#drafts cleanup

[dudedearest]

me: i can watch some influencer videos as entertainment. i will simply not allow myself to be influenced.

*2 days later standing in an unfamiliar aisle at a store* by talos this can’t be happening

[xec]

Booker, are you afraid of God? No, but I'm afraid of you.

[lazarusemma]

obviously universities claiming “we can't divest from arms companies because tuition costs would rise” is on the face of it a facile claim—

(tuition, like all prices, is set to establish profit more than to reflect actual costs of production; student loan rates are famously high, and without debt forgiveness many people are already unable to pay them off; hopefully most people would agree to slightly higher tuition in exchange for stopping mass murder)—

but it’s a useful illustration of how privilege in the imperial core depends, by definition, on exploitation of the global south.

education is made available to a portion of the US’s population limited by wealth and other societal factors. it is inequitable even within the country. but as an institution, it is bound to & reliant upon the wealth of the country, which sits atop a global economy of neoliberalism and resource/value extraction. the only reason middle- or upper-class USAmericans have material access to “quality” education is because of their country’s deriving that wealth from oppression of the global south.

this is true on a literal, physical level—where do we get the paper for textbooks? where do we get the cobalt, aluminum, nickel for electronics? who makes our plastics or textiles, under what conditions, and what price do we pay for these items?

this is also true on an ideological level—what is printed in our textbooks, and in what language(s)? what websites are deemed trustworthy sources to cite academically, and whose authority makes that call? which currency is used to purchase materials from abroad, and who benefits from this?

notice also that none of the points raised above are exclusive to higher education. colleges and universities may be making headlines right now for being directly invested in the systems we want them divesting from, but all of the US's internal resources are driven by money, and the US's economic power comes from a history of settler colonialism, human rights abuses, and environmentally-unsound practices across the world.

this country has leveraged its money—collected by way of torture and murder of Black people, forced displacements and murder of Indigenous people, and non-sustainable exploitation of natural resources (along with white European settlers’ wealth, which of course has its own chain of wealth extraction as its source)—all to bring itself to the head of the global economy, produce a military meant to be too threatening for other countries to risk invoking, and enforce its hegemony across the production process.

our response to the claim that divesting would make tuition more expensive needs to be twofold:

1. challenging its veracity—no, it won’t;

2. challenging its value—so what if it does?

any serious justice movement needs to acknowledge that some things which are currently available will need to become unavailable (or less available, or less convenient) under an equitable system. for another example: projects like UBI would be great for residents of the imperial core, but in our current setup, UBI will be a privilege of those whose countries have the wealth to back it.

no liberatory project is complete without a complete restructuring of the systems that enabled inequity to begin with. for those of us living in the imperial core, this means accepting that even if increasing quality of life in the global south will/does cost us, the cost has to be considered worth the result!

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

imagine having a fantasy jesus that was a woman (and a warrior!!) and a dominant religion in which women hold higher positions and the pope is exclusively a woman and having and an intro text that says women and men are treated equal and then the first thing you do is be sexist

[b4kuch1n]

IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED

DESPITE EVERYTHING DESPITE MY CHRONICALLY CURSED INTERNATIONAL MAIL PROBLEM I AM STILL THE ZONE RPG

[delhe-dalim]

I find comfort in drawing them,,,

[armoredprincess]

If a girl had me chained up to her radiator I would vote

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

sorry for going AWOL and for the lack of content guys I sort of went insane and wrote a book

[caesarsaladinn]

I don't think I can do the comic abruptness justice but I told my dad the used bookstore didn't have anything I was interested in and he replied "yeah, because you're a freak." end of sentence, out of nowhere. but like pot, kettle, my dude

[sweetdonutsart]

getting ready! (Aug 2023) 🪥

this started as a cooldown of just Juniper but i became so enamored by the pose that it became a piece with both Mori and Juniper lol. Mornings are hard for them as Mori is a skincare goddess whereas Juniper cannot leave the house without her hair done in some form and they clash in their bathroom all the time lol

[hunter-sylvester]

Idk if it’s the brain-rot at this point but whenever I’m reading through the odd review of Metal Lords from random people I always end up genuinely confused when the vast majority of them don’t mention Hunter’s queerness at ALL. AND LIKE I know it’s not spelled out in the film. I know it wasn’t explicitly in the script. But I’m just so used to the notion that Hunter is gay that it feels like such a massive omission when people don’t acknowledge it at all.

[kylo-wrecked]

a happy cat is a happy cat is a happy cat

[lazarusemma]

"academics" 🤝 doctors

glorifying abusing their own bodies pushing themselves past their limits for The Grind → disparaging people who can't/won't Make It To The Top like they did, as if the field isn't already stacked against success especially for anyone disabled

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

with her being in Veilguard, i'm really curious if Harding's uh. Views TM that she had during DAI will come up or not.

Like. It definitely felt like the Very Imperialistic Mindset was mostly just her being used as means to an end (guiding how the player is supposed to feel about any given new area), but at the same time her loyalty to the Inquisition is important to her as a character, and to why she is even here right now, so it'd be interesting if that's something that can be challenged

[scopostims]

Desaturated Viscera Cleanup Detail stimboard :•]

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[thottybrucewayne]

God, I love sampling. Sampling is the lifeblood of music and is an artform of it's own, die mad about it!