I hate it when men claim cat-calling is just a compliment
Was making sex jokes about me while I waited for my mom to pick me up from school A FUCKING COMPLIMENT??!
"Anakin wouldn't do that"
"He was the greatest Jedi ever how would he turn to the dark side"
"There's still hope in him"
"There's still good in him"
Star wars makes a point of establishing how despite genocide and the conquering of worlds Anakin can still somehow be a good person. Yet what I find fascinating from a feminist perspective is these are very similar words to how women's abusers are excused. Even Padme's last words being that Anakin has good in him is so eerily similar to how abused women go back to their husbands out of the misguided beliefs that the abuse is not who their partner truly is.
Anakin Skywalker is the epitome of how men can do the most heinous of deeds and find redemption because society won't stop looking for the good in them
Me when the autism kicks in while I'm in the middle of talking with a friend:
Ya blink and suddenly vanilla extract is a meme I guess
Watching an Instagram account that makes sandwiches through history. Needless to say I might try to replicate these recipes in university
thinking about how in why we build the wall from hadestown, the workers under influence, or rather as extensions of hades, one hive mind lost of individuality, sing about how the wall that they’re building keeps out the enemy (poverty) because the enemy is after their work.
“The enemy is poverty, and the wall keeps out the enemy.”
the work in question however, is the building of the wall.
“What do we have that they should want? We have a wall to work upon. We have work and they have none.”
now, hades says it himself:
“And our work is never done, my children, my children.”
and that’s what capitalism does, or rather, is. it’s a vicious cycle that relies on the fear of poverty, poverty created by capitalism itself, to keep functioning. it thrives on exclusion and fear mongering. and that’s why, in hadestown, what sets the riot in motion is love, expressed through song. if capitalism blooms when watered by hatred of anything other, anything that is not created by capitalism itself, then it is beyond important to keep the parts of ourselves and our communities that have not been touched by that hatred, such as love or music or art or writing or speech or alive. by doing that in the world we live in now, we keep hope alive of the world we dream about.
Posting memes from my current W.I.P out of context
Teachers constantly call me high functioning and I have level 2 social communications and level 1 repetitive behaviors autism so I'm always wondering what a level 1 across the board autistic person is like if I'm considered high functioning
Am I the only one who thinks Tsar Alexander I of Russia looks like a hamster?