anyways if i havent made this obvious already: if u hav a problem w/ me calling out shit when i see it then just unfollow me. i dont care bout getting popular on tumblr of ALL places, i dont care bout getting into diskhorse fights or petty cliques or watever. if u hav a problem w/ me be a grown ass adult and deal w/ it urself on ur own time. dont think ur gaining anything by lying bout me or mocking me to ur followers, cuz ur not all this shit is fake anyways
Hi, I’m raising money because I would like to start my surgery journey with a breast augmentation as its not funded through my student insurance and I can’t afford it on my own. I started hormones over 3 years ago and feel like I’m now ready to start looking at surgery to improve the size and shape of my breasts. As it stands, my breasts are tuberous meaning they lack sufficient tissue on the bottom half, causing them to be misshapen. I still suffer a lot of misgendering in my daily life and I believe having properly sized breasts proportional to my large frame would go a long way toward helping to solve that problem.
My current target goal is based on the cheapest surgical option I could find in the US that would be performed by a reputable physician. Specifically, I am hoping to afford a Groupon for saline breast augmentation with Dr. Saul Lahijani in California.
I’ve heard a great deal about you, Fa Mulan. You stole your father’s armor, ran away from home, impersonated a soldier, deceived your commanding officer, dishonored the Chinese Army, destroyed my palace, and… you have saved us all.
i read somewhere that Oogie Boogie from the nightmare before christmas is supposed to be like, the mascot of a for a forgotten holiday and that might be fake but thats the funniest thing to me bc i just imagine like
“welp, i hate to say it, but Swarms of Insects in The Casino day is canceled”
ok i was expecting this was just some bullshit tim burton said in some commentary once or something, I was not ready for the TNBC fandom to bring me this amazing deeplore
cw prisons, violence mention, torture mention, death mention, abuse
1. Prison abolition does not mean that survivors of terrible violence are obligated to forgive the people who have hurt them.
2. Prison abolition does not mean that you can’t personally wish harm on the people who have hurt you.
3. Prison abolition is not a personal mandate for you to achieve some kind of proscribed enlightenment.
4. Prison abolition is about the state.
5. Prison abolition means there are some things that the state should not be empowered to do.
6. The state has much much more power than any victim or any perpetrator of any individual act of violence. The state is capable of devastating entire communities, and that is what it uses the prisons to do. The state should not have that power. We should not grant it that power.
7. The state has more power than any of us, and in a just society the state is charged with protecting and preserving life for all of us, and prisons do not do that.
8. If someone killed my little brother, I might want to kill that person. That’s a human response. That has nothing to do with whether that person should be killed by the state.
9. If someone killed my little brother I might want to torture that person. That is also a human response. That has nothing to do with whether the state should torture that person.
10. The state shouldn’t torture people.
11. The state shouldn’t kill people.
12. The state shouldn’t incarcerate people.
13. It should not be the function of the state to cause harm, or to perpetrate violence. The state should only exist to help people.
14. Hurting people doesn’t actually fix anything. An individual person is allowed to forget or disbelieve that, in a trauma response. But the state must be held to a higher standard.
15. If someone killed my little brother I don’t think I would want to kill that person, actually. I would want my little brother back. And that would be impossible. There is no justice after the fact. Once violence is done, it is done. There can be healing for the survivors, but justice cannot be restored once it is broken, certainly not by simply inflicting more harm on someone else. Justice is not a question of adding suffering until the scales are balanced. Justice requires that suffering be alleviated as much as possible for all people.
16. I guess I don’t know for sure what I’d feel like if I lost my little brother. But I do know what it’s like to feel powerless. I know it because the state taught it to me. The statestole somebody I love from me. From my family. The state has held him prisoner for decades. I want him free so much that sometimes it hurts to breathe. When I visit him, I walk out of the prison and leave him behind and I feel like I’m leaving behind my own skin. Like the barbwire has ripped it away and left me bloodied.
17. I know what it feels like to be a victim. I know it because the state taught it to me. I don’t want anyone else to ever feel that way. I don’t want any little kid to ever feel as small and scared and helpless as I felt the first time I tilted my head back in the courtyard of San Quentin State Prison and saw the guard tower over me and understood that there was a sniper inside it. I don’t want that to be part of anyone’s childhood.
