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do care, did ask, plus your tits are fat and awesome. i love you mwah 😊

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“your nipples are showing” ok? say thank you

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This is something we as radicals don’t talk about much but which has come up a lot in my experience:

You deserve mutual aid. You’re not too privileged for it, you’re not stealing it from people who need it more - you have a right to use community resources just as much as anyone else

I’ve seen food rot, clothes and books be forgotten in storage, because the people volunteering at or supporting these projects don’t think the resources are for them. Then those same volunteers will go out and put money they don’t have into the capitalist system to buy the resources they could’ve gotten for free

You’re thinking like a charity. You’re drawing a line between the people giving resources and the people taking them, which inevitably leads to a feeling of separation and eventually superiority, unconsciously seeing yourself as a savior coming in and helping the less fortunate. That alienates the people you’re helping from you, and results in neither side fully recognizing the other as human and the same as them

There’s a reason we say “solidarity not charity”. There’s a reason mutual aid is called mutual. Because by lifting each other up, we all become stronger. In solidarity and mutual aid, there is no separation between giver and receiver, because everyone involved is benefited by it

But that doesn’t happen if the resources aren’t used! Get out of the capitalist scarcity mindset - give freely and take freely, because by being lifted up you help us all

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The older you get the more you will realize that your friends are people who have made mistakes and bad decisions and even just fucked up and hurt people.

And obviously your boundaries with your friends are completely up to you but you do need to recognize that if you cut off everyone who has done something wrong, you’re going to end up with no friends (and you yourself will have also fucked up in your life, and not lived up to those impossible standards either).

I’ve found it’s much more constructive to learn how to say “hey dude, that was massively fucked up of you,” because most people are really willing to say “yeah, it was, I need to work on it/not do it again/apologize and make things right” ESPECIALLY if they are hearing it from you as their friend.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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when I was a kid I never realized this strip was a parody of some old child safety psas (“it is now 10pm. do you know where your children are?”) and that honestly made it funnier because it looked like calvin was doing this for no reason

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A big reason why I think I became a marxist is bc I read A LOT of Calvin & Hobbes and Bill Watterson really went out of his way to lay the groundwork for teaching people critical analysis. Like take this panel for example:

EVERYTHING one knows about American/Western culture, especially in the late 80's/early 90's, would lead to the logical next line being some form of "Kids These Days Are Succumbing To The Evils Of Satan" or some likewise cheap Reaction™ But then Bill pulls the rug out

He criticizes the "satanic" bands not for some lack of christian morals but because theyre a byproduct of hyperconsumptionist culture. Bill takes no issue with the subject matter bc his issue is knowing its only being done to sell rebellion as a consumer product rather than to say anything truly provocative or inspired.

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girls are so cool and sometimes they wanna cuddle you. did yyou know this

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how it feels to see tnc live

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yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

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normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

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Open again for September fullbody comms, dm if inchrested

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Reblog to give yourself bigger tits.

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girl with diegetic music powers :)

she goes with other superheroes to sit on the side & provide fight music that everybody can hear. it helps them coordinate and it's great for morale

she doesn't have any other powers so she's mostly a normal person, but it's the little things

in a good mood she can DJ a party without fully thinking about it, like forgetting you're breathing

her lovers can tell what's working in bed not just from her voice and how she moves but from the cadences of the bedroom jams they both hear

when a man makes her uncomfortable at a bar he starts hearing really uncomfortable horror stings

she starts talking corny soft mushy stuff to her girlfriend and halfway through her gf is like "babe are you meaning to do the piano soundtrack rn or are you worried i'm mad at you? stop it i love you"

she had to stop playing online pvp games entirely after accidentally making her last upstairs neighbor hear hard-ass rock beats enough times that the neighbor called an exorcist on herself

the one time a villain decided to ignore the actual powered heroes and target the girl in the corner telepathically ripping off daft punk, she panicked. the next second he was on the ground with blood coming from both ears. he's still in physical therapy to restore his sense of balance. she has no idea how she did that and doesn't talk about it.

girl with diegetic music powers :)

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using "pack" instead of "chat". pack is this real.