Moth Is Excited

Adult | They/he/it/any neos I am sorry but I do not have any money I can give you as I am an unemployed, chronically ill college student Profile description: a calico cat curled on a couch facing the camera with her eyes closed

[mothecho]

Intro post I guess:

Hi I’m Moth.

Any image I share or reblog has alt text or an image description, beginning of 2024-present.

What if we were all nice to each other. What if everybody was taken care of because they’re alive.

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about how much the revival of mainstream public gutter racism in North America relied on the fact that, even back when "racism is bad" was unassailable Common Sense, there was still an exception made for Muslims. You could be bigoted against them and still be welcome in elite circles.

"Oh but Muslims aren't a race!" Yeah, but you're eliding an entire religion with it's most fundamentalist version.

And then you're eliding all Arabs and Iranians and Pakistanis and such with being "Muslim"

And then you're eliding everyone who looks kind of brown with being "Arab" (remember that this was the line of attack against Obama, and was how Trump became a cult figure on the US right)

And then they just keep bootstrapping this up to fascism and genocide because, for my entire life as a politically aware individual, even when we "all" agreed that racism was bad, there were exceptions.

[quasi-normalcy]

Anyway the lesson here is that if you talk about universal human rights and you make an exception for anyone (say, for example, a captive population in the Middle East who should be expected to endure permanent military occupation because "they're all a bunch of bloodthirsty Jihadists who don't value human life"), you make an exception for everyone, including yourself.

[this-is-trans-joy]

You can’t call yourself a leftist if you hate children tbh, like you can choose not to have them or be around them, but outright hating the most marginalised group of people in the world who have absolutely no power or control over the most basic parts of their lives and bodies is a dangerous mentality to have and you need to grow the fuck up and get out of your edgy phase and start treating everyone around you like human beings, even the ones that piss you off.

[bisforbutch]

Black excellence is real. Young, gifted and black is real.

Black people not owing you excellence in exchange for decency is realer.

Black owned business, Black Wall Street and moving yo mama out the hood are all real. Young Black and rich is real.

Black people don't owe white people capitalism in exchange for being understood and championed. 💯

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[ashes2caches]

one time a guy friend told me he was quitting league of legends and literally two weeks later she was on estrogen. these events are intrinsically connected in my mind.

[eightyonekilograms]

There is still time [to stop playing league of legends]

[griffonatrix]

[charl0ttan]

going to work like some kind of work-slut. and yes im freeuse to them too 😮‍💨💸💸

[aquinohotelcentral]

[amphibianauthor]

Image description: Four individuals (white Femme presenting person in trans flag dress, Black masc person with blond dreads, tan femme person in a wheelchair and white hairy masc presenting fat person) are being denied entrance by a white bouncer to a club titled 'The Gayest Most Woke Fandom Club.' A speech bubble from the club door says "WHAT IF... AND HEAR ME OUT...TWO BOYS KISSED?! AM I THE FIRST ONE TO THINK OF SOMETHING THIS OUT OF THE BOX?!?!". On the wall behind the people there are posters that say "Black people in fantasy settings: the end of the world as we know it", "Two skinny white boys kiss the movie", and "queerbait show with no female characters fan club meeting tomorrow" End ID.

[homunculus-argument]

A free-range group therapy called "get herded, idiot", where you and everyone in your group is set loose to run around on an open field while a highly trained shepherd dog tries to keep you all in one group. I am not sure what benefit this would have for anyone involved.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This would fix everyone involved including the dog

[paranoidgemsbok]

Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment

[stackofsnakes]

I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.

Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

penis isn't real. pussy isn't even real. the only thing that is real, is the pleasure of combat

[miinobobeano]

It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical “professional” who says there’s nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support can’t access it.

I saw something recently that resonated with me: “Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.” And I’ve never agreed with anything more.

[gatsblergh]

abortion on demand without question apology or moralization

[gatsblergh]

i literally love abortion. thank god for abortion 🩷

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[hagiomoto]

That's because the barrier to being right-wing is basically nonexistent...you just have to hate minorities. Being a leftist has a much higher entry bar. Some people just take shortcuts: they haven't really gotten the whole "don't hate minorities" part of the ideology. Plus, a lot of leftist currents are also nationalist, xenophobic, and more reformist than revolutionary. And "leftism" can mean almost anything anyway, so the label "leftist" can mean almost anything too.

[wormnextdoor]

i love queerplatonic relationships where one of them is aroace and the other isn't. i love when the allo character has a crush that fades over time. i love when they don't care what they are to each other as long as they're together. i love when romance is an option that they don't choose. i love when both aros and allos feel fulfilled without romance or sex.