18. Not the children of the guards, or of the judges, or of the legislators who passed the last 40 years of crime bills that have built up the prison-industrial complex. Not the children of the corporate billionaires who profit off prison labor. I don’t want any child to feel what I’ve felt. I don’t want vengeance. I want liberation, for all of us.
19. You never just lock up one person. That’s not what a prison is. A prison devastates communities. A prison destroys families. A prison makes victims of us all.
20. There will never be justice for what was done to me and my family. There will never be justice for the trauma inflicted on the people in the prisons and on the people who love them. There will never be justice even for the damage done to the souls of the wardens and the judges and the guards (trauma always strikes two ways). There can be healing. There can be a future. But an injustice happened, is happening; it can’t be taken away. Destruction can’t be erased. Vengeance won’t help. All we can do, what we must do, is free everyone who’s living, and help each other start to heal.
21. I know what it feels like to be backed into a corner by the uncaring unrelenting force of someone else’s cruelty. I know what it feels like to plead and reason and weep and fight and fail. I know it because the state taught it to me. The state shouldn’t teach that to people. I want to live in a state that doesn’t teach that to people.
22. Prison abolition will protect our children from being taught that by the state.
23. Prison abolition means the role of the state is not to hurt us.
“Matriarchy is no less heterosexual than patriarchy: it is only the sex of the oppressor that changes. Furthermore, not only is this conception still imprisoned in the categories of sex (woman and man), but it holds onto the idea that the capacity to give birth (biology) is what defines a woman. Although practical facts and ways of living contradict this theory in lesbian society, there are lesbians who affirm that “women and men are different species or races (the words are used interchangeably): men are biologically inferior to women; male violence is a biological inevitability…” By doing this, by admitting that there is a “natural” division between women and men, we naturalize history, we assume that “men” and “women” have always existed and will always exist. Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible.”
— Monique Wittig, One is Not Born A Woman (via heteroglossia)
the biggest difference between Darkstalkers and Skullgirls on an aesthetic level is that, at least among their respective playable characters, only the women in Skullgirls are designed to appeal to monsterfuckers, whereas Darkstalkers does the same with its men as well, in this essay, I will-
Lovecraft Country might just be the neatest deconstruction of Lovecraft there is, though.
Lovecraft had a deep, deep fear of anything different or unusual. His stories touted the horrors of, among other things, air conditioning, colors outside the visible spectrum, and non-euclidean geometry. But one that he kept coming back to was race. His view of race and the importance of racial purity was intense even for his time, and the idea that he might have “impure” (read:Welsh) blood in his family was the inspiration for Shadow over Innsmouth. Racism was the order through which Lovecraft made his world and its dissolution his bane, and while he make some progress later in life (thanks in part to less radical friends and his Jewish wife who persistently challenged his views of her people), the idea of race as the ultimate order permeates his stories. People of color either worship his eldritch abominations or are eldritch themselves. The worst montrosity is the idea of these people interacting with good, white folks (and he had a much narrower definition of white than we have today), or even worse, having relationships with them. Merely bumping into a black guy is certain doom. And so on, and so forth.
Lovecraft Country, on the other hand, persistently shows the reality of racism, and it is thus: racism is the ultimate disorder. No law, no rule, no norm is exempt from it. Sheriff Hunt breaks his own laws to get at the black protagonists, making a mockery of his own profession to pursue them. Samuel Braithwaite breaks his own order’s rules when they appear to favor Atticus, a black man. Not even white people are safe from the cancer of racism: take Ms. Lydia, killed for running an equal diner in a non-segregated state. The idea that a person’s moral character or personal worth can be judged based on physical characteristics is a profound disconnect from the reality of humanity, and the effort to maintain the illusion simply causes that rot to spread into the foundation of society itself. Even the most monstrous creatures in the series follow rules, follow order: shoggoths dislike light, the ritual can be disrupted, ghosts may be appeased. Racism doesn’t. It comes from disorder and creates disorder. Lovecraft’s privilege kept him insulated from it, but the truth is that the thing he saw as the ultimate order was the source of chaos beyond his imagining, and Lovecraft Country hammers that in at every turn, from the white supremacist secret society to the eerily Innsmouth-like behavior of white towns who feel their turf has been infringed on.
And quite frankly? That’s a more thought-provoking, insightful, and interesting take on Lovecraft’s stories than any McCthulhu ripoff could ever be.
