peacocking around

just a pot noodle living their life

[stjohnstarling]

A repressed society creates its own alter ego. In eras of great repression, when the natural urges and desires inherent to being human (not exclusive to sexual desire) are refused exploration in fantasy and play, they do not simply go away. Desires denied take over and blacken and rot. When violence is done to the self, that violence becomes directed outward. The person punishing themselves into conforming develops a lust for revenge against the nonconformist, a bloodthirst towards the disobedient. A culture of self-denial is a culture of death. 

[helenvaughans]

from what i've observed, i do think there is some pressure for women in not explicitly feminist leftist circles to affect a kind of "cool girl" posture for the benefit of the men in the movement

[helenvaughans]

same as it ever was!!!

[standwithdaanes]

“A socialist militant must liberate himself from this false understanding of masculinity… The man has to solve his problem correctly. He has to stop himself from being a chief in this matter, in order to come to a revolutionary equal level in relationships. This is an essential feature within the party. […] A man who does not treat women with respect cannot be a socialist. Those who do not know how to respect women and who cannot be good supporters of their freedom struggle, cannot develop national liberation with us. Perhaps many male friends in their past approaches considered women as nothing, a doormat, a means of pleasure. I wonder what is a woman in your sight today? A man who still carries the old understandings is over and done. There is no socialism or democracy left in him, not even honour. It is necessary to cleanse the soul on this basis. In other words, it is necessary to do this not because you are very stuck and weak, but as a principle requirement. This is the case whether you are married or single, with or without a woman. A man who is unable to change himself according to this principle, can violate all other principles, too. The problem is neither the weakness of the other, nor the fact that you are very strong; the problem is to apply a principle in the right way. Here the heartfelt wish won’t save much either. Without realising this preliminary principle of socialism and national liberation, we cannot have a healthy approach to society in general and to [the] half of it [which is composed of women]. Without this, there is no revolution.”

— Abdullah Öcalan, quoted in "Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man" by the Andrea Wolf Institute of Jineolojî Academy

[fortuneaday]

[herpsandbirds]

Yucatán Box Turtle (Terrapene yucatana), female, family Emydidae, endemic to Yucatán, Mexico

unbothered.

moisturized.

happy.

in her lane.

focused.

flourishing

photograph by Chris Drake

[folklorespring]

Amazing

[herius-is-drawing]

People outside the gender binary are valid 💜🫂

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

[dogpuppy]

[socialistexan]

Wishing all amab nb people who don't perform the femininity or androgyny that people expect from non-cis amab people a very nice Friday.

[probuccalfat]

the conversation about the ICE contractor at the taylor swift and travis kelce wedding misses the point so hard because the actual conversation should be about class divides like the whole roster of riches was together at a wedding, it’s never left vs right—it’s the rich vs average people.

[probuccalfat]

literally. when you’re that rich, picking a side is just for fun or for public image—you’re on top no matter what side is winning. wealth is loyal only to wealth in actual practiced, lived reality.

[beholdingslut]

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

[beholdingslut]

“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny

[caracalliope]

his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene

Instagram poets could never!

[lobautumny]

For those who want it, here is the entire list:

Anyways, dude's 1,000% a huge masochist. Nobody just describes pain like this unless they're enjoying it.

[onehundredandtwentyfour]

Schmidt sting pain index - Wikipedia

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[oddarette]

tide pod xenomorph??

Bet.

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[murphysletsdraw]

The Heist (gouache) I didn't take a lot of reference photos in CPH, but this little tree was worth painting. I named this painting after the Jaylib track. This will be my postcard print for July. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!

[murphysletsdraw]

Does anyone have the full Ursula k le guin passage(s) about patriotism from “the left hand of darkness” handy?

[rincewindsapprentice]

I have at least two handy:

"I forgot what a king is, forgot that the king in his own eyes is Karhide, forgot what patriotism is and that he is, of necessity, the perfect patriot. Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, but your own experience, what patriotism is?" "No," I said, shaken by the force of that intense personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. "I don't think I do. If by patriotism you don't mean the love of one's homeland, for that I do know." "No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We've followed our road too far." (18 in my copy)

And later on:

"You hate Orgoreyn, don't you?" "Very few Orgota know how to cook. Hate Orgoreyn? No, how should I? How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope." Ignorant, in the Handdara sense: to ignore the abstraction, to hold fast to the thing. There was in this attitude something feminine, a refusal of the abstract, the ideal, a submissiveness to the given, which rather displeased me." Yet he added, scrupulous, "A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it." (212-13 my copy)

[murphysletsdraw]

My hero!!!! Thank you thank you