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[amovingmess]

Activism is supposed to be a quiet, dedicated and often thankless labor. Real activism comes at the expense of your own free time, not other people’s comfort and safety. Those unwilling to take hours preserving, creating and researching are not ready to take on such a responsibility. People who can only consume or destroy have no place in activism and no amount of cheap publicity stunts will change that.

If ur activism is solely based on yelling at Jews on the internet. Is it really activism? Who are you helping? You're just being an antisemite and not really doing anything.

Go help in a shelter. Work in a kitchen. Become a first responder. Anything.

Edit: Btw. Each negative response just proves you're unwilling to GET TO FUCKING WORK. 😭 DUDE.

"oh no, you're crying antisemitism to avoid talking about—" no. I'm actually telling you to get up your ass and actually do something that helps. Sounds to me like you're allergic to get dirt in your hands and feed the poor. Actually know how real activism works. Discourse and antisemitism doesn't feed hungry mouths, doesn't help people who have been killed by cops, doesn't shelter the poor.

you know what helped? Organized clinics, free breakfast programs, shelters, talking to representatives, funding funerals, free schooling.

Funny enough. I'm not even saying something out of the ordinary, or even out of your ideology. I'm literally quoting help guides done in the 60s about direct action. Much of these things are organized by Black, Latino and Jewish people.

If you hate Jews more than care for people, do you really care for people?

Social change starts with you. And I find funny that me, someone who sucks dick for cash and hates politics, has to tell you something about your own ideology. Be helpful, or get the fuck out of the way.

[amovingmess]

If your feminism doesn't include Iranian and Afghan women, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include women suffering in highly patriarchial societies, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include honour killing victims, then you're not a feminist.

If your feminism doesn't include women suffering at the hands of a zealot religious ideology, then you're not a feminist.

If you support women who want to wear the hijab, but don't support women who don't want to wear it, then you're a morally corrupted person.

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The world's biggest country just did this to the capital city of Europe's biggest country and it barely even made the news.

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Your art style is EVERYTHING omg I been staring at your Minthara fanart for a MILLION YEARS I LOVE ITTTTTTT just your EXPRESSIONS omg

OMG MY FIRST ASK!!! Thank you so much!!! Drawing expressions is my favorite thing and it means so much to me! ❤️🩷

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<<<< Rainbow Minthy keychain 🩵💙🩷

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Ok princess

[amovingmess]

UPDATE: Deadline extension

Hello folks and freaks!

After some careful consideration, I've decided to extend the deadline till midnight on June 30th. I've gotten feedback from some prospective participants who said they hadn't heard about it in time and felt they had no time to complete a submission.

I'm shit at marketing/advertising, so I'm opening it for longer in the interest of fairness for those who want to submit. We also just simply don't have enough submissions to publish rights now, with only three written works (including my own).

Feel free to shoot me an ask for any questions, concerns or just to say hi

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i've got one thing to say, meow

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Minthara letter pt1

To the one who unmade me, and made me anew,

There are nights when I wake before you, and simply watch the way the moonlight traces the lines of your face. It should unsettle me — this stillness, this peace I never believed I could have — but instead, I feel... quiet. Not weak. Not lost. Present. With you.

I have killed for less than what you made me feel. When we met, you were everything I was taught to despise — soft-hearted, idealistic, human. You should have burned in the fire I carried. And yet, you walked through it, unflinching. You looked at me — not as a weapon, not as a servant of darkness, but as a person. A woman. No one had done that before.

I resisted. I threatened. I tested. And you endured. Not with passivity — no. With strength. Gods, you challenged me like no one else ever dared. And somewhere in that war between us, I surrendered. Not in shame. In trust.

I have done terrible things. I will carry them always. I do not ask to be forgiven — I ask only to be seen. You do that, without flinching. You are not blind to what I was. You simply chose to stay and see what I could become.

You have my loyalty. That much is easy. But more than that — you have my longing. My breath. The part of me I buried so deeply I had forgotten its name.

