postpreproporting

[radicalgraff]

Anarchist mural in Ljubljana, Slovenia

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

[wotsukai]

"lesbians can have sex with men too!" that is not a radical take that's a catholic church take guys

[duncebento]

basically basically basically a lot of people (white in particular since u refuse to learn the histories of black community organizing) act as though they are speaking intracommunally when they tweet or whatever, which for obvious reasons is not true. like everyone can see that shit. but because they have no concept of the outward-facing nature of their discourse, they will say shit like “there are lesbians that have sex with men” which, if you give it the benefittttt of the doubt and add a bunch of qualifiers, is like okay whatever yeah all attempts to categorize human behavior will fail, and sexuality is fluid, and certain behaviors will always slip through the cracks blablablabla.

but the main statement they are making, “there are lesbians who have sex with men,” is, again, not being spoken across the table at a gay bar, is not being written down in a journal, but is being made in a public online space, meaning it has a potential impact on the outside world. and what lgbt kids of this decade have oh so stupidly forgotten (what we have been able to forget bc of the blessings of our predecessors) is that the shit we put out in the world is not just theoretical, is not just academic, is not just personal, but is strategically designed to make an appeal to and to reckon with mainstream narratives. (the very alliance of “lgbt” is not naturally occuring, of course, though for young people it may seem so. it is, in fact, a tactical alliance.)

SO, if we think for even a moment about mainstream narratives, the sentence “lesbians can have sex with men” does not bring to mind the failure of the social construct, the fluidity of sexuality, the decolonization of sexual roles. it brings to mind, quite obviously, the historically prevalent oppressive role that a heteronormative society, its heterosexual men in particular, has played in “turning out” lesbians, often to the extent of corrective rape. it is myopic to think that fighting for a prioritization of fluid sexuality in conversation is at all more urgent than combatting the still very prescient narrative of lesbian women possessing an innate biological urge for heterosexual sex that can be “unlocked” via certain means.

in our current climate, insisting that lesbians can have sex with men keeps lesbians in danger of homophobic sexual abuse, misogynistic harassment and kidnappings, and all the other historical accoutrements of that narrative. insisting that lesbians do not have sex with men, on the other hand, puts certain members of our community— say, women who identify wholly with lesbianism while still having one particular man they enjoy sex with— at risk of being called “problematic” by gay 20-somethings online.

[spindrifters]

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

[preproporting]

I dont know what to do with the facts that

1. France has completely taken the maerican suburb + giant car centered shopping centers concept and fucking ruuuun with it (bad)

2. They have local and ethically sourced products in their equivalent of walmart, their shopping complexes act as local resources - laundry services, free bathrooms, discount bike rentals (good)

Like, how did you take urban sprawl and not totally destroy the social political economic and every other type of fabric that exists?? Its first sad cuz like aaaaaaaa its hyper U, a french walmart. Then you realize that it has local fruit and bread. Then you google it and its a cooperative with decent worker pay. And like, is it perfect? For sure not, but fuuuuck.

So now what do i do with our current narrative about the negative impacts of this economic model? Does it kill local small businesses? Probably. So bad. But its a cooperative and local businesses are actually often also horribly exploitative statistically speaking. So good? But cars, so bad. But they made giant awesome bike lane super highways, so good.

So real question here. Do we want to kill walmart? Or do we want it turned into a worker owned cooperative federation with an extremely low or equal pay differential between workers?

[thesituation]

matched with this girl and we got to talking and then she didn’t reply for like a week and then just responded saying “hi sorry” and continued the conversation & tht was the biggest turn on like ohhh i love a girl who doesn’t take texting seriously that’s so hot. let’s throw our phones in a lake

[70sscifiart]

Hungarian poster art for the 1979 film “Alien,” by Tibor Helènyi

[animentality]

[cb1296]

Reminds me of this lol

[soberscientistlife]

[jmfenner91]

[morggo]

The Intentions Were Good.

[what-marsha-eats]

[thestoryofaslut]

not gonna lie, this actually looks like a good idea.

[adamsmasher]

I was camping this weekend and someone pulled out THREE snackleboxes and lemme tell you, absolute game changer

[radwolf76]

American bento

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

I was at a beach bbq yesterday and there were two of these excellent snackleboxes. Stole the show. First time I’d ever seen them, but let me tell you, It Will Not Be The Last.

[werewolbachia]

'horseplay' and 'monkey business' being treated as synonyms means something. don't know what though

[aaays-and-bees]

Monkeys are so silly that what they consider business, horses consider play.

[werewolbachia]

[animentality]

[teaboot]

I've been told before you shouldn't talk about politics or religion on a date because it might make things awkward, so I try to touch on both, partly because those are genuinely interesting subjects and partly because "bad first date" seems a thousand times better than "finding out six months later that you've fucked a staunchly conservative fundamentalist".

Like yeah disagreements are uncomfortable but you know what's worse? Waking up next to a dipshit

[southfarthing]

I'm imagining if tolkien lived now and publishers were asking him if he had enough followers on twitter and if he could film videos to market his found family elfcore magic cottagevibes worldbuilding fantasy book on tiktok. i think he would run them over with his car actually