#live what you preach!

[dailiadelc]

[sf3uuf]

I WATCHED THE SPY X FAMILY MOVIE ON THE 20TH AND OMG IT WAS SOOOO GOOD I LOVED IT SO MUCH!!

To make a long story short without spoilers, it was a mix of seriousness and unseriousness, and I know a lot of people didn't like that, (which I can totally understand) but I think it fit well! I loved it!! Also Anya was just a ball of adorableness as always!! Just LOOK AT HER!!🥺

Also, you guys already KNOW when my pookie bear Franky Franklin came on screen, I was going INSANE XDD!! My brother literally said to me, "That's your bae!" Which made me laugh. I sound more normal about it than I actually was LMAO.

Anyways, if you need a good mix of seriousness and silliness, this movie is for you!

[rotzaprachim]

idk this is a discussion for Jews (and other marginalized people) but I’ve always felt really iced out of or even disturbed by people esp goyim casually stating support for Jews “killing our oppressors” as the Solution for all our problems when the reality is that antisemites outnumber Jews by such incredible numbers that the result would be incredible carnage and also it’s all a sign of how little goyim really reckon with antisemitism as a widespread and potent modern force.

Furthermore while I am in no way here wishing to describe Palestinians as our oppressors, the idea that what an oppressed group actually needs to be safe is just violence and to be armed- to be Jews with guns, Jews who can fight Back, Jews Tough Enough to respond to what happened to Us- is a huge aspect of the modern ideology that keeps justifying anti Palestinian violence as well as the Zionist “new Jew.” Like the reality here is there’s no way out without asking Jews to profoundly disarm themselves and reevaluate our relationship with militarism, lay down the arms, and that fits uncomfortably with the global reality of antisemitism- also begging the question, why do discussions center the Jews’ culpability for turning towards armed nation state based solutions rather than the world’s culpability for making a profoundly non violent people kneel at the hour or organized militaries and mandated conscription as the only means of safety. The answers to these questions lie at complex junctures of Israeli demilitarization and disarmament and return of land and nation but also global culpabilities to create a world in which Jews don’t need to be Jews with Guns to live but either way it strays so far from either Christian centrist rhetoric of turning the cheek and tumblr cultural Christian rhetoric of maybe if we just killed the right people everything would be fine and the route to Justice of all oppressed peoples is violence (regardless of what happens when multiple oppressed peoples have been turned against each other, as imperialism loves to make happen)

[elftwink]

you guys know that "landlords are leeches get a real job" is a haha funny bit you say to illustrate the hypocrisy of the rhetoric surrounding work and what qualifies as 'contributing' to capitalist society and not a coherent leftist belief right? you guys are saying that because it's funny to watch landlords sputter to come up with a response to the kind of attitude they have always subjected tenants and renters to and not because you genuinely believe your worth is determined by the money you earn under capitalism, right? you understand that once you believe it is possible for someone (even landlords) to be a 'leech' on society if they arent working (or aren't working enough, or aren't doing the right kind of work, etc), this will bleed into the way you think of everyone else too, right? you guys know that legitimate and meaningful critiques of landlords are not and can never be based on whether or not they are working because that is irrelevant to the fact that they own property for the express purpose of charging other people for access to shelter, which is a basic human need and shouldnt be controlled by the whims of Some Guy just because its his name on the deed... right???

[purpurrock]

I just saw people saying that Starlight Glimmer's town was closer to COMMUNISM than a cult. I'm going to kill myself

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

Shout-out to everyone who survived a "fun" easter with the family

[jdeanmorgan]

Celebrity: i dont wanna share my sexuality publicly cause thats private to me

Yall: hes unlabeled which means he's just a straight person who queerbaits-

[steveharrington]

i swear it’s over and i’m not engaging anymore but it’s so funny to have billy stans lecturing me about how some people have violently bigoted homophobic fathers who you have to hide everything from etc etc like trust me i fucking KNOW LOL and i still managed to never attack innocent children crazy how that works

[secretmellowblog]

Random, but. It’s fascinating how “Valjean and Javert written by someone who thinks cops are Good” is so radically different from “Valjean and Javert written by someone who thinks cops are Bad.”

Like, for me the number one Thing that will determine whether I enjoy someone’s take on Valjean and Javert are whether they realize that the police/prison as an institution destroyed both of their lives, and is the villain of both of their stories XD.

But yeah it’s really fascinating! Both in adaptations and in fanfiction, the tone/interpretation with which the plot beats are handled can change so much about the characterization. All the adaptations/fic start off with the same basic plot beats but so much can be changed and colored (for better or worse) by the way the author chooses to interpret them

[scramblema-am]

Didn't want to derail a post so I'm making my own.

