#revolutionary culture

[jocrude]

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself, before it has stripped off all superstition in regard to the past."

- Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

[hezekiahwakely]

The revelation of Lena sending Gwen to deliver the name and address to Mr. Bonzo begs the question - how much is the UK government aware of what the OIAR is doing? Is the OIAR the means for carrying out Britain's most illicit dirty work? Is Lena using Mr. Bonzo to assassinate enemies of the state?? Because I'm just imagining a group of seasoned anarchists huddled in a basement somewhere planning the Gunpowder Plot 2.0, and instead of MI6 or whatever busting in to dismantle them, a giant oozing mascot suit from the 90s shows up on their doorstep screaming its own name. How do you even regroup and recover from that psychologically.

[anna-neko]

cosplay so old** ... it was shot ON FILM (during the last millennium no less), atta con that still exists at least **yes, the cosplayer is even a teen! Not quite the chara's age, but close enuff

[witchofthesouls]

I’d image that Girl Dad! Megatron (mostly MTMTE/IDW) would do some ‘baby proofing’ after his daughter is born, not only the form of hiding sharp objects and putting extra alarms on doors, but also in cleaning up the Decepticon ranks, the first to go being the Phase Sixers or at the minimum Overlord 😳

The ultimate sparkling/hybrid child proofing mechanism and parent-child bonding: his personal sparkling hold.

Frames that deal with immense and wild environmental changes, like miners, submarines, and shuttles, have something like an internal kangaroo pouch.

The structure is located deep within their frames, near if not settled next to their spark chambers. Within the dark hold that mimics similar conditions to a gestational chamber, it's cozily warm, well-protected, and well-fed behind tons of thick plating and nozzles connected to the mecha's fuel systems. There are specialized mechanics that refine the fuel directly from the main tank and their circulation to pull out vital nutrients and initial firewalls to create a dense, creamy sparkling fuel.

Adults unused to having a newspark within them will eventually figure out how to keep their hold still as the bitty bounces and rolls inside them. (Imagine the leader of the Decepticons at the meeting, and his subordinates are hanging onto his subtle changes, thinking the results are not up to adequacy. Meanwhile, his daughter has decided to smush herself to the side that's closest to his spark. I'm here! Yes, he knows.)

Fresh newsparks typically stay inside those holds until they reach the phase where they can toddle on their own as their plating has settled into a more appropriate density and hardness, the milky film has worn off, and they gained a significant amount of weight.

IDW Megatron doesn't strike as a mech that would get rid of the Phase Sixers or other dangerous elements. The violent and brutal kratocracy that became the Decepticon movement is a testament to the cruelties implemented by Functionist-held Cybertron as well as a twisted mockery and reflection of his own self and journey and spiral from "Decepticons to uplift the masses" to "Megatron's Decepticons."

If anything, he would keep the kid under wraps where only a handful of mechs ever known their existence, especially if he sired a techno-organic child.

[trashmarine]

revolutionary girl utena (shōjo kakumei utena, 1997) / practice by mary jean chan

[rhaenin-time]

Daenerys and Rhaenyra are among the most "sociological" characters who are emblematic of the social movements and attitudes around them, which is why it's so infuriating that it's their actions that are picked apart the most in a quest to define them by both real and imagined individualized "personal failings".

[kemetic-dreams]

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[asl-bros-incorrect-quotes]

Sabo: *watching YouTube*

Ace: Hey, Sabo!

Sabo: *stops his video and looks up*

Ace: You suck!

Sabo: YOU MADE ME PAUSE MY FREAKING VIDEO OVER THAT?!

[yearningforunity]

March in Honor of 300 years of Zumbi dos Palmares, 1995.

Photo: Lazaro Roberto

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about andor season 1 being a moses arc is that cassian andor literally is moses. once you mention that moses’s rise to leader serves as scaffolding to almost every major character moment for cassian well you just can’t unsee it

[soracities]

My friends say I’m deranged for this but I like to listen to YouTube videos of typing sounds when I’m trying to focus

this actually sounds like the exact opposite of deranged to me because this makes PERFECT sense i can see it 100%!!! rhythmic and stimulating, the perfect combo!!

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[hwatermelons-reacts]

just now realizing that the reason ND people headcanon "ambiguously" ND characters as ND is the same reason i headcanon anthy himemiya as desi. because even if they don't state it outright, it's not really ambiguous at all when you're someone who can look at the character and go "yes! them over there! they're just like me fr!" in that one specific aspect, so much so that EVERYTHING about them points toward being in that same category you're in

[mariocki]

"From a very early age the child becomes part of a pattern he never fully understands and is powerless to change. It is a pattern that is made up of rituals - of form periods, morning assemblies, lessons that follow each other in quick succession for no apparent reason, bells rung by other people that govern his changes of activity, milk, school dinners, homework. His life is part of a scheme that has been devised by people he does not know, and into which he is expected to fit without question.

And it is here that we come to the real content of our educational structure. At school, the child is taught by experience that it is normal for other people to organize his life. He will be told in Civics or History that he lives in a democracy, which means that people govern themselves. But he will know as an experienced fact that he must expect to be governed by other people who know better than he does."

- Albert Hunt, The Tyranny of Subjects, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

[trashmarine]

my fucking god these bitches gay! good for them!

[adisuniverse]

just finished watching Revolutionary Girl Utena and now I’m drowning in an indescribable existential dread??????