when i was younger i watched the spongebob squarepants movie and obviously like any sane person i loved the “Goofy Goober Rock” song, but i had no fucking idea that it was just a parody of a real song, and about 4 months ago the radio was on and “I Wanna Rock” came on and i almost shit my pants in REAL life.
hockey blogs exist. sports blogs exist exactly like fucking fandom blogs. i bet the sports fandoms have discourse and drama and callout posts. i bet they have kins.
I’ll have the Steven Universe fandom get the Crystal Gems to form Alexandrite so they can crush anyone who questions the SuperWhoLocks, Potterheads, and Fannibals…
self-care is tricking your self-loathing brain into a roundabout form of self-love by intensely loving a fictional character you really relate to
i am genuinely delighted (a) that so many people relate to this and (b) that nearly all the tags are along the lines of “fuck off”/“i hate this”/“don’t call me out like this” followed by “…anyway here are my personal relatable faves”
hot take: the capitalist cultural construction of “humans are naturally greedy and self-centered” is just an attenuated version of the feudal christian construction of “humans are inherently sinful”; both are designed to make people internalize cultural problems and externalize morality.
building off that hot take: western individualism (the American Dream, meritocracy, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality) is actually a hopelessly sentimental cultural fantasy that stems from this toxic capitalist conceit, and it’s high time we start admitting in our personal lives and in our public policy that humans actually live in dynamic and overlapping webs of inter-dependency
it’s this capitalist mindset that makes my struggling with disabilities ten times worse.
“you’re a parasite for needing assistance, why don’t you just work harder? you don’t deserve help.”
just moving along like everyone else 