BirchSoda

I am probably too old for this. My name is Jocelyn, and I follow all the Jocelyns I have found so far on Tumblr. I have found that people who use the term "SJW" to be untrustworthy, so if you use that term against people I will most likely block you.

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[mytearsrricochet]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Got asked about the valid issues the antiblack bigoted Greek mythology/Classics goofies have with the western gaze overtaking their stories, while still not agreeing with said bigotry. This is one reason I wanted us to read Mediocre; not only to get into the mindset of white American male supremacy, but of Whiteness as a whole.

Y'all got to understand that white supremacy is not sensible. It is self-consuming, deluded, cannibalistic, illogical. It's not real.

HOWEVER, anyone paying attention will tell you that it doesn't HAVE to make sense. All it needs to do is 1) convince its target demographics that it's real and 2) convince its target demographics to put in the necessary violence to MAKE it function. That's all!

It's not just white men who are feeling the ego burn of mediocrity. Whiteness as a whole cuts off its nose to spite its face. And yet, it's not willing to give up on itself, because to do would be admitting that there's nothing inherently superior, nothing more valuable, nothing that makes you more entitled. You don't live the life you do in a vacuum!

That's why you end up with white people who act against their own self interest in the long run while SWEARING that it's going to make things better. Not because it makes sense. But because to think otherwise would mean everything they've systemically bought into and become comfortable with... Is not reality.

To act in opposition would mean to expose oneself to the violence required to maintain the lie. You'd have to admit that you were an active part of the problem, part of the reason that you didn't have what you needed, all in exchange for proximity to power. And that's scary!

[creatingblackcharacters]

Btw if you were curious what this had to do with the bigots: hating and blaming Black people in your Greek mythology bc it's "inaccurate" works precisely in goal with the white, western takeover you claim is oppressing you. Nothing Whiteness bonds over more than hating and blaming Blackness 🤷🏾‍♀️ so now you're racist, incorrect, AND you don't have your stories! Are ya winning?

[nyokoko]

Don’t know what white or nonblack person of color needs to hear this but a Black woman speaking confidentially and assertively is not aggressive; it’s not bullying; and if you genuinely believe that every time a Black woman opens her mouth that she somehow wants to intimidate you with her existence that says more about your lack of a spine and weak sense of self than it does about me.

Find a backbone that connects your brain and ass, preferably not one made of wet tissue paper, and stand the fuck up.

[bandydear]

I don’t care how cringe/problematic that person is, if you obsessively follow their activity on/offline when they just want to be left alone you are the problem. You are a stalker.

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[forepop]

my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.

me: i would just give it to you.

my dad:

[androfembot]

in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.

anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.

kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually

[sonnetscrewdriver]

endlessly, morbidly fascinated by how when you're a kid you're constantly having parents, school, religion, media, all drumming it into your head that Sharing Is Good And You Need To Do It, and then you grow up and suddenly they're all like right never mind all that, this is The Real World and it's every bastard for himself

[kawareo]

Tumblr is like our elderly dog and when she makes an especially scary cough we apparently think "oh god it's the big one"

[kawareo]

Grief is a spectrum as you can see

[kawareo]

Our shit dog is alive and we love her

[bebsi-cola]

the countermeasure to dehumanisation is not sexualisation. the countermeasure is to treat the other person with respect and dignity actually.

[bebsi-cola]

i don't care if you wanna fuck fat people or hairy people or trans people or the elderly or disabled people or whatever. can you treat them like human beings

[nyokoko]

Stop confusing sexual attraction and objectification with allyship challenge!

[in4newz]

[chubbychiquita]

i know a lot of you are hardcore "obesity is going to kill you" truthers, and im not gonna convince u otherwise, but i hope u know that medical neglect bc doctors refuse to consider anything other than our weight is a real contributor to our poor outcomes

[liberalsarecool]

Same woman called a mosque and they were ready to help her immediately.

Same with Buddhist temple. Willing to help immediately.

[liberalsarecool]

The misogyny and classism is the feature, not the bug.

[displaceholder]

Someone just recently tried this in the UK and apparently it was even worse. Like she got laughed at or told not to call anymore by some of the churches. And once again, the mosques offered to help.

I hope some folks in other Western countries, especially ones where we're seeing a rise of Christian nationalism and/or a rise of Islamophobia try this too. I'm very curious to see how that would pan out.

[catsofyore]

Spicy blend. 🫖 Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

[pocket-deer-belly]

"misandry is real it's just not institutional/systemic" is such a funny statement to me. like misogyny is a systemic force of patriarchy. it's a described Thing, and you can point at obvious evidence such as wage gaps, history & law, rape/sexual assault statistics and a whole lot of other stuff. misandry is when women are mean to me on the internet

[pocket-deer-belly]

if it is not a systemic force you can point at examples for then it functionally does not exist for the sake of feminist discourse. you have named a thing that isn't a problem and doesn't need us to take action

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[tiny-kt]

this for real fucking works

[scroll-of-thought]

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

[trashcangimmick]

[ispyspookymansion]

yes carrie killed over 400 people ok. thats bad i know. but have you considered that i feel really bad for her :(

[d0gb0yy]

carrie deserved to kill 400 ppl as a treat

[breya-etherium-shaper]

[madseance]

That's because he didn't write, nor intend to write, a horrible terrible disturbed woman beyond redemption. The genesis of Carrie (told in its entirety in the 1999 edition's introduction that you can read here, and in King's memoir On Writing), was this: sometime in high school, King read an article in Life magazine about supposed poltergeist activity in a home, which seemed to be associated with the teenage girl who lived there. The article included the hypothesis that poltergeist activity is, in some way, tapped into or manifested by girls at that critical and tumultuous age.

And some years before that, King had gone to school with a couple of girls he pseudonymously calls Tina and Sandra, who were bullied and shunned by the other kids—Tina for wearing the same clothes every day, Sandra for her epilepsy and extremely religious mother, but both really for having some undefinable Other quality that kids pick up on like blood in the water. Both of them were dead by the time King began writing Carrie: Tina by suicide, Sandra from her epilepsy.

Carrie was what King imagined might have happened if that explanation of poltergeist activity were correct, and if Tina and Sandra had been able to tap into such an energy. He started writing the story a few years after getting married (his wife Tabitha is also a writer), but abandoned the idea a few pages in; the raw, merciless adolescent cruelty the story called for was too much to deal with, and what did he know about teenage girls, anyway? But Tabitha dug the pages out of the trash and read them, and convinced him it was a story that needed telling.

Carrie is a story which, perhaps like poltergeist activity, could only happen to a girl on the brink of womanhood, when every emotion and sensation is excruciatingly vivid and nothing makes sense anymore and every single occurrence in your life is the most important thing that will ever happen to you. It's about being horribly powerful and vulnerable at the same time, and alienated from your own body. It's about the visceral, starved animal fear and rage of being a teenage girl, and it goes to show what an arcane and powerful craft creative writing is that a man could manage to capture that without having experienced it firsthand.

"Sometimes—quite often, in fact—I wish that Tina and Sandy were alive to read it," King says in the 1999 introduction to Carrie. "Or their daughters."

[headspace-hotel]

Yeah, if you read the man's own words she was clearly intended to be sympathetic and human