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[sarwah]

Penny Lane

[sacrificialdolly]

[daggersandarrows]

you know, the more i think about it, the angrier i get about how mainstream media and even people in general treated marie kondo when the life changing magic of tidying up got big. it's just so unnecessary and sad to me and i think the vast majority of people would love what she has to say if they just actually looked into it instead of maliciously memeing her to death? i'm not talking about the cutesy does it spark joy stuff but all the things portraying her as some bizarre evil cleaning dictator.

i actually read her book when i was about twelve years old, in the most shocking and probably only example of me ever being ahead of a trend, and even at twelve i really loved everything she said. at that point in time i lived in fear of my mother's threats that she would come and throw everything away while i was school, and my small and very adhd mind simply could not grasp the concept of "have less stuff". have less of WHICH stuff? how? i'd never actually been taught how to clean my room besides being told "pick up stuff" and "be organized", and as she points out multiple times, cleaning is not an intuitive thing. it's a learned behavior and skill.

anyways. her entire philosophy centers on surrounding yourself with things that you love, and only things that you love (or things that you absolutely need). she explicitly says over and over again that it is not about throwing things away, it is not about minimalism, it is not about "what is the smallest amount possible that you can survive on". she literally has a whole section where she talks about how hard it can be to throw things away when you've lived in poverty all your life and you don't have absolute confidence that you can replace something that you really needed if it gets thrown out, even though you're not likely to ever really need it--you've just been conditioned to think that because that's literally how you survive, when you're poor. she talks about how that mindset can serve and how it can damage. she talks about how minimalism is sort of a rich people thing, cause they can afford to throw everything away.

this woman really came out here and said "i want you to be surrounded by things you love and i'm going to validate your fears and your difficulties in getting to that place" and people somehow got mad at her. i don't understand it

[michaelbogild-deactivated202503]

“The quality of your life is the quality of your courage.”

—

[semper0felix-deactivated2024042]

“If one really has a feeling of contribution, one will no longer have any need for recognition from others. Because one will already have the real awareness that “I am of use to someone,” without needing to go out of one’s way to be acknowledged by others. 

In other words, a person who is obsessed with the desire for recognition does not have any community feeling yet, and has not managed to engage in self-acceptance, confidence in others, or contribution to others.”

― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked

[2001hz]

'Wong Kar-Wai' (1997)

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

[beljar]

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

[frogus-deactivated20231111]

the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

[cancerfairy]

Hii 💗 would you mind doing Venus in Cancer Culture please? Thank youuuu and have a great day/night ahead 🥰

𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛 𝚅𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚜 𝙲𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎

୨୧ love to cook for people they love

୨୧ will probably smother you

୨୧ the type to write you handwritten letters

୨୧ will remember every detail about you

୨୧ they want to be taken care of just as much as they take care of others

୨୧ love to give and receive hugs

୨୧ they give the best hugs too

୨୧ probably have slightly round faces or chubby cheeks even if they're slim

୨୧ 100% will bake for you

୨୧ they're very good at listening

୨୧ will soothe your broken heart but might have a problem with wanting to "fix" others

୨୧ great emotional support but remember they need it too

୨୧ literal angels

୨୧ can get very moody if you don't give them affection

୨୧ they don't really ask for much

୨୧ their standards are not really that high

୨୧ the type to ask you if you ate and drank water

୨୧ they care a littttle too much

୨୧ very generous

୨୧ will do anything you ask but secretly expect the same in return

୨୧ if you don't do the same they'll probably get mad secretly too

୨୧ very horny for some reason c:

୨୧ these people, like capricorn venus really like old songs, movies and novels

୨୧ the type to be like "remember when this happened??"

୨୧ don't play them they'll have every receipt

୨୧ kindest of souls (when everything is going their way)

୨୧ want to help you or just be helpful in general

୨୧ sacrifice far too much

୨୧ the men act like obedient puppies

୨୧ usually doe eyed

୨୧ sometimes have a resting sad face

୨୧ their words get cutthroat when they're mad (falls in mars)

୨୧ pretty low self esteem (detriment in saturn)

୨୧ do not talk about their mother they will eat you alive!

