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Sweden | they/them | statistician and connoisseur of terrible puns

[bostonpoetryslam]

via the Academy of American Poets

[gothicprep]

“is this moment radicalizing you?”

while i’m here, and still somehow have followers on this website, i thought it would be useful to repost an activism resource masterpost i saw on twitter a few days ago. it looks like the OP (@thebryreed) set her account to private, but i saved the links and figured they would be useful reading & listening, given everything that’s going on right now.

Malcolm X (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet

Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin (1972)

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography (1987)

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (1979)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003)

The Invention of Women by Oyěwùmí (1997) (this requires institutional access or creativity)

Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech (1973)

Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech (1993)

Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Toni Morrison (2015) No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear 

W. E. B. DuBois Why I Won’t Vote (1956)

[snorlaxatives]

good morning cruel world

[the-little-engine-that-couldnt]

Don’t you mean goodbye?

[snorlaxatives]

no i meant good morning. this world may be cruel but i’m still kickin’

[fishyfellow]

This really cheered me up

[worldfastcararchived]

a chicken with curly feathers

[growtiredofpublicvulnerability]

what leave-in does she use...

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

not to sound like a protestant but the one bad joke all generations have in common is the normalization of alcohol dependency 

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

like i’m NOT about to start romanticize temperance i’m not against casual drinking or even getting absolutely blasted every once and a while…..but from forty somethings who meme about having to drink a whole bottle of wine to deal with their spouses to people my age who say “i can’t socialize without being at least a little buzzed” like that’s normal…it’s definitely….something to think about 

[aberrantemotion]

Do you guys think they were drawing porn of a humanized black plague girl hundreds of years ago, or is corona chan a new occurance

[normal-horoscopes]

THEY ABSOLUTELY DID HOWEVER CONTEMPORARY ART DEPICTED THE PLAGUE AS EITHER THE ANGEL OF DEATH OR APOLLO SO WHILE IT WASNT AN ANIME TITTY GIRL IT WAS A TWUNK HOLDING A SNAKE

[ahsadler]

[bitchvirgo]

[theconcealedweapon]

[bimbocracy]

This is a manipulation tactic that men use to make it such a pain in the ass to set a boundary with them that you don’t attempt it again

[indigenousandangry]

^What they said. Don’t give them an inch. They have absolutely no idea what to do once this tactic doesn’t work. 

“Ok fine I’ll just never speak again.”

“Good deal. You should never speak ever.”

[boomstab-papa]

“Well hey, if you’re volunteering-”

[tikkety-tok]

Funny enough they do break 😂

[catchymemes]

[inkskinned]

i want to be so kind it echoes backwards in time and undoes the things that hurt you. i want to be so kind it radiates from me. i want to be so kind that i make someone else find faith in humanity again. there’s not much i can do, i’m small and weak and i only know so many words. but i know i can be kind. and sometimes, i believe, that changes the world.

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[essenceofrose]

Okay I reblogged and got into the entrepreneurship program I wanted. This WORKS

[laqueus]

Uh-oh sisters! *phantom of the opera overture plays*

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[penny-anna]

The Fellowship & Bilbo + 19th Century Character Trope Generator

bonus Sam/Frodo

[closet-keys]

why none of them got into The Good Place

[exigencelost]

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

[egyptiann-deactivated20260812]

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

[thedreadvampy]

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

[nebula-maker]

[teaboot]

just once in my life i wanna get up in the morning without going through the full seven stages of grief first

[troubled-little-loner]

What are the extra two?

[teaboot]

Denial 2 and Astral Projection