swishypantss [she/her]

My dog’s probably not gonna make it to the end of this week so not great. I ended up crying several times at work today

The West Wing.

Sometimes you just get the urge to throw reactionaries out of the airlock

I’m finishing up a biography on Toussaint Louverture. Turns out this dude was very uncool, to the point where post revolutionary Haiti had a lot of similarities to the reconstruction era usa

I think there’s an article somewhere where it says that it was a phase that they’re really ashamed of

I’ve always loved Mahler’s quartet in A minor. Also used to really dislike Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring but recently I’ve come around to it

Thank you for speaking up about this. I honestly don’t use this site as much as the old sub because seeing this kinda stuff over and over has been pretty bad for my mental health. It’s tough because some people like to vent about it using humor and of course I know that it’s important for powerful people to be exposed as complete monsters, but I don’t know I guess even when the memes are done with the best of intentions it comes off as kinda tasteless to me. I’ll also add on that I think a lot of Epstein posts tend to fall in the same category as the Biden ones

He was a Tulsi stan at one point so it wouldn’t be surprising if there was