I came across a post talking about how we're not gonna get rid of the radfems until we give up "all cis men are evil" because gender essentialism is brain rot. Which is completely and totally true.

AND ALSO

I can't believe I have to fucking say this, but we need to give up "all cis men are evil" because cis men are... also people??? I understand that the people who have hurt women and the LGBTQIA+ community are white straight cis men, but that doesn't make them inherently evil or inhuman. It is dehumanizing to label an entire category of people as evil. I don't care if they have privilege, they still deserve to be treated as human beings. Cuz surprise, ALL PEOPLE should be treated like people and have the right to not be told that they're scum constantly.

And fuck it, hot take: it fucking sucks to be told you're evil for shit you can't change, no matter who you are. It's not ok to call all gays evil, or all black people evil, or all trans people evil, or all women evil. It's NOT OK to call all straight white cis men evil either.

And you know what? If I was called evil all day every day online and out in the real world by people who claim to be "liberal" and "feminist," I might get angry, or at the very least depressed. When you are in a heightened state of emotion, you are vulnerable to manipulation. If some asshole is like "hey I get it, *those people* hates me too, they're all stupid," men, especially young men who are depressed and angry, might follow them into whatever stupid shit they're doing. That's how Andrew Tate has as big a following as he has.

TLDR: Men need to do better, AND communities that push for acceptance and change NEED to drop the "all cis men" are evil thing. Those things aren't mutually exclusive!

We need to treat men like real human people.

Otherwise what the fuck are we even doing here.

[alicepao13]

One guy appeared on Greek tv and seriously said that one of our chief priests (I won't go to look up whatever title that is for Greek Orthodox Christians in English) had to have 5 Xanax pills (the Greek equivalent anyway, I am not that familiar with brands) after seeing Bambie Thug's performance. I am a Bambie Thug supporter after that.

[ilhoonftw]

self-help and wellness industry doesn't want you to "get better" btw. cause if you do start feeling better and build a stronger sense of resiliance and identity, you will stop buying the books, candles, quit the meditation apps etc etc

[raideo]

Im fucking dying this was such a fantastic line...

This man can fit so many problems in him

[sonknuxadow]

LONG ASS CATHOLIC BLAZED POST ON MY DASH JUMPSCARE

[queenlucythevaliant]

Shieldmaiden

i. I must have been made for the long defeat, she thought, for that is all I have ever been given.

ii. There was a corollary to that: the contours of my heart must have been fashioned for courage.

iii. Éomer said that their father hadn’t died quiet. He told Éowyn stories about the battle, though he knew no more what really happened than Éowyn did. Curled beneath her brother’s chin, Éowyn imagined her daddy with his jaw clenched, knuckles white around his pommel, fighting and fighting until at last he fell. “He gave those orcs a hell of a fight,” Éomer would say. “His courage will be remembered in these halls until the ending of the world.”

iv. (Somehow, it never occurred to Éowyn that perhaps her good, strong daddy would not be remembered at Meduseld for a losing battle against a dozen orcs, but because that was where the people who loved him best still dwelt.)

v. When Éowyn’s momma died, no one told stories. Momma’s defeat came like the fading of grass under the summer sun.

vi. As a girl, Éowyn gathered up courage from lines of verse and lyrics of songs: My head is bloody, but unbowed. Though far outnumbered let us show us brave. Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. She chanted those words again and again, a shield against despair.

vii. Somewhere along the line, Éowyn learned to wield a sword. This was more incidental than one might think.

viii. Théodred dead. Théoden scarcely himself. Éomer riding afar. Defeat was coming for Rohan, but to Éowyn, this was a familiar feeling.

ix. Aragorn came like a king out of a story or a song. His was the voice that cried “Bloody, but unbowed!” in her mind when she was almost despairing, high and glorious even in the face of defeat. Now, Éowyn dreamed of queenship, if only so that her voice could be like his.

x. She did not mean to tell Aragorn her deepest fear: that if she was left in Edoras as ruin fell, she would die quiet, caught in a cage and gasping smoke as the house burned down around her.

xi. “You have a sword,” Merry observed. He was right.

xii. Éowyn went to battle because she wanted them to call her brave. She went to battle because momma had faded like the grass, but daddy had given those orcs a hell of a fight. Because if defeat was coming, she did not want to wait in a failing kingdom for ruin to come and find her. No, she wanted to die like a great queen in a song, brave until the bitter end.

