Fly

i stand in a valley watching it and you are not there at all

[image description: 5 gifs of Evan Buckley with lyrics from Mitski’s “A Burning Hill”

gif 1: from season 4 episode 5. In a flashback, a younger Buck rides his bike and cries. The text reads, “and i’ve been a forest fire”

gif 2: from season 4 episode 4. Buck shouts at his parents that nothing he ever did was good enough for them. The text reads, “i am a forest fire”

gif 3: from season 4 episode 14. Buck grins as he climbs the ladder The text reads, “and i am the fire”

gif 4: from season 4 episode 5. In the middle of the factory fire, Buck pulls the rope and loses his footing on the slippery floor. The text reads, “and i am the forest”

gif 5: from season 4 episode 14. Sitting on Eddie’s hospital bed, Buck looks at Eddie as he talks about how Buck had wished he had been the one to get shot instead. The text reads, “and i am a witness watching it” 

Sure I’ll sum up.

So there was a very good peaceful protest by.... Lafayette Park? Right outside the White House. They were chanting, they had multiple reporters in the crowd, it was fucking CHILL, people were waiting for Trump to do a speech in the Rose Garden.

Then, out of nowhere, truly NOWHERE, the cops closed in from three directions and threw gas into the crowd. They used rubber bullets on the crowd IMMEDIATELY. One dude told the reporter “They don’t care about new, move.” They drove out the totally fucking peaceful, pre-curfew protestors.

They moved them all out, and Trump started speaking, and you could hear the fucking gas going off over his speech. CNN fucking did a splitscreen to show the peopple being shoved back as the motherfucker stood up there and said he would protect our rights and would mobilize the military against people.

Then back to the reporters, and everyone was forced further and further away. One woman on a bike told the reporter “They are getting the water cannons ready, you wanna move.”

TURNS OUT.

ALL OF THIS.

WAS BECAUSE TRUMP WANTED A PHOTO OP AT THE CHURCH ACROSS THE STREET. HE WANTED THEM OUT OF THE WAY SO HE COULD STAND WITH A BIBLE IN FRONT OF A CHURCH.

Even CNN is calling him a dictator, at 7PM.

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

Here’s a short list (with sources) of things ICE has recently done which are both illegal and immoral:

Kidnapping

Homicide

Torture

Child Abuse

Sexual Assault

Child Neglect

Child Endangerment

Illegal Searches

More Illegal Searches

Lying About Warrants

Harassment of US Citizens

Wrongful Arrest

Police Impersonation

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. Law does not always equal justice. 

If those who create and enforce the law act in an immoral and abusive fashion, there is no moral obligation to follow the laws which they create to protect themselves and cow their victims into obedience.

“I have this great picture of me on the boat. I’m falling asleep on Anton’s lap, and Anton’s with his like sweatshirt, and I can tell he’s like, ‘Goddamn.’ I’ve probably been asleep for like an hour on his lap, and he doesn’t want to move me. It’s pretty cute.”