The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

inside me is a toddler having an absolute screaming sobbing meltdown at the prospect of having to log on to work tomorrow, even just for a 3 day week before I take some time off for fun

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

the mortifying ordeal of being the only one who could "handle it"

I need to be taken to the seaside for hysteria

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

OSCAR ISAAC Brioni | 2024

I know the genie is out of the bottle and you can't go back but dear GOD I hate the mainstreamification of fandom so much

I do NOT want authors or showrunners or actors to acknowledge us or talk about fanfic or fanart or fan theories! I do NOT want people asking questions of the canon creators and getting them answered (make up your own answers, like god intended!) I do NOT want companies making jokey advertisements aimed toward fandom!

I know that fandom was never entirely underground but like... I miss that fourth wall existing, you know?

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

We need Medicare For All. Remove profit from health care. End medical debt.

Your tax dollars should cover your needs.

resisting arrest shouldn't be a crime. it should be a human right to resist being arrested

Ryo Takemasa "Railbus through Rice Fields" (2022)

武政 諒

blorbo feelings emotes for your discord server. feel free to use/edit/whatever

It's still kinda wild how Phineas and Ferb managed to completely hijack an idiom. Now whenever someone hears a sentence leading with "If I had a nickel for everytime [...]", odds are their brain auto fills with "I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice," rather than "I'd be rich," or "I could [action that requires purchasing something requiring an obscene amount of money]". Y'know, what the idiom originally was

every time there's a post on here that's like "leave weird people alone, let people be freaks" there's always a bunch of people in the notes going "i agree but do you mean the Good Freaks or Bad Freaks OP?" with zero self-awareness