stone aries

1: Stratt looking out of a window having Grace tranquilised + "affirmations: you are not real, you don't have feelings, you don't want anything, this will be over soon"

2: Stratt watching Grace run away + "fuuuuck my pet peve got loose"

3: Stratt after telling Grace he has to be replacement science officer + "*bottles up emotions* this coping shits easy*"

4: The two of them looking at eachother + "matching best friends t-shirts that say 'the wound they will carry for the rest of their life ➡️' and the other. just says '⬅️best friend'." The 1st points from Stratt, and the second from Grace.

5: Stratt in Grace's classroom + "you've heard of the man, the myth, the legend. Now get ready for the woman, the omen, the portent"

so, so many well-meaning people going “well, if feeling punk is what makes people be nice and do nice things, let them say they’re punk!” to which, yeah, i can’t stop them

my objection isn't "being nice isn't punk, therefore don't be nice”

my objection is that we've reached a point where every positive human behavior gets reframed as an aesthetic identity instead of just being a positive human behavior

if you think helping people is good, then help people because it's good!

if you think kindness is good, be kind because it's good!

i don't understand the need to run every moral action through a "but is it punk?" filter first, especially when a lot of the people doing this have no actual interest in punk as a culture, music scene, history, or political tradition (for better or for worse)

at a certain point "punk" just becomes shorthand for "thing i personally approve of," and then the word stops meaning anything at all