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[mossbawn]

i will post an essay to substack by the end of september. i promise

pick a topic for me

clarice lispector, censorship, protest and silence

nosferatu, gone with the wind, and racist constructs of gender in 'dark romance'

what is a west brit? irishness, postcolonialism and immigration

grieving as diaspora

something else?

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Voting ended onAug 19, 2025

the nosferatu one might not be my place to talk about, but it is something i've thought about a lot. i would also be willing to talk about the fetishisation of women's subjugation - and how the art that does this is often primarily targeted at women - without delving into race or white womanhood at all. very open to feedback & i can appreciate being told no!

[mossbawn]

decided to rewatch iwtv but i keep pausing epsiode 1 bc i'm scared to see paul kill himself again

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

[elementop123]

This is real. Also, I had periods for about a decade pre-transition, and those can be debilitating, too, and should be given special consideration if the person having them experiences things like severe pain, heavy bleeding, issues with things like cysts, extreme nausea or fatigue, etc.

[mossbawn]

i think people can feel very entitled to other people's pain & will mistake good or powerful writing for a vulnerable person humiliating themselves for the sake of other people's entertainment

[suspiriously]

Gladio is the most insane thing you will ever learn about

[sanguinesylph]

hold on I have to look something up

[suspiriously]

TLDR: after WWII, the US took nazi war criminals and set them up in sleeper cells all over Europe, “activating” them whenever the “threat of communism” was deemed too much, like in the Years of Lead

[sanguinesylph]

oh my god?

[suspiriously]

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

they’re called stay-behind networks, here’s a list of a bunch. Technically, Gladio was the one that operated in Italy

[mossbawn]

this is probably over sharing yes the journal factory did explode but prev post was nice to see bc whenever i've tried to write about the night my dad died i've thought maybe this will be poignant emotional and raw but it is not bc it's basically just me forcing myself to flash back to the worst night of my life for the sake of Art & it does not work bc that is not what art is or what it does. bluntly describing the source of ur trauma will just mean your writing is graceless and badly thought out. just out of breath shaking and sweating and not thinking straight anymore and for what. for word salad

[mossbawn]

writing about grief isn't the same as writing down an exact play by play of how the bereavement happened to you. give that to your therapist not your creative writing teacher

[mossbawn]

this is probably over sharing yes the journal factory did explode but prev post was nice to see bc whenever i've tried to write about the night my dad died i've thought maybe this will be poignant emotional and raw but it is not bc it's basically just me forcing myself to flash back to the worst night of my life for the sake of Art & it does not work bc that is not what art is or what it does. bluntly describing the source of ur trauma will just mean your writing is graceless and badly thought out. just out of breath shaking and sweating and not thinking straight anymore and for what. for word salad

[louisegluckpdf]

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

[louisegluckpdf]

for reference.

[necropolistheatre]

#ironically while this is decent advice its phrased so badly that it sounds like bad advice#and like that teacher was being cruel for no reason which is par for with writing teachers#it shouldn't be ''what else''#bc that sounds a lot like ''so what'' and saying that to anyone about the death of a loved one IS cruel#**BUT**.#big but here.#but. what else means what other aspects of it do you want to describe. what does it *mean* to you and to the reader#what emotions did you feel. what emotions do you want your reader to feel. what does it *mean*#what meaning have you found in her death and in writing about it.#the little life one depends on the type of creative writing youre doing#bc establishing a life for say a protagonist in fiction is actually important#its important to set up both motivations and a starting stage to contrast to an end stage#tbh. most if not all good writing advice cannot be delivered in zippy little sentences like this#bc writing like all art is as varied as the human experience itself.

prev's tags @storm-of-feathers

[catasters]

[curseworm]

the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men

[curseworm]

this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men 

[curseworm]

to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men

[curseworm]

im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

[mossbawn]

found out recently that rosalía is a white woman born and raised in catalonia. wtf is going on there lmao

[mossbawn]

why is she pretending to be latin american. i'm pretty sure she's referring to herself as a 'brown woman' in interviews

[mossbawn]

found out recently that rosalía is a white woman born and raised in catalonia. wtf is going on there lmao

[kinehora]

probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me was when this one time i was wearing my shirt that says "I HATE PAGANS" in giant block letters that i wear to the ren faire so that gay people don't try to involve me in their roleplays or whatever and i somehow thru a series of events that i will omit bc it's boring & i don't understand it encountered some kind of temporal rift and ended up in a roman forum in like the 390s or something. and immediately these guys in armor are pointing at my shirt & getting very excited bc obviously paganism had just been outlawed in rome, and i'm trying to be like "no no you don't understand" but they don't speak english & i don't speak latin so i'm just gesturing frantically at the shirt and then at myself and doing like a thumbs up motion which i later learned is not a good gesture to make in ancient rome. they're getting increasingly animated and i'm trying to pantomime like "different kind of pagans, future pagans, neopagans" by pointing at the ground (to indicate here/now pagans) and then making a big X with my arms and then pointing at the sky (to indicate future/different pagans) but this apparently makes them think i am doing a bit about how the old gods are pathetic, and they're really into this like slapping their thighs and stuff. anyway they take me to this official-looking building & there's this older guy there who seems important & has better robes than everyone else and through a series of elaborate hand gestures and latin & ingvaeonic cognates i manage to express to him that i am jewish, and in my time there are these different people called also pagans who “stelen” from my “tribe,” and then i see him start to nod and he says something to the guards & i'm like oh good we've achieved understanding and i'm feeling pretty good about this intercultural exchange we're having & then i got stoned. like with rocks.

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[mossbawn]

terfism and zionism the false victimhood brothers

[werewolfetone]

I like how all the uk ‘gender critical’ organisations are passing around completely wildly incorrect legal advice after the ehrc guidance stuff it’s going to be really interesting what happens with that assuming the guidance goes through

[werewolfetone]

All of them seem to think it’s some kind of bathroom ban which makes it illegal for trans people to go into the toilet that doesn’t match their asab and also that it makes unisex spaces illegal so the sex matters people put out a thing about how you should sue trans people in small claims court if you see them in public toilets but the guidance doesn’t say that (it’s for how businesses should handle cases, not individuals, and it doesn’t make it in any way a crime for individuals to do anything) and that’s also not how uk law works. so it’s going to be interesting what happens when one of them tries to actually take this advice because so far it seems like they’re just pulling the ‘you’re a misogynist’ card whenever someone points out that, completely apart from whether it would hypothetically be ok to do that, you just straight up can’t do it because it’s completely legally unsound lol