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Sometimes ill go back and look at the Tumblr account I had in high school that I got locked out of. The feelings of nostalgia and yearning for a brighter time (seriously the fact that i had all the same political positions but those ideas have lost popularity in the conservative way we're in feels nutty to look at) is made to be even more of a trip by one of the last things I reblogged being a JK Rowling tweet from before she was a crazy terf
They're selling bush on temu
The nefarious consecuences of the industrial revolution
Just like Marx warned us
Im stoned and soul mates exist but not (necessarily) in a romantic way. But, like, the Pacific Rim mech kinda way.
In that they are more about deep understanding than anything else and that you can have multiple without any of them taking away from the value of the others.
And also that your soul mate is definitely the first person you should think of if get the chance to pilot a kick ass mech
I've never been one to complain about rainbow capitalism anyway and in 2025 I am firmly "I will take whatever I can get" but I wish that conversation ever focused on whether companies putting pride themed logos on their social media accounts have homophobic or transphobic policies behind the scenes. Subaru was notable in the 90s because when their market research showed their cars were popular with lesbians and they decided to start actively advertising to them, they backed that up with policies for their LGBTQ employees, notably extending benefits to same-sex partners when gay couples couldn't legally get married, which was a big deal at the time. If a company is doing rainbow capitalism in public but have a history of employees complaining about discrimination we should talk about that but that's never what the generic complaints about rainbow capitalism are.
Do you guys think aliens have invented makeup? I know there are more interesting things like "what would their societal structures be" but makeup has such old and important meanings across human culture and time. War paint. Funeral makeup. Drag. And all the ways its purely expressive. So much of our history can be traced through cosmetics. I wonder if life elsewhere would do the same
tumblr leftists being surprised to see middle aged white women with signs or hats saying "deny defend depose" really reinforces for me that tumblr leftists don't actually talk to people lmao. like I did a lot of canvassing as a teenager and you know who the best most reliable political organizers are? middle aged women. you know who's bloodthirsty after watching rachel maddow every night and sharing HuffPo articles on facebook? middle aged women. maybe sheryl from iowa who's been voting religiously for democrats for the past thirty years IS more hardcore than you, tumblr user who did a write-in "protest vote." what are you going to do about that.
This is how I celebrated the Ides of March last year. I don't know how to commit to the bit any more this year, but I'll take suggestions.
On "See You Tomorrow at the Creek"
I like to think of my trauma like the scene of the dad playing "won't back down" on guitar as he fights off coyotes in the Back at the Barnyard movie
Yes it's very tragic and moving. But, like, it's in the Back at the Barnyard movie
bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes
The angriest a man has ever been with me was the time I told a guy I wasn't interested in reading the Game of Thrones books because I'd already had a Warrior Cats phase and they seemed pretty similar
unfortunately i have a deep love for humanity and choose to believe conditions will improve. despite it all
the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese
oops, in your attempt to martyr yourself out of respect for your victims you accidentally sabotaged your own ability to conceptualize yourself as anything but a perpetual evildoer who is always one bad day away from hurting everyone you love, all but guaranteeing history to repeat itself. rookie mistake
im gonna try explaining myself, cus im a gambling addict and im waiting for the day that it actually works.
"forgiveness" is personal, that's why I said in the post that you might inflict harm on people for which they can never forgive you, but that's their quest. if you abuse someone, you can't go no-contact with yourself. you actually keep living in your own head indefinitely, and ultimately you need to learn to live with yourself in order to continue living a full life without further harm. this is not necessarily an anti-carceral thought, although i am generally anti-carceral myself. I simply want people to like, fix their heart and atone for real with measured accountability & self love instead of dissociating, self-marking themselves forever and guaranteeing their recidivism.
You and a remorseful abuser would both think I'm giving the easy, coddling path. It's actually the tough pragmatic path in disguise.
Ok. I see where you going, but I strongly disagree. The one person who can't be allowed to forgive ones crimes is oneself.
Even if everyone else has forgiven you for the abuse you did, you must never allow yourself to let what you did be forgiven. Once you've done that, you've gotten to the point where you might do it again.
Never let up. Always strive towards improvement. Never let yourself live down the horrors of the past. Only by comparing ourselves to who we were can we grow.
this is called OCD
It’s so fucking frustrating to argue about this on tumblr.com. Because people might pay lip service to the idea of criminal justice reform or even prison abolition. But deep down they always come back to the Calvinism of it all: there are good people (victims) and bad people (abusers) and once someone has revealed themselves to be an abuser they can never be forgiven, never be part of society again.
And if you believe the world works like that one other thing also has to be true: You know you are a ‘good person’, so nothing you ever do could be truly abusive. You could never truly harm another person. And if you did they must have deserved it. Because you are a good person.
