Hey there

just a bi girl trying to get by

[vixvigil]

adulthood is like dog training but you are both the dog and the trainer and also it doesn’t work and is bad

[blue-quail]

hi

its been a minute.... hi!

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Hot take but the nonsensical portrayal of the third world being entirely made of absolute destitution is an important propaganda element that keeps workers in the first world (Particularly the USA) complacent with a lifestyle that will literally kill them. 

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This rice farmer survives on $2 a year! Think about how much they must be suffering! Now get back to your third job stocking shelves so you can pay the $1,500 rent for your studio apartment and eat your 25¢ ramen packet like a good little wage-slave. 

[hug-your-face]

The question that we should be working to inject into such conversations is not “my god how can those people survive on so little” but rather “why does our own survival require so MUCH?”

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is an excellent framing - and there is an answer. 

When average people have their needs met - they are no longer desperate for basic survival. Comfortable workers have the most energy to challenge the hegemony and organize their community, thus material security and comfort is a direct antagonist to capitalism. 

In a society that has an abundance of resources, desperation must be artificially created through material barriers (needing a smartphone for work, etc) and increasing sources of debt obligation. (Rent, student loans, etc.) 

In other words - we do not require so much, rather new requirements are perpetually created to keep the proverbial carrot just out of reach and the stick chasing our tail. 

This is also why public activities are discouraged in favour of individual distraction. The loss of parks where people may meet without payment. The lack of folk schools which might foster skills in the community. The lack of workshops where people might engage in non-industrial manufacturing. 

And for clarity I do not condemn entertainment as frivolous when I say distraction. That we do not have public (as in “a free community space”) theatres and arcades, is another way to deprive a community of social bonding opportunities. 

[caecilius-est-pater]

We shouldn’t understate the importance of the racial and eurocentric aspect to this either. Part of the reason why the propaganda works in the first place is the implicit (and sometimes explicit) cultural belief that white western society is inherently superior and “more advanced” so anything different is automatically worse.

You’re conditioned not to look at the rice farmer and go “their life is very different to mine, but it looks like a good life and I wish mine was good too”, you’re conditioned to go “their life is very different to mine, so therefore they must be suffering and wish their life was more like mine”

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is another wonderful addition to my post. As someone who is mixed race I would not have thought about that aspect. (In the sense that I’ve grown up with a great deal of multicultural exposure.) 

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

ursula k le guin was right

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

all of it, more or less

[drfaustus]

christopher marlowe wrote plays 400 years ago and they went on to give me massive brain rot

[drfaustus]

literally how was i supposed to read this and be normal about it

[skywalkerapologist]

[thebibliosphere]

Things I had never considered about Alderaan’s destruction until this very moment: this Things I was not prepared to start bawling over at midnight: also this, holy shit

[wdtwydyqgmzm]

ε≡٩(๑>₃<)۶ naruto run！

[sarahmargs]

a leia comic about loss.

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

The fact that we never get to see Leia truly grieve, even in the comic mini series they did for her (which was honestly kind of awful) shows that they never intended to make her real. Luke gets to grieve more fo Obi Wan than Leia does for her whole planet.

[blue-quail]

Your prowess with a lightsaber is childish vanity. Your physcial Force powers are no more that a conjuror’s trick, sleight of hand to dazzle the ordinary beings you should be serving. Your profane these powers by using them as weapons of war. And you fail to grasp the single, simple, uncompromising duty of the true Jedi. The Jedi is the rock-lion at the gate who says, “I will defend these beings with my life, and that is the sum of me.” Etain Tur-Mukan died to save one life, a man she did not even know, but felt compelled to save, and that is what made her strong in the Force and a truer Jedi than any of you acrobats, tricksters, and specious, empty philosophers.

Kina Ha, A Kaminoan Jedi Knight; unsure of her exact age, but at least a thousand years old in the novel Republic Commando: 501st

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[blue-quail]

im back!!

finally got back into my account. said I missed posting live with the bad batch running !

[blue-quail]

hi everyone

been a while lol.... back on my tcw shit finishing a complete rewatch of all the seasons

cried like a baby when ahsoka left the order again so nothings changed lmao

[lornaka]

I Am One with the Force and the Force Is With Me. 

[cranity]

I’m sorry kid.

[hollyoakhill]

the clone wars finale has me feel so many emotions, so i’ve been doodling the cast a little bit. (also trying to figure out how the heck the clone’s facial structure works)

[galacticproblems]

Drawing this man again 

[matsumotoart]

“Welcome back… Commander.” Really excited to share this illustration I recently did in anticipation for the return of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” with its final season.

Be sure to follow me on Instagram & Twitter @Matsumoto_Art ! I truly appreciate everybody’s support and hope you enjoy this!🙏

[yeehawfruit]

hello :) i’m back