BlueRaspberry Reblogs

Where I reblog art and posts I like. Main blog: @iamblueraspberry Other blogs: @iamblueraspberry-makes @eldritchbean-shapeshifter

[motherblackcap]

I heard it was that time of year again.

[lgbtqiatext]

[bunabi]

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

[umbrellahat07]

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

[beatrice-otter]

Does this look quiet, peaceful, nondisruptive?

And the struggle didn't stop after formal integration, once the Civil Rights act had passed. Because even when they are legally required to serve you, they can make you really fucking uncomfortable and threaten you and the cops probably will take their side.

For one example, there was a cafe that would serve Black people, but would then publicly break the dishes so that no white customer would ever have to eat off a dish a Black person had eaten off of. This was done publicly, right as the Black diner was done eating. The waitress takes the plate and smashes it. This is a signal both to the white diners "see, we hate them just as much as you do, you're safe here" and also a threat of violence to the Black diners. "If you're not careful we'll smash you just like we did this plate."

But at the same time, if Black people go there and eat every day ... how long before the cafe can't afford to do that? How long before they have broken so many dishes that it's eating into their profits? How long before the white diners start getting used to eating alongside Black people and simply don't care as much any longer, or start getting annoyed at the noise and fuss and mess?

Black people eating in white establishments was loud, inconvenient, and disruptive. Because that's the nature of challenging the status quo.

[sionnualanicheallachain]

All of this, plus a couple of additional thoughts:

1. Folks in these movements trained. They were disruptive and they were strategic about it and they trained so that they could stay calm in terrifying situations and create the targeted disruptions they wanted to create and not get goaded into deviating from that. Absolutely badass.

2. Not at all a criticism of OP because I think their description of people thinking it was "quiet self-sacrificial non-disruptive christ-like activism" is dead on, but I think that description itself speaks to the same kind of revisionism re: the Christ of the Gospels and how disruptive he was and why, and it's important to remember that, especially in this era of renewed christofascism. Rev. Dr. King was a prophet and you will never convince me otherwise.

[pixie-likethecut]

As I told my students a few weeks ago:

Nonviolence is not a goal, it is a strategy. A deliberate strategy at a calculated time in response to violence of the oppressor, which can be effective if it shames the perpetrators. See: why Selma or Montgomery was chosen by the SCLC (they had the most racist unhinged sheriffs who would deploy maximum force, which got shown on nationwide broadcasts and finally moved the public).

Nonviolence doesn’t mean you don’t carry weapons if necessary, as many organizers in Selma did. Nonviolence doesn’t mean that you accept that people will throw bombs into your family’s home, as they did to MLK.

And yes, the absurd simplification and bastardization of this strategy is deliberate. It went from being a tool for fighting for liberation to being a justification for more violence and oppression used against future generations of protestors who didn’t meet the standard of perfectly obedient nonviolent non disruptive protestors. Which of course there is no such thing.

And it’s all a lie. Know that people in the movement, at the time, were called criminals, because they knowingly and deliberately broke laws with the idea that they’d get arrested. Know that most of the country hated King at the time of his death. Know that no movement demanding change from the system will ever be loved by those in power.

[elljayvee]

once again I feel I must mention Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan's "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict".

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns ofnonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as theirviolent counterparts

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[rvllybllply2014]

It started out way too normal

[seashellronan]

being the weird girl all your life and always hiding parts of yourself to fit in and then meeting someone who actually likes you because of those weird parts rather than in spite of them is the most healing experience in the world i hope that all you little freaks in my phone can also find this someday

[catchymemes]

[noirwoodtheowl]

Doing some Budd and Ava reworking. Decided to make her human along with her friends. The dark inky blue black just wasn't working, I started to not like it. So good old humans it is!

[actual-changeling]

grace freaking out (positively) over xenonite and refusing to believe it actually is xenon at first might not be fully understandable for non-stem people, so let's have a look at xenon!

first of, xenon is a noble gas, meaning just like the other noble gases, it's inert. it barely reacts with anything, let alone voluntarily, and it is a gas. it only turns solid at 161,7 K which is −111,45 °C (-168.61 °F for americans) and thus an EXTREMELY low temperature. erid is hot.

compared to the other noble gases, including radon, it's the most reactive out of all of them, and there are a few known stable xenon compounds that are mostly used for industrial or diagnostic purposes. none of them are a pure, crystallized xenon though.

xenon is also generally a horrible heat conductor (so technically perfect for thermal isolation like the blip-a must have and also the barriers rocky makes), and only starts conducting electricity at around 32 K (really fucking cold).

additionally, the most stable known xenon compounds is xenon(II)-fluroide, which is a solid, but it's nowhere close to what xenonite would be. plus, xenonite is pure xenon as far as we know, not a compound or complex.

on top of ALL of that, xenon is one of the most rare elements and the rarest stable one on earth, so considering the insane amount of xenonite the eridians make, they must have a fucking shit ton of it on erid. they make it by pouring together two liquids which, again, it's a gas, and they are not working in a super high pressure environment on the blip-a or hail mary.

HOW ARE THEY MAKING IT????

if i were in his position, i'd also be fucking amazed by xenonite. i'd be begging rocky for as much information as possible, and annoy every single scientist on erid until i have the answers i need.

meanwhile everyone on earth will also be losing their fucking minds over xenonite, except that they probably won't be able to make their own for a long, long time. even once they figure it out, industrial xenon production is expensive and, again, we do not have a lot of it on earth. what we do have is in nickel and iron compounds. we're NOT gonna be using xenonite for anything for decades, if not longer.

cut to grace on erid making fun little science projects for the pebble classes with xenonite like a natural. clumsily at first, but he REALLY gets the hang of it eventually.

