Hi I play oboe a lot

i think one of my favorite things about hopepunk is that it shows hope as what it truly is. hope is not mindless optimism. hope is not always soft. hope is aggressive. hope is defiance. hope is an act of resistance. hope is fighting back. hope is staying alive out of spite. hope is spitting in the systems eye. hope is going "fuck it, there ARE good things in this world". hope is choosing to be kind & loving despite everything. hope is community. hope is seeing the world is broken & making the small pieces of it that you exist in better. hope is not just wanting for something to happen, it's making it happen in any way you can. hope cannot be destroyed, no matter the cruelness of the world. hope is always there, aggressive & kind.

yo mr white can you switch me back to wet food this dry shit sucks bitch

Second picture. Scarecrow head. I have that and it lights up rainbow and is very festive

it’s actually none of your business or concern if a trans person decides to keep their birth name

there’s this trans guy on tiktok (you might know him) who kept his birth name (sasha) and he gets shit for it all the time. people say things like “if you’re trans why did you keep your deadname?” “i would hate it if people kept calling me a ‘girl name’” and he has to say “it’s not a deadname, it’s just my name.” and when people find out he’s trans they’re like “oh so what’s your name?” and he’s like “sasha” and they’re like “no i mean what’s your guy name, like your trans name?” “…sasha” i remember he made a video about it and was like “are y’all trying to make me hate my name or something or make me feel bad for keeping my birth name? i like it and it’s who i am” and honestly i feel like a lot of people think trans liberation comes from changing everything about yourself instead of keeping the parts about you that you like. “well wouldn’t you feel more comfortable if you fit into this binary mold of gender and conformity?” no actually. a lot of trans people want to transition and get new names, and good for them! but it’s a personal decision and it’s not the only “correct” path and if they want to keep their birth name, that’s their choice and it should be respected

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."