Analogy for being Non-Binary in 2019 (cw: transphobia)
There's a long war being waged over trans folk; when you come out as trans, you enter the battlegrounds. For a long time, the only offered way out was to pick a binary and put so much effort into passing that people assume you're cis.
…Until some very brave Enbies started a camp in the no-man's land between the two binaries. Now that camp has grown, and we're planting flowers.
Some day, these battlegrounds will be a garden. ![]()
URGENT Money Needed
I have about $116 in my bank account right now, and I just know that the group housing program I am in will want me to pay for transportation myself from time-to-time, and if I do NOT get a job shortly after returning there, then I might not be able to meet all of the obligations they want me to meet upon returning to the program, so please help me raise at least $200 more before this upcoming Thursday. FYI I will also still have to do some food shopping, since I am beginning to run low on food supplies right now. So money for that will be nice as well.
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Vaporwave Music thoughts, long.
shoutouts to a friend for reccomending a link to a video essay on the game "Broken Reality"
In the video essay, the presenter seems to struggle to grapple with "whether or not vaporwave is ironic, genuinely affectionate, or critical in its relationship to the detritus of capitalism and corporate culture and aesthetics."
And i think legitimately insisting that it has to be one or the other, is missing the point. It _can't_ be only one. To insist that it is, Is to numb the _pain_ to which it speaks. To allow you to either academically abstract your feelings by putting them towards a proper anticapitalist rhetoric, to busy the mind digging through dogwhistles. To delare it ironic is to detach yourself from your feelings through vaccinated nihilism and rebuking the aesthetics for being chintzy and out of step. and to be purely affectionate is to throw yourself into nostalgia wholesale, but why retreat into a recontextualization then when the progenitor cultural artifacts still exist?
And the harder you look for irony, the more genuine the feelings it seems to evoke in it's enthusiasts, and the harder you look for sincerity, the more ironic it feels. because, it's just office muzak, It's just slowed down adult contemporary, and when you declare that it _must_ be irony, and start walking away, the consistency, of the aesthetic implies something genuine.
because that is the power of the superposition:
That which is perfectly satirical, is so close to the original as to be indistinguishable from a sincere example,
That which is perfectly sincere, will overlook or overstate, so many things as to become a satire of itself.
Or according The Book Of Five Rings:
That which is perfectly void is form, that which is perfectly form, is void.
Fundamentally, it cannot divorce itself from the love it feels. because that's nihilism, but neither can we look at our present reality, and say with confidence, that the forces that engineered this vision of a future, were good. But those memories are still there, We still FEEL things.
Because the truth is no matter how smart we become, we experience the world, in all of its glory, both opportunity and oppression, through our emotions.
When you remember a broken promise, you can't feel bummed about it, if you don't remember what you were yearning for; and you can't remember what you were yearning for, without feeling its absence. You can't compartmentalize just half of it.
You cannot separate the irony from the sincerity, because they reflect one another.
You cannot separate the visual aesthetic from the music, because they evoke one another.
You can't separate the celebration from the anticapitalist critique, because it's not the artifacts' fault they couldn't be the future, but neither were the promises they signified, kept.
And for me anyway.
Vaporwave is the music of broken promises.
Mastodon culture is a direct result of its non-monetization. No need to artificially add weight to voices strategically determined to hold your attention and make you see more ads. No algorithm feeding you posts designed to stoke your outrage, keeping you engaged with the platform for longer than you otherwise would have been, longer than you would have liked. No AI gatekeepers preventing important posts from people who care about you showing up in your feed.
The medium is the message.
You are all my comrades.
"Don't Touch" has to be one of the most terrifying things to read in Braille. #Showerthoughts
re: URGENT NEED FOOD
The food I have is food that I have had from Saturday night, and I haven't been able to refrigerate it, so I need to get new food either today or tomorrow. Please help me out:
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during the classic SMiLE.dk song Butterfly, it is reported that "green, black, and blue are the colors in the sky"
from this we can conclude that the song takes place during or shortly before a severe thunderstorm that may produce hail or tornadoes. any nearby butterflies and samurai should seek shelter immediately
Hey lovely trans women! I wanted to offer a few of you with thinning hair to knit you a hat for free to help with self esteem. I've knit some for my lovely wife. Let me know if you're interested and I'll get in touch to discuss. Please feel free to share! I'll only be able to take a few at a time. Colours/yarn/pattern are up to you, within my capabilities. Much love! (If you want pics, I'm sure @SuperCee SuperCee can help with that.)
Support Langston's, NYC's last black LGBTQIA nightclub https://www.gofundme.com/the-last-and-only-lbgtq-black-club-in-nyc
Matterhorn, Moon, and Meteor
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrées), TWAN
Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/05/luxembourg-to-become-first-country-to-make-all-public-transport-free?CMP=share_btn_tw
Happy #dragonappreciationday everyone! Here's a quick guide on how to appreciate your dragon
Do:
- Give them a hug
- Give them things
- wax their scales
- give them gold
- tell them they're pretty
Don't:
- Forget anything on the above list
- Give them a musical card
NSFW
18 and over only please.
Struggling with a lot of stuff.