sweet honey

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

when i first made this post people were calling me out for my scaramouche icon in the tags now people are calling me out for my thistle icon. when will it end

I am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them.

REAL masculinity is about [traits and behaviors that anyone can have that youre gendering for reasons that are ultimately misogynistic]

Can I be real guys I don’t think the phrase boys will be boys is salvageable. Stop trying to make it cute it’s not cute it is a phrase that is absolutely rotten to the core at worst and at best it ‘just’ reinforces sexist gender stereotypes seriously stop trying to rehabilitate it it’s cringe.

i do think it’s interesting how people generally seem more inclined to refer to ICE as nazis rather than modern day runaway slave catchers. bc that’s what it feels most reminiscent to me of. ofc the two are intrinsically linked given that the US inspired nazi germany which inspired the US again and so on and so forth. but still idk slave catcher feels more accurate to me.

i think the thing that bothers me about the urge to refer to them as nazis is that i think white americans love to act like what is happening right now isn’t the most american shit ever. ICE is as american as the trail of tears as minstrel shows as jim crow as lynch mob postcards as cointelpro. stop trying to outsource what’s happening. this is what america always has been and always will be