9-1-1 Is Returning In 1 Week!!!!

I hate how the current state of this fascist and heartless administration has made me yo-yo between being filled with rage and having to ignore the news and social media for a day or two to keep from losing hope entirely.

I keep seeing activists I follow post about "not letting the doom and gloom keep you down", and I know. I know that's what MAGA people want, to shut us down. To keep us quiet, scared, and feeling powerless.

I also don't want to look like one of those apolitical idiots who willfully avoids speaking up because of their "good vibes only" bullshit.

But I only have so much energy...

How Chicago helped put the Queen of Grunge back on her throne - Chicago Reader

The writing of Jen B. Larson and a new reissue by Bric-a-Brac Records have burnished the legacy of Seattle band Bam Bam and their powerhouse front woman, Tina Bell.

Leor Galil of the Chicago Reader wrote an article highlighting the work a handful of us have done lifting up the legacy of Tina Bell. In it, he also unearths more information about Tina’s life and Bam Bam’s story. It’s a long, important, and celebratory ready!

having slow auditory processing is chaos, it makes me come off as jerky, like i promise when i ask 'what' and interrupt you half way through repeating yourself with a response, its just bc im slow and i need captions for everything.

I hate the "higher price = better food" logic. It is SO classist/elitist.

Paying more for fancy labels and acting like you're above fast-food/takeout doesn't do anything to help working-class people who literally cannot allocate that much of their budget to "clean eating". for every single meal they eat. Who can't afford things fancier than CostCo.

It's just giving people an excuse to look down on others and act like they're better than those who can't afford that lifestyle. (Nutritionists and dietitians who use teachings from 30+ years ago and are guided by white supremacist "health" rules, I'm looking at you)

But wait!! There's more!!

I also hate how obsessed people are with calories. High-calorie food does NOT mean unhealthy food.

As somebody who was raised in a "low-calorie, high food value" household...it's bullshit.

Low calorie, mostly plant based meals aren't good for everyone. And I'm tired of pretending that they are.

Anyways, I'm gonna go eat my fast food and high calorie protein and carbs now.

Rant over

Just finished rewatching Maleficent and damn I forgot revenge is bad narratives can be good.

Like, ultimately the formula they follow is person A gets hurt by person B (often scarred for life/grievously injured) -> person B moves on and starts a family - A becomes bitter and angry and gets back at B -> but eventually decides not to go through with it because B has a family/it would make them just as bad, or they do and then feel empty/it’s unfulfilling.

And I hate it. I hate that the implication is that if you hurt the person who hurt you, you are just as bad as them. I much prefer the Inigo Montoya route: revenge is my purpose because someone did something bad to me -> I get revenge and this is great, I have achieved my goal.

And I could never pinpoint why that was the case until I was rewatching Maleficent with my sib and realized that it’s because most “revenge is bad” narratives center around the harm it will cause to person B. It centers around the harm it causes to the bully, the abuser, the perpetrator. It centers around B’s family, B’s friends. It never centers around A.

Maleficent, though, does center around A in a way I don’t see too often. Maleficent got hurt by Stephen. Stephen moves on, while Maleficent can’t. Maleficent becomes bitter and angry, and gets back at Stephen via cursing Aurora. Then Maleficent decides not to go through with it/regrets it.

But Maleficent makes the choice after. After Aurora wakes up, Stephen attacks Maleficent. He burns her, he chains her. Maleficent escapes, and then she doesn’t continue attacking Stephen. She throws him on the ground, moves to leave, he grabs her near her wings(the main source of her trauma and mirroring when he hurt her) and she pins him up against the wall. She can choose to kill him.

She doesn’t. And it’s a culmination of her healing, that she moves on. She leaves Stephen behind. And he can’t accept that, so in the end, he causes his own death.

It’s beautiful because it’s clear Maleficent is a victim, it centers around her trauma and her healing. Maleficent choosing not to kill him isn’t that it’s bad to get back at Stephen, that he doesn’t deserve death, it’s about the fact that she doesn’t want anything to do with him. He’s irrelevant.

And there’s the fact that he suffers, which is nice to see. But his obsession is another post. As is the parallels between this movie because I could rave all night about that.

Welp.

Only took me several years of seeing Tumblr memes through osmosis to *finally* get on here lmaooooooo here I am though

You hate that your favorite bands are exercising their free speech.

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Katara is canonically punk:A short meta/analysis

Explicitly a noncormist against toxic traditionalist roles(i.e her wanting to be a girl but not like is expected of her by the misogyny in society)

She works hard to disprove them too and encourages other girls to do the same

Runs her mouth 24/7 but especially to authority figures

Does direct action and literal eco-terrorism on a regular basis

Changed the system as a result(Became the chief of her tribe and helped decolonize the non-FN countries)

Super kind to younger people and has a strong sense of community

Intersectionalist who is respectful of all cultures except the Fire Nation and instead does reverse racism against them for being imperialists('Ash Maker' was reperations)

Had a crush on Jet because he's an experienced revolutionary and Aang had a crush on her for the same reason

This

^^^^Little Miss Punk Tactics herself