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20💜 - I post about a bit of everything, but! I work entirely too many hours to argue w y'all unless I find it particularly funny. Asks are generally appreciated.

[lackadaisical-lesbian]

Blog Name Change:

amazingdemigodstuff -> Lackadaisical-Lesbian

[fuck-customers]

[kusali]

help me survive survival $

Hi Dakas and Dakinis, It's me again for round two of firstly needing to spend as much time with my daughter as possible and secondly to stu

Hey family, we are back at it again with wanting to spend as much time as i can with my daughter who has complex trauma and health issues just like me while also making time to study to escape from this situation while also being forced to do sw cos there's just no alternative that makes any of that possible - except your help if you have it to give

My job is dangerous in every sense and the less I have to do it the better. Thank you for reading ❤️

Pics: me post cry after an especially bad client / Machik Labdron

[kusali]

So my mother, of course, backed out of helping me buy a car after promising me she reeeaaally meant it THIS time so I am 1. Fucked, and 2. Fucked

I need at least $5k for a car and $12k for my teeth and the only means I have of doing that is prostitution and all of you. So please help if you can. I'm in tears rn I knew she would do this but I was stupid enough to believe her anyway I guess!!

[hyumjim]

We can try and invent discourse as a joke all we want but nothing will compare to the real home grown takes on here such as hating landfillslop consumerism is actually Catholic

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[lackadaisical-lesbian]

And now WHY would an almost 10 year old game cost me $40?!

[poesizing]

intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

[alkliliyfamly]

Please, stop for a moment and read my story.

Today, I walked a long distance to buy medicine for my sick mother while my little daughter, Lynn, held my hand. Suddenly, a missile struck right beside us. The explosion was deafening. People screamed, dust filled the air, and my daughter froze in terror, trembling so badly she couldn't even cry. By a miracle, we survived. I grabbed her and ran as fast as I could away from the attack.

[alkhleliyfamily]

As we were escaping, I noticed blood running down Lynn's head. Tiny pieces of shrapnel had cut her scalp during the blast. She was in such deep shock that she didn't even realize she was bleeding. I rushed her to the American field hospital, where the medical team helped close her wound. Seeing your child covered in blood and shaking with fear is a pain no parent should ever have to endure.

[funkyfeefee]

Hippies were not anti imperialists, the next time I see a cracker say this I'm going to blow them up. To say that "new age" hippies or whatver the fuck are "posers" cuz they're racist is so fucking hilarious to me. Like the hippie movement was not built on appropriating Native American and Indian culture. And then to use the fact that they protested against the Vietnam war as them being anti racist and anti imperialist makes my blood boil. You can be anti war without being anti imperialist. Those things are not mutually exclusive. The hippie movement was largely made up of rich white kids who wanted to smoke weed and fuck, being drafted would not allow them to do that. Preaching vague ideas about unity and love while being in the heart of the empire will never fail to anger me lmao.

But this is largely a critique of American subcultures who claim to be left leaning or "progressive" and how when they're met with critiques of racism and imperialism all they do is yell the no true scotsman fallacy in your face. This also applies to punks too btw. I'm tired of seeing that "punk is kind" nonsense as a response to racists in your movement. I'm sick of people shouting about posers, no one wants to actually self critique and investigate why racists or people you claim don't follow your ideology are still attracted to your movement and participate in it. Have you asked yourself why your movements tend to be so fucking white and why it's usually the result of hijacking it from racialised communities? All you do is yell about posers but have you ever thought of you yourself being the actual poser?

[mysharona1987]

[tamamita]

It should be noted that they blocked it because of animal rights and not human rights. They were more concerned about the crocodiles than the Palestinians they are torturing.

[fadell-aldany]

As usual, the occupation forces destroyed medical warehouses where medicines and vital supplies were stored, causing a complete lack of healthcare and an exorbitant rise in the prices of the remaining medicines, if any could be found.

- So I wiIl not f0rgive anyone who ign0res my suffering and what we are going through, because I am one of the victiims of this aggression, left to struggle with pain that debilitates my body daily And I can't afford this .

[fadell-aldany]

I suffered a severe injury when our house was b0mbed while we were inside, resulting in me being hit by iron shrapnel that is still stuck inside my body and causing me constant pain. So I need a high c0st to be able to perform my surgery and remove these pieces of IRON.

[fadell-aldany]

I suffer from severe anemia, which requires immediate treatment and special supplements to prevent my condition from worsening. The c0st of medication is extremely high, so I hope you can h@lp me raiise the funnds to purchase my medication urgently. I desperatly ne-ed your supp0rt to prevent my condition from deteriorating further and to alleviate my pain and find some relief. Please stand by me.

