an act of love that has no endpoint,

like an arrow slung senselessly into the dark. // prev jade-ellsworth. carolyn; lesbian; 25; she/her; chinese-american.

[augerer]

jade-ellsworth -> augerer

[sable-pigeon]

._. (x)

[augerer]

its always tortured navelgazing posts about living in the imperial core. . . it's never "how lucky i am to be forging myself into a dagger within the heart of empire!" "i can't believe it! i was dropped like a trojan horse within the seat of power i seek to destroy!" "day by day i tend to my movement like a cancer within my enemy's belly" . . . its like no one even cares about my dagger life #mydaggerlife and my communist struggle #mycommuniststruggle

[augerer]

belated 🍓 lol

even more belated response. . . kaia i miss yapping with you!! i want to be in the yuri mines with you again one day our conversations are always so generative and fill me with such excitement. i really appreciate the the attention and time which you devoted to analyzing stuff with me. . . always gave me the sense that we were like wizards vibrating on the same discourse dimension. and there is nothing more wonderful than encountering another noble warrior in the field of sicko women studies <3. i hope you are doing well and i wish i knew more about what you are up to!

[augerer]

🍓 :)

girderednerve!! I think everyone else has also said this but i LOVE your fixation on industrial dust disease. it's so charming to me and there is nothing more noble to be obsessed with than people's working conditions <3. always makes me smile when you make your posts that are like Here is how silicosis can become relevant to omegaverse hockey rpf or whatever. i always find you at once discerning but also nonjudgmental in a principled way which i appreciate and respect as a hater. love your posts where you puzzle your way through the most ethical way to live your life you are so thoughtful and generous and observant!

[augerer]

i think there is some use in evaluating the repression of trans people and the repression of immigrants as having some similarities in that both gender and citizenship denote social classes through which there exists an institutionalized relationship of extraction. by which i mean the existence of a system dividing people into genders allows men as a social class to extract materially from women, and similarly the existence of a global system that limits people's movement and ties their living conditions to the status of the state to which they have citizenship (being stateless definitely not excluded from this paradigm) enables people from imperialist countries to extract materially from those in colonized countries. to say this in a different way, the existence of social classes implies the policing of the membership within those classes with violence. and the reactionary sentiment against both trans people and immigrants for daring to cross those boundaries/borders serves to uphold the naturalness and essentialism of the social system as it currently exists.

there are definite limitations to this comparison though--for instance, when people from imperialist countries immigrate to colonized locations, they often hold a privileged expat status and are able to leverage the strength of their home currency to live a higher quality of life in their new home. we do not see this effect for trans women.

[twotheleft]

[jeanritchie]

now what were your great-grandfathers' jobs. that's more interesting. mine were a factory worker / industrial baker, a security guard, a lawyer, and a dairy farmer.

[sakizremade]

@mutuals send me a 🍓 and ill compliment u!

[termagax]

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

[augerer]

the addiction that some tumblrinas have to telling on themselves is crazy. . .

[augerer]

just occurred to me how funny and on the nose it is for kaiser permanente to be called that. . . perfect cyberpunk evil corporation name for the i <3 underpaying nurses healthcare consortium

[parkchanwoohoo]

[website-enjoyer]

— jose maria sison, philippine society and revolution

[augerer]

My tea setup as requested by @meikuree! This is for gongfu style tea.

Photo 1: Glass fairness cup, tea scoop (my newest addition I just bought this in Taipei!), and tea set with an egg case design on a tea board (little holes in the board to drain spilled tea).

Photo 2: Once you remove the top of the tea set from the bottom, you see there are two cups inside! Each cup has a little grasshopper on it (appropriate for being inside the egg case). Also a tea canister with a bamboo design.

Photo 3: Floral tea set, each cup has a little boat shaped saucer.

Photo 4: Larger floral tea canister, plus 6 individually wrapped puerh teas I also just bought in Taipei, each one has a different flavor like sticky rice or tangerine peel! You could pick out 6 for 50 NTD (around $1.50 USD). Not sure if they will be any good but I thought it was so cute, they look just like candies. Got confused when paying and thought it was 50 NTD per tea, then joked with the shop lady if she was shocked at how easy I would have been to cheat. And she said yes haha.

I've been collecting teaware since around 2019. The grasshopper set is from the national art museum of china and the floral one is from the national palace museum in taipei. Other items I want to add to my setup would be a tea pet, some more tea tools such as a puerh pick, a yixing teapot, a gaiwan, and a larger japanese style teapot with a filter for my japanese teas. . . Maybe I should get into matcha someday. Thanks to anyone who has read up to this point for indulging me!

[cihuiwugao]

To the revolutionaries

[littlegreen]

something else that’s awesome about buffy to me is that joss whedon and the 1990s clearly hate bisexual people but most of the characters are so crazy bisexual that they’re powering through regardless