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Chibi selene 🌜

the rapid disintegration of rainbow capitalism pretty much encapsulates the problem with rainbow capitalism in the first place: it is and always was performative fair-weather allyship that evaporated in the face of any real political pressure

Problem? It was never a problem, unless you had unrealistic expectations for what it meant. It was a symptom, and a good one. — Be strategic and think about this deeper for a minute.

It was absolutely performative fair-weather allyship. But it was a bellwether that the pink dollar was worth taking over any hypothetical backlash a business might face for supporting the queers. For some, and at some times in the past, it was a reassurance that they would do business with you even if they knew you were gay, and that was a huge issue if you eg. wanted to buy a house or a car. And it helped make queerness both more visible and more normalised in society, instead of trying to sweep teh gays back into the closet.

You’re not going to get rid of cynical cash grabs so long as capitalism is around, so you might as well be clear-eyed about it and recognise that while rainbow merch is totally unreliable for actual support, it was a sign that the smart money was betting in your favour.

You can always trust a business to find a sort of middle space that's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and sit there avoiding all controversy in the absolute most craven and soulless way possible.

This means that a business is in fact a very good indicator of what's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and what counts as controversy.

Don't think of them as allies. They aren't people. They can't be. Think of them as a barometer. If the barometer is up, you've probably got sunny skies. When the barometer starts dropping, prepare for heavy weather moving in.

I often refer to rainbow capitalism as an indicator species. Not a keystone species, not a load-bearing organism holding an ecosystem (or an economic system) together. Rainbow capitalism is fragile like a frog species dependent on clean water and an abundance of insects. When its environment changes, becomes polluted, becomes fragmented, it vanishes. Its presence or absence indicates to observers the health of its surroundings just as a literal indicator species reflects whether specific environmental conditions are met.

good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before

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ok everyone else shut up this is the only one that matters

here's links to my other socials

bluesky

pillowfort

instagram

newgrounds

the real true purpose of having a brain is to think about fictional characters

i want to put a brick inside this thing and throw it as hard as i can and kill people with it i think it's what she would want

vision made manifest

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

prints

Beyblade heavyweight division

There was a video interview with Jen Zee that talked about when she was asked about a potential idea design for Hecate, she mentioned that the painting Smoke of Ambergris came to mind so i wanted to redraw Hecate in that vision

Trophy girlfriend but as in I gave her so much trouble it’s an achievement we’re still together so really she’s like a trophy to me

original ref under the cut

they gave bowser and bowser jr matching outfits that's so fucking cute

Today's Seal Is: Some Kind Of Wuppy

Stawscweam 💕✈️👑

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities