Love Is Revolution

Mon, Willow or Niki, 30. Vaguely NB (she/they) bisexual! I write books and make art and talk about social justice. Pro vax, pro science AND religion, pro autism, anti conservative and anti-censorship. Don’t be a 🍆 please.

[silversong79]

The love referred to in my blog title is absolutely not constrained to romantic or erotic love, just fyi. Revolutionary love is any love which urges us to wish for, and work for, the good of others outside ourselves.

[byjove]

Hot take? I only think polygamy is bad if it is Mormon. Not inherently immoral in the slightest, practiced worldwide throughout history by many different cultures and religions. Humans have more female ancestors than male ancestors, probably because of related phenomena. No desire to get married at all much less have multiple wives but I think it’s only objectionable if your spouses do not consent, are children and/or you are Mormon. I know the mainstream Mormon church has outlawed it, that moral judgement applies to splinter groups and historical figures.

[thedevilsrain]

every single translator: get his ass

[argumate]

Hungarian translator: I'm on it

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells AP

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.

Some news in the manosphere right now, not that anyone wanted to know.

Apparently they are being prosecuted for additional sexual offenses:

The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.

For those not in the know, Andrew Tate is kind of notorious for marketing sex trafficking as an alpha male lifestyle

[innerchildabortionclinic]

It's worth reading about his methods.

Andrew Tate's "War Room"

There is talk about assessing vulnerability of women, removing their support systems, how to punish them, etc

This is a very sinister rabbithole.

[the-early-wyrm]

watched supergirl and it retroactively makes superman's backstory so funny

jor-el: we have to send our son away so that he can survive the explosion of krypton's core. he will land on another planet and we will be separated from our beloved child forever and we will die. but there is no other choice.

zor-el: hey i finished that forcefield i told you i was working on. you can all live together on argo.

jor-el: we have no choice. he has to become a dictator and populate the earth with kryptonians

zor-el: We. Have. A. Forcefield.

jor-el: goodbye, my magical earth dictator baby. i wish there was another way.

zor-el: so do you not hear me or-

jor-el: WE HAVE NO CHOICE. DICTATOR BABY.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr reply with username blocked out reading: *volunteering at the soup kitchen, holding a bowl hesitantly to my chest* what do you think about age gaps in ships /End ID]

[darlingofdots]

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

[playwrongs]

Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

[gingisnap]

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

[parasocialites]

how did a woman manage to date elvira for 19 years and not tell every single person she knows

[onetine]

[aropride]

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i love my this. the charactr

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charac te r. ... ... . .... #FUUUUCK. THE CHARACTER.

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DOES ANYBODY EVER THINK ABOUT .THE CHARACTER

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[1.5k word essay about the character] #but like idk maybe im wrong

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character i love youso badly.

^dash when someone is possessed by The Character core (this post is positive)

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[lastoneout]

We gotta do something about ecoableism, guys, I can't keep seeing people confidently assure everyone that their ideal world is one where disabled people with specific needs don't get to be alive.

[lastoneout]

The most insidious thing about eugenics is that society is so ableist the majority of people do actually think eugenics would work and disabled people are better off dead, they just tack on an assumption that while yes eugenics works it's still bad because disabled people dying for being disabled is morally wrong. But they never actually think it's scientifically or medically wrong. We're just civilized enough we've decided to politely pretend the science isn't right because social justice.

It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.

That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.

Idk if this makes sense but yeah. We gotta do something about this.

[lastoneout]

This is what Into the Woods meant when it said nice is different than good.

[lastoneout]

This is also how you get people being like "I'm not an ableist! I love disabled people!" after making a joke about Trump wearing diapers or not being able to walk down a ramp. They don't think ableism is wrong, they just think it's right but impolite, so only okay aimed at those who deserve to be insulted.

Absolutely part of why shit sucks so much rn.

[lastoneout]

Ngl I'm glad I figured out how to word this, bcs trying to articulate it as "you don't actually think bigotry is wrong you just think the target should be someone else" always felt incomplete! I now know what I meant was "you don't think bigotry is wrong you just think it's impolite and that's different" that's what I needed. You just think bigotry is being mean to a marginalized person who, crucially, has done nothing to deserve it. The second they do tho? Anything is fair game.

Yeesh. What a rancid ass way to view the world.

