Yo Holla

Well, hello fellow hunker-downers. Coming to you high on half an Ambien. (giggling) My doctor prescribes ten milligrams when I can’t sleep. I get so wound up over all this! But I only take a half of it otherwise I eat everything in the house.

But look. [holds up a brown journal with a clasp] Another way I calm down is [clasp unopens] is I write … in my journal … [holds up the open journal, which has notes and pictures of flowers and cute animals] And I put little, [turns the page to show off more stickers that include pug dogs] stickers, I (giggling) decorate!

I’m a high school cheerleader stuck in a sixty-five-year-old male body. My Violette stickers came today [holds up a sheet of fruit and flower stickers]. Look! Aren’t they beautiful? [holds up more stickers of old-timey portraits of children] I think I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels.

[holds up stickers of cats] I just like things pretty. I think that’s why homosexuals were put on this earth, (emphatically) just to make things pretty. [holds up stickers of rabbits] Rabbits~

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1286874959055380483?s=20

It’s so nauseating seeing something like this happen constantly, and it does. From minuscule things like memes and online culture to more serious like cultural symbols and ideals, fascists and the alt right in general keep stealing it, and instead saying “that’s enough”, people react with “well, it can’t be helped, we now can’t use that anymore.” and let them completely perverse something that belonged to others completely to serve their shitty ideals.

Ask yourself, how often do you internally feel red lights go off when you see, lets say, pagan Slavic symbols like the kolovrat? Or a lot of Nordic mythology symbols and runes? Do you associate these with the current neo-nazi and alt-right movement? As a Slav, do you know how much this fucking hurts? They stole from us. They stole our culture. I refuse to let them do that anymore. I imagine a lot of Scandinavian countries feel the same about their own culture being perversed.

Remember the “ok” hand sign suddenly turning in to a dog whistle? Remember how Pepe, against all wishes of the original author who created him as a loving cool character, turned in to a symbol of the alt-right? Think back and remember each time this has happened and realize just how often it does.

I see it happening as well, I see the people worming their way in to the witch community and trying to make it the same way. Look at TERFs, they’re trying to appropriate the Witch aesthetic for their own. Fuck them. They don’t deserve it. I won’t allow it.

So have British folkies: there’s an organisation called Folk Against Fascism to try to counter it.