THE BEACH, as always, lol.
Tagging: @octopodeez , @youremyonlyhope , @ssreeder , @eroticlizardfiction , @a-force-dyad-in-space , @animalconference , @the-apples-were-monitored , @compellingcas , @slaymaster-general .
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a message, hi, hello, to the predominantly white estadounidense community on tumblr: I hope it depresses you to be American. I hope you are realizing how much blood we have on our hands. Decades and generations of it. I don’t want it to make you hopeless and helpless and victimized I want it to make you ashamed and devastated and motivated to do something. Your tax money pays for weapons that kill children overseas and if you got a minimum wage job here you couldn’t afford to live between paychecks. What a shit fucking country. Are we supposed to accept this? Is this how you want to live in ten or twenty or thirty years from now? Do you want to continue to shoulder the responsibility of our great acts of “justice” and “mercy” and “intervention” on the countless souls who don’t even live in our borders? What can your own soul live with? Don’t we owe it to humanity to at least feel the gulf of guilt we’ve made for ourselves?
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