When Homer Said, "Everything Is More Beautiful Because We Are Doomed. You Will Never Be Lovelier Than

Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.

you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

just remember, “poverty” is a social construct. when the economy collapses, the farms don’t disappear. goods don’t vanish from the stores. poverty is created through exclusion. it is violence. so when you see articles about how the pandemic could “plunge billions into poverty,” please remember that it’s not the virus that’s creating poverty.

if i have a warehouse stored full of grain, and a drought wipes out your crops, it’s not the climate that’s making you starve, it’s me with my refusal to share my stockpile.

#same energy

me every night before going to bed (real)

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

“We ruined ourselves—I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Letter to Zelda Fitzgerald,” 1930