Feeling very lucky that I haven’t yet decided that movie theaters feel safe again and also that I’m sick this week so I have two get out of discourse free cards and am therefore immune to the absolute insanity that is currently happening
Currently watching the EMMY AWARD WINNING episode of Star trek Voyager, Threshold! 🦎🦎
hi hello sorry for the lack of posts lately ; - ; there has also been some lack of drawing but not actually as much as the silence here makes it seem haha. i have a few pieces to post which i just never got round to, even though some of them were ready approximately three million years ago. here is one of them!
this was done a while ago for the Bearer of Light LWJ zine! links to the pdf are here~ i just think, baby twin jades. thank you for your consideration.
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It’s important to have political and moral beliefs other than “America bad” because not doing anything beyond that is how you get white American “”“leftists”“” becoming apologists for the Empire of Japan and… Fucking. Nazi Germany.
I sometimes wonder if Nie Mingjue would have rethought his attempts to kill Jin Guangyao at all if he ever came close enough to succeeding that he thought he’d actually done it.
If Jin Guangyao hit his head at the bottom of the stairs Nie Mingjue kicked him down and was knocked out, would Nie Mingjue feel any regret or fear when he realized that Meng Yao wasn’t getting up? Would he realize that by the terms of their oath, he should be torn apart by five horses? Would there be any relief when Jin Guangyao woke up? And if he did regret it, would it shake him up enough to make him actually change?
And I think the OP does make some good points about how the normative attitudes towards groups like trans people and Jewish people are bad. And that “normalcy” as in social conformity is not something to be lauded and enforced.
But.
Specifically in the cases of trans women and Jews, who are the groups that are the subjects of the type of post that goes “ok you do x y and z, but are you normal about [group]?” I do think OP is missing something.
For both of these groups, there are mass violent hate ideologies that target them, yes. But there’s also the overly enthusiastic harmful behavior and ideologies that outsiders frequently mistake for being helpful or good. See: chasers, philo-semitism, the way a lot of leftists will dehumanize these groups by pedestalizing and lionizing them, or some caricature of the qualities leftists find appealing, the uncomfortably sexual praise from strangers trans women get, etc etc.
So just encouraging people to love or care about or support these groups is good, but it doesn’t cover situations like those, and can even encourage them. People who do those things listed above DO often think they are being loving and supportive.
So the point of posts wishing people would “be normal” about those groups is that it’s also bad and exhausting and creepy and uncomfortable and harmful and dangerous when people are being, for lack of a better term, weird, but in a way that’s at least on the surface positive. If that makes sense.
“In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.”
—Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass)
One of the postal workers in my neighborhood is this sweet lady who really likes dogs, and the last 3 time she’s seen Gittel, she has delightfully called out and asked to give her a cookie, and then Gittel has said a very nice hello and gotten a cookie. Today, we saw her coming down the street. Gittel got excited and lay down doing her Looke I Amb Soso Good Please To Give Cookie act. The lady was in a hurry though, and walked right past Gittel. Folks. The Betrayal. The Devastation. Imagine a 15 year old girl whose crush, who she had hung out with the day before, breezed past pretending not to know she existed. This can only hold the barest candle to the shock, disappointment, and heartbreak felt by one very good girl when nice cookie lady did not give her a cookie. We had to stare in longing confusion as she went the rest of the way down the block and got in her truck, and then pouted about this for a good hour. A cookie offered at home by @lilac-buttons was no consolation At All.
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