four years ago, I set my hair on fire (bangs) while lighting my cigarette. when I called my partner, I told him what happened in passing and then immediately moved to how great a shot this would be and how I could recreate it
if you're into it, definitely book a slot with her! she was straight to the point and honest but also, so kind with it. genuinely had such a lovely time (and now I'm interested in tarot history n it's role in storytelling. perhaps I shall expand the lenormand...)
tarot readings r always so fun n insightful when done well and there was only one person I trusted w that who always hit too close to home (shout-out big dawg) but now there are two people because @PoltclCassandra did such a gentle and kind reading that it left me in awe like..
I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.
Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.
Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.
That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”
Ghosting not out of cruelty, but rather because it genuinely just does not click for you that it’s even possible for you specifically to hurt people through lack of attention when you’re so deeply convinced that your presence is only ever merely tolerated, not powerfully wanted
it's gross and you don't want to admit it out loud and mask it w the preference of older guys but bsfr if you get creeper out by yourself dating a guy a year younger than you, what is the dissonance that let's you see the man in a positive light?
the thing about being pursued by older men whwn you were younger (and giving into it whether it be willing or not) is that you will keep trying to recreate the horrible slimy feelings and thrill for the foreseeable future until you realize and stop it yourself. I am disgusted
stopping it now though. fully. thinking I might even just. swear off men entirely (even and especially as self harm since that's primarily what their function ends up being). I am not interested in romance or sex and the itch within me can be satiated otherwise