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i hope adult!toph and adult!zuko have explored each other's bodies, if only for science, bc this is THEEEE hottest they've EVER looked:

beif0ngs

Toph getting caught midair by the boys 😏

tophashell

she’s their princess

silvermoon424

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

ohnoitstbskyen

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

midnights-dragon

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

watdapakoxreader

The timing of this post is actually insane. Spent the day watching years of family issues explode in real time, getting a surprise front-row seat to a confrontation, and generally feeling like my brain got put in a blender. Add in questionable math scores too, an emergency 7/11 trip, and the kind of day that makes you want to stare at a wall and probably cry for a bit. Well i did cry, fuck my life

Not to vaguepost, but if you had told me this morning that I’d end the day exhausted from both family drama and math, then find a post full of cat links, virtual hugs, funny videos, and little things to do when life gets too loud, I would’ve believed you immediately.

Seeing this right now feels oddly comforting. Thanks, Tumblr.

On my way to read smut

ervvinz

If obsessing over the slightly older trio instead of the main protagonists was a full time job I’d be rich

yayfeminism

One indication of the existence of oppression is the reduction of a group to a collective identity with definite desires or ways of being. In the oppressed situation, all subjects become reducible to a consistent symbolic identity. Identity overwhelms subjectivity in the oppressive viewpoint, which is why people tend to identify those in an oppressed position in a collective way, with statements such as “They smell bad” or “They are lazy” or even “They are destroying our nation.”

The characterization can even be a positive one, such as “All mothers love their children.” It might be difficult to recognize this statement as a sexist one since it makes an unqualified positive statement about women who have children, but its sexism consists in the attribution of an undivided symbolic identity to all childbearing women. According to the logic of this statement, women are not subjects but substantial beings. If mothers were subjects, some would love their children, but some would not. And even those who did would have times when they didn’t. The alienated subject is not identical with itself but desires in contradictory ways.

Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldnt Try to Find Ourselves by Todd McGowan

phantomsofyourformerself

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

psychotrenny

There is a frustrating tendency among some people to talk about the USamerican military as though it's this singular force of metaphysical evil, failing to understand true scope of effect it has on the world. They're essentially missing the Tiger for its Claws. Because the biggest problem with the US military is that it performs a number of significant functions in advancing and maintaining US-led Imperialism, subjecting billions of people to brutal exploitation and destitution. Any discrete atrocities it commits while supporting this system are trivial compared to the atrocity of the system itself. Even the most restrained and professional possible version of the US military would be a terrible institution; it wouldn't matter if they never shot or blew up any children because they're still fighting for a world where those children will live miserable lives and die miserable deaths of poverty

And it's the same for their other negative effects on the world. For example, the US military is (as of the most recently available data, though this trend has likely progressed even further) the single largest discrete institutional emitter of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. This summation of global environmental damage doesn't even touch on the countless more local issues such as groundwater contamination in "friendly" nations due to firefighting chemicals used on military bases, or widespread exposure to toxic depleted uranium in places they're attacked. This is definitely worth talking about; it's shocking to have a single institution with a measurable impact greater than many individual nations. It's a very revealing indicator of how much damage the US bourgeoisie is willing to inflict upon the world to maintain their global hegemony. However, even this is small compared to the total impact of Imperialism as a whole. Some hypothetical environmentally friendly US military would still play a major role in global environmental destruction due to the broader system it supports.

Because if the US army were to suddenly disappear tomorrow, it would be a major blow to the current Imperialist order. Their largest single tool would be gone and in this hypothetical the lesser imperialist powers and comprador bourgeoisie regimes wouldn't have time to adapt and fill vacuum. But humanity wouldn't not be saved in that instant; a major cog is missing but the rest of the machine is still there. And it's not as if this would literally ever happen; the US's global military hegemony may be declining but at a slow enough rate that these lesser forces of reaction have plenty of time to adapt if not adequately opposed on their own terms. There is good reason to place emphasis on the US and its military in general, while their more superficial atrocities can be useful tools for agitation among more "apolitical" masses that are (at their current level of consciousness) uninterested in more complex ideas of systemic exploitation. But this justified emphasis should not be taken so far that everything else is ignored. Attack the largest tree, sure, but don't forget the rest of the forest

Because the US military is ultimately just the tip of the spear, not some free-flying demonic stake. It is not the unilateral greatest threat to humanity or to the planet, but rather the most visible and concentrated aspect of the broader system that unambiguously sentences most of humanity to misery and could very well threaten us all

cannibalings

why are all the actual real human jobs like baker and florist and childcare worker barely paying livable wages but the fake jobs like ai specialist boot licker or marketing campaign dick sucker making six figures