saw another trans person in public +60HP +500EXP
Not knowing that you have a villain inside you, a hero, and a bystander is a lesson that everyone should learn.
What is the quote from Jingo, by Sir Terry Pratchett, to the effect of "when someone does something terrible, we want it to be one of Them, because if it isn't Them, then it is Us?"
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”
Jingo. 1997. Pratchett, Terry. NY, London, and Ankh-Morpork: Harper-Collins. p. 205
the funniest thing ever just happened to me
im changing my name purely bc i don’t like it and we just told my family like a month ago. i haven’t been home since then but today i got back and my (extremely country) uncle gives me a pat on the back and goes “so i hear you’re my nephew now. proud of you, son” and i have to very gently say i am so so happy to hear that but i am still his niece just with a cooler name. and he throws his hat down on the table and goes “no! but ive been practicing!” so now he is calling me his nephew for fun
thinking about how the romans regarded extremely muscular men as weak and effeminate because for whatever reason (demands of labor, eroticism of the flesh) they couldn't neglect their bodies enough to study learned tomes in cultivated leisure. We should bring that back
I'm joking ofc, but it deeply fascinates me that fascists like to gesture to marble busts of roman senators as the alpha male ideal because those romans would point at their gym bodies and call them a cinaedus. Same story for medievalist fash and their valorization of noble warrior knights, who were mostly doughy weirdos who lived to party and funded partying with the odd highway robbery or kidnapping
The American bourgeois masculine ideal revolves around self-investment in a way that would not make sense in most historical cultures or places. Indifferent to nature or beauty, hostile to both when they exceed his control. The ideal is a man who makes a million dollars a year and spends it all on a body he regards as weak, a house he regards as too small, a collection of utility-toys he never uses (guns, cars, etc). He has no emotional attachments to anything, and no one depends on him. He might fuck out a few kids but their job is to surpass and kill him. Bleak, dismal life. It's little wonder that the people whose ideological task is to defend this absurd ideal from its imagined enemies have to resort to bricolage from alien masculinities, barely understood and even less sincerely appreciated
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
- part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
bat opens up their little bat wallet to find they are all out of moths. A worthless $100 bill flies out for emphasis
From top-of-frame, a month flutters into the wallet. Confused, the bat looks "up" to see an equally-confused human standing "above" her, holding an open wallet containing a single $100 bill.
Camera rotates to reveal bat has been hanging upside down above a human doing the exact same visual gag and each ruined the other's bit.
Laugh track.
“Karl Marx is most famous as a critic of capitalism, but at the heart of his critique can be found a desperate plea for the transformation of work. People, he argues, express themselves and create the world through creative and collective activity. This natural tendency is twisted into something unrecognisable in work under capitalism. He didn’t just think work around him was bad because it took place in noisy and dangerous conditions, or for low wages and long hours. The problem of work was a fundamental one: under capitalism, work takes something human and turns it into something monstrous. The forces of capital become ravenous, eating up all that is human, sucking on the very lifeblood of society.”
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Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
(via probablyasocialecologist)
tumblrina achievements:
my blog, my rules: block people (1/50/100/250/500/1000/2000/3000/4000/5000)
love em and leave em: block 50 mutuals
urban legends: recieve an anonymous ask regarding tumblr users amegaotaku or rekka007
sharing is caring: tag people in 100 posts
personal vendetta: be listed by name on someone's dni
making it big: recieve your first callout
friend...: have a tag dedicated to you by a mutual
...or foe: have a tag dedicated to you by someone who hates you
blue string of fate: stay mutuals with someone through 5 different remakes
quickdraw: block someone in the middle of reblogging your post
s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936
This is a really poignant illustration of the seductive nature of glorifying war but that is a LOOK and she is SERVING it
I've seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I've seen yet. An old seductress saying "hey kid, don't you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn't give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?" This goes hard as fuck.
breaking: lil nas x to rebrand as lil nas twitter
