(affirming myself in the mirror) if that fictional man was real he would fuck you. He would fuck you. You’re his exact type. If he saw you he’d get a boner instantly. He would fuck you he would fu
I just remembered my second Pride, where I made different flag themed daisy chain bracelets/necklaces to hand out. I need folks to understand something:
They were free.
They were fucking free.
They were maybe ¢60 of acrylic yarn each at the most, and the whole ziploc bag of them took 2 hours max.
Three people gave me sad eyes until I took their money.
Someone who was clearly the mom friend of their group made me take a $5 and gave a 10 minute pep talk.
At least four more people insisted on getting change to pay for the, once again, free bracelets.
In spite of all these shenanigans, the absolute best was this one person who I can only describe as, “queer surfer dude who looks like a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend.” I can remember nothing of the outfit, only the impeccable vibes. I did the same thing I did with everyone else, explaining the bracelets were free, and they nodded along as they took the last 6 strand rainbow bracelet. As soon as they had it on their wrist, they pointed at something over my shoulder and, like a fool, I looked.
Next thing I know, they’re running off cackling, yelling, “YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME!” and I’m holding a fucking $20. I had to stop at least two people from chasing them, cause they thought the person stole something, and then they tried to give me money cause they thought it was funny seeing me flail over people being Too Nice.
That was the year I got reverse-robbed at Pride. I hope everyone out there is having a good time and, in particular, that queer surfer dude is out there still causing benevolent chaos.
Okay so my favorite thing about the hunger games is that it is PRO violent uprising (we stan suzanne collins a leftist queen) and the series was so powerful that the three finger salute from the book is LITERALLY USED in uprisings in south east asia… but i digress.
Some people criticize the negative depictions of Gale and how it paints violent rebellions which is totally fair and ppl are allowed to feel that way/dislike those aspects of it but that’s not what I took away from it. What I took away from the books is that violence is essential to rebellions, but violence is simply a means to an end NOT the heart of a revolution. Revolution comes from a deep love of human life and a care for your community. A burning desire to help your people. Hope and belief that a better way of life is possible. Those things are what drive a movement, NOT a disregard for human life even though killing is part of the revolution. And I just really feel like Gale’s line about how shooting a person is just like hunting animals shows that his desire for revolution comes from his hatred and that he does have a disregard for human life, not a deep impassioned love for it.
