incredibly grateful that tumblr doesn’t have a memories feature like every other social media platform because frankly i am terrified to even think about what kind of tomfoolery and hooliganery i was getting into 6 years ago on this website
you know what? I hadn’t thought about it in a while, but I am actually still very upset that we never got to see John Boyega give an impassioned speech to an army of hostile stormtroopers, and partway through the speech just one trooper lays her blaster down and takes her helmet off, and by the end Finn has won them over and they all take their helmets off as the music swells, which signifies their change of allegiance and also reminds us the audience that underneath all those indistinguishable white helmets are people with faces and personalities and hopes and dreams and connections to the Force, people who will be led by one of their own as they rise up in rebellion against the fascist empire that treated them like interchangeable cannon fodder.
we should have had that in a movie! and we didn’t! and I’m still mad about it!
Completely unrelated, but I wanted to show you these robots. Yes, these are not fish, these are robots - the future is now.
Not to mention that they’re moving apparently randomly through a three-dimensional space, and not touching each other! That’s impressive.
I want to mourn her death. I want to honor her. I want to pay tribute to who she was as a woman, as a mother, as a lawyer, as a fighter, as a wife, as a justice, as a patriot.
I want to mourn her and celebrate her and thank her for everything that she did, all the decisions that she made that helped me grow up in an America where I was safe to pursue all the things I wanted.
Instead the first emotion I felt wasn’t sadness, or humility, or solemnity. It was fear. Chill down the spine, tears in the eyes, heart racing, muscle clenching fear.
And I will never forgive them for that.
I shouldn’t be utterly terrified of the potential future after an amazing, briiliant Supreme Court Justice passes away, but this is the reality in which we now live.
I won’t ever forget this moment this awful feeling. The gut churning fear and doubt and sadness. And I’ll carry it with me when I vote in less than 2 months.
the fact that the fate of our democracy was riding on an 87 year old woman who was suffering through cancer for the third time living through it is the most ridiculous fucking thing. the fact that people still don’t understand how much supreme court decisions impact their way of life is insane. the fact that people still won’t fucking vote is INSANE.
not to climb onto a soap box but it is absolutely TRAGIC that we can’t mourn the death of this wonderful judge the way we should be— talking about her as a trailblazer, as someone who championed what she believed without fail, as someone who gave us SO MUCH— because what could potentially happen next is so terrifying. it’s tragic and insensitive that my thoughts aren’t with her family but are with everyone whose reproductive rights are in limbo. it’s awful that i KNOW every fucking idiot sitting in DC who said “you can’t bring in a new justice during an election year” when scalia died is going to change their tune and probably already has.
