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I love the post-apocalyptic genre as much as the next horror fan, but there is something to be unpacked in how they often reinforce very reactionary political ideas. Not just in the more bluntly conservative ways of thematically rewarding ideas like

“shoot first ask questions never”

“never offer mercy”

“torture works”

“Strong Government may be doing Bad Things but it is the only thing stopping people from becoming roaming bands of cannibal rapists unless Strong Men with police or military training maintain order once society collapses”

But also in the less easily recognizable reactionary beliefs like

“power vacuums are real and inevitable” (implying that unless you plan to exert a similar level of power and take the top of the hierarchy then you should not seek to dismantle power)

“the people who survive are the best— the strongest and smartest and most resourceful, the ones who deserve it most.” (implying that eugenics is an inevitable biological force rather than a political ideology)

“If someone who deserves to live dies, it is due to the actions of a villain, ‘good’ ‘important’ people do not just die from sickness or hunger or chance or mundane accidents” (more eugenics tbh, or at very least a just world ideology & confusing storytelling conventions with how the world works)

I think this becomes an issue when people—who have not studied, for example, the way that communities engage in mutual aid during natural disasters even if disconnected beforehand—will assume that collapse will inevitably lead to evil cannibal hoards as the biggest threat to survival and therefore the most important thing to prepare for, instead of understanding that collapse is much more likely to lead to an absolute need for community interdependence and cooperation to survive in the face of environmental disaster. I think it’s an issue if you can’t picture disabled people during collapse because you watched a hundred depictions of post apocalyptic shows where disabled people are eerily absent or die immediately, instead of internalizing the much more likely reality that if you survive disaster even if you were able-bodied previously, you and everyone you know will likely be surviving as disabled people.

like the media is fun as a form of storytelling, but if you are approaching your imagination of the future with increasing climate crisis with images you got from zombie shows, you do need to take a break from the fiction and learn from communities that have actually experienced natural disasters in real life.

Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie

Colonizers kill, displace, ignore, traumatize, exploit and oppress the indigenous people who have taken care of the land they lived on for THOUSANDS of years, and then when they see the land degrading around them have the fucking GALL to have all their environmental messaging be like "Wahh humans bad and evil and greedy :("

Like no you dumb motherfuckers you just uprooted the people who knew what they were doing, and when stuff starts to go to shit you decide it must be that humans are inherently awful because it's easier than admitting that YOU LOT fucked up.

okay picture this; i go back in time and find a victorian orphan child. do i blow his mind? do i break his brain? NO!!! i give him warm soft clothes and a hug. he gets me wizard high off what would commonly be used to treat a minor cough in that era. we both eventually contract a deadly illness and then i bring him to the future where we get easily cured of our ailment. i buy him a happy meal afterwards. he’s my good son now. love you son.

New 2023 discourse dropped, everyone prepare yourselves accordingly

Raise your hand if you're a former gifted kid who would've been diagnosed with autism sooner if only anyone actually knew what it was

[doesn't really understand conspiracy theories but wants to be involved] jfk didn't kill himself

YOU CAN ALSO LEARN ANCIENT WIZARD TRADITIONS FROM BOOKS, OR LEARN THEM FROM THE FOREST AND MUSHROOMS. EITHER WAY TREES ARE INVOLVED.

When I was sixteen I had probably some kind of mental breakdown and decided I was a wizard. I got better kinda, but I also never looked back and am now pagan and a wizard.

you have to pretend to be a wizard sometimes, for your health. the obvious method is d&d, but you can also open the dishwasher on cold mornings and raise your arms dramatically as you're enveloped in the steam, or you can find a really good stick to walk around in the woods with, or you can run a bizarrely dedicated rp blog on tumblr. but it's an important component of human well being to occasionally pretend to be a wizard.

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of Goncharov (1973) before!!!! I watched it last night and was blown away. Truly ahead of its time.

I got the background text from @beelzeebub ‘s poster :)

Rewatched Goncharov (1973) and did a few studies of my favourite scenes

This one means the most to me,

Stays here for eternity,

A ship that always stays the course,

An anchor for my every choice,

A rose that shines down from above,

I signed and sealed these words in blood,

I heard them once, sung in a song,

It played again we sang along ~

Weird leftos and queers need to start getting into guns, knives, martial arts and militia tactics, to be completely honest. Yes, these activities are traditionally associated with the right. The reason they are is the right wants the culture war to become an actual war, and plan accordingly. Since the right WANTS an actual civil war, the left needs to prepare accordingly. Learn how to fight. Practice with your friends. Hopefully you never need it. Hopefully enough of us being capable of violence will start to prevent some of the violence we are subject to.

The shooting in Colorado will very obviously sanitized in order for America to ignore the terrifying problem it has with fascist terrorism. It was at a gay club, during a drag performance, during an event organized by a group presently being targeted by libsoftiktok for "grooming" teenagers by facilitating them exploring drag performance. After news broke of the shooting, libsoftiktok was still attacking the group on twitter. The perpetrator, of course, was a 22 year old man known to law enforcement, and was previously in deep shit for calling in bomb threats. The same story we always hear. Same one we've heard for years.

This is a part of a greater rising tide. Young men are being radicalized into acts of stochastic terror with increasing frequency. Not only does law enforcement have no interest in protecting our communities, they are often in the same circles as these terrorists, and agree with their actions. Other mass shootings have already demonstrated that police will not even protect their own communities. Public officials refuse this is a systemic issue being aggravated by sitting politicians who peddle conspiracy and hatred. Social media sites have zero concern for the charlatans creating the echo chambers and feedback loops which drive these alienated young men into the deranged mindset to inflict this kind of pain.

It isn't hopeless, of course. There are courses of action we can take, even if we can't directly change the system above us. Now is the time to discuss this trend as loudly and openly as we can in order to get to the core of the issue. Don't shut up about this kind of thing. We should probably be organizing large, visible actions. Act up, as it were. In the mean time, we also need to keep ourselves safe, as we find ourselves an outlaw class. Talk to one another. Protect eachother. Be sure to be active in your local communities, and establish ties between communities. We need to find those meaningful alliances again. Learn to defend yourself and others in any way you can, and encourage those around you to do the same. Yet, there is no need to panic. Only need to prepare and strengthen ourselves for what may possibly happen around us. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I know American Psycho has a lot of exaggeration and satire to it but the one detail in it that’s absolutely completely true to life is how Patrick Bateman’s job does not appear to actually entail anything you can define as real work. There are millions of guys like him in America, probably more now than there were when that movie got made, whose job is to just kind of hold a position of power in a huge company without really doing anything that requires any skill or labor.