Claire Keane
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ok heres my fact. did you know that symptomatic rabies can cause involuntary ejaculation, to the tune of up to 30-40 times a day
thanks man. going to start writing the long lost house episode about this
If you want to read more about people being horny about rabies you should read the eminently disturbing 2007 novel Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. Content warning for, like, everything.
Also @xrafstar 's Low Kill Shelter
Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’
Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡
There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.
Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!
In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.
Listen, recuperation is definitely a very real and very useful concept but like, c'mon. It's "the process by which *politically radical* ideas and images are twisted" to fit into bourgeois politics.
Stranger Things certainly became worse over time, but are those themes actually present or consciously developed in the first season?
One of the main heroes is a cop. The show valorizes free enterprise, consumerism and vulgar american patriotism. To the extent that it contains any radical politics it's because the show is a pastiche of shows and movies from the 80's made by directors who may genuinely have held radical political views *and themselves undergone a process of recuperation*.
Listen to George Lucas talk about the Viet Minh or David Cameron talk about the portrayal of cops in the Terminator series and you'll get an idea of what actual recuperation looks like. The Duffers don't really appear to hold strong politics at all, or if they do they aren't apparent anywhere in their work. What vestiges of radical politics might be evident in season 1 are echoes of echoes of potentially radical politics from the 80's.
That Schiele "painting" is an AI fake. There is an actual picture of that name by him but it's different. I like the real one quite a bit.
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2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228
@tojibignaturals
2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228
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I've been speaking english for like 15 years now and 'the' and 'a' are still so incomprehensible to me. So often it seems completely random which one to use. I need to sound like an adult have mercyy
Thanks for all the replies, they did remind me of those specific rules. I still might have issues with less obvious stuff, like today I was stuck with 'the benefit of the doubt'. I had no idea where to but the, a or nothing at all so i had to look it up. Another examples from earlier are such as 'all the domineering non queer shit' should there be the, or maybe nothing? Cause it says all so it's not very specific right? lol Or when I start a sentence with 'Full moon' should I always add the when adressing the moon? Or 'taking one pill more, second day now' should there be the before second day?
1. You could say 'all this/that domineering non-queer shit' if you're referring to a specific example already mentioned, or 'the' as you wrote if speaking more generally.
2. 'The full moon' or 'A full moon' are generally fixed phrases. I can't think of any examples in which you would use it without any article.
i.e. 'I saw the full moon last night.' or 'It's a full moon tomorrow.'
3. The correct construction I think would be 'I'm taking one more pill for the second day now.'
Also as an ELD teacher I'd point out that 'another' is always singular, so it should be 'Some other examples'.
But overall I would also point out that you write with complex sentence formations and are able to clearly and cogently express complex thoughts and ideas. As far as language skills go, that kind of compositional ability is both more important and more difficult than memorizing grammatical rules like definite vs indefinite articles.
the year is 2026 we are moving past calling random quirky behaviours male for no fucking reason.
"men love reading the wikipedia article for something while they-" men love looking out upon a world and seeing naught but ash. ash beneath their feet, ash in their bellies, ash in front of and behind their eyes. they love it so much.
men will see a mouse and eat it. or so ive heard
Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now
i would give anything in the world for writing a paper to be the problem i have to deal with right now
Ouch lmao
Witchcraft is an area of history that most people feel familiar with. The problem is that most of what we think we know is wrong. Professor
I think most of this is true but #7 is like. Very stupid.
Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!
I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.
Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.
And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.
Yeah I do think “85% were female” is not really a debunking of “witches were female” I don’t think I’ve heard of sodomy specifically in cases of male witchcraft though, where was that happening?
I’m not sure the fact that women accused each other is meant to be “this isn’t patriarchy in action”, i read it as intended to highlight women enforcing the patriarchy upon each other, but maybe I’m being generous
The sodomy connection is one of those things that's not super well established but it's like the best available scholarly explanation in circulation right now for male witch persecutions in places where the persecution was primarily women, although I think there were other places where they were persecuted at more or less equal rates. I'm not 100% on what that distribution was though.
https://www.academia.edu/82363444/Witchcraft_Sodomy_and_the_Demonization_of_Crime
I think mostly my criticism is that posing "witch-hunting was really woman-hunting" as categorically untrue (a myth) clearly has a pretty strong ideological bent, especially coming from a government source. It seems like the purpose of saying "witch-hunting was really woman-hunting" is to highlight (maybe clumsily) the misogynistic dimension of the persecution, and putting that as a myth alongside categorically historically false ideas (like the paganism connection or the prevalence of burning as an execution method) is pretty insidious.
