Roll for Vibes

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is and always has been fascist rhetoric everyone.

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

saw the hadestown proshot a few hours ago and my god the costumes.. like ive seen their basic shapes and colors in bootlegs before but the little details. persephone and eurydice’s matching dress trim, hades’s pinstripes being glittery, persephone wearing a choker in act 2, the feathers on hermes’s cuffs, the feather in eurydice’s hair, the fates having veils(?) of mourning on after eurydice leaves for the underworld, hades’s snakeskin shoes and cuffs, all the fates’ dresses having different patterns and harnesses on, orpheus and eurydice both wearing bandanas around their necks that eurydice loses when she changes into the workers’ uniform, orpheus’s clothes being so visually baggy and handed down