The world seems to be shrouded in evil. I feel helpless and desperate in my own life. I crave small acts of kindness.
But it feels like the vast majority of humans are either evil, or passive/complicit. I wonder if Calvin was right, if we all fundamentally depraved and evil.
My president is a rapist. Children are being deported. People are being sent to a death camp.
I know there were protests. But is anything changing? Even if a miracle happened - I have to live with the fact that people supported this man.
I’m trans and live in a place where most people voted for this. They want trans people dead. They want immigrants dead. The friendly old lady at the 7-11 cheers when she reads that a democratic lawmaker was shot; the church pastor is in a Facebook group where they talk about how much he would like to shoot trans women.
I stay alive to fight. I get bursts of dopamine from sex and alcohol, which gets me through most days - the promise of release at the end. I did have weed, but my license expired and I probably can’t get a new one until a few months.
I wanted children and a family and a house. I wanted a career in a field I loved.
I sleep on a pile of patched blankets and pillows I make with thrifted stuffing. I own two chairs. I’ve worked really hard all of my life - I worked multiple jobs to get through college, I work multiple jobs now. I don’t have insurance and I’m going to have to skip seeing my shrink until school is in session again and I can make a little more.
I’m drowning in despair. I’ve been drowning in despair. Where is there hope in the world?
swedish socialist childrens cartoons. also the soviet ones. those show collective competence and revolutionary optimism. finding others who get what these cartoons are all about.
self-documentary Bögjävlar from 1977 restores your faith in life. just give that one a watch, ask for subtitles and i will translate <3 our cultural LGBTQIA heritage to you all <3
link to it: https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/bogjavlar/
1955 🇸🇪 Plupp ("official nonbinary protagonist of several dozen books, also a sami character (scandinavian native)"
1964 🇸🇪 Vi På Saltkråkan ( Life on Seacrow Island, "feminist feelgood childrenscartoon- like all of Astrid Lindgren's manuscripts and books" )
1969 🇺🇸 the Madwoman of Chaillot ("Katherine Hepburn literally takes care of the oligarchs, military officials, corrupt priests.. who all look as pathetic as they actually are in this movie. happy ending.") 1969 🇷🇺 Gena the Crocodile 1969 🇷🇺 The Bremen Town Musicians
1971 🇷🇺 Cheburashka
1974 🇷🇺 Shapoklyak
1974 🇸🇪 Lilla Anna och Långa farbrorn (little Anna and the Tall Uncle)
1977 🇸🇪 Bögjävlar (no name, literally is a reclaimed slur like fags in swedish. lovely auto-biographical documentary by gays giving eachother solidarity and empathy in sweden one year before the juridical acknowledgement of gays here.")
1979 🇷🇺 Three from Prostokvashino
1979 🇸🇪 Alfons Åberg
1981 🇸🇪 Ronja Rövardotter ( Ronia robber's daughter, book. "feminist as all books by Astrid Lindgren" )
1982 🇸🇪 Trazan & Banarne ("surrealist socialist childrens show with music, a feminist & environmentalist monthy python")
1983 🇷🇺 Cheburashka goes to school
1984 🇸🇪 Zwampen ("surrealist socialist childrens show, a feminist & environmentalist monthy python")
1984 🇸🇪 Ronja Rövardotter ( Ronia robber's daughter, film. "feminist as all manuscripts by Astrid Lindgren" )
1984 🇯🇵 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (ghibli film)
1985 🇸🇪 Skrotnisse och hans vänner (ScrapNisse and his friends)
1985 🇺🇸 Misfits of Science ("socialist X-Men, anti-militarism, anti-corruption, solidarity between misfits.")
1985 🇺🇸 Desert Hearts ("approved by Jane Rule, writer of the '60s lesbian book Desert of the Heart. lesbians & queer people embracing eachother in solidarity. happy ending.") 1988 🇯🇵 My Neighbour Totoro (ghibli film)
1989 🇯🇵 Kiki's Delivery Service (ghibli film)
1990 🇫🇮🇯🇵🇳🇱 Mumin (Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka) ("this is the comfiest cartoon. my childhood TV is here for you <3 also made by lesbian author Tove Jansson, who shows a queer village where social norms are empathy and solidarity.")
1997 🇯🇵 Princess Mononoke (ghibli film)
1999 🇨🇦 Better Than Chocolate ("drama film, main cast of LGBTQIA+ characters. happy ending after some turmoil.")
2002 🇸🇪 Dragkingdom of Sweden ("sympathic portrayal of drag culture, loveliest representation of dragkings i've come across, focusing on six dragkings who tell of their LGBTQIA+ community")
2004 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇨🇦 Creepschool ("misfit kids growing up by empathizing with eachother in a gothic school")
2004 🇯🇵 Howl's Moving Castle (ghibli film)
2007 🇺🇸 Itty Bitty Titty Committee ("lesbian activists having fun")
2020 🇺🇸 the Owl House ("not always cheery, can be harsh to watch. protagonists are all LGBTQIA+, main character unapologetically nonbinary.")
2022 🇺🇸 Infinity Train ("season 2 protagonist is transgender, 4th season protagonists are a mid-twenties gay couple. a few episodes from 1st season establishes the premise- very alright to skip ahead to later seasons after the first episode or so.")
all i come to think of from the top of my head, ask for more and i will gladly look further~
also ask for translations and i will translate subtitles. DMs open, i read & reply to every message. enjoy my scandinavian cultural heritage <3 they're for all to find comfort in
further help;
ask for sources on screen use, i won't write more on that pre-emptively since it's a laundry list of sources (i made a lil space for it 'c/screen_addiction')