I Am Not A Clever Man

18+ entity, he/him. Writes. Media, the arts, nature, societal, sciences, and the occult.

[the-big-mood]

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[stackofsnakes]

I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.

Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[starryspeculation]

this post goes out to translators. translators who for the last 40 years have been told their jobs would be useless, their place would be taken by AI, and yet. they are still doing it for the love of the game. translators who do it in a crunch. translators who are asked not to translate "literally" by their employers. translators cursed at for "changing" the text by an audience that can understand 1 word between them. translators who find clever cultural equivalents. translators who are always to blame for the ambiguity of the authors. translators who give us a glimpse of another world. translators who take up the impossible task of making a text understandable in another language where none of the cultural connotations match, when no word can truly capture the same meaning as another. just. translators man

[catilinas]

thinking about uh. not answering and being silent as a particularly pointed form of rudeness in a culture that named itself after the ability to speak

NUANCE HOWEVER.

i just skimmed every use of the words ‘silent’ and ‘silence’ in the silm (i acknowledge there are other ways of describing this that i will have missed. they are for the reread). yes there are the passages above but there are also a lot of times where

a) the valar in particular will be silent, in thought or sometimes wonder

b) the text specifies mandos being silent, with the implication that There Is Doom He Is Not Saying On Purpose

c) other characters are silent while they think. they do reply after thinking for a bit. in some of these passages they might be pissed off and rude and Also thinking though.

but also look at this:

you could say the silence accompanies the death. you could say to not respond is to be as one who is dead. you could pessimistically [thinking of the silences of ajax and dido] read the silence of death as a deliberate rudeness of miriel towards finwë. you could say fëanor models his responses of silence on miriel.

also this:

which i categorise as a Silence Due To Thinking. but like. the mental image of melkor showing up at fëanor’s house and saying all this shit and fëanor just gives him a silent autism stare IS really good

[tongue-twists]

the enlightened pervert can look beyond kink to find meaning. and then get horny about the meaning instead.

[demilypyro]

Y'all hear about this nuance stuff

[tsukinoinaba]

I've heard mixed things.

[demilypyro]

Oh so it sucks then, and you hate it

[papayajuan2019]

it feels like we're all simmering. someone turn us over. someone stir us.

[fuckrozanov]

the worst writing crime you can ever commit in my opinion is watering down the dirty talk because you’re self-conscious that it sounds like it’s from a bad porno…..i cannot stress this enough……leave it alone. the moment you tell yourself he would not fucking say that you’re doomed. people will say almost anything if their dick is hard enough

[achesspiece]

in chess the queens can kill each other which is toxic yuri and the kings can never get within a square of each other which is doomed yaoi

[ymutate]

Sarah Morgan

'Is it raining where you are? '

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[achillesinhighheels]

[oblivionsdream]

Listen listen listen. Insane jesters are fun but do you really like jesters if you also don't just appreciate a silly little guy?

[teathattast]

[bunjywunjy]

[pencil-line-deactivated20241029]

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows

[lysenkoite]

[weaselle]

[abz-j-harding]

i can't cope