love is art

abi | 21 | lesbian | 11.1.15

[geckospot-deactivated20220107]

planting trees together is romantic

[neon-ghxsts]

I want to road trip and watch sunsets and get drunk on the beach

[sirfrogsworth]

Note: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated Cum Laude from Boston University. 

[freelancer-stormscorpion]

Wasn’t she working as a bar tender before she got elected?

[sirfrogsworth]

Folks on the right always seem very concerned that AOC was a bartender. They ignore her prestigious education and the fact that she graduated with distinction. They ignore that she has relevant degrees. And they ignore that she worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute gaining relevant experience in activism.

I’ve also noticed that conservatives constantly complain about “elites.” They propped up “Joe Six Pack” because they felt too many lawmakers were out of touch and they wanted people who understood the common folk. Blue collar workers are the heart and soul of America, right? 

Did you know that nearly half of congress is filled with lawyers? And the rest are mostly businessmen. What do lawyers know about my life? What do lawyers know about struggling to pay bills? What do lawyers know about what it’s like to hold a low wage job? How are they supposed to represent me and my needs?

Do you know why AOC worked as a bartender? Her father died and her mother’s jobs as a house cleaner and bus driver were not enough to fight foreclosure. So Alexandria put her career ambitions on hold and got a job as a bartender to help her mom. Conservatives are all about “family values” right? AOC valued her family so much that she worked a grueling job out of love for her mom. 

And you want to trivialize that?  

AOC knows my struggle more than Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. I have confidence that AOC will represent me and my family’s needs more so than any lawyer or businessman who is just looking to enrich themselves. 

Maybe we need a few more bartenders and a few less lawyers. 

[cydonian-mystery]

Republicans: “Work hard and get a better job, snowflake” AOC: *works hard and gets a better job* Republicans: “N-No, not like that”

[finalgirlguy]

Strolling aimlessly in a bookshop is selfcare

[moviesludge]

[wisdomthewise]

Maybe this take is too hot for some of you but trans actors deserve to also be considered for non trans roles

[faeparrish]

please sign this petition to protect the protesters responsible for taking down the statue of a slave trader in Bristol from prosecution

[blackfemmelove]

i love trans women so much and i’m so proud and happy you’re part of my community. you are all my sisters and i am blessed and grateful for your existence every day. everything i post always includes you and i keep you all in my heart always.

[sedraboc]

[lovelysuggestions]

i might not be great with words, but when i look at you, my day's better. that's how i know i love you.

[purbl-princess-deactivated20220]

[riv-kai]

It’s Pride month, and we can’t talk about LGBTQ+ rights without owing the entire foundation of Pride to Black LGBTQ+ community members who stood up first. You may have heard how Martha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, was central to the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, but she wasn’t alone. Our Black community members fought back against an aggressive police raid of Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ safe haven in NYC. This is not new, and it’s not enough to only say Black Lives Matter. If you believe no one should be endlessly persecuted and afraid due to their very existence, speak up. Beyond donating and signing petitions on the NAACP, BLM, and local websites dedicated to Black activism, there are so many ways to take action: You can start from within your personal community, breaking down racism you see in everyday speech. You can demand law enforcement to cease their militarized aggression immediately, particularly how they target Black people no matter who they are as individual HUMAN BEINGS. You can educate yourself on how to be anti-racist, because avoiding being actively racist isn’t enough. If you are white, don’t make the conversation about yourself when you talk about racism, instead you can listen to others’ personal experiences. Have a private conversation with yourself about how you are contributing to racism and how that can change. Change starts from within you. You don’t have to announce the ways you’re racist. Instead, going forward, change the ways you have stayed silent while our fellow humans are suffering just for existing. Ask yourself questions. Find out why your response to “Black Lives Matter” is “All Lives Matter,” which is usually an avoidance technique — what makes it so difficult for you to say the words BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. and what can you do to change that conflict within yourself? It’s okay to be awkward or uncomfortable, as long as we put in the effort — especially as members of the LGBTQ+ community because the effort has already been put in for us. Racism is a GLOBAL problem, not just the USA. No one is exempt from change. If you believe everyone’s lives are worth living and matter, make it known. #blacklivesmatter

[katerinapetrova]

to all my black friends, mutuals and followers on here:

[daily-goose-the-cat]

Follow to see the same picture of Goose the cat everyday

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[violetcancerian]

Might fuck around and do something stupid some writing

[saltyshoes]