When I touch you, I remember what it is to be alive. Not just in victory. Not just in vengeance. But in the quiet, the warmth, the unbearable tenderness that comes when you let someone see you without armor.

Do not mistake me — I am still steel. Still shadow. But for you, I soften. In private. In truth. You have conquered me in ways no general ever could.

And I am glad.

Yours, Minthara Baenre Former servant of the Absolute, Now servant of nothing but her own will — And the woman she loves.

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I’m done being negative for now so I’ll just reblog Minthy

She’s finally here! My offering to the best character is complete!

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I’ve also noticed how some families and acquaintances weaponize this rhetoric in order to abuse those close to them and to diminish their pain. “Suffering makes you stronger” is very toxic and manipulative rhetoric

Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!

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ukraine may be fighting the biggest modern empire in the world that wants to take its colony back to oppress and subjugate its people and culture as it has been for CENTURIES but that still not anti-imperialistic enough for some people

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Saw some moron with sickle and hammer and lenin pins along with other stereotypical performative activist accessories today and I’m not even in America. I’m in fucking Finland. Y’know, the country that had its chunk torn off by USSR? Do I even have to say lot of immigrants in Finland are the people were escaping putin’s violent anti west propaganda?

my return to tumblr was meant to be a bit of *escapism* and i didn't want to continue ranting about geopolitics.

but goddamn. some american leftists are shameful. it's almost laughable to watch them contort themselves to insist that the US and russia arent cooperating at this point. they'll spend hours screeching about NATO and anti imperialism but not even allow a second of their time and attention to go to ukrainian resistance. they view ukrainian lives as disposable collateral damage in their neverending quest to apply their infantile "nothing could be worse than the west!" worldview.

they don't actually care about anti imperialist solidarity. all they do care about is recording annoying podcasts romanticizing lenin and the soviet union while they give a pass to a totalitarian oligarchy that continues to murder civilians on a daily basis. they'll sit and wait in their comfortable apartments or cafes for ReVoLuTiOn based on hypothetical theory than actually do anything of substance. embarrassing. glad i don't have to deal with you all in this part of the world.

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Hey! Do you know that the joke "We will fight to the last Ukrainian", wasn't started by a Ukrainian, it was started by a RUSSIAN, making fun of the concept of Ukrainians fighting and defending themselves so hard, instead of surrenderring.

Because clearly, Ukrainians not giving up in the russian mind = being destroyed sooner or later.

It is russians saying "if Ukraine doesn't give then we will keep going untill there is no Ukrainians left". In their worldview, defending yourself from russia = just postponing being killed.

Like: "Why are you making it so hard. You realize that you not giving up just means we will have to kill you anyway right?"

It is not Ukrainians who don't care about how many Ukrainians will die for the cause.

It is RUSSIA who doesn't care how many Ukrainians will die for the cause untill they get what they want. Its RUSSIA who doesn't care about the cost of a Ukrainian life.

It's Russians saying: "We will wage war until the last Ukrainian is dead (If we are allowed to)"

The words "Fight till the last Ukrainian", started as a russian joke "parodying" Ukrainians with basically saying "lol, why are Ukrainians so cringe and weird", and also saying that it`s THEM who would kill all Ukrainians just to get what they think belongs to them by virtue of strength and cruelty.

Showing their mentality and the fact that the concept of

"Freedom or Death" is completely foreign to them.

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Russia invading Ukraine is one of the most morally clear-cut conflicts, period. A former empire, much larger than its neighbour/prior colony, invades it due to longstanding revanchist fantasies of reclaiming its lost imperial glory. The smaller country has to fight back to ensure its survival, especially since its aggressor has repeatedly stated its intent to wipe it out even if it submits. Someone who supports Russian irredentism and imperialist warmongering is either someone profoundly ideologically poisoned, evil, or both.

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Fellow immigrant thinking about my pre-war country here. Her homesickness and the following cultural clash is probably the most relatable thing

She's a bloodthirsty war criminal to you. To me she's just a sad homesick baby.