I MADE A DIY PIN TUTORIAL!!!

Little doodle I made in the car ^w^

And if anyone is actually reading this, I’m gonna get a gender affirming haircut soon :DD

*don’t mind the artstyle change it’s just gonna be like this now*

Somewhat on the vibe of "your glorious revolution doesn't exist," I want to talk to you all, especially the young folks, about effective anarchism.

Spoiler alert, it's not blowing stuff up or arson.

I am considered the most anarchical person of all among my friends. Granted, most of my experience has been wreaking anarchy against the systems present in my high school and college, but the principles are the same.

Practical anarchy is not the big, flashy, romanticizable thing people online make it out to be. It's more about the long haul - digging in your teeth and just being a menace that no one can really get rid of.

Everyone's "Why vote when you can firebomb a Walmart" posts (that they don't follow through on) are just not pratical because this is a surveillance society. With CCTV and DNA testing and cell phone cameras and GPS tracking, if you do something big like that, you are GOING to be caught; then that is the end of your anarchical career. And, keep in mind that you might get caught while you're setting up this big event - it's a crime to blow up a Walmart and also a crime to conspire to blow up a Walmart, so your career in anarchy might end before it begins, and then you are permanently out of the game. No matter what causes you were working for that inspired you to do something big and violent that you thought would get someone's attention, you now can't help at all ever again in your entire life. What you did will be a passing headline on the news, and then everything will go back to exactly what it was because big, acute actions can't compare in effectiveness to small, constant actions (just being a thorn in the side of the system, poking and poking, but unable to be dislodged).

This is just the practical side of it too: think about the risk of hurting innocents if you really advocate for doing things like that. You think blowing up a Walmart would really make a dent in that big of a corporation? But if you intentionally or unintentionally kill a bunch of Walmart shoppers, that's going to devastate families that had nothing to do with whatever your cause is.

So all that big talk about violence and destruction: not practical, not effective, not ethical.

The only way I've started to change oppressive systems around me is by justing chipping away from within the confines of the rules of these systems, and/or only stepping just outside them (never breaking rules in a big way that could have allowed said system to easily and "justifiably" get rid of me).

So if you're going to be an anarchist, you need to consider:

Having the longest career in anarchism possible (i.e. being careful enough and judicious with your actions so that you don't get expelled from the system you wish to fight).

And then for any given anarchical plan:

2. Potential consequences.

3. Insurance.

I'll give you an example. I had serious beef with the culture of my college's science department. Students were constantly overworked, and if they expressed their misery outloud or reached out to any of their professors about their struggles, they got apathetic responses if not direct insults to their abilities or dedication. I had too many similar disparaging interactions with professors in one week, and I realized a lot of the responses I was getting were just the result of professors not really knowing how they sounded when they said certain things to students (ex: If someone says they're struggling with a course, don't IMMEDIATELY respond with "change your major," - you can give that as an option, but if you make it your first suggestion, the implication to the student is that if they're having any trouble with the course, they're not good enough for the program).

So I wrote up a flier of examples of good and bad ways to respond to students having anxiety with explanations and distributed it to every professor in the department. Everyone who knew about this perceived it as a great personal risk - that I would get in some kind of unspecified trouble or piss off an important professor, so before embarking on this project, I considered...

Potential consequences: I couldn't really think of any specific college or department rules I could be violating. People postered and handed out fliers in the department all the time. What I was doing fell pretty clearly under freedom of speech. I just shoved the fliers under professors' doors, so I didn't trespass in anyone's office. Worst I could think is that individual professors would get mad at me and make my life difficult, or I'd simply be told to stop fliering in the department.

Insurance: Just in case there were any consequences that I didn't think of and to insure me against the ones I had thought of, I didn't put my name on the flier. It was typed in Word, something everyone had access to. I came in to do it after professors had all left for the day but before I needed to use my ID to get into the building (no electronic record of me being there). I took the elevator to the first floor offices because the stairs require ID swipe after 5pm, but the elevators do not. I found out the building had no cameras by asking about it on the grounds that something of mine had been stolen a few weeks prior. I shoved the flier under the doors of dark offices and left it outside offices with lights on (so that no one would come out and spot me). And here's one of the most important pieces of insurance: I put up a few of the fliers on public bulletin boards in the building. This was important so that if I slipped up and said something that conveyed that I had knowledge of the content of the flier, I would have an excuse for that, i.e., I read it on the bulletin board before class this morning.

And then I did the thing. And surprisingly, it was incredibly well-received by professors. A few who knew that the flier must have been mine (because of previous, similar anarchical actions rumored to be associated with me) told me that everyone was RELIEVED that they finally had an instruction manual from the student perspective on what the hell they're supposed to say when one of their students is panicking. It sparked a real change in the vibe of the department and student experience. Had it instead pissed people off, I would have simply said I could not claim authorship of the flier but had read it and thought it contained good ideas then gone on creating more anarchy while angry people grasped at the zero straws I had left them to pin the action on me.

That's an example of a single action I took that was part of a much longer (~3 years) campaign of mine to change the culture of my department. Everytime I did something in that campaign, I made that consequences vs. insurance calculation to make sure they couldn't expell me from the program, the department, or the school before I succeeded.

I don’t understand at all how THIS happened when I was redrawing art that was 2.5 months old. LITERALLY HOW

(1st art is new, 2nd art is 2.5 months old)

Ima be honest, America lost our ability to protest.

Literally Nazis are fucking EVERYWHERE and everybody's rights are being smoothly stripped away. First it was trans rights, and then (just like we fucking told yall) they started going for gay people. They tried going for black people and women, but gays were there to back them up, so now they're taking us out. And yet, all anybody wants to do is spread "peace".

"Oh, I know, I'll email my local governor to complain about the newest legislation. He'll listen for sure." NEWSFLASH, picket signs don't hurt the government. Boycotts, maybe, but sitting on Twitter ain't doing shit.

Every day, I see dozens of people all "If they come for MY rights, I'm responding with force." And some fucking photo of them with guns or what have you. And then the fucking time comes to follow up on your word, and suddenly everybody's too afraid of punishment to do anything.

Do yall think Stonewall was a fucking PEACE MARCH? There's a reason we give out celebratory clay bricks every pride.

Literal SEGREGATION is back and all every "I'll fight for my rights" guy wants to do is tweet about it.

We need to start taking after France.

WE'VE BEEN ROBBED

Also

I WANTED TO SEE BEELZEBUB AND GABRIEL KISS

YOU COWARDS

Quick 1 hour study 🫶 you may start to run from the rain, Hobie

Ok so, he’s in the same universe as Layman

Story:

Basically in their universe there’s a big war between ants and moths, some other insects are involved but let’s ignore them for now, and a group of moths that included Layman invade a smaller colony of ants where Anthony happens to live. His parents get killed, but Anthony manages to hide until Layman finds him and almost kills him, but then hesitates for to long and decides against it

Now he’s keeping Anthony hidden so he won’t be killed by his ppl

I might change some stuff but this is the basics

𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝔀𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱

My Fursona Zitron pfp

no matter how much they try no nonbinary character can match the genderqueer excellence of hobie spiderpunk brown from spiderverse