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Welcome to 2rats1gogh š¤
(name was inspired by this wonderful painting called āTwo ratsā by Vincent van Gogh)
This blog was originally created for House of the Dragon and Asoiaf content but it soon descended into complete chaos.
ā ļø WARNING: If you are a bigot/homophobic/transphobic/TERF/pedo/nazi/zionist/trump/r*ssia supporter, stay away from this blog. You WILL be blocked.
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š³ļøāšHappy Pride Month from me and Leone Abbacchio in military goth style!
For this piece I have been inspired by 'Spit or Swallow' by KMFDM and their album covers artist Aidan Huges.
you're permanently stuck in the last show that you watched, how is it going?
good
bad
great
awful
results
Smiling friends?? I donāt even know?? Great? Horrible? Fantastic? Hellish?
Hello! I bring to you an ApricitySMP animatic nobody asked for!
What's ApricitySMP? It's a RP server I play in with some other people! There's vampires/witches/hunters etc!
No violence happens whatsoever!
genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:
if you canāt read or write 500-1000 words with relative ease you have a serious problem
how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI
how are you going to function in society if you canāt read 1000 words at a time
This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!
Pick a topic you like, and that's what you're going to read about. Set a minimum word count, and read until you get to it. Start small. Smart easy. First try, it might actually be agonizing.
That's it for the day. Just hit the word count.
Next day, read to the word count again. Read something new! It will be easier today.
And easier the next.
And you will naturally find yourself extending how much you read per day.
yes! the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body to get stronger! no matter what place youāre at you can do stimulating activities to exercise your brain!
The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.
"I ain't reading that" becomes "I can't read that" which becomes "I didn't read before I signed it because the guy telling me to was convincing and now I don't have anything".
i praise people for doing ordinary tasks all the time and it works out great
Sending this to the grognard that said to me "You don't have to say 'thank you' to someone who's just doing their job."
life and death and love and birth and peace and love on the planet earth
The best part of this is that "virgin Molotov Cocktail" would itself be a great nickname for a jar of piss
New 'Bootcamp' boyband.
According to sources a new boyband has been formed at Bootcamp with 5 solo contestants thought to be more promising as a group.
The boyband made up of auditionees: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik
(Liam being one of this years re-auditoneeās) The boyband are yet unamed.
Previous groups formed at Bootcamp have usually been doomed from the start and although usually making it through to the live shows donāt go much further. Futureproof, Hope and Miss Frank to name the most well known,
did anything happen with this
i heard they got involved with human trafficking?
annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl š¤¦āāļø
like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards
put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god
Transcription, because it is worth reading:
Thereās a phenomenon I actually see extremely commonly when literature is used to teach history to middle school and high school students. Letās call it āpajamafication.ā
So a school district nixed Maus from their curriculum, to be replaced by something more āage-appropriate.ā IIRC they didnāt cite a specific replacement title, but it will probably be something like John Boyneās āThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas.ā
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is tailor-made for classroom use. Itās taught at countless schools and itās squeaky-clean of any of the parent-objectionable material you might find in Maus, Night, or any of the other first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
Itās also a terrible way to teach the Holocaust.
Iām not going to exhaustively enumerate the bookās flawsāothers have done soābut Iāll summarize the points that are common to this phenomenon in various contexts.
First, obviously, the context shift. Maus, Night, et al are narrated by actual Jews who were in concentration camps. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is narrated by a German boy. The Jewish perspective is completely eliminated.
Second, the emphasis on historical innocence. Bruno isnāt antisemitic. He has no idea that anything bad is happening. He happily befriends a Jewish boy with absolutely no prejudice.
Thus weāre reassured that you too, gentle reader, are innocent. You too would have have a childlike lack of prejudice and you too would be such a sweet summer child that you would have no idea the place next door is a death camp.
In Maus, by contrast, the children are not innocent. They are perpetrators of injustice just like adults.
[ID: Picture of part of a page of Maus where children run away yelling āHelp! Mommy! A Jew!! - the next panel says āThe mothers always told so: āBe careful! A Jew will catch you to a bag and eat you!ā ā¦So the taught to their children.ā]
Maus also smashes the claim that people just didnāt know what was going on in the camps.
[ID: Picture of part of a page of Maus where a Nazi truck is arriving at Auschwitz guarded by men with sticks and a pointing, growling dog, the boxes say āAnd we came here to the concentration camp Auschwitz. And we knew that from here we will not come out anymoreā¦ā āWe knew the stories that they will gas us and throw in the oves. This was 1944ā¦ we knew everything. And here we were.ā]
Third, nonspecificity. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas turns a specific historical atrocity into a parable about all forms of bigotry and injustice. Iām sure Boyne thinks heās being very profound. But the actual effect is to blunt and erase the atrocity.
