Choose a song so that your heart can sing

Ellen, she/her. Personal/bandom blog primarily focused on Take That, especially Mark Owen, with a bit of Monkees and Beatles mixed in. Also heartcansing on ao3 . Occasionally I get political or metaphysical. This blog stands with the Jewish community. Antisemitism/antizionism will not be tolerated.

[maccabook]

oughhhhh the way that the beatles and the monkees are parallel entities in the world of sixties rock but they can never be true narrative foils because the beatles chose their lives. they had control, and they were the kings of their story. the monkees were backwardly manhandled into becoming a band in a way that fulfilled all of their dreams of fame but deprived them of all of the joy of being perceived and loved because you are you. because you are not you. you will never be the you that you could have become because you have been replaced by a version of you that you will never own. you are playing yourself and you are playing yourself and you are playing yourself. the story is nothing without you but you are nothing without the story. fuck. the story is nothing without you but you are nothing without the story. do i have to do this all over again

[minyard-05]

sometimes you just have to say "you are all so fucking stupid" and scroll past

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags the last full album you listened to

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[hobohobgoblim]

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

[uchidachi]

“This thing can’t possibly be an antisemitic dog whistle, it’s just a commonly used phrase!”

My dude you are so close to understanding how pervasive antisemitism is

[mrsterlingeverything]

What is the age gap between you and your partner?

Single gang

1 year or less

~2 years

~3 years

~4 years

~5 years

~6 years

~7 years

~8 years

~9 years

~10 years

Over 10 years

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

[sjw-cafe-mew-mew]

You know, even if we could objectively measure suffering and oppression, it would still be a dick move to tell someone that they can't talk about what they're going through because you have it worse.

[loraonthemic]

Micky and Davy sing Papa Gene's Blues

[wowbright]

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

[minyardlumberyard]

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

[anxiette]

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[killapunk]

i feel like we've completely killed the ability to just gently tell someone when they're wrong or that their opinions don't pass the vibe check. we have to accommodate every single type of person and all their dogshit opinions OR we have to drive them off the internet, no in between

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Young men today being SHOCKED and APPALLED that the girls they're dating are reading dark romance like the closet in my grandma's spare room wasn't totally chockers with Mills and Boon books when I was a kid. "Our generation is RUINED because the young women are reading NASTY PORN" if you saw the shit 50 year old women were reading in the nineties you'd hurl.

[afurioushawk]

Queer leftists abandoning Jews and thinking Muslims are their allies when they're the second/third largest homophobic religious group in the country - behind Jehovah's Witnesses and white Evangelical Protestants depending on the poll - will go down as one of the greatest self-owns ever.

[afurioushawk]

Y'all really need to get over this hurdle of thinking that just because a group is a minority it automatically makes them your ally. The majority of American Muslims have shown over and over again they hate LGBT people (especially LGBT Muslims, since nonbelivers are already going to hell) and they don't want their tax money going to help us. You'd literally be better off casting your luck with Mormons.

Muslims deserve freedom of religion and freedom from intolerance, just like everyone else, but they're not uwu smol beans, they're the second largest religious group on the planet.

If they don't support LGBT people, they don't deserve your support. You wouldn't give it to the Baptist preacher telling you you're going to hell. Have some fucking self-respect.

[shofarsogood]

And can we PLEASE stop with the belief that because Muslims are an oppressed minority in the US, that's true everywhere? Muslims aren't oppressed at all in the Middle East. They're fine. Islam is the state religion of several countries. Jews are not oppressing Muslims worldwide. The idea that Jews have more power than Muslims in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, etc., is fucking laughable.

Christianity isn't always the oppressor, either. There are marginalized Christians who are being harmed. (In Palestine, that happens a bunch. Christians are very much the minority!)

The demographics in your country apply to your country and that's it. Stop thinking that racial issues will map onto another country half a world away with an entirely different history.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[dispassionedgrace]

maybe i’m crazy but i’m not actually convinced you care about human dignity and inalienable rights if your outlook on the world is primarily about who should die and suffer

[downpeasant]

HAPPY TORK TUESDAY!!!!!!

[docholligay]

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

[mikkeneko]

[notaplaceofhonour]

It’s also good to assume you probably are the friend whose brain falls out 20% of the time.

We all have blind spots, assumptions, and dogshit take from time to time. They can’t all be winners.