Empowering Is Powerful

20 year old girl called Jessica living in Australia. Fighting against social injustices every day.

[odditycollector]

Good news everyone I have accidentally discovered the stupidest fucking conceivable way to make myself to do chores

It goes like this…..

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My car: *low gas light on*

Me: I mean, I COULD stop at the gas station on the way home… OR! I could just NOT do that and deal with it tomorrow

Me: but what if I get stuck in a time loop starting tomorrow and every day I wake up and my car is on empty that would be so annoying

Me: uggghhh FINE I will stop at the gas station.

****LATER THIS EVENING:****

My sink: *has all my bowls and tea mugs in it*

Me: okay I don't actually care about this problem for tonight I am not planning on eating soup or tea

Me: …yeah but if i do end up being stuck in a time loop starting tomorrow it is going to SUCK to have only dirty tea cups in the morning forever

Me: uuuuughhhh okay clean sink it is

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I hate this. My brain must have an extremely low opinion of me to even try it, and it worked.

But hey, I don't have to try to remember to leave 5 min early tomorrow for a gas run?

[wolfyo]

in grade 8 i did a power point presentation on “whooping cough” and my opening slide was a photo of whoopi goldberg coughing and i was the only person who laughed at it and i couldnt start the presentation for like five minutes because i was laughing too hard at my own joke

[juegosintiperojuegocontigo]

[hartro-owns-my-heart-ro]

”getting thicker skin” is great in theory but I think for some people “get better at handling your thin skin” is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and that’s the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.

[outstanding-quotes]

I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again.

Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

[mirefireflies]

okay i just finished the glass onion movie and something i haven’t seen anyone else mention is the names of the twins.

(SPOILERS)

helen and cassandra are greek names. both of them were known as major players in the trojan war, helen for being “the face that launched a thousand ships” and cassandra for foreseeing the fall of troy.

in the movie, just as it was for the trojan war, helen is the catalyst that sets all the bloodshed into motion — her very presence causes things to spiral and spiral until her final act of destruction. and cassandra !! in greek mythology cassandra was cursed by apollo, the god of prophecy, to be able to see the future but never be believed. she foresaw the fall of troy but no one paid any attention to her warnings. and just like her mythological counterpart, cassandra brand saw the dangers of the new energy source and tried to warn her partner but he didn’t believe her and she was ousted for telling the truth.

(the fire consuming the glass onion building at the end is even similar to the burning of troy and the ransacking of the city that followed the end of the war.) it’s such a small detail relative to the whole movie, but the sister’s names tell their stories even before we see them unfold.

[bi-halobearer]

i really lovesd that derol from glass onion was a symbol of corona itself!

he walked around with a case of corona or corona bottle in his hand and said "just pretend im not here"

bc this was may 2020, during peak bread-baking level of quarantine, but covid wasnt a thing on the island 🤣🤣

[38ravensand39crows]

Went down a Glass Onion rabbit hole and—

I kept thinking that the name Cassandra Brand reminded me of another name. And just now I figured it out— it reminded me of Sandra Bland. So I did some research to refresh my memory. She was a Black woman who was considered an activist. She died in police custody in 2015. Her death was deemed a suicide, but many people didn’t believe this and her family filed a Wrongful Death lawsuit against the police department.

Exactly one month after Sandra Bland’s death, a powerful song was released in protest. This song even directly states her name, and the names of many other Black people who died at the hands of the police.

What is this song? Well, it’s “Hell You Talmbout” by none other than JANELLE MONAE.

The implications here are so deep and so complex. The parallels between two Black women standing up for themselves, pointing out the flaws in the system, then getting KILLED by the system— only for the killers to rule the deaths as suicides so that no one would hold them responsible for the blood on their hands?? Also I wonder if Janelle Monae had any input in the writing of the plot. If so, the movie might be a tribute to her. On a deeper level, the movie can be a call to action, a cathartic revenge for an oppressed group fighting for basic rights, and/or an outpouring of love for the families of police brutality victims (who are angry and fighting for the truth, though the justice system systematically denies them justice).

It could go even deeper, though I am very privileged and I can’t make those connections myself. This movie is just so beautifully nuanced and has so many layers! I am absolutely in awe. And if the name Cassandra Brand is in fact a tribute to Sandra Bland, it makes the movie that much more compelling, thought-provoking, nuanced and heartfelt. I can’t stop thinking about it.

[sheepskeleton]

So I've seen Glass Onion twice already and I've been thinking. Since we are already talking about Cassandra and Helen being a reference to ancient times... And there is a ruined "ancient temple" facade right there behind the dinner table in Miles' living room... Maybe the thing that I'm thinking is not a coincidence.

There was a also guy in ancient Greek history who wanted his name to be remembered forever.

And you know what he did to achieve that?

He burned down the biggest, most famous temple at the time, the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.

I rest my case.

[rylandsgrace]

Glass Onion + Text posts

[wolfstrela]

[atypical-snowman]

On this day in 2013 Wendy Davis filibustered the Texas Senate, stopping abortion restrictions from being placed on Texans.

I got home from work that night and learned that she was still filibustering and that Senate Republicans were doing their best to stop her. I got in my car and drove the five or so miles between me and the Capitol.

This is what greeted me.

I don’t know how many people were there, but I was so encouraged to know she wasn’t alone. That I wasn’t alone either. She was almost at the end, I want to say thirty minutes to midnight when they declared her filibuster over and the vote would commence. I probably forgot exactly what they did to end it, maybe she took a sip of water or something.

So for the last half hour we screamed. That is a very long time to scream at the top of your lungs. We screamed so loud they couldn’t take the vote. We screamed for our lives. By the time we quieted down it was 12:01 and the vote failed.

That was nine years ago today. Today of all days I think of that night, about what we can do together. It brings me some comfort. I hope it brings some for you too.

[dirtylittlebookworm]

“god doesn’t want people to kill babies”

he literally killed his own son

[dimanchea]

[aretherestarsinhell]

“i still love you. you know that right? i always did, probably always will. lord knows i was never good at letting things - or people - go.”

-and other things i’ll never tell you. c.r.

[visit-ba-sing-se]

shout out to every one still wearing their mask, no matter if mandatory or not. everyone who used their privilege to get their vaccine and booster shot. everyone who is careful to still follow the rules on social distancing. everyone who missed out on some kind of fun or thing they looked forward to because it did not seem right in the middle of a pandemic (and might have even gotten mocked as stuck up). all of this has been so long and frustrating but it would be way worse if It weren’t for you, so thank you so much for carrying on for all of us. 

[conarcoin]

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

[dovewithscales]

No one should have to pay (other than fair taxes) for any necessity. We exist in a post scarcity economy in which scarcity is artificially created in order for the rich to profit off the poor. There's no reason for food, housing, medical care, or education to have an out of pocket cost.