And wow, does that not just sound like something abusers usually say, when confronted with their own behavior?
I would leave the rest up to the reader but because we are on the piss on the poor reading comprehension site here, I’m going to spell it out: get comfortable with your own fallibility. Acknowledge that you could indeed severely harm someone else. And that means that you NEED to learn to forgive yourself.
Ya’ll need to get the church out of your head. As someone raised Southern Baptist with a history of self harm, I need to be so fucking clear about something.
You cannot heal another by harming yourself.
Self harm is not reparations. Maybe a victim wants the person that hurt them to suffer. That’s a valid, human reaction. But, ultimately, their healing is reliant on other factors, ones the person that hurt them usually can’t control. Timing, surroundings, seeking help. The person that harmed can help by physically distancing themselves from their victim, but that’s just about the only material thing they can do to mitigate further harm. They need to apologize if possible, but the victim may not be in a place to hear or internalize it. Something the the person that harmed, again, can’t control. Suffering doesn’t clarify or purify. It doesn’t bring justice, it doesn’t prevent injustice. It just means there’s more suffering and serves as a distraction from any actual progress.
You do not harm others by healing yourself.
In fact, I believe the best way to move forward is to build yourself into someone who would never do that harm again. Whether it was sustained abuse, sexual assault or just saying something unkind that one time. If you hurt someone and feel terrible, change. Because you can’t go back. Full stop, time travel doesn’t exist. You cannot undo these things. No one can. So think before you act/speak. The most responsible thing you can do is face the part of you that caused you to harm another. Where did it come from? Why is it here? How do I heal it? Because if you don’t, no amount of guilt is going to guarantee that it won’t happen again. Healing is the only thing that prevents harm.
This may be a bit rambly, but the black and white view of morality that ya’ll have reminds me of all the worst parts of church and it genuinely scares me. There is a difference between trying to do right and trying to be righteous. Humans are grey. We will each of us cause harm and be harmed. We will each of us have reason to rightfully feel guilt at one time or another and telling people that the only proper response is to freeze and sink and mire in their own self-hate is not sustainable or helpful to anyone. And if you yourself have never had reason to feel guilt, well…. I certainly don’t want to be around you.
You did something unforgivable in the past?
Whatever it is, there are people who do it regularly and still continue to do it. There are people who surround themselves with people who allow them to continue doing it. There are people who lobby for policies making it easier to do. There are people who acquire positions of power in order to make sure they can get away with it and make sure anyone they hurt is afraid of fighting back. There are people who promote propaganda in order to encourage others to do it. There are people who demonize anyone who speaks out against it.
And they see nothing wrong with themselves. They're able to go about their lives with zero guilt.
You're a much better person than they are if you did something unforgivable in the past that you're now actively against. You shouldn't have to suffer a life sentence for it.
This is also one of the main reasons why people struggle to see spanking as abuse.
They see abuse as something only an irredeemable monster can do.
But they don't see their parents who spanked them as irredeemable monsters. And they don't see themselves as irredeemable monsters when they spank their children. And since they don't see parents who spank as irredeemable monsters, they can't see spanking as abuse.
But abuse isn't something only irredeemable monsters do. Otherwise good people can be manipulated by propaganda into doing evil actions and causing lifelong harm to others.
Our society that's obsessed with punishment only gives people two options for how to treat people who have caused harm to others. Either brand them as permanently evil, or justify their evil actions and allow them to continue. And since people don't want to brand parents who have ever spanked as permanently evil, trying to justify it seems like the only option.
When people who have ever done something bad are labeled as permanent monsters, only the ruling class benefit.
When the ruling class face opposition, they always try to dig up whatever dirt they can find on their opposition. And since everyone has done unforgivable things at some point, they're always able to find something.
People who have been abusive in the past and wish to atone for it can often be very useful allies. They know what caused them to be abusive and how to prevent others from going down the same path. They won't be perfect and their voices shouldn't be prioritized over the people they've abused, but their disgust at their past self for being abusive and at whatever happened to them that caused them to be abusive can be a powerful motivator for change. But if they're permanently branded as monsters, then the only people who can challenge the ruling class are those with a perfect record. And since there are very few people with a perfect record, the ruling class will always be more numerous.
Meanwhile, the ruling class who are proudly abusive and expect to continue being abusive get a free pass. They don't have to be anywhere near perfect.
If a path to forgiveness is available, even if it's a difficult one, it's much more likely that abusive people will ditch their enablers and surround themselves with people who promote their healing. But if forgiveness is impossible, they'll only continue to associate with their enablers.
I think my dream job might be "OSHA Inspector" because I do think my two strongest personality traits are a desire to be mean to sexist men and being nosey as hell
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