[tragediegh]

stay vigilant. there are still people out there who will try to convince you that eating fruit is somehow bad for your body

[janmisali]

Legalizing copyright infringement would be dismantling one of the few limitations on the white urge to steal from Black Art and Black Artists. The practical application of it would be anti-Black as fuck

this argument makes so many assumptions that I disagree with that I don't know where to start

[gnommunist-organizer]

damn asker, that's crazy and would suck. good thing we have robust IP law in the United States to prevent theft from Black artists

now to take a big sip of coffee and look up who owns Tupac Shakur's likeness

[mlembug]

The Bizarre Reason You Rarely Hear Martin Luther King Quotes in Movies

Steven Spielberg has received criticism for buying the film rights to MLK's speeches, and further controversy stems from King's estate.

In 2009, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company paid the estate for film rights to King's words, along with his life rights, which allow a person or company to make content based on an individual's story. DreamWorks has yet to produce or direct Spielberg's planned King biopic, but the rights have caused complications for numerous filmmakers. (Neither Spielberg's literary agent nor King's estate returned Broadly's request for comment.)

King has received only one major biopic, 2014's Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay […] Instead of using King's speeches, DuVernay wrote original monologues that sounded like soliloquies the civil rights leader could have given. […] When asked about the changes in 2014, DuVernay told the Washington Post, "We knew those rights are already gone. They're with Spielberg."

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

my greatest accomplishment in life is that I inadvertently made my friend break up with her shitty boyfriend by throwing her a really fucking awesome birthday party

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

okay so I fucking love event planning and decorating and hosting and baking, aka all the elements of a banger birthday party. I am so freaking happy to throw people parties because it means I get to throw a party, then go to a party! yippee!

so my friend's birthday rolled around and I knew she wanted a party because I'd done them for her before, but I wanted to make it extra special because she was turning the big 25. so I did all the regular stuff I am So Excited About: had her roommates let me into her apartment while she was out, put up balloons and homemade garlands and streamers and table decor, made her favorite cake and snack plates and cocktails, ordered catering from a restaurant she loves, got a bunch of our friends to come over to surprise her, wrote her a disgustingly heartfelt card, etc. and then because it was the big quarter century, I was like I gotta do something extra.

now. I do not like clowns. my friend loves clowns. we've gone to the circus together and she's seen me literally close my eyes and hide when the clowns are out in the audience, meanwhile she's screaming and waving at them. so obviously I hired a clown for her birthday. (btw seeing him out of clown costume made me less freaked out because now I knew that the guy under there looks like someone's uncle.)

so she showed up after work totally expecting a party because I'm too paranoid to throw a real surprise party, and obviously loved it. and then I was like btw. there's a clown.

she lost her mind. she was sooo excited. she loved the party and she loved the clown. I was like haha yes I'm getting a good grade in birthday parties and didn't think much of it because frankly I do this a lot, and it's so much fun for me that I don't consider it work. like, I love doing all that for my friends. it's not any kind of sacrifice.

two days later, she texted me that she broke up with her boyfriend.

naturally I was like omg tell me everything I hated that guy let's get coffee. so we did and she told me that for her birthday, her boyfriend of nine months 1) forgot about it and didn't get her anything, 2) got mad at her for not texting him while she was at her party, 3) got mad at her for telling him about the party because it was "passive aggressive", and 4) called her immature and stupid for being excited about a clown at her birthday.

this was all very in character for him. but she'd just come from a lovely birthday party full of her friends who love her and want to put effort into making a nice day for her, where her friend who hates clowns hired a clown just to make her happy even though the party alone would've been plenty. and suddenly this wasn't a boyfriend being kinda forgetful and lazy, it was a glaring incongruity with everyone else in her life. so she finally dumped his ass. and I was soooo freaking happy. so clowns can be good.

[impossiblepackage]

that relationship was already over, she didn’t even bring her boyfriend to her birthday party at her own apartment

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

actually it's worse than that! she knew there would be a party, but not what day. I invited her boyfriend to the party. he said no.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[hippiedippieblondie]

Male loneliness this, male loneliness that. Have they tried lobotomies? Tranquilizers? Being fingered by medical professionals? Tearing the yellow wallpaper off the walls of the attic room where your husband keeps you locked up?

[saiyef]

Apothecary Diaries illustration by Nanao Itsuki (the manga's compiler) posted on her Twitter