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please install shinigami eyes so you can stop interacting with transphobes and block them from interacting with you! you reblogged some known terfs on your old edit blog
After I die, I wish someone will find my acc and hit that reblog button again, so even after death I will be reblogging this masterpiece
@demichrising Do what I did and schedule this to reblog in one year. Because Reylo will STILL BE IN MY HEART in 2021, just like it was in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020! Maybe something new will have developed in the year that will pass!
There’s the practical reasons such as the fact that private charity is more efficient than government. And the fact that it allows you to allocate your resources to what causes you deem important. Take the middleman (government) out and give directly to what you believe in rather than pointing towards the government to take your money and your neighbor’s money and spend it where you want. It’s more efficient and you avoid any controversies and issues people tend to argue about when it comes to government spending.
Another thing, it is good to be charitable. When you take away people’s resources by force, you no longer allow them to give from their heart. But being giving and helping others by your own free will is a good thing for us. It’s a win/win situation. The person on the receiving end is given what they need, and the person on the giving end gets to grow as a person. This matters. It’s important. Not to mention, charity doesn’t just apply to goods. We should be charitable in our conversations with one another. We should be charitable in our assumptions of others. Charity is a good virtue to have and absolutely vital for us to get along as people and grow together, but this kind of rhetoric makes it almost impossible to attain such a virtue because the virtue is at the cost of one’s own political ideology.
Regardless where you fall on the map, do not the modern political landscape twist your worldview in such a way that you can no longer acknowledge what has always universally been understood as a good thing. Because it is a good thing.
The fact that so much of what used to be covered by charities 100 years ago is now taken care of (in a more mediocre way) by the government, is part of why local communities are full of strangers who don’t know their next door neighbor. Back when the people you relied on where your neighbors, friends, family, and acquaintances, communities generally cared about each other. Now you’re lucky if you even know the name of the person who lives next door.
Government bureaucrats somewhere across the country have no concern for you, they just care whether or not you tick the correct boxes to get a certain amount of money. When you have an actual community that cares about its members, they can help you meet your needs right then and there without you having to fill out form after form and then waiting 2-12 weeks to find out if you even qualify for assistance. While a local charity might not be as quick as your neighbors and friends, they are much more likely to actually care about members of the community and help out within a few days (depending on the issue at hand) than the government, while still having more funds available than your friends and neighbors for those tougher issues.
When we disconnect ourselves from our community, we’re less likely to be concerned about others when they’re victims of crime since they’re not us and we don’t know them. And in return, others are less likely to care about us when we’re a victim of crime. When nobody cares about others being victims of crimes, we’re all worse off and easily divided.
The federal government taking over so many of the concerns of the community has lead to our current state of not caring for each other even as we’ve become less racist and bigoted as a society.
The fact that you can look at charity as a sign of systemic failure says a hell of a lot about your mindset.
Ben Solo is the Captain of the Guard for the Kingdom of the Republic under the rule of Snoke. He’s been tasked with finding who’s been stealing from the King and his high court, and he’s certain it’s Rey Niima, a trouble maker and archer from the cities. Ben swears he’ll bring her to justice and begins to conduct his investigation.
The more he learns, he realizes she’s trying to save those her are impoverished under Snoke’s rule and government. And the more he looks into her, the more he finds himself falling for the benevolent thief.
katniss in book 3: my childrens playground is built on dead bodies and bones, i never wanted children but peeta convinced me, i will never heal from what happened to me. the end
me reading that shit at 15:
I mean, she did explicitly want children. She was just determined to never have them because she didn’t feel it was fair to have kids who might be forced to enter the Hunger Games and after her involvement in the games she feared kids would be used against her. Her having children at the end means she thinks they can have a future.
Edit: The Hunger Games are about a world where violent revolution was nessecary and justified but the war was not glorious and caused pain and trauma to people involved. In having children the epilogue tells us that Katniss believes the revolution made things better even though she will always be scarred from the experience.
Reblogging this vers bc ppl in the notes have the coldest fucking takes the ending of mockingjay was Susan Collins realizing what you, the reader, needed to see was the fact Katniss’ trauma doesnt just magically heal or go away Katniss doesn’t just get the perfect life with a husband and two kids but rather her and Peeta spend years healing and working through their traumas and helping each other recover in a very realistic way and then she chooses to have kids because she finally feels like not only will her and Peeta have futures but that their kids wont be in danger merely from existing. Hunger Games has such a good and realistic portrayal of heavy topics and shows a great deal about handling depression, anxiety, and PTSD and the ppl in the notes somehow missed these fact the end knows you don’t want to just see everything be magically okay. Like if you want a shitty epilogue that doesn’t acknowledge that recovering from something like this isnt perfect and takes time just go read Deathly Hollows again lol
