[redstonedust]

having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

[pluggedinandreadytofall]

[limerencs]

[lamignonette]

[xultraviolentlightx]

I’m actually kinda fun once you get to know me (takes 3 to 4 years).

[gobloggirl]

[37833]

😈

[misscromwellsmonocle]

We'll make it through (2023) by Richie Carter

[huariqueje]

Untitled   -    Inari Krohn , 1994

Finnish, b.1945 -

Etching ,  27 x 19 cm.

[kafk-a]

Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

[sailermoon]

huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

[bobdylanyaoi]

i cannot emphasize how much it sucks that people in movies don’t look real anymore. like conventionally attractive people have always been cast more as leads but up until like a decade ago they had visible age lines and textured skin and double chins and imperfect teeth. like whenever i’m feeling insecure i just have to watch a regular movie from the 70s and remind myself that im actually not unhygienic and disgusting for having teeth that are a little yellow and visible pores

[bobdylanyaoi]

genuinely social media has fucked everything up and we need to realize that the average person is normal and you are in fact allowed to make art and exist in the public eye while not looking like an airbrushed 20 year old and that your personal appearance really does not matter that much

[olivekitteridge]

Macro photographs of butterfly and moth wings

[kunosoura]

I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

[kunosoura]

“Why were you on Mad At Me island” because at the time I was mad at you and yet our friendship has weathered that without trouble

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[malojasnake]

— Sunrise, by Louise Glück

[stunningpicture]

[toastbutteregg]

[crimethinc]

Love is a quality of attention, a sensitivity to the world and everything that is possible in it. When we fight on the basis of what we love, rather than in service of ideology or cowardice, we open ourselves to serve as a channel through which everything beautiful in the world can defend itself.

To choose love is to choose to keep feeling the blows when others are under attack—everyone facing felony charges, everyone threatened with deportation, everyone facing water cannons and rubber bullets, all the rivers and animals and plants that sustain us despite all the violence inflicted upon them. Love is not reducible to peace. If you mean it, say it with barricades.

https://crimethinc.com/withbarricades

[dostoyevsky-official]

In a world of fragmented and monetized care, it can be hard to recognize what makes love a powerful force for mutual freedom. We grow up in a culture of scarcity, longing for love but pretending we don’t need it. The commodification of care into discrete roles, as parents pay others to care for their children and executives pay secretaries and sex workers for different forms of attention, causes us to think of love in transactional terms. The media reinforces this by feeding us stories that cast romantic love as the one thing that can save us; pop songs and movies justify any kind of bad behavior in pursuit of love, and we hear that love is something we need to earn and keep, like money. If we do, everything will blossom in and around us—we will have escaped the austerity that crushes all the unloved into early graves. [...] Yet we cannot do without love. Vague and corrupted though it may be, we need to understand it if we intend to practice freedom. [...] To understand love, we can begin by understanding everything it is not. We know a lot of about the opposite of love. We see it flourishing in all forms of domination, control, and exploitation. [...] There is a fundamental difference between love as something we feel and love as something we do.