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hi my name is fennel! i use this blog to reblog whatever i think is cool and to talk with my moots
-pronouns: any pronouns ig idrk
- i'm 17
- pro kink
- i think most label politics are bogus. no one irl cares about someone being a bi lesbian you need to touch grass.
(mi toki e toki pona)
last updated: 10/03/24
I’m sorry but how can you be so proud of yourself for taking this moment to write an essay that boils down to “Don’t bother engaging in collective action, you should just do what makes you feel good with your friends :)”
Like, there is no world in which going to a concert advances a cause more than participating in a union or political party. How can you be so detached from historical and material reality? Nobody who advocates for political organization is saying “also stop spending time with your friends and interfacing with your community.”
Have fun limiting your “organizing” to shallow little playtime in nice cozy Switzerland while the rest of us try to address injustices and atrocities through collective action. I hope you decide to join us, eventually.
the essay does not actually boil down to this, at least this definitely isn't the point of it. this would be a very fair critique if that actually were what im trying to say but it just straight up isn't.
my essay focuses on how just saying to "get organized" or "join xy org" doesn't really help most people actually find their space in a movement, it's about how building friendships both within and outside the movement is important for setting foot in it and how people's morale tends to be forgotten in some political orgs (which i find sad) which leads to burnout and orgs that fall apart.
i think my essay makes it pretty clear that collective action is the goal but focuses on what's also important in the here and now, leaving people helpless and hopeless helps no movement.
i do a lot of things in radical spaces that i don't publicly talk about online, to just assume i have no actual involvement in any on the ground stuff just because you misread my essay and disagree with it is frankly insulting. you are free to disagree with me, i don't think anyone will ever fully agree on theory anyways, but at least try to be honest in your engagement with what i wrote.
Personally, I go to both protests and punk concerts, and host union meetings and soup parties. and they're all necessary. The artists at the punk shows give words to the frustrations of this oppressive system. They provide a space to dance and process the traumas with like-minded people. As a visual artist, I can use my skills to make big fuck-off signs for protests and paint them visibly enough that people see and take pictures and spread the message. And paint elsewhere. As a cook I can make my friends and people on the street food to nourish them and help them through the day and FEEL a part of community, cut through the alienation. I think Maia's on the money encouraging people to get organised using their skills. It's talking about a much less reductive and exclusive vision of 'organising' than the most straightforward popular examples of union/protest/DSAwhatever. It's more holistic. It's not saying don't do these things, it's saying do what you can, branch out, and hold each other up. Literally "we cannot just fight, we have to live to be able to fight" (bold mine). Go read the article again, but with an open mind.
One more post and all of my enemies will be forced to forgive me.
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BOSTON! come on out to furry night at CUCK!! live music and vending and a damn good time. i will be playing a set, as will i’ve made too much pasta, pararaccoon, ABSRDST, noise artifact, and wolf ears!
Mermaid daihatsu box van.
Like this
Sorry to everypuppy else but pbj is actually the most perfect fursona ever… sorry yeah all the others are good too but pbj is actually legally and philosophically the platonic ideal of a fursona. You literally can’t do better than this
queer dogz :3c
Like I’m getting so tired of feeling like I need an excuse to exist in the world like I am. My heart hurts so much when I see So many people mentioning their own fatness starting off with “I have a thyroid condition—“ “I’m on antidepressants—“ “I’m disabled—“; trying to have an “excuse” for their fatness to shield themselves from the inevitable moralization of their body. But even then it becomes pity instead of hatred; poor you, you’re stuck being fat :( I guess that’s okay :(
You don’t need an “excuse” to be fat because being fat isn’t something that needs to be excused. You don’t need the approval of thin people to be allowed to exist. You are allowed to be fat, to be fat and love your body, for any reason. You can be fat and love food — you can be fat because you love food. You can be fat and not want to be thin. You can be fat and not want to exercise. You can be fat and want to get fatter! None of these things are wrong!
I’m so sick of being fat in a world that refuses to hear this. I am fat, I like being fat, and I will continue to be fat, Fuck You!!!
mutuals. do any of you have the really long photo of qui gon jinn that says "is this guy bothering you queen" i need it
like specifically his lightsaber is long not qui gon himself
and now for a happy post. I’m so glad “I like your [accessory/article of clothing]!” exists as a compliment because I see so many people who are just so incredibly beautiful but you can’t just say Hi You’re Gorgeous but at least you can say a mini version of it
~+.✨🌊 🫧 drifting 🫧 🌊✨.+~
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kitty sounds!!!!
😭😭😭 mama calling them all in and then going to find the one that fell behind and then another baby panicking and screaming because she can't see mommy and mama calling her and the baby rushing over with obvious enormous relief oh god I am CRYING
I want an entire streaming service of nothing but this!
European badger
American badger
litterally slander btw
okay i accept these badger wars
not saying that european badgers aren't cute, just that american badgers aren't snarling beasts
Today i was walking in the neighbourhood, and saw such a silver cat!
It had amazing white undercoat, a real treat for me. I tried to take photos, but mostly was too busy petting the cat
Bonus: i also met a red tabby 😊
i love animals with unique and/or notable qualities to them cus they don't even know they're special, and even if they did they probably wouldn't care lol
