I have now decided that I am identifying as a cis woman, so as to exempt myself from transmisogyny and transphobia as a whole.
Do you think anybody’s listening?
I do. Someone’s out there.
Rogue One and A New Hope are the two, truly, stand-alone Star Wars films.
Rogue One is my favorite, and Rogue One is the one best used to look at for Death Anxiety.
I’ve touched on it a little before, and for anyone who doesn’t already know: the entire main cast dies. They all face it. They all know it is happening. You watch their experience and decisions as they accept it, even the droid, who is not depicted in the gifset here.
At the end of the film, it was exactly what I wanted: the main cast died.
I’m not going to get huge into Star Wars, but I want to show here that in this film – there are no Force Ghosts. There is no reaching beyond to speak to others after death. There is only death, and the hope that their mission was successful. They did everything they could to better the galaxy, and greet death with this knowledge in mind.
Jyn stares it down in a compelling moment, while holding Cassian for comfort.
But every single one of them goes to greet death, and has reached acceptance of it in the final moments – doing all that they could, fighting to the end, and hoping.
So why do I recommend Rogue One?
Of course, because it is, in my opinion, a Stand Alone film that doesn’t require knowledge of the other films.
Then, its treatment of death, and the main cast picking death because it benefits the galaxy. it’s hard to imagine, when we’re wrapped up in the fear of death, that there are things that may be more important than our fleeting lives. Most of us won’t have experiences like those of Rogue One.
Nonetheless, we should not forget the “bigger pictures”, and how life DOES still need life to continue on…life needs death. Death continues the recycling process of our world. We die so that others may live.
This is the natural order.
Even in the other films, and the series, extending life beyond is seen as a negative. One should die, and if they are lucky, their influence will live on – but no matter what, everyone becomes one again with the Force, which in this case, can be compared to the soil, to the Earth, because one is becoming one with the life-giving qualities of that universe. Most will not have a mind that carries over. They meld into the Force, and that is it, as we will one day return to the Earth, and to the Galaxy.
We are all stardust.
Unique tumblr experience is that if you’re here long enough you will inevitably be accused of making a Homestuck reference.
You give your OC a birthday and someone in the tags will be like “#I see you OP #July 12th? Same day as David Karpet’s first time loop death #I see what you did”
You reference blueberry pie in a post and it turns out that’s Vegeta Nupita’s username you spell a word funny and happen to nail Rose Landslide’s typing quirk you make some post that YOU think is incomprehensible like “don’t listen to them bro your muscles are huge and your hamster is GNC as fuck” and someone in the tags will be like “#OP you’re not slick #Homestuck” bro the HAMSTER?????
One time in 2015 I wrote a fanfiction and I needed a random date for the fic to happen on and by luck of the cards I chose 4/13 and I Janskjsjenbd doohhwhyhwsddfffff
The real meta is the half-dozen people in the notes accusing me of being a Homestuck purely on account of having made this post.
I can't even add to the joke I can't even add anything this is just 100% nail-on-the-head what I was parodying in the original post just turns out I need to try HARDER with the parody part because I accidentally perfectly distilled reality.
Absolutely hate when ppl don't wanna say "autistic" so they have that uncomfortable little pause before they say "... on the spectrum" instead
Autistic isn't like. A dirty word or something
He adores being vacuumed. As soon as I bring the vacuum out he will run up and lie next to me in anticipation of his spa day.
im addicted to astrology facebook. theyre nuts on there. they love phrenology as it relates to astrology. and sometimes people make just the most deranged graphics, like these
shout out to boys wearing bikini tops and lingerie bras over their post-op chests, y'all know what you're doing and I love it
Anonymous asked:
What the hell does " pro-veteran anti-military " mean?
sonnywortzik answered:
it means i can oppose war, american imperialism, the military industrial complex, and the cult of male violence without discounting the myriad factors that contribute to someone enlisting, including but not limited to millions of dollars spent annually to recruit children.
also means i’m disgusted with a culture that superficially venerates veterans for nationalist and capitalist purposes while simultaneously fucking them over re: housing and healthcare and suppressing veteran voices should their experience as a vet happen to inform anything resembling anti-military sentiment
This 👆👆
The majority of veterans join to pay for college
So, er – while the idea of ‘pro-veteran anti-military’ has some pretty big problems with it, I don’t necessarily wholly disagree with the idea that we should be mindful of the massive propaganda and recruitment machine that seeks to parasitically target the poor and vulnerable, use them for murder, and then discard them.
