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29 ~ she/her || PNW || sapphic || mixed lightskin native || opinionated || !minors do not interact! -- I block liberally

[sixth-extinction]

Potosi pupfish (Cyprinodon alvarezi) Extinct in the wild since the 1990’s, this species of pupfish is now bred in captivity by dedicated aquarium hobbyists. [Source]

[overwelmd]

mars black

[81gb]

megan thee stallion , tiktok .

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[teaboot]

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

[smorzando]

[alexalleshater]

Polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky Lot 1 - Polaroid 6

[allleyezzonme]

No beauty shines brighter than a good heart.

[grlsluvbadbtchs]

i'll always wear my heart on my sleeve, nonchalance killed romance & i'd like to be buried in romance

[moon-meerkat]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

[fangtastic-bastard]

"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing."

I find this passage from the Mary Oliver essay "Staying Alive" very poignant and true.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

i've been seeing this around a lot lately as like a little memey jokey thing but "this is what they took from you" is a fascist meme.

"they" are jewish people/"the global elite"/"cultural marxists"/"globalists"/"the woke left" etc.

and it's basically the same as "RETVRN" like this is explicitly a fascist thing that fascists say about their fascist beliefs

please don't go around saying it

you can talk about capitalist enshittification without invoking fascism, and just because YOU mean something different doesn't mean it's not invoking those things it's explicitly meant to invoke

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

"reject modernity, embrace tradition" is another fascist slogan I'm seeing people use like it's a cute meme. please stop with this shit.

[nordurslodur99-deactivated20231]

I thought people knew this, that's why I make jokes about it. The same way Pepe was used by Nazis but now is used by everyone because it's been taken from them.

Reject Modernity (white nationalist neofascism) embrace tradition (melting pot societies)

[missline]

Appropriate everything from the fascists, changing the meanings in the process until the fascists have nothing left

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

You're not "appropriating" or "reclaiming" fascist propaganda when you do this, you're spreading it.

Regardless of what YOU mean when you say these things, you're making fascist ideas normal to other people.

These types of slogans are chosen because their underlying logic is fascist. The idea that society needs to go back to some better time (implication being when Those People knew their Place/when white men had more power), the idea that the world is being made worse by a secret organization that's code for "Jewish people", these ideas are very common and fascist memes and slogans like these are meant to reinforce them.

Joking about fascist ideas is literally the most common tool fascists use to get their foot in the door. If it doesn't fly they can claim they were "just joking" but they use jokes and coded language like this to a) gradually normalize those ideas to radicalize non fascists and b) find other bigots.

Regular people parroting their shit just helps them. It makes absolutely zero difference if you've decided you're "reclaiming" fascist talking points. The material impact of your words is that now fascist talking points are normal and acceptable in your social circles.

You are helping them recruit when you use their actual recruitment tactics, even if you decide it's different when YOU do it.

We don't actually need to "appropriate" fascist ideas or symbols.

Best case scenario, they get plausible deniability because non-fascists are saying these things too.

Worst case scenario, you made their opinions and ideas sound way more palatable and reasonable to their next recruitment target.

[40ouncesandamule]

The limits of the liberal imagination are going to get us all killed

[covid-safer-hotties]

[vintricles]

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[swordtit]

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

[achillesinhighheels]

[kittydealer]

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