mooksie01 replied to your post “My mother, after catching up on RWBY with me and finally seeing the...”
You can’t do Ep12 to her, you just can’t ;-;
Don’t worry! We already had a chat about this over here, and she 2980374% stands by the decision that the ending was bullshit. She took it a lot better than I expected, probably because we had an open chat about it and the misuse of themes surrounding it, but she still thinks it’s bullshit.
It could’ve been a hypnagogic hallucination (hallucinations that occur as a person is falling asleep)? I have pretty regular hypnopompic hallucinations (hallucinations that occur as a person is waking up) if I have to wake up early in the morning and it’s not uncommon for them to be stuff like knocking?
Apparently it was my sister and when she knocked the first time I didn;t hear it so when she knocked the second time she didn;t say anything thinking I was asleep so that’s why I freaked. XP
Hello! I just wanted to message you to, I guess, petition you to please, please take down that “Storm Fort Sill” post. The sentiment behind it is nice, yes, but OP is 18 and extremely volatile besides, and their “plan” is more likely to get people hurt or killed than accomplish anything. Seeing that post pick up more steam is starting to make me really nervous that people are actually gonna try something. So, please, I understand why you reblogged it, but I don’t think op has good intentions.
Hm. Hm. I have complicated feelings about this. This is a very long essay (i am attempting to put it under a read-more but sometimes tumblr fucks that up with asks)
I don’t think I’m going to take the post down. We are reaching a point of fascism where we have to be willing to put our lives on the line in order to enact any change. You’re nervous that people will actually try something, and… yeah. I mean. That’s how things get better. People are already getting hurt and killed in those concentration camps, even people much, much younger than the OP of that post. Do their lives matter less than ours? Are they unworthy of having someone being willing to fight or die to help them?
Here’s a famous photo of students protesting the Vietnam War by standing in front of loaded guns that are being pointed at them, putting flowers in the barrels:
The name of that man with the flowers? George Harris.
His age at the time? 18.
I can’t accept the OP’s age as a legitimate reason to take down the post. Young people have always been on the front lines of great social change – they’re the only people dumb and reckless enough to be there! And it wouldn’t happen at all without them being that dumb and reckless! We can wring our hands about it and say, “It’s too risky, people will get hurt.” Yes. They will. But you have to let them decide whether the strength of their convictions outweighs their fear, their desire to stay home, to stay safe. They have agency. They get to make choices. OP is 18 – they’re legally an adult, old enough to be allowed to vote or. Old enough to enlist in the military and get shot dead. So when d’you think is old enough to engage in civil unrest?
You think that their plan won’t accomplish anything. Aight. What would you do and how would you feel if the headlines in the news tomorrow said that there had been a “MASSACRE!!!!!!” at one of the detention facilities? That a group of a hundred angry people, most of them teenagers, had marched in, and that thirty of them had gotten shot dead? You would be shocked, and you would grieve and wonder why they’d been so stupid, but at the same time you would be so fiercely proud of them for standing up and DOING SOMETHING. You might wish that there were more people in the world who were that brave.It would shake the foundations of the world. It would be published in every major newspaper around the world. We would know their names. We would watch speeches from the survivors at press conferences, and we’d invite them onto talk shows to be interviewed.
So how can you say that it wouldn’t do anything? It would do SO MANY THINGS. It would be a game-changer. (Don’t believe me? In 1917, Alice Paul, one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, was thrown in jail for picketing and demonstrating outside the White House: “Mr President, How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty?”. She organized a hunger strike in protest – doctors had to force-feed her (and I do mean FORCE), by shoving a tube down her throat and pouring raw eggs into her stomach. She smuggled a note out of prison. When it hit the newspapers, the world shook, and she and her fellow protesters were released from prison, granted full pardons, and two months later President Wilson told Congress that women’s suffrage was urgently required as a “war measure”.)
You say that you think the sentiment behind the post is nice. I don’t think “nice” comes anywhere into it. The time for “nice” is over – “nice” is what the Nazis want you to be, because “nice” can be steamrolled over. There’s no more space for “nice” when there are children and infants being separated from their parents and stuffed in overcrowded, filthy cages without access to showers, clean clothes, or sufficient food.
I don’t want anyone to be hurt, but people are already being hurt. We’re already there! We are At That Point! People are already dying. I am sorry to have to burst your bubble like this, but it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Blood has already been spilled. Don’t look away.———–AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT (remember how I said I have complicated feelings?)
There are some very stupid points on that post. Like, the thing about bringing weed? ok op, listen, i know you’re Gen Z and nihilism is even more your thing than it is a Millennial thing but, like, there’s a time and a place for jokes. c’mon.
There are some points of evidence to suggest that OP has put a bit of thought into what they’re trying to accomplish, but the post kind of smacks of “these are all the things I thought of after five minutes, it’s a first draft, let me know if i forgot anything (i forgot lots of things)”
I have EXTREMELY mixed feelings about the whole “we need a temporary place for the kids to stay until we get in touch with their families” because there are a VARIETYYYYYYYY of ways that can go really, really wrong…. but also the kids are literally in cages, having war crimes enacted upon them? I don’t know what the fuck to do with this, and I don’t know that there is a sufficient or universal answer to the question of “Which would be worse? To leave them kidnapped and suffering in the concentration camp, or to ‘re-kidnap’ them (as many people are describing it in the comments) but get them to a place where they have toothpaste and showers, at least” How can you even hope to BEGIN answering that question? Like, ignoring the fact that the latter option is a TOTAL pie-in-the-sky, best-case-scenario outcome and there’s not a single shred of hope that they’d actually make it to the point where that would be a real problem to solve.
I think my main point of frustration and conflict is that we have come to a cultural climate where a single little mistake gets you Cancelled, and that I feel like the fear of mistakes is going to keep us from acting. The Revolution must be unproblematic, right? Big change doesn’t come without big risk and big mess, but we are paralyzed in fear of mess. It’s like hacking your way through the jungle with a machete – it’s messy and sweaty, but every step forward is still PROGRESS. On the other hand, I am GLAD that people are taking more time to think about their impact on the people around them and to interrogate their biases and go about their lives more carefully. We SHOULD be thinking carefully about our impact. But at the same time, there’s a point at which you’ve done enough thinking and it’s time to act, and that point is “preferably before the actual genocide starts”
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So yeah. Those are all my complicated feelings. I’m not taking the post down, though. It might inspire someone else to do the same thing, but different and maybe a bit better.
Young people get shit done. And yes, it is terrifying to watch, and it will be terrifying when some group of stupid, reckless kids (maybe not OP and their group specifically, but it’s gonna happen sooner or later) goes and gets themselves stupidly, recklessly killed. But when a fascist looks at you and says “Hey, we’re willing to kill you”, the only answer is to look them right in the eye and say, “Hey, we’re going to stop you, and we’re willing to die trying.”
Just got through a bunch of discourse posts in the ace tag that made me sad; ready to become another homoromantic ace cousin in the family, if you’ll have me! I’m the one who thinks she’s way more hard-core than she is because she listens to My Chemical Romance, but she actually cried at the end of Inside Out so she’s not hard-core don’t be fooled.
we will ALWAYS have new family members and we understand that you’re going through your MCR phase and we support you
Phil seriously needs to buy some allergy medicine or something. Or at least open a window next time he performs a demonic ritual. He wouldn't have thought that one little sneeze could've messed up a spell so bad, but now he has a demon on his hands and only six days to get rid of it before he's stuck with it forever.
...And maybe the demon is acting like a total cinnamon roll, but Phil is positive that it's all just an elaborate ruse.