Thereās the too-cute-by-half way it avoids terminology: āOff-With,ā āthe Fury.ā Harsh language becomes āHe said a nasty word.ā
Notice how āitās a fableā ties in with the goal of eliminating anything parents might object to.
And thatās our fourth point. Bad things can happen, but only abstractly. Someoneās dad disappears. Heās justā¦gone. How? Who knows. People stand around looking hungry and unhappy and saying āItās not very nice in here.ā
The ending is sad, but itās sad like a Lifetime movie. Itās sanitized, itās quick, there are no details, itās meant to poke that bit of your heart that loves crying.
Mausās description of the gas chambers, meanwhileā¦
[ID: Picture of part of a page of Maus where the process of gassing and then taking out the bodies are described in detail as inmates are working. That it took 3 to 30 minutes to gas people. That the largest pile of bodies was by the door. The worker telling the story mentions āWe pulled the bodies apart with hooks. Big piles, with the strongest on top, older ones and babies crushed belowā¦ often the skulls were smashedā¦ā āTheir fingers were broken from trying to climb up the wallsā¦ and sometimes their arms were wera as long as their bodies, pulled from the sockets.ā Until the narrator says, āEnough!ā āI didnāt want to more to hear, but anyway he told me.ā]
A historical atrocity can never be a metaphor for all bigotry because the specifics are what makes it an atrocity. The Nazis didnāt just do ābad things, generally,ā they did THESE things. And leaving out the details is simply historical erasure.
Finally, fifth: Fiction.
However much poor little Bruno and Schmuel might rend your heartstrings, you can ultimately retreat into the knowledge that they arenāt real and they didnāt really die.
Now, I write historical fiction, and obviously I believe it has a place, in the classroom and out. But no Holocaust education can be complete without nonfiction that teaches about real people who genuinely did experience it.
One of the striking things about Maus is how big the cast is and how few of them survived.
[ID: Picture of part of a page of Maus where one character describes to another many other people who didnāt make it. Eventually covered over in lower panels by pictures of the dead.]
Because itās a true story, Maus can also explore neglected aspects like the intergenerational trauma, which simply vanish in a pat fictional story that is just finished when you get to the end.
[ID: Picture of part of a page of Maus where the illustrator sits at the drawing desk above the pile of bodies. The artist says: āAt least fifteen foreing editions are coming out. Iāve got 4 serious offers to turn my book into a TV special or movie. (I donāt wanna.) In May 1968 my mother killd herself. (She left no note.) Lateāy Iāve been feeling depressed.ā Someone calls from out of panel, āAlright Mr. Spiegelmanā¦ Weāre ready to shoot!ā¦ā]
Thus, books like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are not an age-appropriate equivalent way to teach the Holocaust, but a false construction of history.
This ends the first part of the thread. But thereās moreā¦
The Maus incident is not an isolated case. Itās part of a broad trend of replacing the literature used to teach history with more kid-friendly, āappropriateā alternatives.
And outside of the Holocaust, it usually doesnāt meet with much controversy.
It might mean replacing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave or Solomon Northupās Twelve Years a Slave with modern historical fiction, for example.
Wars, the Civil Rights movement, Apartheid: any āickyā part of history can be a target.
But it plays out along the same general lines: Primary sources replaced with modern fiction, victim perspectives replaced with perpetrators, specificity replaced with Star-Bellied Sneetch-style āWhy canāt we all just get along?ā metaphors.
yes conservatism is on the rise yes tradwife content is as popular as ever yes pink jobs and blue jobs are fucking stupid BUT there is still such a big change in how straight women are talking about relationships online.
they're talking about how they're no longer interested in dating because their female friends treat them better than boyfriends do. they're realizing that being single is always better than being in a bad relationship. it's becoming a lot more normal and fun and hot for women to be single at any age. the women who have settled down with truly good men in truly happy relationships are encouraging other women to not take any shit because the right man won't need to be "trained". they're talking about how their mothers and grandmothers warned them to get a job and not get married, and they followed the advice.
tradwife content is performance. it's propaganda. there are so few women actually living that life. but we know for a fact that more women than ever are educated, working, and single. and all I see (admittedly in my woke ass algorithm) is women talking about how they're done settling for mediocre relationships. and I love it.
I will reblog this every time it crosses my dash.
People who donāt get this infuriate me
This explains perfectly why this show is so harmful. Nothing will convince me otherwise.
The first book was written in 2018. Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine began in 2014. That 2014 invasion was preceded by Ukrainians being oppressed by a Russia backed dictatorship which was preceded by decades of brutal imperialist Soviet occupation and oppression of Ukrainian people...which was preceded by brutalities at the hands of the Russian empire...
Russian propaganda works brilliantly for the West