୨୧ hold grudges a lot because it's the only way to stop them from forgiving you

୨୧ spend all their energy on their partners

୨୧ will rant about you but still be friend/lover

୨୧ usually have pretty voices

୨୧ the men have very soothing and calm voices

୨୧ the men usually have curly hair

୨୧ the best method to calm them down is literally to just give them a hug

୨୧ want to marry everyone they date

୨୧ the type to give forehead kisses

୨୧ want you to remember the little details about you

୨୧ most likely won't confess their feelings first like if you don't do it they'll take their feelings to the grave

୨୧ act like your wife/husband when they like you

୨୧ take everything you say personally

୨୧ find it hard to be detached from their lovers

୨୧ the types to buy squishmallows

୨୧ very selfless in love and that's why they get their heartbroken a lot

୨୧ attract the worst kinds of people into their lives

୨୧ they learn a lot of hard lessons in love bc of this

୨୧ somehow they never give up on love tho

୨୧ they have really good humor (exalts in jupiter)

୨୧ will also act like your mother/father when they're in love

୨୧ they hold a lot of resentment in their hearts whether they know it or not

୨୧ they give out so much love and usually never get the same amount back

୨୧ their love is unconditional

୨୧ emotionally expressive and great listeners

୨୧ not really easy to get to know at first since they've been hurt a lot

୨୧ need. boundaries. NOW

୨୧ need a lot of time off to recharge from others

୨୧ probably obsessed with hello kitty

୨୧ emotionally intelligent

୨୧ can usually always tell when you're not okay

୨୧ lowkey wish their loved ones could read their minds

୨୧ might give you the silent treatment when they're upset

୨୧ give people way too many chances and likely feel guilty about blocking others smh

[hyrude]

STOP! are you operating on an arbitrary set of terms and rules known only to you? have you created an ultimatum or specific if/then scenario for someone else without communicating it to them? have you considered making a decision and calculated all the consequences and potential reactions to those consequences and consequences for those reactions before you actually made the decision? it may be time to say some words out loud to another person!

[quasarkisses]

I think of this post constantly so I made a graphic to send to other people

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[transangelicism]

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[kiwd]

la ventanita.

[vizmozdulas]

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

[cridhe]

something that really pisses me off from like a capitalist realism perspective is that advertising and marketing more broadly are presented as the sites that must be at the forefront of progress/change. marketing is seen as the place where change happens. so u have people hailing things like gender neutral beauty brands, plus size models in ads, rainbow capitalism, and other such diversity bullshit as representative of progress. and if u say ‘its not progress they just want ur money’ ppl are always like “oh but its representative of broader societal change cos it shows [insert minority] are now a viable marketable demographic” like since when the fuck has being a 'marketable demographic’ been representative of anything?? women have been the most marketable demographic since ads were invented, do u know how many ads were geared toward women in the 1950s for example? im sure that was representative of something, but progress was not it. or ppl are like “ppl deserve to see themselves in advertising” why? so they can buy more products? marketing is manipulation pure and simple. buying things will not give u power. progress is not represented by your ability to buy things. some guy in an article i read once said that “branding, packaging, fashion, and even the act of shopping itself are now the central meaning-making acts in our postmodern world.” that sucks! we do so much more than that as humans! why the hell would u want to be reduced to a marketable demographic? all that shows is that your movement has been eaten by capitalism. not approved by capitalism (which, why would u want that anyway?), but eaten. coopted by neoliberalism that presents identity as what products you consume. if youre being represented in marketing that just means that capitalism is trying to take the reins of progress from you so that it can steer the ship from now on, to stop u from actually achieving something.

as always, heres that quote everyone shares from the wikipedia page for the book 'capitalist realism’ by mark fisher: “According to Fisher, capitalist realism has so captured public thought that the idea of anti-capitalism no longer acts as the antithesis to capitalism. Instead, it is deployed as a means for reinforcing capitalism. This is done through media which aims to provide a safe means of consuming anti-capitalist ideas without actually challenging the system. The lack of coherent alternatives, as presented through the lens of capitalist realism, leads many anti-capitalist movements to cease targeting the end of capitalism, but instead to mitigate its worst effects, often through individual consumption-based activities”

movements for progress are being 'deployed as a means for reinforcing capitalism’ when they are featured in advertising. everything is now reduced to individual consumption-based activities, where progress is made when one becomes part of a marketable demographic who can now buy products because we have 'seen ourselves’ in ads. you are living your life as a consumer, a person who buys things, who can change the world by choosing where to put their money. consumerism is literally the idea that buying something betters u as a person, and that can be extended to the idea that buying something betters the world. it doesnt. in the words of cj the x on youtube: ur not a consumer, youre a person. dont let them tell u there isnt a difference.

[classically-lit-memes4u]

defend my thesis? like with a sword?