plavapticica: aimmyarrowshigh: c-is-for-circinate: Tumblr likes Persephone. A couple of months ago I had like three different analyses and retellings of the story on my dash circling around for weeks, and I started this post then, but I came back to it today. Because it makes me think sometimes about the stories we tell, and how,… Continue reading
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Dear AO3 Writers/Artists,
flo-nelja: lacommunarde: pretzel-log1c: airydoorway: pretzel-log1c: horchatita: pretzel-log1c: Can we cut back on the the Character and ship tags? It’s almost impossible to find non-shipping character centric works because everyone tags characters that so much as appear in a story. It’s hard to find fics actually focused on a less popular pairing because it’s a common… Continue reading Dear AO3 Writers/Artists,
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Personally, I’m happy to pay an extra 4.3% for my fast food burger if it means the person making it for me can afford to feed their own family. If you aren’t willing to fork over an extra 17 cents for a Big Mac, you’re a fundamentally different person than I am.
I’m perfectly content to pay taxes that go toward public schools, even though I’m childless and intend to stay that way, because all children deserve a quality, free education. If this seems unfair or unreasonable to you, we are never going to see eye to eye.
If I have to pay a little more with each paycheck to ensure my fellow Americans can access health care? SIGN ME UP. Poverty should not be a death sentence in the richest country in the world. If you’re okay with thousands of people dying of treatable diseases just so the wealthiest among us can hoard still more wealth, there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be breached.
BASICALLY FUCKING THIS
“All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.”
– Benjamin Franklin in his letter to to Robert Morris. 25 Dec. 1783. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
walkinredinstead: I saw a post about the difference between a soft can’t and a hard can’t and thought I’d do some words about the concept (post linked here) a “soft can’t” is also a “really shouldn’t”. “I can’t talk to my old abuser” is, for me, a soft can’t. I technically can and I’m often forced to… Continue reading
alwayscorrectinjustice: wtfantisjws: Attack on Titan is and always has been imperialist propaganda written by a Nazi supporter. The idea of the walls and their fragility is meant to criticize Japan’s antiwar policy, and the Titans coming back after 100 years is meant to imply that if Japan doesn’t start having wars and breaking down their… Continue reading
Heavy…. heavy,
Woah
… There’s a very important conversation to be had there.
If this is being brought up shouldn’t we also addressing the age of the politicians in places of power tho?
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NEVER LET THIS POST DIE
It IS their future. You know, all the health bills? They affect them too. They affect them a lot. And you know, if they no longer have a word, why not suppressing the pensions and letting them die?
Also, suppressing the vote from all people who have a chronic illness and only a few years to live, while you’re at it. “It’s not their future.” It’s exactly the same reasoning.
Also, I can’t understand if this post just assumes that all people will vote for what is good for them while ignoring the impact on other people, or actually encourage it. But if you work this way, I’m scared of your politics, even if you’re 25.
Monsters' Queen 