Nerdiness and sparkles

AND THE NEED TO WIN DRAINS HIM OF POWER

Can someone go back in time and read this to me before the sixth grade spelling bee? Thank.

thats the solution. Think of everything as fun. A lark. Something of no great importance.

Kim Possible was like I’m an extremely adept martial arts fighter and world hero and this is my sidekick Ron who comes along because he’s my best friend and I like him

#i once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you’re supposed to#empathize with and see yourself in#and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone’s life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you#‘this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don’t succeed your attempts matter’#grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters#well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much#your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending#or if you lose it along the way#people have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not#and in a reality that has no concept of ‘fair’ that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it’s COMFORTING

Ecofascism 101

I think one good reason to not overly focus on some imagined inherent moral goodness of people who have been horribly oppressed throughout history, and it's better to focus on the fact that the violent oppression of any people is inherently horrifying and worth fighting against, is that it leaves you incapable of properly assessing why, for example, the Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica was a crime against humanity. For all intents and purposes the Aztec state was itself a major regional oppressor, and its practice of raiding other neighboring peoples to obtain victims for human sacrifice earned it the hatred of practically every other indigenous group in the region, to the point that when the Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlan the vast majority of its army consisted of indigenous people who they easily recruited due to their collective grievances against the Aztec Empire. None of this changes the fact that what the Spanish went on to do, the systematic annihilation and subjugation of every culture in the region, Aztec civilization included, is among some of the worst crimes against humanity in history. The Aztecs don't need to be good or moral or anything like that for us to understand that what was done to the people of Mesoamerica by Spain was utterly monstrous and has had horrible consequences for the indigenous people of Mexico up to this day.

This is why a huge chunk of South African white supremacist propaganda is based around proving that "the blacks were equally as bad" during the colonial period. Yes, the Zulu kingdom was absolutely an oppressive state based around assimilating nearby clans and tribes. Yes there was warfare between ethnic groups and tribes which ended in mass blood shed. No, this doesn't excuse apartheid or the genocide of numerous groups in the country. Colonized peoples don't need to be perfect to be victims of horrendous crimes againsf humanity which still effects people to this day.