Agreed I think that bullet point needed to be written differently to be effective
I also found this article about female sodomy in one witchcraft case: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/679742/pdf
Project MUSE - A Woman Like Any Other: Female Sodomy, Hermaphroditism, and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Bruges
This article is so interesting to me. I guess at some point historically the idea of "female sodomy" fell by the wayside and it became associated primarily with male sexual immorality, but I guess sometime between this and the 19th century, since it is still preserved in i.e. legal charges of "sodomy" that include various kinds of sexual violence in the United States.
Ouch lmao
Witchcraft is an area of history that most people feel familiar with. The problem is that most of what we think we know is wrong. Professor
I think most of this is true but #7 is like. Very stupid.
Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!
I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.
Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.
And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.
Yeah I do think “85% were female” is not really a debunking of “witches were female” I don’t think I’ve heard of sodomy specifically in cases of male witchcraft though, where was that happening?
I’m not sure the fact that women accused each other is meant to be “this isn’t patriarchy in action”, i read it as intended to highlight women enforcing the patriarchy upon each other, but maybe I’m being generous
The sodomy connection is one of those things that's not super well established but it's like the best available scholarly explanation in circulation right now for male witch persecutions in places where the persecution was primarily women, although I think there were other places where they were persecuted at more or less equal rates. I'm not 100% on what that distribution was though.
https://www.academia.edu/82363444/Witchcraft_Sodomy_and_the_Demonization_of_Crime
I think mostly my criticism is that posing "witch-hunting was really woman-hunting" as categorically untrue (a myth) clearly has a pretty strong ideological bent, especially coming from a government source. It seems like the purpose of saying "witch-hunting was really woman-hunting" is to highlight (maybe clumsily) the misogynistic dimension of the persecution, and putting that as a myth alongside categorically historically false ideas (like the paganism connection or the prevalence of burning as an execution method) is pretty insidious.
Ouch lmao
Witchcraft is an area of history that most people feel familiar with. The problem is that most of what we think we know is wrong. Professor
I think most of this is true but #7 is like. Very stupid.
Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!
I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.
Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.
And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.
This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.
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white heathcliff. it’s me. margot robbie. i’ve come home to hollywoodland california. it’s so sunny. let me in your barbie dream car.
I know this is the piss on the poor website but you know in gothic novels when a character is described as being “dark-skinned like a gipsy” (that is the quote from the book) that doesn’t mean they’re brown, right? It’s a comment on how he was clearly of a low class and is tan from being out in the sun rather than pasty white like noble-children who stay indoors learning rather than having to be out helping with the family chores
I'm sorry but this isn't true. First of all, another character does suggest that he is literally a "lascar" or Indian colonial subject. Now, it is suggested he could also be Spanish or American, but the implication is that he is clearly racially distinct. And for God's sake, Bronte was writing in the mid 1800's! I'm not saying every word has the exact same meaning now, but it's not Beowulf and it's not Shakespeare.
Also, you're just flat misquoting the book. The quote isn't "dark-skinned like a gipsy" it's "he is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect." That's a pretty directly racialized description!
There's a suggestion in what you wrote that of course Bronte just meant a tanner white man because what reason would she have to write about non-white people in pasty-white Britain?
But this was the height, or very nearly the height, of the British empire, and Bronte would have been acutely aware of the debate which had within living memory been had over the abolition of the slave trade and the status of Britain's numerous non-white subjects! Many of whom travelled to, worked and eventually settled in British cities! Like Liverpool! Where Heathcliff is found as a child!
I think you can have a debate, in light of that, about whether Jacob Elordi is an appropriate casting. I think since the movie isn't even out it's not possible to make an absolute judgement on that, but his casting certainly isn't a reparative telling given the (white) history of the character's casting.
And yes, casting a non-white actor would require engaging with Bronte's conception of race and morality. But if you're adapting heathcliff that's something you engage with (as I think Emerald Fennel has discovered) whether you choose to cast him as such or not.
they should add a second layer of read receipts to messaging apps, so you can see when the other person knows you've seen it. this will contribute greatly to the suffering of teenagers
read receipts should propagate infinitely until all human communication is merely acknowledgement of previous acknowledgements and no actual content can be communicated, easing the suffering of all a great deal
“2 is the only even prime” well 17 is the only prime that’s divisible by 17 so 2 being divisible by 2 is not that big of a deal
^^^doesnt understand the beauty inherent in the intersection of symmetry and irreducibility
This fucked up little freak is you, if you want them to be