[rvllybllply2014]

I need to know his obsession with taking things and making the exact same thing out of the first thing

[depsidase]

[bigdafty]

Sound very much on.

[cipheramnesia]

If I was a wasp, I'd sting you. If I was a venomous snake, I'd bite you. If I was a lion, I'd maul you. If I was a swamp, I'd poison you. If I was a mountain, I'd fall and crush you. If I was the ocean, I'd drown you. If I was a cat, I'd never let you touch me. If I was a dog, I'd run away. If I was a horse, I'd never let you break me. If I was a farm, I wouldn't grow for you. If I was a fire, I'd burn out without warming you. If I was a home, I would fall apart around you.

If I was harmless and small, and easy to hold, you would love me. If I was a worm you could put me in the soft earth and I would be helpless in your care. Of course you could love me, but could you love me if I stung you, bit you, pulled against you, hid and didn't understand you but wasn't harmless or helpless at all?

Could you love something for what it is, when that means you can't touch it or show kindness, maybe even never be near it, and it might never, ever love you back? Is it okay to exist and not belong to anyone, to not be useful to anyone, to be dangerous or poisonous or a failure but a part of the world all the same?

[gallusrostromegalus]

I know this is a metaphor, but if you take it kind of literally, there is an answer to this.

We build wildlife preserves. Often explicitly for the protection of animals and ecosystems that can and have killed humans.

Whenever a whale gets stranded on a beach, CROWDS show up ad risk getting bludgeoned to death trying to get it back into the water.

Every Zoo has a reptile house full of venomous snakes and a team of humans dedicated to giving them the best quality of life possible.

There are volunteer beekeepers who will travel for miles and miles and hours and hours to relocate an entire hive.

There are people who rehabilitate dangerous dogs and horses

There are people who restore structurally unsound houses

There are people who study the way that fire burns so it can rejoin the ecosystem and not be smothered on sight.

Every day, millions of people get up and devote themselves to things that can and will kill them by their nature. Things they can't touch or show kindness to. Things they can't go near. Things that are wholly incapable of loving them back.

And they do it because they love them.

Everything dangerous, everything poisonous, everything 'useless'- absolutely everything has someone, often many thousands of people, who loves them exactly as they are, without expectation that their affection will be returned.

It is alright for anything, even you, to not belong to anyone, to not be useful, to be frightening and dangerous and not adhere to any standard of success. It's all alright. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved.

[cedar-is-a-nerd]

I'm bored so I'm listing down all the relationships Ryland Grace has and my interpretation of the canon

Rocky: Symbiotic relationship, do not separate, if you do one starts crying and the others starts fighting. Probably "kissed" once just to see. Rocky thought it was disgusting and Grace cackled.

Adrian: Friends through Rocky, sometimes they'll hang out and talk about science or sci fi Earth media, but other than they're probably pretty neutral on a day to day basis. See's Ryland more like a weird fucking horse they accidentally adopted that can also speak and have philosophical opinions.

Eva Stratt: Pre operation "get rid of that guy," autism 4 autism friendship. They've definitely stared deeply into each other's eyes just to go "We should play Mario Kart" and then fall into the most insane infodump ever. Post operation "get rid of that guy," Eva stared at the spot in the sky where the Hail Mary was launched for hours, probably days after, every chance between saving the world. She forgets to eat because of it before she simply tears out and forces herself back into work because people are dying and she doesn't have time to mourn. She lets herself cry over three decades later when the astrophage crisis is over. She's an old woman, she just escaped jail, and she's on her knees infront of Shapiro and Dubois' graves because they're the only ones with graves, sobbing that they did it. They won.

Carl: They kissed at least once. This is canon to me. Did it lead anywhere? Probably not, Grace is still aroace canon to me. Like "What was that for?" "I don't know, we made astrobaby, saw it in a movie." "Okay." "Let's not do that again." "Agreed." And then they name the astrobaby together and Grace credits Carl with the hypothesis in the paper he writes on it. Post launch, it's been a week since he saw Grace pinned and sedated, he barely talks, he hasn't smiled at all. He goes to his room at the end of the day, right after seeing Hail Mary take off. He knows Grace was on there and he knows what got him there. Carl breaks down, and cries himself to sleep. That was his friend, and the last thing he saw was him standing over him.

Yao: The man seems like the type to pat people on the head. Everyone. You've done a good job? You get a pat. Grace is forever confused but also feels strangely cared for

Ilyukhina: She's definitely sent Grace fanfiction. Of what? I don't know. But she has, trust. Probably tried to offer Grace her own ADHD meds.

Dubois: They've probably had some sort of informal battle for who knows the most science stuff. They've definitely infodumped to eachother, thought Dubois is more of the "pulls out a slideshow for every topic" he likes and Grace is more "Okay I'm going to tell you but it will have 17bajillion tangents, let's get started." Autism v autism. Maybe he has like one really niche interest he goes feral over and infodumps more insanely, but he DEFINITELY also has a slideshow for that. Has probably willingly read Ilyukhina's fanfiction recommendations.

Shapiro: Yet another yapper. Shapiro, Grace, Dubois yapping circle, science geeks 🔛🔝. She yaps the same as Grace, 17bajillion tangents and 0 breaks. They bond over this.

I probably missed someone but I don't rembemebr...

[alliezweihander]

"if you forgot then it obviously wasn't important to you" is an ableist thing to say and i'm tired of pretending it's not

[alliezweihander]

I've forgotten *my own birthday* before. There are several years of my life just straight up missing. In the past I've forgotten silly little frivolous things like NAMES OF LOVED ONES or WHERE MY HOUSE IS. But obviously none of that was important. Fucking awful, ableist thing to say.

[teathattast]

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.