it’s feels weird to me, sometimes, that the raised fist is now used as a super general protest gesture that even centrist liberals will use, and it’ll be in like kid’s movies and stuff
because it was created as a pretty explicitly communist symbol
and was used as an ‘antifascist salute’ to counter fascist salutes
not to mention frequently used in leftist iconography
and in IWW and other socialist organizations in the 20th century
and was used by the Black Panther Party (a socialist group) and other radical, black activists as a symbol of anti-capitalist solidarity and action
the raised fist has such a powerful history in radical anti-fascist and anti-capitalist protest.
I think all activists should learn about it and foster a respect in its complex history. it’s humbling, and also can remind us of the radical roots of different movements which have now been co-opted by liberals and branded by capital.
no matter how many t shirts it’s printed on or politicians using it there are, it has radical roots, and it will always hold that history for leftists to reclaim
do u ever just sit down and think about how no matter how many times dirks friends told him he wasnt this monster he didnt believe it because theyd never know what je was actually capable of?
do u ever then subsequently think about how dave, whod been RAISED by the worst version of dirk, told him that he wasnt that guy? do u ever then quietly follow this train of thought with a gentle “oh” in response because the very person that dirk idolized told him that he was redeemable, that he was better than his worst self, that he was already so much more? or is that just me
one of my favorite tropes is when your group of main characters has been split up for questioning and they’re all answering the same questions in a neatly-spliced montage
my favorite trope is when the stories blatantly and hilariously conflict
I have a story
My eighth grade teacher told me this. So back when he was in uni is the setting. It’s friday, and he and a few buddies have this big test on monday. Now, they do need the weekend to study, but theydecide they wanna go skiing instead (#justcanadianthings). So, they do go skiing all weekend and don’t study a bit. They decide they’re gonna tell their professor that a tire popped and they were stuck in the mountains and had to skip (keep in mind, this was in the 80’s, not a lot of phones/no internet). They skip the test day, spend it studying, they go the next day to their professor and explain their ‘situation.’ He says it’s okay, understandable, and that they can do the test now. Seats each of them at each corner of the class. He leaves the class, then comes back with their tests. On the test paper is one question.
if Bucky doesn’t get to meet Rocket in Infinity War then the whole film is pointless and may as well not be made
i’m not sure if this is supposed to be sad because they were both brutally experimented on and can share trauma stories and trust issues, or funny because you know full well that rocket is going to try and take bucky’s arm
I just wanted Bucky, who was baffled by Peter Parker in a Lycra onesie, to meet a talking raccoon, why you gotta do me like that
