i periodically try getting back into tumblr but it never happens fully if u want to follow me on twt i finally have an acct that isnt private for the first time in years
As flawed as it was I do sometimes really miss that early 2010s era of online feminism where it felt like awesome and powerful to be a feminist, especially as a young + newly politically aware woman, bc it meant you were taking part in a long history of pathbreaking activism and art. Learning about feminist history in that context felt like opening a hidden door to a new sense of strength, self-reliance, and inspiration. I still remember the first time I saw that photo of audre lorde where she’s standing in front of a chalkboard and on it she’s written “Women are powerful and dangerous.” Wow! I’d never thought of myself as powerful or dangerous before but it was impactful beyond words to like have that become a part of my sense of self as a teenage girl. Just to know that women were out there in the world - had BEEN out there in the world - who were completely busting out of the little tiny box society had built for them… Now I feel like the dominant attitude towards being a woman online is like “yeah yeah the little tiny box sucks we all know that. so how do we make it prettier/more comfortable” which is just so depressing…
Subantarctic Fur Seal
Arctocephalus tropicalis
Marion Island, South Africa
-46.884659, 37.868526
by mario_mairal
“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else