28 💖💜💙 She/he/they 🖤🔮 Just birds and bands and boys and girls: the finer things in a simple life
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Summary: After Thanos is defeated and the Infinity War is won, Loki’s presence on Earth becomes known worldwide. As he manages everything that comes with it, what will become of his new romance?
Pairings: Loki x OC (Luna Fields)
Status: In progress (updated on 12/15/23)
You Look So Good In Blue (OTP playlist)
brave soldier boy
"free palestine," he shouted until his last breath.
aaron bushnell, we will never forget you.
“self immolation as a form of extreme political protest has a long history all over the world, and aaron bushnell’s death should not be discussed solely as a suicide”
and
“people who are already hurting and vulnerable can do more to help while they are still alive than they could in death, and should not repeat aaron bushnell’s actions”
are statements that can and must coexist, actually.
he felt that he was complicit in genocide as an active duty us service member, and, to an extent, he was. but also as an active duty service member, he was legally not allowed to quit his job as a member of the military.
his final act was to take drastic measures to draw attention to a genocide that many people in this country are turning a blind eye towards, and i commend him for his sacrifice. it should be honored and remembered.
that doesn’t mean i want anyone to feel that they should follow in his footsteps.
he should not have been made, by nature of his employment, to feel that he was complicit in genocide, because those in power should not be funding and supporting it in the first place. but they are doing so, and he made it clear that did feel that way. we can’t change that. that doesn’t give us the right to dismiss and ignore his actions.
“this [genocide] is what our ruling class has decided is normal.” and it shouldn’t be.
keep bushnell’s message in mind as you organize. protest, fundraise, call your representatives. these are actions that have a tangible effect. and they do far more to help than dying.
but i’m not going to condemn him, just as i’m not going to condemn the likes of thích quảng đức. i’m not going to say that his death was worthless, because it brought undeniable attention to the matter at hand, despite attempts by american media to gloss over why he did what he did.
i understand where people are coming from — self immolation is a deeply disturbing thing to witness, even blurred. i was very deeply affected by the video. but that’s exactly why he did it; to get through to people that this matters.
i don’t want anyone else to die, either. but remembering aaron bushnell and what he died for is not synonymous with encouraging suicide.
his last words were “free palestine” and, as people living in countries that are funding extermination, it is our job to carry on that cry until palestine is free.
that means living to see it through. ensure that he did not die in vain.
shlock brain hurt
not his name.
shamrock going proper mental innit
not even his name.
finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING
look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth
This 1960s children's toy named Gaylord the dog is literally the most depressing, miserable looking creature I have ever seen just fucking look at it
I want my own Gaylord. If I don’t get my very own Gaylord I’m gonna explode
Gaylord fanart
Gaylord at a crazy party
Yeah, this is why we need to be having discussions about transmisogynoir and general antiblackness within the lgbt spaces online cause what do you MEAN you couldn't think of a comparable situation when Black bloggers are literally being shadowbanned and sniped left right, and center? Do you know how many Black trans women have been harassed off of tumblr? Just during the summer of 2020 alone? I'm not about to waste time talking over things that have already been said but like, again, what the fuck is wrong with yall???????
still jobless and broke
pls considering donating to my poor bitch fund if u can...... v/nmo//p/ypal: stdawns
i'm afraid things have gotten dire....
i start my new job thurs so thankfully i'm no longer unemployed but my bank account is still very much in the negatives as i try to stabilize my life 😵💫
I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.
hoping aaron bushnell's sacrifice won't be swept under the rug by politicians/media and forgotten about in another fucking week as the genocide on palestinians continues
Can we PLEASE not glorify suicide? There are so many ways to protest and help without killing yourself. Aaron Bushnell's actions, while perhaps well-intentioned, were clearly the result of a mental illness. He died horrifically, and paint him as some sort of martyr or hero is honestly disrespectful.
I understand the impulse to say things like this, and to be clear there is a certain amount of journalistic caution that is typically (not always) applied to cases like this- pairing coverage with suicide hotlines and resources, for example. Those standards exist not because being without them would be to glorify suicide, but because media sensationalism can inspire copycats, and because you want people in pain to know they aren't alone.
However, to claim that this was an act fueled by mental illness is not only disrespectful to Aaron Bushnell's memory and his death, it is deeply, deeply ignorant.
Self immolation as the most extreme act of protest has a deeply storied history across the entire globe.
To quote scholar Timothy Dickinson when he spoke about self immolation as protest in 2012: "This isn't insanity. It is a terrible act of reason."
Aaron Bushnell was a deeply anguished young man. That anguish didn't come from an unspecified chemical imbalance that he inherited through the genetic lottery. The anguish came from the fact that he was an enlisted airman serving in the US military while the US government actively funds and sends arms to a country committing genocide. That's not mental illness. It's systemic despair. You can't just leave the military. When you enlist, you sign a contract that you have no way of terminating if the government does shit that you don't like. You're property of the state. He was caged and clawing for a way out.
As an American Jew I already carry the death of every single Palestinian man, woman, and child with me. The guilt is so heavy- I can't imagine what it must have been like for someone like Aaron Bushnell. It must have felt like he fired every shot with his own two hands. This was not mental illness. It was desperation. It's like you're putting pressure on someone else's bullet wound, screaming for paramedics while people walk past you on the street, never looking over. Sometimes you hear passersby wonder out loud, "Why would someone would make all that noise about a paper cut?" You start asking yourself what you have to do to make someone pay attention.
No matter how uncomfortable you are with Aaron Bushnell's suicide, he is a martyr. It is deeply, deeply disrespectful to behave as though Aaron Bushnell was not in complete control of himself and his faculties. It is deeply disrespectful to wave this away as mental illness when that is not the case. I never, ever, ever want anyone to protest in this way. It's so deeply tragic and horrifying, and the suffering compounds for all of those who love you when you go. But that horror doesn't make it not martyrdom. It doesn't make it not a protest. Aaron Bushnell was a very brave, very kind young man. May his memory be a blessing to us all.
i would like to point out that arguments over whether an act like this is innately one of “mental illness” are ultimately petty in a society wherein the constructed category of mentally ill is so very politically dictated. say he was definitely mentally ill: is the question not, still, “but was he wrong?”
^ this. people only bring up the concept of “mental illness” in arguments like this to discredit martyrs and activists because they don’t view the mentally ill as humans. mental illness is seen as an inherently evil thing to these people, so they use it as a way to discredit any activism that they don’t agree with.
because, believe it or not, mentally ill people are both capable of autonomy in decisions like these and are also not scary monsters. people trying to “investigate” this or diagnose a dead man are going to just use it to dehumanize him and and use it as an excuse to support or turn a blind eye to the genocide.
i also think it’s just disrespectful. it’s none of anyone’s business to know these things about someone, especially not a person they don’t know personally. he wanted to send a message, not have everyone dig into every detail of his life to psychoanalyze him and gossip about his memory.
remember aaron bushnell and remember the countless lives of palestinians he did this to show solidarity for.
THEY’RE NAMED GIRL NAMES BECAUSE YOU GET MILK FROM FEMALE DAIRY COWS
CHRIST, IT AIN’T THAT DEEP
Personally I would be happy to know my yogurt was coming from a place that cared enough about its livestock to not only give then names, but to properly credit them in the finished product.
Personally I would be happy to know my yoghurt wasn’t milked from a bull
