This election day, I'm thinking of my Nana.
I'm thinking of how as a young woman, she fled political violence in her native Colombia to build a new home in a more stable country. I'm thinking about how she lived a long life, but not long enough to see her home country elect its first ever progressive president (just a few months ago!).
Coincidentally, I was living in Colombia at that time (in the very city she grew up in), and I was able to witness what felt like a miracle. A very conservative country, suffering from the violent inheritance of colonization and catholic invasion and the war on drugs, against a backdrop of the dangerous global rise of the far right--this unlikely country managed to elect one of the most progressive heads of state in the world, in 2022. That's a pretty big deal.
And I'm thinking about this, this election day, because that election was won by a very thin margin. I'm thinking about how it almost didn't happen. I'm thinking about how it was only possible thanks to the highest voter turnout in 20 year. And I am thinking about the countless number of voters who chose to vote for the first time. I am thinking of the poorest and most disenfranchised citizens who showed up at the polls. I am thinking of the indigenous women who rode 12 hours on public buses to vote at the 'nearest' polling stations. I am thinking of all the money and corruption that went into preventing minority citizens from voting, and I'm thinking about how they showed up in the millions and voted anyway.
I am thinking that I would like to see a miracle like that in my own home country.
So if you're on the fence about waiting in line today to cast your vote, I hope that you will think--about the country you want to live in, the future you hope will unfold, and about all of the people it takes to make a miracle.
Because history may deem us nameless and faceless, but when we show up en masse, we are the ones who make history happen.
And yes, maybe also spare a thought for my Nana. Who was in fact a very angry and judgemental woman who supported the republican party for 50+ years, and who would be turning in her grave right now (if the family hadn't had her cremated). Think about the mean angry ghost of my Colombian grandmother, who very much wants you to not show up at the polls to support abortion and other sinful progressive values. Think about her. Do it for her. Do it for Nana.
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No, shut up, bc I know you love me. And you will love me if i meet you today. I know because when i couldn't see you on the streets bc i look down when i walk you still screamed my name and hugged me tight. I know bc u didn't even look at her until i mentioned her, bc i had all ur attention. I know bc u made me feel valid and smart when i was upset about the dumbest of all things.
I know you love me.
But right now i don't think i matter at all.
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Anyway, another AU where Doflamingo is adopted with Rocinante by Sengoku.
Except it wasn't an happy adoption but Doflamingo was kidnapped by Sengoku (after a few months Sengoku found Rocinante) and nobody is happy about the situation. Sengoku doesn't want to keep him and he's enough desperate to ask Garp and Tsuru to re-home get rid the little devil, but they say "lmao, you brought him here, now he's your problem."
Jokes on them.
Three old idiots with two traumatized kids, while Doflamingo plays a 3D chess game trying to take his brother away from the marines, passing as one, keeping his baby evil empire afloat on the other side of the world (he still has this dictatorship dream), meanwhile meeting Dragon by mistake deciding to be a sugar daddy (at 13yo) for the Revolutionaries, because he has a big bone to pick with the World Government and surprising being in the marine headquarters worsened his hate.
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i didn’t talk about this when it happened but let’s rehash this because this actor should never get another role in my opinion and he makes me truly livid with his constant bullshit.
noah schnapp is like the perez hilton of our generation except without any hint of confidence or the entertainment factor. i hate noah schnapp. i have for years and you cannot tell me he’s anything other than just a piece of shit who capitalizes on global disruption and his lame bowl cut character. newsflash— coconut head from ned’s declassified wore it better. he’s just some white dude that gets off on starting shit and sucking the dicks of the israeli government. at least perez hilton in all of his grossness of the early 2000s actually believed the things he was saying. noah has a history of doing fucked up things and then being like “just kidding.” you know what’s not cool?? genocide. shut the fuck up noah. no one likes you anyways. so plain and annoying. fuck off. you can be jewish and not support this ongoing genocide. you can be jewish and NOT be a zionist, it’s not fucking hard. this dude is past the point of needing to be cancelled in my opinion. the colonization and ethnic cleansing of an entire civilization isn’t something to ever make light of. shut the fuck up. to normalize genocide and colonization from a place of wealth and whiteness is awfully fucking convenient considering you never have to experience that terror. the LEAST you can do is have empathy but, your apathy for the lives and well being of others has ONCE AGAIN been noted. hope you got your crumb of validation.
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Oh of course my exs i watched midsommar with entire analysis of dani as a character was that she was 'annoying'. Uh I mean did I feel held by him
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"Sometimes alters need to be jailed for our own protection, uwu! Especially in RAMCOA systems!"
Speaking as a RAMCOA system ourselves: No they don't. No they fucking do not. And, if anything, you should be jailed for even fucking suggesting that. What the ever loving fuck is wrong with you? How the fuck do you think recovery is going to happen if you're perpetuating horrors like fucking incarceration on each other? Does that sound like something recovery-oriented, or does it sound like the way the abusers and the perps would fucking do it? Do you think you can get better by doing things the same way they did?
There is always another way. Always. Speaking to your alters, having patience, compassion, talking it out, trying to come to an understanding. If someone is acting out, what is jailing someone going to do except make the rift between you bigger, make the misunderstandings harder to overcome, reenact the fucking trauma?
If someone is at imminent risk of harming the body or someone else, then like... fine, get someone else up front with them who can be a protector and keep them from doing anything too severe. But for fuck's sake, I never ever ever want to see someone giving advice to others, speaking as if they know one single goddamn thing, and suggesting that absolutely heinous shit.
Do not jail your alters. You are only making things worse in the long run. And fuck you for suggesting others do it, too. You absolute sicko.
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Do Changduncan make love
their sex life is incomprehensible and disgusting and love has absolutely never played a part in it. it’s some real freak nasty shit and they never ever fuck sober.
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