xiii. The grass of the fields crunched beneath her feet as she turned to face the Witch King. When she smote him with her sword, she did not feel like a queen in a song. She was only Théoden’s niece, a girl who loved her uncle and would let no evil thing touch him.

xiv. When Éowyn woke in the Houses of Healing, a fresh web of scar tissue round her wrist, victory seemed an insubstantial, fading thing.

xv. But then Faramir looked out to darkness inescapable and dared to say, “I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” He was not like a king in a song, but his words stirred up the same deep places in Éowyn’s soul where all those words of courage lived. They echoed there, louder and louder. Éowyn smiled.

xvi. When he kissed her, she felt brave as growing things are brave: like the crocuses that bloom from the snowy spring ground.

xvii. “You have desired to have nothing, unless a brave death in battle. Look at me, Éowyn!”

xviii. Éowyn looked at him long and steadily. I was made for the long defeat, she thought. All I ever wanted was to be brave.

xix. But if the darkness was passing, what courage was there in death?

xx. You were made for life, she heard a voice say, for sunlight and dancing and growing things. Your heart was fashioned for love and for joy. And yes—for courage.

[theprincientist]

Practice What You Preach - Black Representation Challenge

THE ORIGINAL POST YOU CAN REBLOG HERE

On August 8th I made a post called "Black Art" about representation.

It was based on a video I saw on the internet by a black creative the challenged us to stop fighting for positive representation by painting white stories black.

The argument they posed was that It gives the false idea that we are represented when in reality we are not. We keep on replaying white stories.

There is the barbie and the black barbie. There is a cinderella and a black cinderella. There is a little mermaid and a black little mermaid.

The beauty standard still remains and although we are being represented it is still a sub-category.

Instead of wanting every white story to be a black version we should instead fill in the gaps in our historical memory and learn about real black queens and queens that would inspire us.

And watch ORIGINAL black movies, black superheroes, black princesses. Real black stories.

They then posed the challenge I recently finished and proposed you do with me:

"To have true representation in the media we need to seek and create our own stories and find our own positive black role models. On our terms.

The video then posed a challenge for me I propose to you as well.

We often speak of being descendants of kings and queens. The challenge: find one black king and queen in African history. Learn about their lives and accomplishments.

See a movie that was written, produced and played by black actors. It can be a movie from any country. There is a variety of them with subtitles.

Search for the history of one African Kingdom (there were many). Read about it. You'll be surprised."

Practice What You Preach - The Challenge: Part 1

- African King

I started the research in my own African country to find queens and kings. The Portuguese claim the island of Sao Tome and Principe was inhabited before they founded it. So there is no record.

But I discovered King Amador. He was a king that rose from revolution. The attempts to erase him were many, but we remember our heroes and celebrate them to this day.

He has his own statue, he is printed in the local money and a holiday is celebrated after him. A snippet of His story below:

King Amador in 1595 gathered half of the black population of the island (at the time enslaved) and led a revolution.

The revolution lasted from July 9th to July 29th where most of the plantations and sugar machinery were destroyed.

He bravely fought 3 battles with a population larger than the colonizers but heavily underarmed. The colonizers also had the help of enslaved men.

The last battle on July 28th was lost, but the sugar plantation and commerce in the island were never the same and declined after.

Read The Full History Here: choose English option on the top left corner

Things I learned:

My people were brave despite how white history describes them. It is ESSENTIAL to seek out history and positive role models in that history. To fill in the memory blanks we have where only the word slavery exists.

Our history did not start there and will not end there. We should learn from it because the biggest impact slavery left - racism - still lives and affects us all.

Even if our life is comfortable and we have access to everything we need, racism in that comfort remains. Knowing our history is our superpower to black empowerment.

One man can change everything. His impact can live on for many years and inspire for decades.

I remembered a quote: "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

Imagine if Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, King Amador or anyone who fought for independence thought they had no power. They would be right on the side of the colonizer.

Many times we choose not to try because we think it is too hard. Remember that our ancestors had to get through so that we can be free today.

Recognize racism, how it looks like, and how it manifests. Education does not stop discrimination but it stops you from believing it. From self-hate.

Our power today lies in self-empowerment. In education, in advocating for change and justice in whichever amount we can.

Maybe it's a like on anti-racist content, maybe it's writing an email. Supporting a black-owned business or protesting. Setting boundaries at home and work from colourism speech. All those levels are powerful.

Don't be afraid to be your black self. It will inspire others to do the same.

In the fight for black freedom and emancipation, there are those who rather join the side of the oppressor for their own individual comfort. Not everyone is pro-black. Recognize their speech and actions. Don't be fooled. Act accordingly.

Part 2 Coming Soon - African Queen