♡The Flowers of Hope♡

I hope for you, these will be flowers of hope that never die.

[theanarchistoro]

I genuinely despise summer in Texas. It's too bright, it's too hot, theres not enough clouds. The only good things about summer are pools and the beach. Which i have access to neither.

[theanarchistoro]

Been thinking of doing Daily Quote posts generally relating to being a good person and staying hopeful. They will be both from real people and from fictuonal characters because, surprisingly to few people, fiction, a form of art, can teach you things.

So that'll start tomorrow.

[barishal]

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[theanarchistoro]

Is it bad if I say I think the idea of a Neighborhood Watch is good? Like police should be abolished, i agree with that, but unfortunately, and especially in the days immediately following the Revolution, there will be those who want to reestablish a hierarchy, or cause harm to others, and we as a society need to watch each other's backs. I feel like a Neighborhood Watch is the best way to go about this.

NOT AN HOA, mind you. Something different.

I am aware that the idea was encouraged by police in the sixties and seventies, and that sucks, but still maybe we can make it better.

If I am being stupid please tell me, I value input from my comrades and strive to become more educated everyday. So criticism is very welcome and encouraged.

[greatwyrmgold]

Before police existed, large cities and some towns had professional guards employed by the settlement's rulers to enforce their laws. But most communities had neither the spare manpower nor the demand for full-time law enforcement. When the need arose to catch a thief or solve a murder or whatever, any available villagers pitched in.

(This is a massive oversimplification and generalization. No society followed this exactly, and some were very different. History is complicated. Consult your local primary source for more details.)

This wasn't exactly like a neighborhood watch, but neighborhood watches are more like that than most modern things are. The devil's in the details, of course, but the broad strokes are workable.

[theanarchistoro]

Yeah, yeah that's what I'm talking about! You explained it way better than I did lmao

[theanarchistoro]

Hey you, yes you reading this post, sending you Floeers of Hope, that I pray will never die on you. The world is so chaotic right now, so many people are hurting, it's important we never give up hope, stay strong ♡

[greatwyrmgold]

Maybe this is an unpopular hot take, but I think a good monster girl design should struggle with day-to-day life in a human world. If your monster girl can live a normal human life where her greatest inconvenience is wet dog smell or people assuming her tail is fake, you need to mix more monster in your girl.

Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.

Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.

If your monster girl can't be read as some kind of disability allegory, you're doing something wrong.

[lyric-mishearer]

Often I think about the questions of how lamias would negotiate a grocery store or how to design a car for a centaur to use, and I try to share these thoughts with other monster fuckers, and they just ask me why I'm bothering thinking about this at all because creature hot in abstract fuck you.

Realized part of the difference is that when I grew up, one of my caregivers was in a wheelchair and still basically ran the household himself. Nobody ever thinks about holding a door open and not standing in the way, or mall outlet aisles getting tighter and tighter to accomodate More Products instead of more people and just bottoming out their clearance for anyone disabled. They don't think about hand controls in cars for creatures without legs, and not only were they not curious about these ideas when I shared them but actively asked me to stop proposing thinking about things. Shit kinda sucks.

[batgirlpits]

yeah it's just like why wouldn't you want to think about the ways in which a monster is only so due to difference from the norm and it's like oh it's just all kinds of bigotry in a burrito. Like I'm disabled too and thinking about how the world works and doesn't work is just life for me and it's interesting!!!! But i guess it'd be an ego drop to people who only think of the common person.

[theanarchistoro]

As a monster fucker I think about these anytime I interact with monster x human or make it. And more peoole should sooo reblog for Monster Person Education

[theanarchistoro]

It's called agreeing with you, Knucklehead. Stop assuming every person who says more than "I agree" is secretly some neo-liberal fascist or stuck up internet aristocrat, you'd be surprised the friends you can make.

Edit: clarifying my point

[greatwyrmgold]

????

What are you talking about? What do you think "yes-anding" means???

[theanarchistoro]

Also, I saw "Yes-anding" and forgot that is an actual term and not an insult, lmao

[greatwyrmgold]

Maybe this is an unpopular hot take, but I think a good monster girl design should struggle with day-to-day life in a human world. If your monster girl can live a normal human life where her greatest inconvenience is wet dog smell or people assuming her tail is fake, you need to mix more monster in your girl.

Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.

Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.

If your monster girl can't be read as some kind of disability allegory, you're doing something wrong.

[lyric-mishearer]

Often I think about the questions of how lamias would negotiate a grocery store or how to design a car for a centaur to use, and I try to share these thoughts with other monster fuckers, and they just ask me why I'm bothering thinking about this at all because creature hot in abstract fuck you.

