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imagine you're Plato and you get resurrected and the first thing someone tells you is your name now means "not having sex" and you're like haha linguistic coincidences are wild and they're like no it's a direct reference to you as a person
“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering
beloved , on this the eve of your punishment (10 thousand years suffering immediately no parole), you may be tempted to think - but i really could have communicated it better, then they would have understood me.
you can try as long as you like to explain something: if the other person is not curious, kind, and willing to learn, no explanation will ever work. you would know if someone was trying their absolute best to understand you, despite the immortal problem of all humans being exactly the same and also never quite alike.
there is a difference between being heard and being listened to. i am a little blind in my left eye - you can explain what i do-not-see, but i will not be able to see it. i will listen, though, and you will feel heard. my perspective maybe not be exactly what you meant, perhaps, but no poem ever really escapes unscathed from the poet. the book i write about you will never really capture every facet. communication is imperfect and fluid; that's why it is behind all forms of art.
sometimes it is not even that you said something wrong, sometimes it is that you said something at all; and they do not respect you. sometimes it is that what you said is true, and they are scared to face that truth. sometimes it makes them feel wrong (guilty, ashamed), and they cannot listen or they will have 10 thousand years suffering in the personality equivalent of forced rhubarb growth.
ah. i see you rattling your chains. yes, my love, the hard part: this means the largest part of it was them, and their choice. after all, if you had been approached by someone pleading for understanding, wouldn't you have endeavored to at least attempt some degree of civil engagement? you would have, i know you. which means they saw you like that - desperate, wild, someone they were supposed to love - and they still thought this is not enough.
you have been begging them. they have watched you beg them for understanding, and they have not moved. you did not have a communication issue. the issue was with how they treated you.
this is the manner where we will begin your torture. what is immediately and impossibly evident to you is impenetrable to them: and that lack of understanding is, in all likelihood, at least a little bit on purpose.
i am sorry to say it because if you turn your eyes downwards to my ankles you will find i am also serving my 10 thousand years. i am saying this from the place you will be soon. before the dungeon swallows you, one final remark, i suppose: it wasn't your fault, and I love you.
I was atrociously late to a seder because of a hospital shift.
All to say, when my rabbi opened the door for Elijah, he yelped when I was on his door step with an appearance akin to surviving a war, a beyond exhausted expression, and an iced coffee larger than my head.
I didn't even register his surprise when I asked, still in the door way "Hey, could i have some wine?"
I am both flattered and terrified at this comparison.
My work here is done, then.
captain swan text posts pt 4
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things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
this for real fucking works
You need to be freakier and weirder and more bizarre, like its actually scaring the hoes away when you act all nonchalant and dismissive. Be a nerdy little bitch! Learn to give a fuck about things! Its hot!
John Koch (American, 1909-1978)
After the Sitting
For those who don't contain a vast knowledge of Green Day lore like myself, I don't think it is hitting just how much of a "fuck you" the NFL is giving djt/the white house.
This is a band that is:
Made entirely of openly bisexual/queer men
Made entirely of men who are vocal about being raised by single mothers on welfare
One of their members was adopted and raised by a Black Native American woman and has said he "understands how his mother could hate 'the white man' and love him with her whole soul."
Were the first band to say, "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist/MAGA U.S.A." on live television without ANY warning.
Literally released a song last year called, "The American Dream Is Killing Me"
Prioritizes all female/female fronted bands to open for them to address inequality in the music industry. (edited for clarity since yall blew this post up. Lol)
OPENLY tells trump supporters they are not welcome at their concerts.
Anyway, Enjoy Feb. 8th Magats! You're gonna hate it. :)
happy valentines day
The prevalence of "good vs. evil" narratives in popular media reflects the continuing influence of cultural Zoroastrianism in our society
London magic
I’m sorry I just. I normally use Tumblr for escapism, but. What the fuck is happening with the coverage of Iran? Or lack thereof? Why are so few people and platforms giving this crisis the weight it deserves? Why are so many left-wing people I want to admire either staying silent or to some degree siding with the regime, from repeating the regime's propaganda to criticising the protestors? Why the hell is it right-wing people I despise, and otherwise wholeheartedly disagree with, talking the most about Iran?
Like. I think I kind of know why. A myriad of sociopolitical reasons, including self-interest and racism and ignorance and misguided 'enemy of my enemy' thinking about the Islamic world vs bastards like Trump and Netanyahu. But I'm still appalled. None of that can justify turning a blind eye or cold shoulder to the worst massacre in modern Iranian history. And the Iranian people have suffered a lot of massacres! Mostly at the hands of their own government and police force!
I've been seeing and reblogging so many posts about the ICE situation in the USA (which makes sense, because almost half the users of this site live there), and... listen. That gives me a nice point of comparison. What's happening in America, with Trump and ICE and all of that, that's awful. It's horrendous. It makes my blood boil. It is the tip of the iceberg. What the Islamic Republic is doing in Iran is the entire frozen mass around the North Pole. On every front, it is worse. Totalitarianism? Oppression? Corruption? Unjust policing? Religious extremism? Misogyny? Homophobia? Environmental devastation? Economic divide and insecurity? Abuse of power? Name an issue you have with Trump, and the mullahs are doing it a million times worse. That's why I'm so disappointed that he's the only world leader who said - even temporarily - that he would provide the foreign aid that is urgently needed. He and Supreme Leader Khamenei (that is his real title) are cut from the same vile cloth!
So if the USA makes my blood boil when I live in the UK... you can imagine how I feel about Iran, my father's homeland. I'm going fucking crazy.
Yes, it is essential that people pay attention and spread the truth of the Ugly Shitstorm of America, in order to hopefully prevent that nation from going further down its dark path. The Islamic 'Republic' is at the end of that same path. It is a textbook dystopia. The rulers and servants of this regime have been starving, terrorising, brutalising, imprisoning, torturing and murdering countless citizens, both for protesting against it and for literally any other reason, since 1979. That's when my dad left at fifteen, when his parents sent him away to get out of there as the shit hit the fan. Right now, my grandparents are over there. Right now people are in crippling poverty, with a terrible water shortage due to the regime's management and environmental exploitation. People are being slaughtered. Gunned down in the streets. Locked away in horrific conditions. Children are being raped and executed. This is all routine.
What's different this time is the unprecedented scale and unity of the protests. This time, maybe, just maybe, some real positive change might actually be accomplished. But probably not without any outside help.
So if you disapprove of ICE, if the events in America frighten, anger or disgust you - hell, if you disapprove of Nazi Germany - please support Iran. Try not to let over 16,000 brave protestors die in vain. And make damn sure it's the Iranian people you're supporting, not the monsters trying to crush them.
365 days of captain swan :: day 77
