One third of GoFundMe campaigns are for necessary medical expenses. People are “donating” their vacation days so that a new mom can stay home with her baby. A college-educated homeless man stood on the street handing out resumes in desperation, begging for a job, any job. Multiple posts about parents buying teachers necessities like a car and school supplies went viral.
Twitter and the media highlight these stories as heartwarming examples of “sacrifice” and people “pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.”
I call bullshit. Only in a dystopian society would we feel anything other than horrified at the thought of people crowdfunding their most basic needs.
I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing
To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter.
Scorpion Hill (PUP) // Sommerdrama, 2008. Oil on Canvas (Markus Matthias Krüger) // Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede (Richard Siken) // Mitski, on the In Sight Out podcast // On Fire, 2014. Oil on Canvas (Lauren Cohen) // JUNE IS ON FIRE (angelea l.) // Landscape With Several Small Fires (Richard Siken) // Album cover for PUP’s The Dream Is Over. 2016 (Christopher McKenney) // Brightside (Nate Ruess)
No there is no good fucking reason.
Some of you need to seriously consider how you talk about kids and teenagers, especially young females. You can’t call them foolish for making mistakes or oversensitive/overreactive and not think about what you’re projecting about yourself. Sorry Andi Mack, Elena Cañero-Reed, Riley Matthews, Julie Molina, Monse Finnie, Anne Shirley Cuthbert, Katara, Nini Salazar Roberts and every female protagonist of a TV show isn’t up to your impossible standards but they’re still kids (the hell most adults don’t have an inch of the emotional intelligence some of these characters have) and they are not supposed to be perfect. And if you really get down to it, most hated female characters are those of colour and then it truly hits you. Our society is so deeply rooted in misogyny and racism and it shows in such a painfully obvious fashion. Don’t say you don’t like her because she did X or Y, just say you’re racist and misogynistic and move on.
virginia woolf / a letter to vita sackville-west
River of Grass (1994) dir. Kelly Reichardt
rb with your absolute NO skip albums i need recommendations or just wanna hear y’alls faves