the colors brothers

they were born in a cardboard box all alone

I love this post so much. I think about it every day. I cannot refer to these three as anything but "The Colors Brothers" whenever I see them. Here is my artistic rendition of them being born in a cardboard box all alone. I love you, The Colors Brothers.

COLORS BROTHERS I LOVE YOU SO SO DEARLY.......

here's my rendition!!!

Everyone should have at least one ship where you would not hesitate to hit one half of it with your car but you put up with them bc they make the other half of your ship happy.

I love gothic horror memento mori etc.

inspired by this amazing fic on Ao3: Cat-and-Mouse by @onceandfloral-writing @lesbiandatekaname

stuff I held in 2024

Painted this critter in Open Canvas 5 and tweaked it a little in Rebelle and Photoshop. Loosely inspired by a dream I had earlier today.

i'm not gonna deny that young cis men Are getting radicalized by the right and that this is a problem. but we should still keep in mind that gen z still voted largely democrat + amongst white people, people 18-29 voted more for harris than any other age group

like obviously not as much as gen z women, and there is clearly still a problem wrt gen z cis men and cis women's political disalignment and the radicalization of young cis men. but please do not let that transmogrify in your mind to "your average cis gen z guy is a male supremacist nazi"

In the version of the Princess and the frog I learned as a kid there was no true loves kiss she just had a frog living in her house until one day he turned into a guy

The witch was like if you can convince a human princess to let you eat off her plate and sleep in her bed for a week then you can be human again and then he really found a princess willing to do all that just to get her ball out of the pond and then one morning she woke up to a guy in her bed who used to be a frog and they were like aight guess we’re married now

Once upon a time a princess dropped her ball into a pond by accident and a frog was like hey I’ll get it for you if you let me live in your house and sleep in your bed and then instead of getting a stick or something to fish out the ball she agreed to it and then the frog turned out to be a prince the whole time the end

TFW you’ve reneged on the terms of your golden ball acquisition deal but the frog chases you to your castle and your dad lets it’s horrible mouth eat from your plate even though you weep bitter tears

im gonna cry

are you people just addicted to not learning theory?

What's with the obsession of using whatever political terms you can, regardless of meaning, as rhetorical ways of just emphasising how Bad something is? Fascism does refer to a specific organisation of capitalism in specific conditions with specific characteristics, not just 'when something is bad and oppressive' - something liberalism is very capable of! - and using the terms this way absolutely annihilates the actually useful analytical and theoretical value of the term, in favour of a view of politics as entirely rhetoric (which is clear from the emphasis on whether the term existed at the time or not, rather than the actual material structure being critiqued, as if the term is just an especially effective rhetorical weapon)

i'm so fucking over people coopting the language of abolition and transformative justice online, especially in fandom. and, like, it's not even just coming from racist assholes who say the obvious things like "callout posts are carceral" and "acab includes fandom police" or whatever. it comes from places i could not have expected either.

an example: a fandom friend that i like and respect very much once posted about a situation in which a thai actor whose work we both enjoy was facing criticism and losing sponsorships when it came out that, as a 13 year old, he had bullied an autistic classmate of his*. my friend's post was about how we can't demonize people for what they did as children and not allow them space to grow, because that would be "retributive justice" (or "punitive justice", i can't remember the exact wording, but both terms are used interchangeably). except that term is from criminal legal systems and is about the legal consequences people face for crimes.

an actor (who was an adult when this all came out) facing backlash and financial consequences for harm that he did is not retributive justice towards a child. you know what is retributive justice towards a child? them getting sent to jail or juvenile detention or another literally carceral punishment – which, in most cases, impacts children who are already marginalized, and sets them up for a lifetime of incarceration.

i don't think it's particularly useful to re-litigate this specific incident with the actor, but my friend's framing of this as retributive justice shocked me. because transformative justice is not supposed to be about people facing zero consequences for the harm they've done. transformative justice is, in fact, centered around the idea that accountability is necessary for people who've done harm, but that prison systems in no way provide true accountability, and are fundamentally unjust and oppressive.

(and to stave off the "u.s.-centric" accusations, no, this is not limited to the united states. the united states is unique in the scale and depravity of our system of mass incarceration, but virtually all systems of "law and order" around the world are designed to protect the interests of the nation state, not the interests of its people, and in most cases to protect capitalism as well. this means that policing and incarceration are primarily deployed at killing and suppressing the freedom of marginalized people; depending on the context of your country, that could be impoverished folks, indigenous people, black folks, caste oppressed people, religious minorities, ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, houseless people, and so many more.)

the point of transformative justice is to center the needs of the people who have been harmed; hold people who've done harm accountable so that they can stop doing such harm and make reparations; and not tear marginalized communities apart in the process, which is what usually happens when people from those communities are imprisoned. and, if the person who did harm does not commit to doing those things, then a key piece of accountability is to remove them from positions of power that enable them to keep doing harm. example: a teacher who has been abusing their students should be fired, because being a teacher both allows them access to children and power over them. that is not carceral. that is accountability.

you know what IS carceral in fandom? a racist white fan literally filing POLICE REPORTS against a black fan & scholar, claiming that the black fan had cyberstalked and harassed them, when what the black fan did was...call them out on racism. the racist white fan did this even though they know that in the u.s., where this happened, just interacting with the police can be a death sentence for black people – they literally had "black lives matter" in their bio at one point.

horrifyingly, the idea of accountability that was developed by the leaders of the transformative justice movement (who have been primarily black, queer, disabled gender minorities, many of whom are survivors of sexual assault) has been coopted so much that not only is it used to say people who shouldn't face any consequences ever, but it's also deployed against marginalized folks who haven't done harm to shut them up. so let me be clear: solely trying to get someone fired is never carceral, but it can be bigoted and oppressive if it is aimed at someone who has not done harm and who does not have the kind of power people claim they do in the first place.

anyway please go read about actual transformative justice principles and history. a great place to start online is transformharm.org

*for friends of mine in thai ql fandoms, please don't respond to me here about the ohm situation itself, i talked about it ad nauseum when it happened and i don't have anything new to say. if you do want to see my thoughts on it, just search my twitter from january 2023 for his name. but regardless of whether you think what ohm faced was valid or not, i hope you can see how it was not retributive justice, and why mischaracterizing it like that is dangerous to actual transformative justice and abolition movements

"as a guy who escaped the alt-right pipeline, [*blames it on Misandry*]"

#i finally saw the post this was referencing & wow not even an exaggeration#& people were eating it up quoting bell hooks#& scolding feminists that we all have to love men & treat them even nicer so they stop thinking we're less than human#i just think it's pathetic i'm sorry#men are human beings i know y'all are capable of rational thought & don't base your ideas about the world solely on who coddles you#you are capable of power analysis and making your own choices and being in community with people of other genders#you don't need everyone to kiss your feet in order to resist the temptation to be a fucking nazi#people who humor this line of argument exhaust me ngl ->prev tags @closet-keys

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