It's not your job to negotiate your worth to anyone.
Most people don’t even know their own worth. Don’t let them project that onto you.
No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD
Walks up to a guy working on restoring a native tree species to his downtown "why aren't you posting about grasses in Turkmenistan!"
The internet has taken a whole generation of bright, motivated, passionate young people who care and have big hearts and turned them into paralyzed, shattered wrecks too crushed by the weight of the world's pain to hand a pair of socks to a person in need
The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"
and
"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"
i think the tags are important
"your fave ship is problematic" yeah, I want to make it worse
"that character is irredeemable" that's why I love them
"how can you even write that" watch me
you ever find a piece of clothing and feel like you just stumbled upon an essential bit of your character design
(Tw for brief non descriptive mention of emergencies)
I want to talk about technology and why it is SO vital to have charging stations / outlets available in public spaces.
A lot of disabled people could need acsess to an outlet on short notice, including myself.
If my AAC device and my phone both die, I have zero way to communicate besides writing things down (which is not only frustrating and difficult for me, but most people can't read my hand writing anyway, so it wouldn't be effective at all.). I would have no way to tell people if I need help, if I am lost, if I am hurt, to explain that I am autistic, etc. Depending on the situation, this could potentially turn very dangerous very fast.
This also applies to people who use a powerchair or another non-manual mobility aid that is powered via a charger. If their mobility aid dies, how can they get out in case of an emergency? Or even in a non emergency?
And more.
Accessibility is SO MUCH MORE than just a ramp or an elevator. A place is not fully accessible unless it takes all disabled people into account.
Nondisabled people rely heavily on technology nowadays anyway, so having charging stations can benifit everyone.
When I'm home, I almost always have something that I need to charge. I try to put it off sometimes if it isn't super necessary due to environmental reasons, but I need to almost always. I need my AAC to communicate. I need my phone to communicate and to use my coping skills. I *need* technology.
I agree with everything but calling it “just a ramp or an elevator” is so fucked. if your AAC dies, you can’t communicate, thats horrible and stressful for you. if theres a fire in a building without a ramp or an elevator, physically disabled people WILL FUCKING DIE. Even if a place isnt “fully” accessible because it doesnt have an outlet or whatever, its still really fucking important for disabled people to even be able to GET IN AND OUT OF THE BUILDING. Its not “just a ramp or an elevator” its not “just” anything. its our fucking lives
“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.”
— Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia
Consider Helen. Oh, she was a package. She had all the men of Greece in love with her, fled to Troy, charmed everyone there too. It was partly her beauty, partly her accurate private mind. Homer doesn't bother describing her beauty but he gives us a close-up of her mind. It was one of those long afternoons of the war. Homer cuts away from the battlefield to everything quiet in Helen's chamber and tells us she was:
in her chamber weaving a great cloth doublefolded and red and she sprinkled into it the many contests of horsetaming Trojans and bronzeclad Achaians which for her sake they were suffering at the hands of Ares. (Homer, Iliad 3.126-29)
Of course all the women in Homer weave, it is the quintessential female work—because a household needs cloth. Because the designs of women are as tangled and purposeful as webs. Because of that skein in the belly. Yet Helen's weaving is special—double and red and weirdly now. Since antiquity critics have admitted this reciprocal paraphrase of Helen and Homer. They are both in their different ways deeply unfree, deeply wily, makers of marks. Into his telling hers is "sprinkled"—funny verb, like salt or seeds—in a sort of infinite regress of candor. She is not just another object taken up and used by a man for the sake of his art, she glances out.
Anne Carson · “Candor, Double 2.” Float (2016)
i hate you shein. i hate you wish. i hate you temu. i hate you aliexpress. i hate you fast fashion. i hate you consumerism. i hate you planned obsolescence. i hate you plastics.
it's crazy that people can consume the same media yet come away with vastly different & wrong opinions. not me though because i'm always right
At some point in my life I need to write an essay or make a slideshow or SOMETHING about how well the Lightning Thief musical understands its characters and the thesis of the Percy Jackson series. Like. Percy’s resentment of his father, ALL of Luke’s lines before his Good Kid Reprise that, if you already know his story, show how he feels about it SO WELL, MY GRAND PLANNNNN I will never be over how well Annabeth is written in this musical. Also how extremely early-two-thousands the music sounds is just Perfect, it provides the exact correct vibes and, for lack of a better term, historical context, and it’s Kinda Cringe and I LOVE IT FOR THAT. Also OH MY GOD CLARISSE. Another character whose dialogue and song lyrics provide so much depth to her character (who was already amazing in the books it just took more time to introduce those sides of her) also Put You In Your Place is a BANGER.
there’s not necessarily an age limit to Narnia, besties, it’s about how you can serve Narnia and how Narnia can serve you within your own story.
on loneliness
susan sontag as consciousness is harnessed to flesh: diaries (via @saccharineguilt) \\ hélène delmaire \\ olivia laing the lonely city \\ david molina-molina object / mirror \\ sophocles (tr. anne carson) (via @mortisha) \\ hélène delmaire \\ banana yoshimoto amrita (via @propertiesofjoy)
downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because
followed by
is such a funny sequence
i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE
I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd
No, y'all don't even understand.
There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.
That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop
Yall don't know how much I adore all of this
“Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they’ll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I’d just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.”
— Douglas Coupland, Generation X
the ocean as a metaphor ALWAYS slaps. the ocean as a hungry force that wants to consume you? the ocean as something vast and unknowable, like a god itself? the ocean as freedom and liberation? the ocean as the mysteries of the self? the ocean as love? never fails to get me