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@thebibliosphere

this is the first thing i saw this morning, tumblr mom, and before my first cup of coffee i was overcome with a wall of roaring half-focused Feelings about Leverage (The Perfect TV Show) and Discworld (the Perfect Books) 

(oh i know i’m a halfawake MESS but) 

Leverage will be the thing I binge-watch when I need comfort when I’m eighty, probably, just like Terry Pratchett will be the thing I reread for comfort until I’m dead, and I just realized it’s because they’re both *funny*, genuinely funny, but they are fictional worlds written by people with a finely-tuned sense of *justice*. 

i don’t really know how to express what i mean but.  um.  

like, with any other Robin-Hood style show with 50+ episodes, I feel like almost any other team would’ve eventually said “eh, we keep writing stories about how the rich and powerful abuse ordinary citizens.  we should SWITCH IT UP with a TWIST about how this time, it is the ordinary citizens taking advantage of the rich and powerful!”  

nope. never.  the writing team kept the faith for five years: the bad guys were almost *always* the rich white men.  (occasionally a rich white woman was evil!)  there was no victim-blaming: over and over, in the fictional universe, whenever the writers had a chance, they went with: no, you trusted the system, you paid your taxes, you worked hard, they screwed you.  they abused your trust.  they conned you, and we’re going to fix it.  

❤ Leverage was SUCH A GOOD SHOW okay ❤

Leverage was a perfect and Amazing show. I miss it so much and I go back and rewatch it so often!

I need to see if it’s on Netflix…I feel like watching some of it today…

It is on Netflix. I’ve watched it half a dozen times on Netflix now.

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so it looks like the safety pin thing has been co-opted by white supremacists. we need other, better ways to show solidarity anyway. wear an “i’ll go with you” pin, if you want that badly to wear a pin, or better yet, stand up for marginalized folks when you see them being harassed (online and irl). join an organization, volunteer your time, donate money, join a protest, if you’re able. wear a “black lives matter” or a “not my president” t shirt. there are so many ways to show solidarity and we need to get started now.

@sunwukxng

Less than a day after my prediction. Who’s surprised?

A reason I tend not to forward these actions… if it isn’t really really really blatant as an anti-fascist statement, the covert stuff like a simple safety pin, or, the green circles thing I’m seeing going around… is easily co-opted and utilized by the exact groups we’re trying to fight against.

So what do I say? Wear something OBVIOUS that a fascist would be unwilling to wear no matter how badly they want to sabotage your protective movement.

Also, safety pins have been in the wardrobe of white supremacists since I was a teen, which, was decades ago… so… there’s that too.

Then, there’s the horrible horrible fact that any organization across a public utility such as the internet is easily sabotaged and twisted to the advantage of the oppressors.

Depressing… and, annoying.