The Price Of Progress

The more I am trying to help fundraisers reach a wide berth of people, the more I am realizing that tumblr is a very performative website. Posts which are detailing a fundraiser have very little interaction, as opposed to those that point out the injustice of it all and have a tone of anger. But anger is not sustainable...if you want us ( those who are actively monitoring the fundraisers ) to give you a cause to rally against, if that is the only thing what moves you to donate, then how long can this go on? What does it even say about how you view the lives of people who have been forced to fundraise? They are not tinder to keep stoking your fuel of righteousness.

Every fundraiser which I am personally monitoring seems to only crest when the tumblr community at large either feels that appropriate bit of "oh yeah look I am so cool for rallying behind the cause." Or if there is a tragedy, an unimaginable pain a person has been put through and thus can evoke enough empathy/sympathy in the masses....what is this? What can one even say to this?

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

god i'm so tired of everybody's bad faith interpretations of everything. where's the trust. where's the forgiveness. where's the understanding that most things are complex and most people have many layers. and like the black eyed peas once said. where is the love

I'll color it some other day but um. Twelfth-night photoshoot, forever in my mind.

asa/yoru

as an american, I think that the way that the democratic party approached the crisis in gaza was what made a lot of democrats just not vote. I personally spent a long time trying to explain to my parents that trump would have done the same, if not worse and that I don’t think he’ll do much to stop it. The sad things is that there is a majority republican in the senate and they have the lead for the house of representative so any agenda that trump had will most likely be passed.

This is a problem within the left in many countries, sadly. The Right is a monolith. They’re concrete. They’re conservatives because they never fucking change and they all believe the same thing. The Left is fluid and diverse and are often more concerned with fighting each other while the common enemy is running rampant.

I say this as someone who voted for a minuscule party in my own country’s elections. My friends and family are all leftists and yet we all voted for different parties. But we didn’t have a Trump, or anyone even remotely as authoritarian threatening our rights when we did so. In conclusion:

Some leftist need to hop off their fucking high horse, stop scrunching their noses and pretending nothing is ever good enough for them, and pick the lesser evil, instead of the perfect leftist candidate that only exists in their heads.

Congrats to the third party voters, i hope your high horse has fun galloping through rivers of Trump’s dogshit. At least you can look at yourself in the mirror and I hope it was worth it.

The calm before the storm i guess

there’s something so hopeful about akutagawa no longer being weighed down by dazai’s words and free from his inherent manipulation due to his amnesia….and with this he is able to truly show us the maximum power of his own ability, unrestrained and untainted from dazai’s expectations of him.

previously, aku was only focused on getting stronger because it was dazai who was pushing him, dazai who was experimenting with him to truly bring out the potential he saw.

but now, aku has someone else to protect. he is a “martyr” for justice, as he said when he wielded the sword. bram’s resolve has manifested into a mindset that will truly take advantage of akutagawa’s inherent nature to defend and protect. like he did with his friends in the slums. like he does with his sister.

now we will all truly get to see just how powerful he can be. what his resolve is made of.

Happy lunar/chinese new year everybawdy 🧧

"Next time I won't let you go"

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Finally got around to making dungeon meshi fanart.... I can rest now.. at last....