Previously On…

Deadbeat sister 🧿 30-something Star Trek and supernatural

[maureen2musings]

The Milky Way core sets over the icy Southern Alps and glowing lights of Queenstown, New Zealand

txmrae

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[intergalacticantics]

Someone I’m trying to befriend at work recommended this book to me and brother how do I tell you that this book sucks shit?

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Another sword, another cairn. Cut up an old necklace for the chain. The background fabric is scrap fabric from a thrift shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo doesn't do the fabric justice! It's very pretty!

(Also, yes - the sword CAN come out!)

[jeniferprince]

Entwined 🧡

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[despazito]

Sooner or later leftists will have to deal with the issue that capitalism has made many people used to wanton excess and sooner or later we'll have to legit tell everyone we can't have plastic treats and luxury produce or cruises instantly available year round and it's gonna make so many people mad and call you a big meanie worse than stalin over it. It will not be popular at all but someone's gotta hold a firm no or the planet will never stop collapsing. We can't save the planet by living exactly how we do now just with a communist banner over it we have to take a loss sorry, shein product cycles shouldn't have been normalized to begin with.

[despazito]

The banana discourse really separated the wheat from the chaff of which "lefties" actually want a global workers revolution and which ones just want more stuff to be free

[thatdykepunkslut]

#ok but like bananas are a terrible example cause like#yeah its fruit you have to grow in a specific part of the world during a particular season and you need to ship it everywhere else#but. its food. you eat the food and then the food is in your tummy and it brings value to humanity through that#the truth is that the vast majority of the “excess” is stuff that literally nobody has ever cared about#there are so many millions of tons of cheap plastic toys made for nobody that are rotting in landfill#untold heaps of disposable workplace computers#unimaginable volumes of plastic being made and shipped away to build mountains of bootleg earbuds that last 3 months maximum#bananas aren't the problem#the problem is the cheap novelty landline phones made to look like bananas

Bananas were the PERFECT example. "It's food, you eat the food and then the food is in your tummy and it brings value to humanity" is exactly the abstraction that makes it the perfect example. It does not bring value to "humanity" it brings value to the person living in the imperial core that eats it. These countries are not selling their excess food for ice cream money, US-owned corporations within them are using the soil nutrients, sunlight, and human life of these regions and then extracting the profits, leaving nothing but bullet casings and dead earth.

Do you know how many millions of kilograms of beef were exported FROM Ireland TO England during the great potato famine? You are focusing on the leather scraps that were thrown out by english tailors. The shipping is not the problem, the capitalist death squads murdering thousands over "communist organizing" are the problem.

If we got rid of money, we'd obviously stop producing vast amounts of garbage. But would we stop holding the global south hostage for the things we DO consume? Would we be willing to let everyday food become rare so that other people may eat the products of their own labor before sharing it with us? Would we be willing to adapt to a new lifestyle based off what can grow in our own regions? That is the true leftism, not Consumerism But For Free.

There will be no Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism in your lifetime, but we CAN put an end to genocide and ecocide.

[mwagneto]

Not ALL adaptions of Sherlock are gay. Mine ISN'T...and no, I'm not homophobic, but since WHEN did heterosexuality become a crime on Tumblr??

[fairycosmos]

hey idk how to articulate this part of being mentally ill but basically i feel like my life has been stolen from me in the most literal way and i can’t explain it without sounding like im making a million pathetic excuses

[aurora1040]

the grief aspect of being chronically ill is real. You are allowed to grieve the life you would have had.

[alloftimeandspaceisours]

And unfortunately, the grief tends not to be a one and done thing. It can and often will keep hitting us. We need to do our best to be kind to ourselves, especially when it's hitting us.

[stitchthisfiona]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[cleolinda]

[cleolinda]

[lotus0kid]

[lotus0kid]

[pomme-poire-peche]

[lotus0kid]

[sashaforthewin]

[jack-of-no-cows]

[ghirahimbo]

[squeakitties]

"do it scared" gets exhausting when you're The Fearful Afraider and everything is scary even when you're in your 30s

[my-dailydreams]

[otherside-picnic]

If criminals don't get to have human rights, then the people in charge of deciding what a criminal is get to decide who is and is not human. Do you understand? Is this not blindingly obvious? Do you care?

Or do you assume you will always be "one of the good ones"?

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[superhell]

i just don't think 16 minutes is going to cover it

[marveldaily]

CAPTAIN AMERICA THE WINTER SOLDIER

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[headspace-hotel]

The fact that they're not testing men says it all.

Wikipedia articles for the two athletes mentioned who committed and attempted suicide. Horrible.