caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that’s our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.
sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”
So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.
And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.
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I love the idea that by Noldor standards, all of the royalty/leadership of the Second Age are completely feral.
I’m thinking scandalously unconcerned with all the little details of court politics. Like during High King Finwë’s reign, dressing/accessorizing incorrectly would be the most embarrassing thing ever or a devastating insult. A third of Fingolfin and Fëanor’s arguments were carried out via hair and jewelry. Fëanor underdressing to that one party was SHOCKING stuff.
Cut to High King Gil-galad, furiously trying to scrape together the free people of Middle Earth into something resembling a functioning government and not a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Hair fully down and not a bit of jewelry besides the crown, if that (gets in the way of helmet). Every elf born in Tirion is clutching their pearls. Lord Elrond can and has shown up to council meetings in his PJs. Not only has Celebrimbor cut his hair to his shoulders, he doesn’t even bother with a circlet anymore. Curufin is rolling in his grave.
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