Disclaimer: not a full guide but a starting point

Hi lovelies, I thought that is it only appropriate to shift the focus a little on here on far more important topics with informative links to visit and learn more on your own time. Stay informed, stay woke, stay sexy 🤍

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PAGE 1: READING & LEARNING

Marxist Archive: guide

Resources 4 Comrades: full guide

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PAGE 2: BOYCOTT

Ethical Consumer: boycott guide

BDS Movement: boycott guide

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PAGE 3: RELIABLE SOURCES

Al Jazeera: news

Socialist Alternative: news

Stop ICE: news and more

Eyes On Palestine: direct sources

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PAGE 4: RESOURCES & ORGANIZATIONS

Learn more about Sudan: full guide

Focus Congo : non profit organization

Code Pink: feminist grassroots organization

Army 4 Palestine: non profit movement

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PAGE 5: DONATIONS

Friendship Team For Gaza

E-Sims 4 Palestine

Sundan Funds

Congo Food & Shelter

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PSA: Capitalism breeds fascism and encourages imperialism, and those are so implemented into our societies that nobody— NOBODY is safe from propaganda so stay informed, knowledge is your strongest weapon. Your enemies are the elites and billionaires, not immigrants, not Muslims, not Jews, not women, not trans people, not the LGBTQIA community.

As much as saying "Free __" and "Fuck ICE" might feel empowering to you please remember that those words mean next to nothing if you are not playing an active role in helping however you can to abolish and dismantle these corrupt systems.

Not everyone is a protester and can protest but join your local organizations, talk to your neighbors, organize your own groups, create info graphics, spread information, do what you can!

Just don't be silent. Silence kills.

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

the fact that it's not a single chosen one but a group of three

the fact that the honmoon is not powered by the hunters themselves but by the energy and love of the fans

the fact that gwi-ma turns people into demons by promising that he is the only one who can help them when he is in fact reliant on his army of demons to collect souls for him

the fact that "your idol" is about surrendering yourself to a single higher power while "golden" is about soaring to new heights together

the fact that gwi-ma preys on people's individual insecurities and shame to get inside their heads while rumi, mira, and zoey set them free in the end by encouraging them to embrace their differences and reminding them that they're not alone

the fact that you can see the audience cheering individually and even pushing into each other to get closer to the stage during "your idol"

while they're linking arms and cheering together and hugging during "what it sounds like"

i have not seen the live action lilo and stitch but it feels like that movie sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from kpop demon hunters as a case study for how to tell a story in way that is culturally authentic and still resonates with a broader audience

and i think given that the core theme of the movie is all about community over individualism, the ending, particularly as it relates to rumi and jinu's budding romance, is really the perfect culmination of that broader theme

rumi and jinu's connection has all the hallmarks of that all-encompassing, all-consuming, borderline co-dependent first love where you keep your relationship a secret and sneak out of the house to meet up and feel like the other person is the ONLY person who really gets you

i'm the only one who can understand you, i'm the only one who will love you is the kind of thing that sounds romantic when you're 16 until you get older and realize how toxic it actually is and i love that the movie counters that in "what it sounds like" with rumi realizing that she had that love and support all along from her girls, and later, from the fans who continue to cheer them on through their comeback

it's about connection and sisterhood and love and sharing your fears and lifting each other up and becoming stronger and better together

and as compelling as i found rumi/jinu and as much as i would like to see their relationship explored more in a sequel/series, i just really love that this movie, which is clearly targeted at young women, ends on the message that romantic love is not the end all be all, that friendship is just as important if not more so than a romantic partner, that single women can lead successful, fulfilling lives, that true happiness and freedom start from within

since yall rlly like my silly shit post of wednesday(like TYSM I DIDNT EXPECT FOR IT TO GET AS MANY LIKES!), i give you the iconic duo 💫Enid and thing💫, Love how they turned, defo proud of this

omg you're so right

thank you anon you beautiful creature this is exactly the motivation i needed lmao