Messy but trying

Follow me on my messy journey to be free. Free to do whatever I want. Free to live a life that makes me happy. Freeing myself from capitalist hell, freeing myself from societal standards.

[cry-nebo]

there can't be art that does not offend absolutely anyone. there will always be one person on Earth that finds a piece of art disgusting, offensive, disrespectful, you name it.

especially if said art is trying hard to be inoffensive.

the sole fact can be exactly what offends people.

there is literally no "unproblematic" and no "problematic" artist. there are just those who are getting defended by the fandom and those who have a lot of haters.

whether an artist is a "problematic" person or not is literally decided by the screaming crowd of consumerists.

and if there are not a lot of defenders, aka fans, aka followers that said artist has, they will just fold under all the threats,

stop creating and leave the internet in the best-case scenario,

and kill themselves in the worst-case scenario.

[qaivan]

I hate that there's no room for nonbinary people in media. When a character's gender is "ambiguous" (neither seen as masculine nor feminine) and solely referred to with neutral terms such as "they/them" and person, individual, etc, people can't stand that. They can't stand the idea that a nonbinary person wouldn't want to be a boy or girl, isn't a boy or a girl. They have to be a girlthing or a boything (why are all nonbinary people things? Why is it never girlenby or boyenby?), they have to be transfem or transmasc. When they're put into relationships, they have to be either lesbian or gay. Nobody can be cenelian or enbian or diamoric or gai or strayt or trixic or toric. That doesn't exist.

I'm sick of it. I'm sick of seeing nonbinarity be shoved into category after category after category when the whole point of being nonbinary is that we want to opt out.

[natlerat]

There's consumerist "self-love" where you spend money on products to get rid of your insecurities, and then there's the anti-consumerist self-love where you realize that your "flaws" are actually maybe the coolest parts about yourself.

Self-love doesn't have an aesthetic, because you already have your own unique allure just by existing. Instead of trying to aspire to anyone else's "look", figure out what makes yours distinct!

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[zimt-atrea]

Happy Pride yall 🏳️‍🌈

[krystal-prisms]

A collection of my favorite things I've put on my letter board in the back of my Tiktoks that nobody notices and only I find funny:

[blue-fishies]

I want this post to get as big as my hopepunk post because this needs to be internalized by you people.

When it comes to conversations on environmentalism and taking care of our planet, we are doing a disservice to progress by asserting black and white statements that humans are “inherently evil” and “all we do is take and destroy, we are so selfish,” when the reason the Paris Agreement exists is because we saw what was happening to the planet and we wanted to try and fix it. We saw what was happening with acid rain and the ozone layer, so we came together and mended our mistakes.

Immediately making conclusions that humans are a plague on the earth itself is taking accountability away from greedy corporations that are actually doing the most harm to the earth. Yes a lot of humans are very evil, and some of those humans are unfortunately running the government, but to say they represent the larger species of the human race is reinforcing the idea that 1: You people just want to place blame on a collective group of people like you always do, and 2: You sound complicit as hell in the face of evil, assuming that’s just how humans are and there’s nothing we can truly do.

That’s some fucking bullshit if I’ve ever heard it.

[lgbtqiatext]

[bumblebeeappletree]

Because I absolutely love joan_de_art’s sustainable city series I’mma share it in one post since I see the art scattered about.

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

my girlfriend is getting a new roommate and from what she’s told me about them, I am ever so slightly convinced there’s a like 50% chance they follow this blog on tumblr

will I ever know? probably not.

but we shall see I guess

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

said roommate is apparently not actually moving in now, so i’ll never know for sure :(

[elamarth-calmagol]

Spread this so they might see it

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

but like then what if they do see it and tell my girlfriend :(

[terrificphoenix]

Sounds like a problem worth reaching 10k notes for.

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

don’t y’all dare

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

okay but so a different roommate moved in instead and I also feel this person could be on tumblr so the search could be on again.

except I actually kind of greatly dislike this roommate and the vibes are weird and so like now I want to find them just to block them so that my sacred anonymous tumblr existence is protected but like is that horrendously toxic or could that be kinda reasonable

[foxehrobot]

You Have More Power Than You Think You Do: A Case Study In Getting Shit Done

I don't live in a walkable city.

I live in a mid-sized Texas town that only realizes that there are people who don't drive when TXDoT gives them money for active transportation infrastructure.

People constantly tell me that you just cannot walk or ride a bike in this city. It's impossible!

I do it anyway, because I firmly believe that solarpunk is a useless aesthetic if you aren't living it as best you can. We don't need technology to solve our problems we need will.

Also I do volunteer work on the political side of the local animal shelter and so I find myself at city hall several times a year and there's no bike rack.

Or rather there wasn't a bike rack.

I complained to someone, politely, informing them that I am doing this volunteer work and I don't have any safe place to lock my bike and that locking it to a handrail is inconvenient for everyone and also hideous.

A few months later a single staple-style bike rack was installed at city hall. It's not much, but I got sent a photo of someone else who got to use it before I did, clearly there was a need, if small.

Then I turned my gaze to the local grocery store, which had a bike rack, but the bike rack was terrible. It was too short for modern tire sizes, it was placed too close to the wall so one side was useless, and it was generally pretty cramped.

It took some time, but an advocate friend told me to contact the property owner instead of banging my head against the wall contacting HEB itself, and so I sent another polite complaint with a photo, explaining why it wasn't a very good bike rack and it would be really cool if we had a different one with better placement.

And about two months later, we have new staple-style racks at the grocery store, properly placed for maximum parking.

It's not a new bike lane. It's not a removal of parking minimums. It's not infill development or an active transportation advisory board.

They're just bike racks.

But that's the beauty of it. I, a person with an email address, some basic "how to be firm but polite while making an argument" skills, and a willingness to work out who to contact, fixed two problems for the local community. Trust me, I have had people wait on me to unlock my bike so they could have the "good spot." I was not the only person annoyed at the old rack.

It can be done. You're not powerless. Solarpunk doesn't have to be a wishful aesthetic.

Technology will not save us.

We have to save us.

[fairy-magick]

[tryingtolanguage]

personally, i don’t like it when someone says “oh don’t learn that language bc it’s useless. they only speak it in one country, you should learn *insert on with a lot of speakers internationally* instead!”

isn’t the fact that someone speaks that language enough? is it so “useless” to learn about a lesser known country’s history and culture?

to me, there’s no such thing as a “useless language”

[messywaystobefree]

That's why I try to learn Irish Gealic

[bloggingthings]

going from windows to linux is like going from my parents' house to my cool sibling's and feeling all the weight lift off of me

[iwasinhell-lookingatheaven]

Bought an ideapad and immediately installed linux on it, I regret nothing. Everything works so well and if I have any problems typing it out gives me solutions immediately and I don't have to go through bunch of bullshit like microslops problems

[vollkornbot]

Einerseits ist es natürlich witzig, Redewendungen mit Absicht falsch zu verwenden, andererseits kann es aber auch passieren, dass man vegisst, wie sie richtig heißen und sich komplett blamiert.

Das ist echt ein zweigleisiges Schwert.

[glowcowboy]

it is important to cling to wonder btw

[glowcowboy]

many people grow up and forget what it feels like to be a child. we must remember this. we have to remember what a joy it is to play. to learn. to build connections. to grow. to experience. we must hold onto the things that awe us. we are changed by what we love

[peacefulandcozy]

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