Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

It's been a minute since I posted here, and I thought I'd share some of the photos I've taken over the past few months!

Have some shiny vixen :3

These are available as full res pics on my Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/48430605

Commission for @TheGoodDoctorWolf

terfs: "I refuse to classify myself as cis. Cis is anti-woman. I am a woman and I will never be cis."
society: "Hello, I see you are a woman. Please choose from: transgender woman, or, non-transgender woman."
ters:

“Our beloved activist friend is innocent, but they're sitting in jail with a $1M bail, which is ridiculous and excessive for protest-related activities. We are raising money for a private defense attorney who has agreed to take the case, and once we get J.W.'s bail reduced we will need remaining funds for the bail.”

https://givebutter.com/jwlegal

@FreyaManibrandr yeah. it's a cycle of abuse and i believe pretty strongly that it's one of the load-bearing pillars of fascism.

it's part of why we keep ending up recreating the state anywhere we go, because we're molded into a tortured shape to fit it.

even if you're like i was and still am, deep down someone who is really lonely and wanting to work with people in good faith, you lose touch with that

and it is extremely difficult to really change, especially when people still appear to be just like that! but one starts to see different perspectives and it at the very least becomes clear why they're like that, and it isn't a deliberate malicious choice on their part

it's just tragic all around, tbh

i think i have a good idea to summarize the world i lived in that shaped my default worldview for the worse

imagine a world where most everyone your age rejects you for being different, and everyone older than you is either extremely unreasonable and unthinkingly authoritarian (rules and laws are king even if they're terrible and hypocritical, even if we all know they're bad) or they're the few who at least hear you out, even if they're beholden to people who are also like that and their hands are tied

you sure get some very cynical, jaded and dark ideas about people by default, and you pre-emptively dismiss them

and you kind of become one of them yourself, which is the insidious thing!

Even if you take 'Israel have the right to defend themselves' as gospel, Hamas's rockets are glorified pipe bombs whereas Israel has a 72.9 billion NIS (22 billion dollars or 15.8 billion pounds) defense budget that goes to buying the best military equipment and munitions that the Western Powers can offer.

It's the equivalent of charging a crowd with Cavalry because someone threw rocks. But on a much larger, even more horrific scale.

"Lazy" is just a derogatory term applied to people whose priorities are different from the one calling people lazy.

"Laziness" is a reclamation of one's time and one's life in a system that tells you that you're worth nothing if you're not constantly productive in the way that is beneficial to capitalists.

making new characters

in a different, less adversarial light...

sometimes the best thing you can do is to back off. reconsider what you're doing, stop trying to throw yourself at a bad situation. try something else.

random abstract thought...

don't underestimate the tactical retreat.

wars have changed in the favor of those retreating before, because the side advancing overextends themselves or is baited into disadvantage.