The Quiet Crow

Crow (I guess that's my name here now) They/them Deeply in love with @haxer-1001 Mostly just lurking in a few fandoms

[kalichnikov]

i wanna talk about this shot

[kalichnikov]

if forum signatures still existed this would be mine

[un-javi]

[karvina]

[teslaswife]

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

God fucking damn it

[bored-dromaeosaur]

[gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180]

u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit

[gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180]

[captainlordauditor]

i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[anarchopuppy]

This is something we as radicals don’t talk about much but which has come up a lot in my experience:

You deserve mutual aid. You’re not too privileged for it, you’re not stealing it from people who need it more - you have a right to use community resources just as much as anyone else

I’ve seen food rot, clothes and books be forgotten in storage, because the people volunteering at or supporting these projects don’t think the resources are for them. Then those same volunteers will go out and put money they don’t have into the capitalist system to buy the resources they could’ve gotten for free

You’re thinking like a charity. You’re drawing a line between the people giving resources and the people taking them, which inevitably leads to a feeling of separation and eventually superiority, unconsciously seeing yourself as a savior coming in and helping the less fortunate. That alienates the people you’re helping from you, and results in neither side fully recognizing the other as human and the same as them

There’s a reason we say “solidarity not charity”. There’s a reason mutual aid is called mutual. Because by lifting each other up, we all become stronger. In solidarity and mutual aid, there is no separation between giver and receiver, because everyone involved is benefited by it

But that doesn’t happen if the resources aren’t used! Get out of the capitalist scarcity mindset - give freely and take freely, because by being lifted up you help us all

[eatingmuffinsinanagitatedmanner]

This is important! When I first started doing the food distributions, I’d feel really weird about taking a leftover box of produce or an extra meal home. Then my volunteers started feeling weird about taking theirs and very quickly we developed a culture of “who really deserves/needs this food”? I realized what was happening and started taking a little bit home myself, and then everyone got much more comfortable with me and people who were originally just standing in the line to get food began volunteering and doing other things to help out.

[afro-evolutionary-astrology]

This one thing that like clicked for me since doing mutual aid is that capitalism’s overproduction is so deep. The Food Bank in my city, in order to maintain its grants at certain financial volume, ends up giving families soo much food it’s like they handed out boxes that came direct from Costco.

10 cans of peaches, 2 5lb cans of crushed tomatoes, 6 loaves of bread, a whole box of tuna packets, 8 mangoes, 6 1lb bags of rice, 10lbs of frozen chicken tenders or fajita meat. And it’s like wtf? They gave this to a family of 4??? They can’t even fit some if that in their fridges/freezers half the time so it gets donated to us.

I had my neighbors stop me before last distro to hand me all those items, plus other things. This one of many small examples, that pounded in my skull, that if I want/need it, I’m taking it.

One of my partners hit me with some wisdom a few months back, “Are you trying to build a community that you dont get to be a part of?” And that shit just echoes in my brain these days.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Was sent this post today… I needed that. I always love helping others… but I always feel bad accepting help myself…

But yeah… it’s okay to be a part of a community… to rely on others as I’d have them rely on me.

[haxer-1001]

Still can't stand needles, even if they're already in my skin

Looked at one retrieving blood, and... felt

[adverbzarecool]

REAL IM GOING TO GET LITERALLY ANY OTHER FORM OF HRT ONCE IM OLD ENOUGH TO DO SO 😭

[chimeraecopse]

hrt comes in oil format btw >>

[adverbzarecool]

WJAT.

[haxer-1001]

IT DOES

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN

[the-quietcrow]

From a quick search I only found hrt oil stuff for “menopause relief”, nothing for trans women unfortunately. Then again, I’m no expert on hrt so maybe I missed something new

@chimeraecopse please share more about this!

[dog-girl-thing]

[hemipenal-system]

queer allies as a rule have got to get more normal about the idea that trans women can have periods

[hemipenal-system]

anyway trans women please learn from the mistake i make literally every single month without fail: if you get these random bouts of feeling really fucking hopeless about everything and they're basically monthly it might be the fact that you are on your period at the moment and you've missed it because you don't bleed and (if you're anything like me) the physical symptoms start AFTER the emotional ones by like three or four days

you will be alright. eat something sugary and go play a board or video game with someone. consider magnesium and b complex supplements please. for me

[tumbwr]

also here are some differences between pms and pmdd.

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: AAOOOOOAAAGHHHHH

[circusbutch]

Desire (2025)

22.5 x 31.5 in

Ceramic, soda fired earthenware

[flareonfloof]

reblog this to pet the user you reblogged from please

[flareonfloof]

reblog this to pet the user you reblogged from please

[iminato]

Reblog if you have mourned the death of a fictional character.

[ianoshea]

If you do not reblog this you are in fact lying.

[itsbeeugaymers]

…..so….so so many….

[cee4bugza]

[stargazers-satellite]

my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

[jenny-ratmeal]

Babe are you OK? You reblogged "even if you get worse".

[weaseltotheface]

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

[weaseltotheface]

Actually let's get specific with it

*checks wiki*

Everybody say thank you indigenous people of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia from 7-10,000 years ago for the humble potato

[dogpuppy]

[haxer-1001]

@the-quietcrow

Control yourself

[the-quietcrow]

Hey I’m not going to go crazy on the apple and that orange probably won’t be as good as the one I had in February

[haxer-1001]

STOP THINKING ABOHT THE ORANGE

TWT

[the-quietcrow]

I got some cherries earlier today

[dogpuppy]

[haxer-1001]

@the-quietcrow

Control yourself

[the-quietcrow]

Hey I’m not going to go crazy on the apple and that orange probably won’t be as good as the one I had in February