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Rose | She/Her Xe/Xyr | White | Transfem Lesbian | Adult | 16+ Only please | Dating the lovely @weavingbirdsong, @abigailoutoftwitter, and @e-vel-eon | Writer | Lavender Town Syndrome Survivor | All Homestuck has now been quarantined to @triptychGardener | Minors please tag 'minors dni' | TERFS and transmisogynists fuck off, No more cishet men on my blog because y'all can't fucking behave

[rosegardenofeden]

WELCOME TO THE blog.

Hey y'all! Names Rose, She/Her Xe/Xyr, just decided to make a little promo post to redirect folks to some of my stuff!

My Bluesky is also @rosegardenofeden, but I barely post there, rip cohost. Other than that not a lot of socials.

IF you're here for my Homestuck stuff, I don't post that here! Go to @triptychgardener for all my updates and posts!

IF you wanna check out some of my writing, good luck, so would I.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

The Clarifier would like to make just one more comment

[passionpeachy]

I wish that if people are gonna portray Ralsei as evil they would characterize him correctly instead of the cliche ass “muahaha I was just pretending to be cute and friendly I was evil this whole time”. if he was a villain he would still be the most insecure little loser about it and try to sincerely convince Kris that. nevermind I just found the funniest image ever

[paulandersonxo]

do nuns have pockets

[paulandersonxo]

question answered thanks #MediaNun

[storyweavingspider]

Wait I thought when ppl said "racist phase" they meant "time when I hadn't deconstructed racist societal beliefs" phase what do you mean these people were ACTUALLY going out there and being racist like on purpose 😭

Baby I’m so sorry but a LOT of white people had periods of time as kids or even early adults where they regularly regurgitated slurs and direct racism and performed cruelty on racialized people. It can legitimately anywhere from “saying slurs on COD at 12” to “putting various unsanitary and hard to remove things into Black classmates hair” to “excluded racialized kids around them because they were yucky/etc.” to “assaulting racialized people around them” to “spent time on /b/ and gained standard 4chan racism brainworms”

You also straight-up can’t guess what it’ll be until they mention it or it jumps out. As an example, back in montana there was a white woman in my local kink community who was generally SO fucking sweet, kind, and caring to everyone around her, including me. One day she posted this on Facebook out of literal nowhere:

And doubled down after I called her on it.

Please understand that “hasn’t deconstructed racist social beliefs” means “can and will use racism when useful or they think they’re safe to, or will engage in white solidarity”

If they haven’t actually put in the work to destroy the white supremacy they’ve been internalizing from society their whole life, this can be basically any white person, at any time, no matter how they’ve behaved previously and how much you think they’d never do something like that.

The racist phases are real, and often haven’t had the work done to truly end either.

[storyweavingspider]

Being fully honest, over the past few years I’ve met multiple white queers who were literally born and raised in full-on white supremacist cults and only escaped as adults, and every single one of them was leagues more tolerable than the average white queer because they KNEW their shit was fucked to hell and they were quick to self-question, address, and apologize when something they didn’t know was false/racist/supremacist came up and they actively wanted to do/be better.

Meanwhile average white queers just don’t want to be cancelled and often don’t actually give a fuck whether they’re harming racialized people around them or whether they’re doing the work of picking the white supremacy brainworms out. Getting an apology, reparation, or basic fixes is like pulling fucking teeth with them.

It’s legitimately fascinating to look at the difference in approach between the two.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

what’s the real story with argentina being a nazi haven, overblown stereotype or lib fabrication? or more an annoying rhetorical distraction from the fact that the real nazi haven was germany and that denazification simply did not happen?

I mean there *were* cases of nazis being smuggled into brazil, argentina, chile, and paraguay through illegal escape routes colloquially referred to as ratlines. That is a thing that did happen.

However, the way americans in particular seem to latch onto this fact to dismiss any latin american that pisses them off, either in a "well whatever your country gave refuge to nazis" sense, or in a "I'm directly implying your family were escaped nazis" sense (another example I remember seeing once was a post about US imperialism in latin america where a yankee replied that OP had no business bitching about imperialism because she was probably "a white brazilian called Helga or something") is a bit ironic to me, considering that:

The vast majority of german immigrants to these countries in the 20th century were jewish refugees fleeing the nazis

The US took in thousands more nazis after ww2 than the entirety of Latin America combined

A lot of the nazis that *did* escape to latin america did so with the direct help of US intelligence agencies

Nazis that escaped to the US were treated as valuable anti-soviet assets, and many of them were given cushy jobs by the US government. Most of the nazis who escaped to latin america spent their entire lives hiding from the authorities under false identities, and those who were discovered were extradited or jailed

