Welcome to my blog! I’m Soup.
Here I have a collection of random stuff I find and verrrrrry occasionally post my own stuff. I should do that more, it’s fun.
About me
🔹I’m 21
🔹I’m currently at uni studying to be a paramedic
🔹I do photography, I took the picture in my banner!
🔹I’m a they/them gremlin
🔹I do art
🔹My femurs hate me
🔹I write in my spare time (you may know me as snaillamp)
Idk that’s it for now! Have fun in the chaos >:)
Old men on grindr: “Want to be my piss slave? Daddy wants to teach you a lesson you dirty slut”
Me:
adding video to text posts was an incredible gift
antipurpose flour this shit will actively kill you if you use it for anything
now up to 56 slutty, slutty years!
57 slutty, slutty years
58 slutty, slutty years.
i think its pathetic that journalists and even some casual speakers call twitter "X" now. weak fish behaviour. you dont have to play along
not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs
Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being a fan of Chappell Roan I just think some of them need to realize and accept that they are a fan of a mainstream popular artist making popular pop music and therefore straight people are going to play it at weddings and it’s going to be in commercials for DoorDash and stuff. And that’s literally okay. It’s actually good. It’s good and normal for gay people to be making popular music. Idk if it just hasn’t sunk in for people yet that she is very popular. Ok I am telling you now. The woman is very popular
ID: Tags via thevowels-pt2: #elton john isn’t less gay for being grandmas’ favorite the world over.
everyone shut up and look at this
idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually
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.
soggy kebab
there’s a lot going on here
Tiger found caged in abandoned home gets second chance at wildlife sanctuary: ‘He seems to be so happy’
The estimated 350-pound tiger was transported to the facility, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, on Wednesday afternoon, and is settling in well, Almrud said. There, he will have the chance to roam in enclosures of up to three acres.
Almrud, who estimates him to be about 2 years old, described the moment he first walked onto the grass at the sanctuary as remarkable.
“It was just amazing to see him walk out on grass and to see him explore and have that freedom of movement,” she said. “It was just such a reward and fulfilling to us.”
Now, he spends his days rolling around the grass in glee, Almrud said.
“He comes right up to the fence every time a staff member is present,” she said. “He seems very amenable to our presence.”
The tiger is eating well – a combination of chicken, humanely raised non-processed beef and whole prey complete with organs and bones. It appears that he was being fed chicken, which is what owners of exotic cats often feed them, but chicken alone does not provide the complete nutrition they need to thrive, Almrud said.
In addition, caregivers are tasked with keeping the tiger mentally stimulated by creating “pretend hunting” games and rotating him through different areas so he has access to new smells and environments to explore.
“He seems to happy and content,” Almrud said. “Our staff is just falling in love with him.”
during october vampires are at their most powerful. they don’t physically get stronger it’s just a pleasant confidence boost.
so do werewolves, they ain't special
