not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth
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positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream
Been a moment since I saw this. Glad it’s back on my dash when I needed it.
I'm sorry but Americans are simply not the weird ones here for taking basic safety precautions before operating a piece of mechanical equipment!
See the difference is that outside of the US people don't need to worry about helmets because the roads and streets are actually safe
ASPHALT IS ASPHALT AND CONCRETE IS CONCRETE
Ways to Live in Direct Opposition to Capitalism
I am by no means an expert in any of these things I’m gonna talk about, so keep that in mind! I am just making a compilation of things I know of that we can do to lessen the stranglehold the capitalist lifestyle has on us while enriching our lives, our surroundings, and the lives of others. Please add anything I miss or correct anything I may be getting wrong! Anyway here goes!
- Use what you have, fix what’s you can, make what you can, accept from others, thrift what you can, and finally purchase as a last resort.
- This is advice I have seen float around here a couple of times that can apply to a lot of things including clothing, furniture, food, and more besides. It’s meant to be done roughly in that order as it applies to what you’re wanting/needing/doing. It’s about preventing waste, promoting self-capability, having a heightened reliance on your community, and consciously rejecting the ingrained habit many of us have to just purchase things or services.
- Here’s where you can read about growing an indoor garden!
- Here’s where you can read about sewing things yourself!
- Here’s an online site for giving and receiving items for free!
- Here is where you can find a local Mutual Aid to get things from, learn skills from, give do, volunteer for, etc. (in the U.S.)
- Be politically active! (from a U.S. perspective)
- Vote for every election. Know your representatives and those who will be competing in the next election. Vote without ignorance and without falling for unfounded claims. While operating within the system that actively oppresses us will not bring about the future we want, it can serve as damage control (preventing worse candidates from taking office) and it can potentially create a national atmosphere more open to change.
- Here’s a good article about getting more involved in the U.S. political process.
- Here’s a site that will show you how to register to vote, when and where elections are held, and more!
- Here’s good advice on finding protests in your city!
- Here’s some readings on unionizing! It’s your legal right to unionize!
- Here’s a more user friendly site for learning about unions!
- Be active within your community!
- Developing strong, motivated, capable, knowledgeable, and inclusive communities is the ultimate way to combat the relentless and bleak present and future. When you’ve worked on the things above and have gotten good at it (or even if you haven’t gotten good at it yet), start spreading what you know and what you can do with others!
- Give your neighbors, coworkers, and friends some of the vegetables you’ve grown.
- Invite your community members to volunteer events.
- Talk to folks about how to vote, when you’re doing it, etc.
- Take part in Mutual Aids to teach what you’ve learned or whatever you may be an expert in! Invite neighbors, friends, and coworkers when you take part in the Mutual Aid!
- Accept your community. Take them for who and what they are. Discrimination is the enemy of cooperation. You have much more in common with everyone in your community than a single billionaire or corporation. We’re all passengers on this spaceship earth.
- Do it one step at a time!
- Obviously we can’t do all of these things at once. Do what you can when you can, and you’ll start to notice real change in your life!
- Our online communities where we talk about our visions and hopes are fantastic, but they have little impact if we don’t actually get up and do the real work that change requires.
- Want to be better, and keep hope for the future!
- Harbor and nourish that desire to be a better person and to be the change you want to see in the world. You need to be hungry for a better future if you plan to make it through the rough times when everything feels pointless and without hope. Reach out to others when you’re down, and be someone others can lean on when their lives get hard.
That’s it! Please interact with this, spread it to others, and add your own thoughts and ideas! It’s important that we do the real work to get the change we crave!
Tma rant :D
An underrated part of Jon's character development through the season imo, is him learning to be himself.
In s1 he's the least himself because he's insecure about his position as head archivist, and he wants to look professional to his peers.
In s2 he becomes incredibly paranoid but he also starts to loosen up to Martin a little more, definitely after Martin confessed to lying in his cv.
In s3 Jon shows the most of himself when he's with Georgie, and right before the ritual of the unknowing when he's making his last statement on tape before they leave. He does however retreat back to "boss mode" more around the rest because they're not comfortable around him.
S4 is when Jon finally allows himself to accept his affection towards other people. He becomes very open about how much he cares for Martin, and he's willing to show way more vulnerability than before. He also creates a bond with Daisy after saving her from the coffin. Jon starts showing a very empathetic side of him while defending Daisy from Basira's remarks.