[parkchanwoohoo]

The facial expressions of everyone trying not to lose it are killing me

[gunsandfireandshit]

This is painfully American

[dirtbaby2016]

Americans be like it is totally normal for an entire stadium (including military members) to stand at attention while a fast food clown mascot sings the national anthem

[unstablebill]

when we say "it is functionally impossible to parody Americans in a way that will actually insult them" this is the sort of thing you're up against. is your sick burn funnier than corporation burger clown sing national anthem baseball game? no?? of course it isn't.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He did it, he summed up modern tech startup culture.

[cogentranting]

The best thing about Spider-Noir is most of the actors are playing it very straight as a genuinely good engaging noir mystery. Brendan Gleeson is a great mob boss. Lamorne Morris is so likable. Li Jun Li makes a great femme fatale. Jack Huston and Abraham Popoola are sympathetic and engaging.

And there's Nic Cage. Who is ALSO playing it straight. He's just playing "what if a man became a spider and then learned how to pretend to be human again from watching movies" and is playing THAT insane concept for all it's worth. 10/10. This is what he was born to do.

[mcromwell]

Find a humanitarian organization near you and volunteer with them. Do it. I mean it. Even like one day a week. Even an HOUR a week. This shit will change you in the best ways. Your circle will fill with cool people. THE HELPERS-- FIND THEM and then BE THEM

Being in close contact with people who give a shit and are also witnessing the descent of our country into fascism and ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT is actually mad refreshing in contrast to the pointless noise that is the internet.

You'll make such fast friends if you:

show up

say "where do you need me"

do what they say

have a good attitude

Done. Easy. Volunteering is awesome and will put you right in the lap of the best people in your area. They're the helpers, they're the people Mr. Rogers told you about!

Doing an easy task like potting trees for a community garden or helping at a food bank will also connect you to people who are doing more, like immigrant support or things that tackle more urgent, dangerous issues going on. So you can scale up your involvement easily by just showing up repeatedly.

Or don't scale it up-- maybe you stop at helping at the food bank and you're stacking cans for a few hours. You're feeding your neighbors. That's a load-bearing part of any revolution. (I use that word optimistically.) The people you meet will be the people you lean on when shit gets worse.

AND VICE VERSA, prove that you are someone to lean ON by showing up and helping. Offer things to people. Your skills may be helpful. Already, just because we've done local volunteering, we have made at least 5 or 6 new friends, got a potential firewood connection, and WELL-PAID EMPLOYMENT (??? OMG)

(and free lunches and snacks and fruit trees) And it's healing as fuck to have people genuinely tell you, in the flesh, to your face, "I'm so glad you showed up today. I appreciate you so much. This would have been harder without you." That shit makes you feel AWESOME and REAL and PURPOSEFUL

(We woke up early for a shift at the food bank, I'm hyping myself up because I am not a morning person LMAO) But yeah volunteering is such a good way to build security and community. There's something for everyone to help with, just get out there and show up, first.

[qunibaby]

Started volunteering 3 hours a week at a queer community center and it has helped boost my morale so much. There’s something magical about needing a safe space and then becoming apart of that safe space. Helping others really does help/heal you.

[oblongfruitsnack]

we actually need to be making a bigger stink about jkr's latest temper tantrum than we are. jkr taking a stand for hate speech and against an international human rights org cannot go unpunished

hogwarts legacy is still on xbox game pass. we need to make "microsoft is against amnesty international" trend. their actions need to have consequences. "microsoft stands against human rights" or something

people don't give enough of a shit about trans people for it to have worked in the past, but now she's harming countless people worldwide out of spite. jkr and anyone who supports her stand against an organization that fights for women's rights globally, cis or otherwise. migrants' and workers' rights too. she can no longer use "women's rights" as a shield when she's trying to ruin one of the biggest organizations that's doing the thing she claims to be doing for fucking PR Points. people won't believe that she gives a fuck about women if we can make enough noise saying that she's actively harming vulnerable women. she's trying to shut down women's shelters, for fucks sake. she's against free speech

we need this can of worms to be open and spilling everywhere if we want to have a chance to shut her the fuck up

[mabelsguidetolife]

apparently shaq was using his sponsorship with sora to make pictures and videos of his imagined romantic life with marilyn monroe and the children they would have together……. and then posting it where the entire world, including his real actual children, can see it 🫠🫠🫠

[mabelsguidetolife]

no bc how else are you supposed to react when your dad is proudly presenting a clip of himself and a dead celebrity, frozen in time, creating an ostensibly perfect nuclear family on valentine’s day…… and tagging papa john’s in it……..

[rostbef]

[hyperspacial]

not to post ai slop but I wanted to confirm it was actually posted by him and this is genuinely so bizarre