So americans in particular thinking they have any right to reduce latin american countries to "nazi havens" when talking about them is just plain xenophobic jingoism

[magicalastronomies]

the specific thing with argentina was started by spruille braden, then usa embassador to argentina, as opposition to the perón candidacy, accusing him of being an axis collaborator because a perón government would hinder usa interests in the region. braden later went on to be involved in the 1954 guatemalan coup amongst other things

Spruille Braden - Wikipedia

[maykitz]

unhappy side effect of "morally ambiguous" being treated as the pinnacle of writing is that you will often be made to experience what a not so talented writer with big aspirations thinks is morally ambiguous

[thesorceresstemple]

Nine of Swords | Ghetto Tarot | ph: Alice Smeets

[krispdreemurr]

all im saying is you dont draw your spooky fountain opening knife on a busy city street and then just stand there for a solid minute while your friend runs around if you dont hope, at least a little, that she turns around and catches you doing it

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

they also tear that paper slow as fuck

they literally could have just balled it up and ate the paper but they decided to sit there inspecting the seeds first extremely slowly and do fuckall when Susie walked in and took it from them

[krispdreemurr]

ITS TRUEEEEE and all the ch4 stuff w them walking around obviously behind noelle and susie, long pauses to drink choccy milk, Actively Playing Piano Loud As Hell, etc etc still applies too

[reverssentiment]

world's most self-sabotaging antagonist. in every possible direction. name a goal and kris will fuck themself over in their attempt to achieve it

[phobic-human]

"Let's dismember the American empire in every part of the world!"

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) postcard, 1970s.

[winged-void]

there's always a bit in nature documentaries where they start talking about reproduction and the voiceover suddenly becomes absurdly misogynistic as you suddenly understand just how attached every human involved with this project is to the word "female" and all of its implications

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[nocakeno]

#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher

tags via foxpunk

[nyantara]

this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.

if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.

[sexygaywizard]

FUCK AMERICA HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY CEASAR SALAD 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❗❗❗

[kaban-bang]

[calware]

nepeta

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I think the worst example I've ever seen of yankees' obsession with the idea of latin america being a nazi haven and the figure of the White Latino With Nazi Grandparents™ was that post where a brazilian user was talking about how her german jewish grandparents immigrated to brazil to escape from the nazis and, comoletely unprompted, some yankee ape literally went "are you sure they were FLEEING the nazis? I mean. Brazil. The nazis DID go there"

like bro did you legit just tell someone "erhm have you considered that based on my distorted and superficial view of your country's history (which I assume I know more than you about) your grandparents displaced by the holocaust were probably actually secretly nazis? ☝️🤓". such a feat of yankee arrogance

Like very little of the discourse I get into on this website makes me like actually genuinely angry irl but everytime I see a yankpig make a "lol argentina brazil nazi grandpa" joke that post flashes into my mind and I get genuinely mad

[marxistlesbianist]

Thinking about Roderic Day's theory of "licensing" as opposed to brainwashing, as an explanation for how the Western proletariat comes to adopt their bourgeoisie's world outlook: people in positions of relative privilage who haven't put much thought into their politics adopt symplistic beliefs that give them the license not to worry about their country's geopolitical economic position.

Specifically I am thinking about how this can be exended to understand phenomena like July 4th. Many have already called attention to the horribly misguided way in which "progressives" will adopt a patriotic posture to claim "this isn't what America [sic] is really about", but there's another type of patriotism I see from people who otherwise don't care about American Values™--who may even believe that they hate the US--but who will engage with the holiday as a sort of kitsch. In Tumblr terms, we could call this the let people enjoy things type of imperial chauvanism, as they tend to respond to criticisms of what the day is celebrating with statements like "I'm just here for the burgers and fireworks." For many people in the US, July 4th is the day where USAmerican flags lose their conservative, white trash signification and become a national costume--in a bizarre way, they appear depoliticized!* July 4th gives such people the license to be patriotic without having to be patriots. I think that many are being honest when they say that they only came for the fireworks; what they miss is that they are only able to enjoy the fireworks because they materially benefit from US imperialism.

*For otherwise politically disengaged US citizens I mean. The political nature of the flag, of course, works even if you don't believe in it.

[marxistlesbianist]

I appreciate this addition

[seymourworld]

if you dont stop firing off your stupid fireworks in the name of this horrifically evil excuse of a country im literally going to detonate the bomb that kills everyone

[flying-potato2]

bomb that kills all americans 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