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Not much focus on rehabilitation

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

This also seems to be a good time to mention prison radio. Revolutionary literature created in prison. Hear from everyone from the soothing yet majestic voice of Mumia Abu Jamal to Pendleton 2. Listen to them, organise, share, donate and support them.

As Uncle Ho said, when the doors of the prison break open, the dragons will fly out. Free em all.

Stuff like this makes my blood boil, reading should be a human right

So the tricky thing is that after you master the art of minding your own business (if you see someone stealing no you didn't, ignore those noisy teenagers, stop gossiping about so-and-so's drug use), you gotta next master being nosy (helpful version).

İt's tricky because you HAVE to be proficient in the first one first. If you skip ahead you'll end up being nosy (dangerous version).

But like. If you're gonna meaningfully community build you gotta move past minding your business. The car out of gas in the middle of the road is your business - go help push. The guy having a psychotic episode downtown is your neighbor - go sit with him until he calms down. The person that got pulled over is your responsibility - be a witness until the cops are gone. The neighbor who never cuts their grass is your people - go ask if you can mow for them.

But again the first step is to learn to not gawk at humans having problems long enough that you realize they're not actually hurting you.

everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

this is real, and it's a thing that a lot of people are going to run into in the fact of calls to "get involved," especially if they're people who haven't been deeply involved in their communities before. so here's what I can share:

We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion

i’ve seen multiple people say something along the lines of “we’re waking up in the same world we lived in yesterday” which is bleak but also true; there was going to be work to do no matter what. this is the much worse and harder version of that work but even if harris won it would not have fixed the fundamental things that need fixing. i mean, fuck, it would’ve been the better outcome, but the work would still be there. many of the things people fear under trump happened and are happening under biden. we’ll just have more battles to fight.

i think about the progressive mobilization and radicalization that happened 2016-2020; it shouldn’t have to happen like this but we deserve better than a two-party system, and one half of that system was never going to save us. we will always have to do what we can for ourselves and each other 💛

on this note, i just read this article and found it both helpful and comforting—it’s good to be reminded there are people who have been preparing for this, and also that history has plenty of lessons and hope for us.

my other favorite antidote to ahistorical applications of the Hair Up = Repression trope in historical media is in my own most beloved Crimson Peak

Edith's hair is always up when she's healthy and in control of her life, doing proactive things and taking steps to get what she wants. pretty much all the time in Buffalo, and then at Allerdale when she's exploring the house before the poison really starts to take effect. even when she and Thomas consummate their marriage, a moment in which her hair could realistically have been down given the context

it really serves, once her hair is down all the time, to signify that she's losing herself and getting weaker- both physically and as a character within the story

Lucille has a bit less symbolism, or perhaps just a dark mirror of the way these things often work in modern media- she's letting her hair down because she's not hiding or repressing anything, but it's not a triumphant moment. it's a loss of control, in a negative way, as her life completely unravels around her. and showing off things she kept hidden for a very good reason (and she's trying to hold it together still- her hair is almost never seen all the way down; it's braided for most of the climax)

Hair Up In Public was a marker of adulthood for a woman in that era, NOT repression. a sign of normalcy, yes, but also of maturity and power. and they make good use of it that way rather than imposing a modern framework on historical fashions

So much is said in the Crimson Peak fandom about Tom Hiddleston’s ass

And not enough about Jessica Chastain backlit in a translucent white nightgown with apparently nothing underneath

Jessica Chastain really didn’t get enough thanks for doing Crimson Peak. Lucille is a gay icon. she is the baddest bitch who ever lived. ‘but she did incest and killed people’ and that was very sexy of her. everyone say “thank you Mother Jessica”

imagine being real rashid and you work for these weird gay vampires and one day they come to you like hey rashid we're gonna give you a little holiday! armand will take over your duties for the time being, for a cool disguise during my interview, not a kink thing :) and you're like okay these are my weird gay vampire bosses so it probably is a kink thing but who am i to judge. and then you find out they are roleplaying this weird exhibitionist slash master/servant scene with your own real actual government name. fuck interview with the vampire, interview with rashid WHEN??

i hope when daniel meets lestat, he completely does not see the charm that louis and armand saw. i want him to sit in that chair while lestats going on and on abt killing wolves and be like....damn louis' tripping over himself bc of this wonderbread? or ig it'd be baguette bc hes french. either way, hes just kinda like whatever abt it

he has a 100% divorce rate btw

You guys never should have pointed out that when Armand is gently cleaning Daniel's face with a wet rag in s2e5 he's actually just wiping off his skanky unwashed neck before he feeds on him. Now it's all I think about during that scene. Armand doing the vampire equivalent of dabbing a greasy slice of pizza with a paper towel.

do you guys remember when daniel "supposedly heterosexual" molloy wrote an incisive yet touching exploration of the aids crisis. based on years of reporting. while he was still in his 20s. like oh my god. oh my god.

angels..