Touch Grass - Blog Posts

why do people believe in fake magic when our world is already insanely beautiful and complex

Look tumblr, I only came here to post my art and consume fan fiction. Just because I visited the blog of someone who's so deep into online politics that they don't know what the real world looks like anymore doesn't mean that I want to see more posts about it. I just wanted to see if they had anymore dpxdc content!

I block/hit the 'not interested' button when posts I have not interest in disrupt my scrolling. Sorry if I happened to have blocked you. We don't have the same interests 🤷‍♀️💁‍♀️

Chacter Ai users having to touch grass today:

torrey c. brown rail trail

parkton, md.

shot on rebel t3i

MIDSOMMAR (2019) dir. Ari Aster

Final thing I'm saying about this. If your first response to a video/ point of view/ joke/ person/ WHATEVER you disagree with, is to spread such vile gross comments as the small sample I've highlighted here, then you need to log off the internet and go outside for a while.

There's literally nothing productive/useful or even remotely helpful about any of these comments, and if what you are trying to do is call out misogyny when you see/experience it, then that doesn't require telling someone that you "hope those brokem wrists never heal up properly just to remind this bitch he couldn't keep it on the road". That's doing nothing except being spitefully hateful, and is more likely to have the literal opposite effect.

Curse the words "homesick" and "seasick".

It's the same -sick suffix, but the opposite meaning.

Missing your home, feeling unwell at sea.

All the while the words I need are the opposite:

I am more often than not sick of staying home, and feel a longing for the sea.

The more digitized my life becomes, the more vital it is to me that I get out and touch some grass.

I said this on Instagram so I’ll say it here.

This account is a ✨Bella Brinca and Rockstar Chuck safe account.✨

If you can’t handle opinions and you now have the sudden urge to tell me to off myself because of these opinions please block me. If a redesign and a Hispanic bunny girl offends you that badly, you need to touch some grass. 🥰

Touch Grass

Lesson 13 got me thinking. It has a lot to do with physicality. Snyder summarises it as follows:

13. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.

I'd summarise it more like this: Touch Grass.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons

Which lesson would you like to know more about?

Do not obey in advance.

Defend institutions.

Beware the one-party state.

Take responsibility for the face of the world.

Remember professional ethics.

Be wary of paramilitaries.

Be reflective if you must be armed.

Stand out.

Be kind to our language.

Believe in truth.

Investigate.

Make eye contact and small talk.

Practice corporeal politics.

Establish a private life.

Contribute to good causes.

Learn from peers in other countries.

Listen for dangerous words.

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.

Be a patriot.

Be as courageous as you can.

Snyder, T. (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Crown.