syogren-heartofcrystal

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

#i hope that i at least get to be a cool villain #barring that i hope whoever i'm the villain of gets something meaningful out of making me their villain #important #psa

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

ive been seeing a new wave of transmedicalists lately I think we gotta start being vocal again about how nasty they are. you don't need to take hormones or have surgery to be a trans person. changing your name and pronouns is gender affirming care. wearing new clothes and hair and makeup is part of transitioning too. you dont need to pass to be trans, you don't need to be male or female.

nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, genderqueer people are trans too if that's a label they want to use for themselves. and anyone who says otherwise is a piece of shit. it's not "anti-transitioning" to say so, it's anti-telling other people what to do with their bodies. it's pro-minding your own fucking business and letting people do what they want with their gender and treating them with compassion and enthusiasm

#important #psa #transmedicalism #trans rights

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

"this character shows no interest in romance, maybe someone will come by and change that :)" too late i already hit them with my aro-fication beam

#yes good

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

I'm just saying, if there's a curse that runs along your family line and you don't tell your kids about it, how the hell are they supposed to go on a quest to stop it?

#yes good

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

#important #psa #free palestine

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

You made a good point, but you didn't put alt text in the image you uploaded so I can't reblog it.

#my posts

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now

if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?

i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve

#YES EXACTLY OMG #THANK YOU #so annoying

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

#important #psa #free palestine #columbia university

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

extremely weird to think about the fact that the internet is a collection of physical objects, like, if i send a message to a person on another continent, there's a continuous physical path that each packet followed between each of our routers and it probably passes through an undersea cable which doesn't feel like something that should be real how did people manage that

#yep that's how it works #it's not magic though trust me

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

Everyone is so desperate to kink shame queer people who bring leather or whatever to pride, meanwhile no one gives a shit that we all get blasted by tree cum every spring of every year.

#my posts

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

If a tumblr post is too complicated to read for any reason i just skip over it

#my posts

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

Every decade or so a child star just entering adulthood will act out and do bad things and people will act surprised as if it isn't obvious that someone who spent their entire life in the limelight with parents uninterested in giving them time to just exist on their own terms isn't going to end up particularly well adjusted

No I'm not excusing any bad behavior. I'm just saying there's a very clear cycle here and we're not exactly helping when we highlight the child star as a singular entity responsible for everything and ignore the systems and the peoples that pretty clearly shaped them into who they've become. Maybe we aren't doing any good by just pointing and gawking at the spectacle.

#important #psa #like yeah exactly #what did you think was going to happen #instead of shaming the child start acting out we should figure out how to help them

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

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#important #signal boost #free palestine

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

drives me up a wall living in a very very red district, like “no democrat is ever going to win any local election, let alone a real leftist” district, like “our school board members ran on who was the most anti-mask” red, like “I pass white supremacist signs on the way to buy weed” red

and being in the local leftist community and the guy who runs the anarchist book club and the lady who helps keep the warming shelters open and the people who marched on city hall when a local business was getting death threats for having a drag show are all members of a discord and we get on this discord and have frank discussions about how best to vote

the people who do the protests and the mutual aid and all the real work

going “okay, they’re both fascists, but this one lacks ambition and seems happy to just glide in the position” or “they both suck, but this one can be reasoned with if you frame it patriotically enough” like we don’t even have a democrat to vote for. we know what a vote is. we know what we hope accomplish with it. we know what it can do, and we know what it can’t.

and going from those discussions to here where people think that your vote is some kind of fucking??? enabling maneuver??? as if someone isn’t going to end up in that seat regardless of what you do???

we didn’t build this system, we just live in it. we’re just trying to survive. a vote isn’t a statement of your values, it’s not an endorsement, it’s not a marriage contract, it’s a strategic play you make to keep alive.

the biggest mistake I see leftists making is overestimating their own popularity. “well but everyone would be leftist if they just-“ no, stop, 1) you can’t possibly know that 2) everyone will not just

#important #psa

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

don't kill me but, but getting older, I find Zootopia to be a mess of a story sprinkled with some copaganda and weird racial coding. I think people need to retire the racial allegories with animals unless they *truly* know what they're doing.

#yeah #zootopia

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

#important #signal boost #free palestine #itch.io

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

So did the "fuck content warnings! You HAVE to see this if you CARE!" crowd just forget that content warnings exist, y'know, for people personally tied to it. If they put a "discretion advised" disclaimer before a news story about a shooting, that's to avoid triggering people who have trauma from similar shootings. That's. That's why it's called a trigger warning

They imagine that they're righteously screaming at some fiend refusing to engage out of self-interest, but really they're just retraumatizing people who were directly impacted by the violence, or who have family or a community who were, over an entirely imaginary crusade

#important #psa #content warnings #like this is specifically why i try to tag the genocides in my reblogs #i assume if you're literally there and for some reason you're following me maybe you'd like to take a break from hearing about it? #or like idk literally any reason. i have no idea what i'm doing #hopefully whatever i'm doing is correct #if it is not correct pls let me know and i will fix it