Realized part of the difference is that when I grew up, one of my caregivers was in a wheelchair and still basically ran the household himself. Nobody ever thinks about holding a door open and not standing in the way, or mall outlet aisles getting tighter and tighter to accomodate More Products instead of more people and just bottoming out their clearance for anyone disabled. They don't think about hand controls in cars for creatures without legs, and not only were they not curious about these ideas when I shared them but actively asked me to stop proposing thinking about things. Shit kinda sucks.

[batgirlpits]

yeah it's just like why wouldn't you want to think about the ways in which a monster is only so due to difference from the norm and it's like oh it's just all kinds of bigotry in a burrito. Like I'm disabled too and thinking about how the world works and doesn't work is just life for me and it's interesting!!!! But i guess it'd be an ego drop to people who only think of the common person.

[theanarchistoro]

As a monster fucker I think about these anytime I interact with monster x human or make it. And more peoole should sooo reblog for Monster Person Education

[theanarchistoro]

It's called agreeing with you, Knucklehead. Stop assuming every person who says more than "I agree" is secretly some neo-liberal fascist or stuck up internet aristocrat, you'd be surprised the friends you can make.

Edit: clarifying my point

[greatwyrmgold]

????

What are you talking about? What do you think "yes-anding" means???

[theanarchistoro]

Sorry, I lashed out a bit there. Half the time I agree with someone on this site and they get passive aggressive. Ironically, I did the exact thing i just accused you of. I apologize.

[theanarchistoro]

Is it bad if I say I think the idea of a Neighborhood Watch is good? Like police should be abolished, i agree with that, but unfortunately, and especially in the days immediately following the Revolution, there will be those who want to reestablish a hierarchy, or cause harm to others, and we as a society need to watch each other's backs. I feel like a Neighborhood Watch is the best way to go about this.

NOT AN HOA, mind you. Something different.

I am aware that the idea was encouraged by police in the sixties and seventies, and that sucks, but still maybe we can make it better.

If I am being stupid please tell me, I value input from my comrades and strive to become more educated everyday. So criticism is very welcome and encouraged.

[greatwyrmgold]

Maybe this is an unpopular hot take, but I think a good monster girl design should struggle with day-to-day life in a human world. If your monster girl can live a normal human life where her greatest inconvenience is wet dog smell or people assuming her tail is fake, you need to mix more monster in your girl.

Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.

Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.

If your monster girl can't be read as some kind of disability allegory, you're doing something wrong.

[lyric-mishearer]

Often I think about the questions of how lamias would negotiate a grocery store or how to design a car for a centaur to use, and I try to share these thoughts with other monster fuckers, and they just ask me why I'm bothering thinking about this at all because creature hot in abstract fuck you.

Realized part of the difference is that when I grew up, one of my caregivers was in a wheelchair and still basically ran the household himself. Nobody ever thinks about holding a door open and not standing in the way, or mall outlet aisles getting tighter and tighter to accomodate More Products instead of more people and just bottoming out their clearance for anyone disabled. They don't think about hand controls in cars for creatures without legs, and not only were they not curious about these ideas when I shared them but actively asked me to stop proposing thinking about things. Shit kinda sucks.

[batgirlpits]

yeah it's just like why wouldn't you want to think about the ways in which a monster is only so due to difference from the norm and it's like oh it's just all kinds of bigotry in a burrito. Like I'm disabled too and thinking about how the world works and doesn't work is just life for me and it's interesting!!!! But i guess it'd be an ego drop to people who only think of the common person.

[theanarchistoro]

As a monster fucker I think about these anytime I interact with monster x human or make it. And more peoole should sooo reblog for Monster Person Education

[theanarchistoro]

It's called agreeing with you, Knucklehead. Stop assuming every person who says more than "I agree" is secretly some neo-liberal fascist or stuck up internet aristocrat, you'd be surprised the friends you can make.

Edit: clarifying my point

[greatwyrmgold]

Maybe this is an unpopular hot take, but I think a good monster girl design should struggle with day-to-day life in a human world. If your monster girl can live a normal human life where her greatest inconvenience is wet dog smell or people assuming her tail is fake, you need to mix more monster in your girl.

Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.

Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.

If your monster girl can't be read as some kind of disability allegory, you're doing something wrong.

[lyric-mishearer]

Often I think about the questions of how lamias would negotiate a grocery store or how to design a car for a centaur to use, and I try to share these thoughts with other monster fuckers, and they just ask me why I'm bothering thinking about this at all because creature hot in abstract fuck you.

Realized part of the difference is that when I grew up, one of my caregivers was in a wheelchair and still basically ran the household himself. Nobody ever thinks about holding a door open and not standing in the way, or mall outlet aisles getting tighter and tighter to accomodate More Products instead of more people and just bottoming out their clearance for anyone disabled. They don't think about hand controls in cars for creatures without legs, and not only were they not curious about these ideas when I shared them but actively asked me to stop proposing thinking about things. Shit kinda sucks.