S5 is when Jon finally just completely drops the act and lets him be himself. Surprisingly, even though they're in the apocalypse, this is the season where Jon seems to be the most comfortable. He's got Martin, the one person he knows will always love him, so he doesn't need to be "professional" or "respectable" anymore. He can say I love you to Martin, he is okay with admitting he's upset, he makes jokes, sometimes he's annoying on purpose just because. The only time Jon hides behind his facade a little again, is when they're in the tunnels discussing what they're going to do because just for a short while, things go back to how they were before with people pointing fingers at him. All the lovey dovey stuff, the jokes and remarks and attitude, that's the real Jon. Compare him to how he was in s1 and they seem like two completely different people.
you're telling me a kentucky fried this chicken?
you telling me a philly cheesed this steak?
Not to sound like a terrifying communist or anything, but I think it's bad when we let people die from preventable causes.
its so so important to follow blogs that will put a bit of softcore porn on ur dash. it is not only tasteful but also a key part of the microbiome
my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said "not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling" and when jude perry said "as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god" and when mike crew said "falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight" and when manuela dominguez said "and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth" and when hezekiah wakely said "i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried." do you get me
me sketching this out after early access: This is a wholly unique and original concept. Nobody will think of this. I am funny and clever.
[Image description: a four-panel black-and-white comic of Jon and Martin standing in front of Jonah, floating as the pupil of a white eye. His monologue fills the background with white text.
Martin holds up the tape recorder and throws it at the eye. Jonah’s monologue cuts off with a lot “Hnrk” and he curls up.
Jon turns to smile at Martin as the Eye tears up. Jonah quietly says “Oh god, oh fuck.”
End image description]
ana mendieta “people looking at blood, moffit, iowa” 1973
“In this piece, Mendieta spilled a large amount of what appeared to be chunky blood over a doorway and sidewalk on an Iowa City street. Then she removed herself from the scene and, from a distance, photographed the reactions of various passersby. […] It intimates to passersby that a grievous and dramatic injury has taken place, but it gives no explanation and, more important, no recourse to action. It may incite horror, concern, compassion, and revulsion—in short, pity and fear—but it doesn’t offer anywhere for these feelings to go. […] Each pedestrian’s only real choice is to walk on by, which looks from the outside—and likely felt, on the inside—like an uncaring abandonment, even if of an indeterminate or imaginary entity. […] And somewhere out of sight lurks Mendieta, a voyeur of each passerby’s involuntary voyeurism. […] People Looking at Blood says, Look at this pile of carnage, with no clear story, source, assailant, or victim. Just look at it. Now look at others looking at it. (And I will be looking at you looking.)”
— The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson
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Ana Mendieta was murdered by her husband and fellow artist Carl Andre. This work became a self fulfilling prophecy and meditation on tragedy, the nature of violence, and peoples unwillingness to help.
And no I will not shut up about this.
By the way, her husband never went to prison for what he did.
But it’s NOT about unwillingness to help! It’s NOT about people not caring!! It’s so very explicitly the opposite!!!
I’ve BEEN in this situation. You walk past an old crime scene, or the place where an accident happened, and you see evidence of something terrible. If it’s old, maybe broken glass, or scuff marks.
But sometimes, you’re too late. Sometimes someone is on the ground, and EMTs are already helping, and the only helpful thing you can do you is move on, refuse to linger, refuse to form a crowd.
Sometimes there’s dried blood, or fresh blood, but when you look around you can’t find anyone hurt or needing help. Whatever happened, it has happened without you, and you can’t undo it or make it better. You could contact an authority, report what you’ve seen, but that’s just sharing information. It doesn’t FEEL like helping.
Humans are by nature incredibly compassionate creatures. What is more heartbreaking to an animal designed to bring comfort than a pain that cannot be comforted? A hurt that cannot be soothed?
You are confronted by this helplessness, and it looks you in the face and says, “It’s too late for you to fix this. You must move on, and hope that next time, you aren’t.” And then you do. You have to. There is no other choice.
Ana Mendieta’s piece is not condemning the observed- it’s mourning their directionless compassion, their grief, their uncertainty- their concern and hope offered to someone or something they will never know, never speak to, never be able to help.
It says that we love each other, that we care for one another, and that even if we are lost and no one ever finds us, we are cared for long after we are gone, and by people who never knew our names.
Our outrage at her death only proves this. Now that we know her life ended tragically, what will you do? What CAN you do? Nothing. You will observe the blood, experience something that cannot be captured on film, and move on.
“What CAN you do? Nothing. You will observe the blood, experience something that cannot be captured on film, and move on. “
Cleric: Why did you stay up so late?
Ranger, looking out the window, baggy eyed: There is no rest for the wicked…
Fighter: Cat videos. They stay up watching cat videos.
