I am Alive

26 || ⚖ || w.l.w. || I.N.F.P. || e.i.e.i.o. || imma gal who loves peppermint and cinnamon || ...you might even could say that I was...... cinnamintal..

[kdhumecurios]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[buqbite]

sometimes i feel ive got to

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run away

[stardustandpaperhats]

I'm coping with things just fine and you can pull my abo out of my *remembers su*cide jokes are bad for my mental health* warm alive hands if you want to, but you will have to accept the consequences of your actions very quickly

[ruinedchildhood]

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[unicornempire]

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

[theheroheart]

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

[jack-the-bear]

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

[lets-go-steal-an-ot3]

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

[mikkeneko]

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

[melyzard]

Reblogging for the website.

[nianeyna]

yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.

[bethanyactually]

RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!

Undue Medical Debt Homepage

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

[east-of-nowhere]

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

[dailycatsblog]

[hounneybuonney]

I feel like we can and should have a conversation about Denji’s viewing of women, how he craves admiration and connection through sexual validation and often sees women as a way to meet those needs, and how it’s misogynistic without inherently robbing him of his victimhood.

[pheonixfidelity]

The entire scene wherein he said everything he disliked about every woman he knew whilst the first image displayed in his brain is of them posing erotically for him whether he likes them romantically or as a person at all. his first image of them is holes he could Fuck if he Wanted to but doesn’t, Angel is even added because Denji thought he was a woman and instinctively objectified him.

It is brushed off as “immaturity” and “he’s just a teenager” when one of the root issues with humanity as a whole is boys being TAUGHT to view girls as “to be fucked or not to be fucked”

[shallowriver]

the characterization of makima from all sides of the fandom is very incorrect and downright infuriating as someone with a deep love for makima.

i genuinely don’t care about the dudebros who call her mommy, not because it’s correct or not egregious, but because they’re few and far between if you’re not engaging with stupid men. what is more frustrating to me is people that call her a sexual predator or pedophile.

she dangled denji’s desires in front of him to manipulate him. she was never going to have any sexual relations with him, and her manipulation + grooming were never sexual. she is incapable of that sort of attraction.

i also dislike the people that characterize her as some wacky cartoonishly evil sadist when her sadism is no more than that of any devil. she does not enjoy killing, she enjoys control. her laughing after killing power was her experiencing the joy of her power, true control, and being swallowed by that ecstasy.

people seem to forget that her life is not dissimilar to reze’s. she was also a child once, and she had always been kept “collared and controlled” by the state. she views people as tools due to the combination of her natural desire for control and also because she has always been a tool with a gun to her head. she never knew equal relationships, all she knew was the government and its destruction.

her treatment of denji, including destruction of his family and security, was for the purpose of drawing out chainsaw man and having him eat the other horsemen and all of the other dangerous devils.

she did get some level of satisfaction in these things, her instincts as the control devil make that immovable, but she also got satisfaction due to her jealousy. seeing denji get a family and withhold equal relationships despite the danger of his hybrid aspect, she feels satisfied that she gets to rip that away and watch him turn empty and motionless, just like herself.

her reasoning for wanting to kill other devils is control is something that is feared due to what it brings. war, famine, death, etc. are all the reasons people feel fear towards control. makima desperately wants equal relationships, a family, to feel the simple joys that people do.

she believes her actions are a necessary evil to ultimately end human suffering. she believes this because her life is government control, and the only way she knows how to achieve this goal is the same techniques used by the corrupt and abusive government. she doesn’t care what it takes because she doesn’t know how, people are pawns to her because that is how her superiors treat humans and makima herself.

despite part of her goal being to “free” mankind of their pain, it is truthfully more selfish than that. you see it too when she cries in the movie theater while two characters hug. she would give anything for a chance at a family, a chance at equality without feeling above others. how can a devil feel above others if she has no leverage to hold? maybe then, and only then, could she be free of her chains.

the overarching theme of chainsaw man is government corruption. makima is a product of that, a victim of the cruelty instilled since she was born. she is the tragic example of what a system turns blank slates into. her stone had been carved for years, and there was no way for her to erase that. this is all she knows, and as such she had to be erased to form a new beginning in the form of nayuta.

[pheonixfidelity]

Finding out in march 2026 that I can finally hold down on the blue tags and move them around in order 😭

[pheonixfidelity]

People my age who say they don’t understand 67 as if it’s not just a fucking meme John you sound like your father

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[balkanparamo]

Una Mujer Filipina, a late 1800s painting

[miawasthere]

when i catch myself laughing with friends but then i remember the world is ruled by white rich pedophile supremacists and so nothing's funny anymore

[liberalsarecool]

Men made decisions to rape with fellow rapists. They decided sexual abuse and torture were bonding experiences.

Language matters. Stop removing men from their active role in raping children.

[sugar-petals]

small wins, we keep that energy. now who’s next

[pheonixfidelity]

Living Humans who have vaginas: “I do not want my only physical form to be swollen in pain for 280 days, nor the excruciating pain that pushing it out would entail”

someone who can afford to eat literally anything else in the entire earth—drooling from both ends: “you’re literally a fucking monster, that is a living human being bak- I mean growing inside of you right now and you’re just going to kill it?? How do you sleep at night, baby killer?”