Some of y'all talk mad shit about about found family yet y'all are totally unequipped or uninterested in taking care of your friends in any tangible way. I don’t care how many “I love you and I want us both to eat well” poems and posts you reblog if you just fucking abandon the people in your real life at the first sign of their issues being too much for you! I don’t care how many fucking orange slices you want to share if you wouldn’t cook for someone bed ridden. Idc how much you care about altruism for fake internet points if all your personal dynamics are rotting and falling apart around you!!
Idk if I’m cynical or just black but tumblr and tiktok and cottagecore people and communist theory reading racist idiots have made me feel like we’re in a new period of romanticization. Of all the things that make life worthwhile and/or all the actions it takes to make life worthwhile, and we’re in this era where that aesthetic is performative.
I think we’re in an era of romanticization of radical action and radically compassionate life… that is somehow synonymous with inaction. I don’t think you get to be cold hearted and friendless and then post videos of James Baldwin online. I don’t think you should post posts about random acts of love and then be nasty to the people who know you personally.
There is this performative persona of compassion here sometimes, and this wanting of unearned solace and reprieve that does not match up with the lack of hardship in some of your lives. I think when you spend time claiming someone else’s hardship and romanticizing their rest, you end up with white women reinventing colonialism and gentrification for the cottagecore of it all. You end up with communists who don’t even understand the interconnectivity of race and class.
You have a generation of people with the right answers staring them in the face and painted on their skin, but with spirits, like just nasty ass personalities, that are incapable of moving the world forward. You love me, and want me to eat well, but will you actually pick up that spoon and cook?
theres some queerbaiting thats like cask of amantillado levels of deception where i almost pity the fool who has been caught but then theres queerbaiting thats like a block of cheese under a box propped up by a stick and i think if you fall for that kind you deserved it maybe
Kinda gay to follow a man into a basement. What, you tryna go into a hole?
last year it was like “catradora is the best cartoon wlw representation ever, rupphire is now obsolete” and today it’s all “lumity is the best cartoon wlw representation ever, catradora is now obsolete” like have you guys considered that representation doesn’t work like this, at all
it’s insane that this is even a common discussion point now, when back in 2014 the korra/asami handholding scene made the fandom go nuclear. and i have to keep reminding myself that 2014 was seven whole years ago (nearly a decade!)
idk maybe instead of treating gay representation like an arms race, consider being normal instead! love and light