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a lot of art criticism on tumblr is roughly "well, *I* think this mixture of sodas made by an unsupervised eight year old at Panera shows a whole lot more creative passion and originality than a vintage wine. and it tastes better too!"
deeply deeply deeply funny post to me. nobody look up how much electricity and computing power it takes to run twitch
thank god twitch is just a plucky little indie company that has never done anyth- oh what's that? oh. oh no.
Me sexting: what would you do if you found me with my hands tied ;) My feminist bf: I Would Free You
I get a lot of asks complaining about people blindly choosing the most colorful bird. My inbox is like if birds had the internet and the less colorful males started an incel message board.
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Caen, la grâce de dieu
Church "Notre-Dame de la Grâce-de-Dieu" (1964) in Caen, France, by Marcel Clot, François Dupuis, Paul Huet and Guy Morizet
i’m not into star wars but the person that plays rey has the same name as two characters that will never be in smash bros
i’m gonna go back in time and kick my own ass
it's probably disproportionate and ridiculous to hold this grudge but i remember this horrible wave of disillusionment when people started talking about how everyone under capitalism is depressed and not being depressed is an impossible feat. like, it's so easily verifiable as untrue to anyone who has known a depressed person who's doing better or has interacted w nondepressed people before. it's honestly shocking how gullible and unwilling to voice disagreement people can be
as someone who prides themself on open-mindedness to harsh truths i tried to take this seriously even tho it made me feel insane because i myself was formerly depressed and am not anymore. i was like ok maybe i'm not working enough for the depression beam to set in. but i think these people were just wrong. remember the therapist in training on here who made a big deal about how her clients wouldn't get better but she could bear witness to their suffering. gee thanks doc
this was actually one of the reasons i quit tumblr years ago lol, just ended up in a sphere that felt super blackpilled and invested in getting me to believe the world was as fundamentally joyless as they said it was and validate them as Cassandras
it's probably disproportionate and ridiculous to hold this grudge but i remember this horrible wave of disillusionment when people started talking about how everyone under capitalism is depressed and not being depressed is an impossible feat. like, it's so easily verifiable as untrue to anyone who has known a depressed person who's doing better or has interacted w nondepressed people before. it's honestly shocking how gullible and unwilling to voice disagreement people can be
as someone who prides themself on open-mindedness to harsh truths i tried to take this seriously even tho it made me feel insane because i myself was formerly depressed and am not anymore. i was like ok maybe i'm not working enough for the depression beam to set in. but i think these people were just wrong. remember the therapist in training on here who made a big deal about how her clients wouldn't get better but she could bear witness to their suffering. gee thanks doc
it's probably disproportionate and ridiculous to hold this grudge but i remember this horrible wave of disillusionment when people started talking about how everyone under capitalism is depressed and not being depressed is an impossible feat. like, it's so easily verifiable as untrue to anyone who has known a depressed person who's doing better or has interacted w nondepressed people before. it's honestly shocking how gullible and unwilling to voice disagreement people can be
btw if you reblog anti-liberal stuff and wonder why your fellow radical leftists seem so clueless about leftist theory and history, consider that some people care more about fitting in with people online than putting serious effort into their political beliefs
one problem in discussion of the relative wickedness of different identity categories is that a group having a distinctive way of being unchill about another group, a group having some members who are generically unchill, and a group overwhelmingly being hostile or benefitting from the oppression of another group are often conflated
like wrt trans men, there probably are ways some trans men are unchill about trans women that are a distinct cultural phenomenon or more likely to be observed w them than others, and certainly some have generic transmisogynistic anxiety you'd see with others. there is not a civics test or license for coming out as trans that u get by demonstrating fairmindedness and acceptance towards trans people, or familiarity w specific theories of oppression
but this isn't in itself strong evidence that trans men benefit from trans women's oppression or are Class Enemies or w/e, because trans women have their own transmisogynistic memeplexes e.g. whatever's going on on 4chan. people can engage in enmity towards others w/o it improving their social standing
and trans men generally have more sympathetic attitudes towards trans women than the general population does
one problem in discussion of the relative wickedness of different identity categories is that a group having a distinctive way of being unchill about another group, a group having some members who are generically unchill, and a group overwhelmingly being hostile or benefitting from the oppression of another group are often conflated
i do think it's useful to remember that people who identify as trans men range from some guy at your women's college who annoys you to some closeted kid in Oklahoma with fundamentalist parents. it's just a very diverse identity category
unfortunately when you're depressed and have low self-esteem it's hard to hear that your demographic takes up too much space or airtime without interpreting that as you taking up too much space and airtime
p sure this got me pretty hard when i entered trans convos and heard about how white AFAB people took up too much space and decided this meant i needed to qualify any sentiment about my problems with a disclaimer that i had first world problems
unfortunately when you're depressed and have low self-esteem it's hard to hear that your demographic takes up too much space or airtime without interpreting that as you taking up too much space and airtime
a lot of my posts about how criticizing cultural trends you find harmful can be unhealthy stem from my own experiences, where sometimes angryposting just makes me feel more angry and powerless because i have such a small audience and extremely limited influence over whatever disliked thing. i don't actually think my experience is universal tho. there are probably people who enjoy it
and like, i guess my feeling is i can't control whether people post bad takes or do stuff that sucks or have bad character, and i want to focus more on what i can do in any specific situation rather than someone out there whose views and behavior i can't control
idk how to differentiate this from quietism, which i don't think is good either-- i do want to try to influence the world positively including stuff distant from me, i just don't want to become a reactive ball of pain and outrage who convinces themself that one more post will change the world or that their own well-being is contingent on every human being becoming a principled anti-transphobe or whatever. i've cultivated habits of looking for stuff that sucks and pisses me off before, and it turned me into a super unhappy person.
and it's fine to post about stuff that pisses me off but like, i should do so without deluding myself about what that accomplishes. i may expos some people to stuff that they hadn't considered or make them feel less alone believing in whatever, but my beliefs aren't becoming state ideology anywhere