That having been said.
What’s the exchange rate these days? How many non-American lives is equivalent to one American’s college tuition fee?
Because these people are either murderers or people who directly lent material support to murderers, and the people they’re murdering are overwhelmingly civilians, so like. There is more than one uncomfortable question there that probably warrants answering.
And I ask this because I remember, quite vividly, this exact topic of pro-vet anti-military coming up once and an Iraqi asking that question, and proposing that actually there isn’t a number, because the whole idea of ‘veterans are blameless’ is predicated on distancing oneself from the victims, the idea that they aren’t killing people in the same way they would be if it was Americans (or British people, or Australians, etc etc) being killed. That, as he pointed out, people aren’t willing to even give the victims the dignity of being the victims.
If it was turned around, if your friends and family were killed, would you accept it if the killer said “I’m sorry, I knew what I was doing, I knew that I would be killing people, but I was young and stupid and I wanted a college degree,” ?
Some people can honestly say they would accept that and forgive, I do believe that. But even those, I think, would balk at the idea that the people in that killer’s home, who had never experienced that loss and never would, would unilaterally absolve them with a “Well, they did want a college degree.”
And because I Have More Things To Say From This, My Soapbox:
It’s easy to say “Yes, the blame for this lies with the government.” The government has no face, it has no feelings, you will never pass it on the street and it will never live in your home, it will never need your help. It’s even easier to say that when it’s absolutely, unequivocally true.
It’s a lot more difficult to say “And yes, this person still did things that are unforgivable. They chose to enter into an agreement where they would kill innocent people. They had their reasons, ones that seemed good to them at the time, but those reasons aren’t equal to the cost of an innocent life. They were manipulated, but they still did it knowingly. They have regrets, but a regretful murderer is still a murderer.” It’s a lot more difficult to say that about a human being, with emotions and needs and a face that you might see every day on the street, or that might be a friend or family member.
And it’s difficult to say that, and still acknowledge that they’re owed help and support, because even murderers have a right to medical care physical and psychiatric, the means to shelter and feed and clothe themselves, and everything else that we know veterans often end up not getting. To acknowledge that they’ve committed a crime, that they individually and specifically have victims, you also have to acknowledge that not only will they never be held accountable for it, but you may find yourself morally and ethically obligated to lend your support to their rights and happiness, the exact thing they destroyed for other people.
And in total fairness, I think that’s what a lot of people mean when they say ‘pro-vet anti-military.’ “I can’t countenance what they did, and maybe I can’t countenance them, but nevertheless I am obligated to support their wellbeing, because poverty and lack of medical care are not punishments for crimes.”
But it’s something that has to be acknowledged, or at least I think so. You can’t wipe away their crimes by saying they did it because they needed money, or needed to pay college tuition, or were young and stupid and thought the military would give them direction, or were old and stupid and fell for propaganda. You have to give their victims the dignity of being their victims.
Here’s something I wanna say real quick, while I’m feeling salty: Amazon has totally contributed to the devaluation of literature. Those prices you see, the $13 they’re asking you to pay for a hardcover book? Those are deep, DEEP discounts that they’re able to implement because they don’t collect sales tax if they can get away with it, they don’t contribute money to the communities where they have a physical presence, they have shitty labor practices, Jeff Bezos has more money than god, etc.