[batgirlpits]

yeah it's just like why wouldn't you want to think about the ways in which a monster is only so due to difference from the norm and it's like oh it's just all kinds of bigotry in a burrito. Like I'm disabled too and thinking about how the world works and doesn't work is just life for me and it's interesting!!!! But i guess it'd be an ego drop to people who only think of the common person.

[theanarchistoro]

As a monster fucker I think about these anytime I interact with monster x human or make it. And more peoole should sooo reblog for Monster Person Education

[theanarchistoro]

I don't know who needs to hear this, vut if you do not like a creator's content, and they aren't hurting REAL people, just block and/or scroll. You do not have to flame them. Now go and run along, little rabbit.

[betterredactually]

Soviet mistreatment of ethnic minorities was bad.

Anyway, Marx was still right about the global capitalist system, we should do communism.

The difference between communists and anti-communist 'leftists' is that communists understand WHY and how specifically historical socialism failed and therefore how to do better.

If you lie to yourself about why or how it failed you're simply doing yourself a disservice. You can't lie to yourself about how or why it succeeded either, of course.

[theanarchistoro]

Better yet, get rid of the concept of government altogether and bring about total anarchy.

[betterredactually]

[theanarchistoro]

Am i meant to be offended?

[betterredactually]

Soviet mistreatment of ethnic minorities was bad.

Anyway, Marx was still right about the global capitalist system, we should do communism.

The difference between communists and anti-communist 'leftists' is that communists understand WHY and how specifically historical socialism failed and therefore how to do better.

If you lie to yourself about why or how it failed you're simply doing yourself a disservice. You can't lie to yourself about how or why it succeeded either, of course.

[theanarchistoro]

Better yet, get rid of the concept of government altogether and bring about total anarchy.

[weltenwandererart]

🌸 made a bookmark design of Aphrodite 🌸

Survived entirely on pink colors and poor decisions XD

[theanarchistoro]

[kuropin]

It was yuri all along

[theanarchistoro]

I dont even like TADC but am reblogging to let people know I read "It was yuri all along" to the beat of "It was Agatha All Along"

[noblackwomannocry]

I haven't even had the time to start writing about how they act when you make fun of their anime profile pictures or copious consumption of hentai. that picture of the white guy pulling out a katana going "leave the multibillion dollar company alone" but it's "leave the country with a huge child sexual abuse and exploitation problem and its media that reflects this alone." and not even when anyone's critiquing Japan or anything, just when you're making fun of people whose profiles you can take a single glance at and know they treat sexual gratification from lolisho art like it's an olympic sport.

less than a decade ago we had memes about how a non-Japanese person with K-On! avatar on Twitter had a 90% chance of being a male nazi who was proudly attracted to children. we made fun of the ahegao hoodies and Vagina Bones posting.

now you don't even get a chance to think of bidoof's law when you see an open pedophile reblogging nude child art imported from pixiv on their fifth "tumblr murdered me for no reason" new account. completely unprompted, Formerracistwhiteboy McLolilover will start talking about the inherent violence and underlying anti-Japanese sentiment of making fun of a white tumblr user with an anime girl profile picture's exhentai addiction. and you are meant to listen to her insistence that it's actually very discriminatory agaist Japanese people to not like drawn sexualised child images. and you're meant to take her seriously too.

[noblackwomannocry]

does anyone else see the pattern of racism not being a big deal until it's time to discuss one bad thing about any anime at all or the wider industry, and then suddenly a white NEET whose favourite anime has a character that looks like this

becomes an expert in anti-Japanese sentiment to make sure everyone knows that you're actually just racist? it's not just me seeing it happen right

[theanarchistoro]

As for the character above I dont see anything wrong with it. Cute shortstack dragon girl.

But yes, we should criticize cultures/religions/societies for things that are wrong. Japan has a horrible culture that objectifies women and children. As, unfortunately, many cultures including the culture of my own home country of America do.

Also we shouldn't judge people by their profile pictures. It's unbecoming. Forgive the irony of me having an abime girl as my profile picture lmao

[phleb0tomist]

maybe if a mf needs 24/7 care they just don't need to be alive. what an awful burden on loved ones and medical care professionals.

this is the kind of violent ableism im always talking about. you did not need to wish death on vulnerable people. medical care professionals literally exist to facilitate life for people who would otherwise die. shall we just do away with the medical field as a whole?

and as for the value of severely disabled people’s lives… people who need care can have rich, complex, wonderful lives and can have beautiful impacts on the people they know. my carer talks so highly of her clients that need constant care. they are loved and appreciated even by the people who aren’t required to love them.

you are full of hatred and violence.

[theanarchistoro]

This anon is the reason why so many disabled people become suicidal. Such hatred breeds only more hatred and worse. It pollutes society and makes it toxic. Moreso than our society already is.