#possumposting

[creepymutelilbugger]

she took the midnight train going anywhere

[cutiepieautistic]

Opossum stims

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[solarpoweredpunkpossum]

having complicated feelings about the politics of rage

like that specific kind of debate bro whose videos are all "liberal DESTROYED raging feminist OWNED by calm facts and logic haha i'm so smart and cool" who thinks anyone not in a perfect stoic state must immediately be wrong (and by proxy their ability to "argue" about things that don't affect them divisive topics calmly means they must be right)

seeing people finding their ways to scream into the void for reaping week or vent the anger and indignity at how screwed up our world is... why is it so taboo? why is it so bad to be upset at, yknow, things that should upset any rational, compassionate person?

because yeah, anger isn't rational and tends to find targets rather than solutions, but for fluff's sake it doesn't just go away! you can't turn off your passion! and you shouldn't! you should be upset! you should be upset about climate change and billionaires and rising fascism! you should be upset that the world is unjust!

but we've created, or accepted, or failed to question, this framework where being calm makes you more correct and being visibly passionate or upset is a bad thing, where being riled up by someone who thinks you don't deserve rights is a sign of weakness, where caring loudly and vibrantly is somehow bad optics because being angry looks bad.

angry people are dangerous. angry people can't be trusted. angry people shouldn't be listened to. angry people can't control their emotions. angry people should just calm down. angry people should be subdued.

just shut up and take it already, won't you?

like. look. the doomerism and despair is strong outside of communities like this. so often i find myself asking where is your rage!? where is your hope?! your joy, your passion, your conviction that a better world will be made!

i spent a long time drowning in some pretty rough crap. when i managed to crawl out of it, the first thing i felt was relief. the second was burning, white-hot rage that i had lived like this, that i had been allowed to live like this. anxiety makes you want to shrink down, be as small as possible, as unintrusive, as unnoticeable. anger told me to be loud, be bright, be visible, shout from the rooftops that i deserved better, turn passion into action instead of wallowing.

yes, i am angry at the world and i should be. i am upset that people who have more money than i can even conceive of can run the planet into the ground and blame me for using too much plastic. i am upset that my existence is someone else's political fodder they can fearmonger about for engagement. i am upset that people are dying over numbers on a graph and lines on a map. i am upset that billions of dollars for guns and tanks gets written off without question, but the single mother of two on food stamps is what's draining the budget. i am upset and i'm not going to apologize for it, because that isn't "letting my emotions control me," it's having basic fluffing compassion for other people.

sorry i can't be calm like you while you're holding a gun to my head. it must be easier when it's your finger on the trigger.

[anarchistfrogposting]

Sometimes possums will hang out on my porch ❤️

IM SO JEALOUSSSS!!!! This one seems so polite :) in they little house

[toomanypossumsinthistrenchcoat]

11 and 12 getting rooty already!

[giftboxxworld]

I HAVE RETURNED, WITH GIGI ADVENTURE!!!!

I've been a huge fan of @stardestroyer81's latest project, Door2Door!! If y'all like 90's cartoons, go check it out! It's totally radical!! YEAH!!

[pocketspossum]

making a possum fursona is so good because like. My sweet darling Pixel?? she would refuse bottom surgery. She would get surgically implanted pockets though. Her only reasoning being it helps her hold her gender.

[chthonic-cookie]

🙂

[miettemilkstain]

possum girlfriend who plays dead at any inconvenience

[toomanypossumsinthistrenchcoat]

Bell peppers are also a good source of vitamin c (probably other spicier peppers too but we never looked into them because ouchie)

Also remember when you're plundering a ship to leave the crew alive - that way they can carry on their jobs of transporting goods (because you want to be going for merchant ships, you'll get all sorts of stuff you can keep or sell/trade for supplies) and you won't run out of your source of income

I've been seeing a lot of posts about piracy lately and in light of this i do need to say something because I've been seeing a lot of misinformation.

anti-viruses, vpns, ad-blockers- none of these are going to help you here.

the first thing you're going to need is a good solid boat (preferably oak wood). you will also want some cannons and a plank depending on the sort of shenanigans you plan on getting into.

Also! Not once have i seen any of you talking about the importance of citrus fruits and vitamin C. antivirus doesn't prevent scurvy. come on you should know this by now.

this sort of misinformation is wildly dangerous and irresponsible.

[creepymutelilbugger]

the squimbler

[solarpoweredpunkpossum]

hey y'all, just a little message for everyone else bracing for hurricane helene today and tomorrow:

make sure any important items or documents are safe from water damage - flooding happens fast, and if you have to leave something behind, at least leave it somewhere it won't be damaged

in case of power outages, have battery-powered lights and non-perishable food on hand to keep you going; some fridges/freezers can keep the cold air inside as long as the vacuum seal in the doors isn't broken, so the less you reach in there the better

stay calm, stay safe, stay inside. outside of an evacuation zone, the safest place for you to be is indoors and away from windows. you may need to move some beds; do that before water starts seeping in

anything not bolted down outside should be brought in if you want to keep it - plants, outdoor furniture, decorations, anything that can be picked up in the winds

keep in touch with friends, family, and neighbors, especially any on their own. it means more than you know

[maliciouspossum]

protestant so hot call bitch a Kelvenist!

[toomanypossumsinthistrenchcoat]

We were literally rambling yesterday about the importance of creators too. The amount we can influence others through our creations (in whatever medium - personally we're writers but video content is probably the most obvious for this currently) can actually be pretty big.

No we should not be disdaining the people who are actually researching and figuring out cool and important stuff about the world so far who can guide us. No we should not be disdaining the people who are creating things that connect to people on an emotional level and so might teach them something without them even realising we're doing it.

If these weren't important work, would research be being gatekept or hushed up, would books be being banned? Well, maybe, there's gonna be bad actors in any field because we're human and sometimes humans aren't great, but looking at what things are being targeted...

If the people in power don't like what we're saying, that's all the more reason to keep saying it. Intellectuals and creators included.

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[toomanypossumsinthistrenchcoat]

Hello!

I'm angry. Have a thing

[solarpoweredpunkpossum]

some new year's resolutions:

see more birds

grow more plants

be an unpluckable thorn in the side of power

make a proper table for the native foods catalogue

write more stoires

try more foods

outlive all my opponents (lawmakers)

learn from weeds, thrive in hostility

infiltrate the HOA

eat a fancy cheese

make it through another year.