Dylan | 20 | He/They | 💉: 16/01/18
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Can we romanticize video games the way we do books?
Like you hear all these things about how you can curl up with a book on a rainy day and drink tea and smother yourself in blankets but anytime you hear things about video games it’s always about how you’re wasting your life away yelling into a headset as you play Call of Duty in a basement?
Imagine bundling yourself up on the couch, the sound of rain hitting the roof, and putting on Fable for a few hours. Or getting home after a long day of work. You make yourself a cup of cocoa, put on fuzzy pjs, and play Viva Piñata for hours not giving a second thought to the outside world. Semester just got out? Throw on some Fallout and just take a night to breathe and enjoy.
You aren’t wasting your life away, you’re enjoying it. Games can be just as much an escape as books, except you get to be part of the story.
I’m generally pretty chill about drugs and cool with people experimenting, but John told me about a girl he saw over Bay Dreams and it makes me really sad to know that nobody told her better. She likely has irreversible blindness and brain damaged after ODing her first time taking mdma.
every time someone tells me communism has never worked + can’t work i would like to remind them that the first human hunting and gathering societies were communist and they did GREAT. people with disabilities lived into their 40s (when the expected life expectancy for humans during that time was around 30-35 years) because the society took care of them without expecting them to work. everyone who could work did to the most of their ability for the benefit of the entire group. men and women were considered equal, and there was no social hierarchy. everything was done for the good of the whole–if a hunter shot down a huge mammoth, it wasn’t “his” victory, and it didn’t “belong” to him. the mammoth fed everyone, and its tusks became tools for EVERYONE, and its fur became clothes for EVERYONE and its hide was used to build tents, water pouches, etc for EVERYONE. karl marx’s dream of a stateless, egalitarian society with no social hierarchy isn’t a pipe dream–it already existed and he was simply proposing that we should, and will, eventually return to that place of equality.
i strongly recommend that people add things like “gender critical”, “radfem”, “radical feminism”, “terf”, and “terfsafe” to their filtered tags. tumblr’s blacklist system will hide reblogged posts if the op put one of your filtered tags on it. this is a really easy way to not accidentally reblog posts by transmisogynists so often. it filters posts both on desktop and on mobile. and you can always click to view the post and double check the op if you want.
on mobile: go to settings > general settings > filtering > +new
on desktop: settings > account > scroll down to filtering and click the lil pencil