They’re so omnipotent at this point that they’ve normalized the discounted prices for books as the standard. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me and tell me what the price on Amazon is, expecting me to match it. The number of times I’ve been told, “Oh, it’s cheaper on Amazon, I’ll just get it there.” Even at author events, where book sales DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE to whether or not that bookstore will be able to get more authors in.
So when you go into a bookstore, and you’re asked to pay $27 for a hardcover, remember: THAT IS THE COVER PRICE. Set by the publishers. The bookstore is not upcharging you. They are asking you to pay the value of the book. Amazon’s low prices come with a cost. Please, just keep that in mind.
(I made a post with options for buying books online that aren’t Amazon. Check it out!)
This is a great post, and I just want to point out: publishers aren’t upcharging you either.
The cost of the book is the advance for the author, it’s the salaries for all the people who work on it (including editors, yes, but also designers and marketers and publicists and lawyers and accountants and everyone else who makes sure publishing works). It’s the cost of printing the books and the materials to print those books on and the warehouses to store those books in. It’s keeping the literal lights on.
No one in the book business, from the author to the publisher to the bookseller, is making themselves rich off your money. This is the cost to survive. Amazon is running at a deficit because they can make up the cost with other things they do, and because once they run everyone else out of business, they’ll be the only game in town and can charge whatever they damn well please.
And please, please do not ask a bookstore (especially an indie bookstore) if they “price match.” It’s so insulting.
Amazon routinely sells books at or *below* wholesale cost. Meaning that when you ask a bookstore to ‘price match’ Amazon, you’re literally asking them to give you the book for free, or even take a financial loss on it.
‘So how can Amazon do it?’ you ask? The answer is Amazon does not care about losing money. It sells goods at a loss continuously. (Don’t believe me? Just search “Amazon quarterly losses” and you can find article after article about this) Why? Because its goal isn’t to sell the most things, it’s goal is to be the only place where you CAN buy things. They gouge prices on goods to a point where brick and mortar retailers absolutely cannot compete and they do it with the singular goal of eliminating competition.
Things have value. They represent many people’s time and labor. For books, specifically, they represent tremendous cultural worth that extends far beyond the value of the paper they’re printed on. We have to appreciate the value of goods and be willing to pay a fair price that will support and nurture industries.
It’s ok to be upset that you can’t afford $26 for a new hardcover, but make sure that that anger is directed, not at the people whose labor makes books possible, but at the people on top (like Jeff Bezos) who have devalued your own labor such that you can’t afford it.
^^^ if anyone is wondering this is LITERALLY the exact same strategy that Walmart used to destroy any small business and fuck over local economies.
Might I suggest Indie Bound for those who still need the option of home delivery?
i almost never see any real positivity for butch/masc bi women because people can’t seem to stand the idea that bi women are capable of rejecting femininity while still claiming their womanhood and sexuality. so i’m sending huge love and positivity for butch/masc bi women who don’t feel welcome by straight people and people in their own community. huge love and positivity for every bi women whose identity has tried to been reduced to their “availability” to men. huge love and positivity to all the bi women who are interested in all the things that are traditionally considered masculine. huge love and positivity to butch and masc bi women, you are always welcome in my circle just the way you are.
and it bothers me that i even have to write this next part but yes bi women are absolutely allowed to identify as butch and if you want to clown on this post, take your nasty biphobic ass somewhere else and stop harassing bi women.
July 17, 2021. Los Angeles
Police shoot, beat, chase, and arrest anti-fascist counterprotestors yesterday. The counter-protestors began demonstrating outside a Proud Boy anti-trans rally at WiSpa. The police beat clearly marked press and shot either a rubber bullet or bean bag at a woman at point blank range. The police even got an AMBER alert sent out citywide as part of their suppression of the ant-fascist protest.
Police explicitly protect fascism and fascists.
Anonymous asked:
Oh hey happy Make Her Moan Monday 😈
transmechanicus answered:
🤔I’m unfamiliar with the festivities of this occasion, perhaps someone could provide an example? I’m a tactile learner btw!
Oh Jeff simply must hear abt this