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pesti-devota-futurae

lacuna mutata

[... ] a wonderful phrase

lacuna mutata

aint no [... ] craze

it means textual emendations

for the rest of your days

it's a source [...] free

ambiguity

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kushblazer666

musings-from-earth

Toni Morrison on decentering the white gaze.

elisabethdeep-blog

Reread Equal Rites recently. I used to think it was about feminism and little girls getting the same opportunities as little boys. Which, it isn't not about that. But ALSO.

It's about an intersex kid.

It's about a little girl born with a staff.

And that's Not Right.

The adults in the room- her father, the 'medical professional'- attempt to remove the staff, by blade and by fire. The fresh little baby SCREAMS. So they agree to pretend it doesn't exist. She'll probably grow up just a regular little girl.

right?

But just around the onset of puberty..... it becomes apparent, not to her, but to the adults, that she's not going to be Regular.

The medical professional tries again to rectify matters. She tries to destroy the staff while the girl is unconscious. The girl screams. The adults give in. They aren't monsters.... but life will be so much harder, so much less foreseen, for this strange little girl....

They try to raise her 'right'.

If she won't be a conventional woman... maybe an unconventional woman. A Powerful woman- in the way that women can be powerful. Are permitted to be powerful.

But she's not a woman- she's a child. What will she be, when she's grown? A Witch. A Wizard. She can't be either. She can't be neither.

(The term 'warlock' is repeatedly invoked and scoffed. The etymology of 'warlock' is 'breaker of oaths'. Counter to the covenant. Rulebreaker.)

Right.

sarah-ankh

I think that's because he got it right on the one level where it counts:

"...And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’

‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’

‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts." -Granny Weatherwax in Carpe Jugulum.

the-haiku-bot

I think that’s because

he got it right on the one

level where it counts:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

lyinar

It's pretty much exactly like how he never intended how he handled Dwarf women to be such a powerful statement of support specifically for trans folk, it just happened completely naturally from thinking through the concept of riffing on Tolkien's in-universe "there only male Dwarves" misconception in LOTR and the cause Gimli attests for it, and eventually coming from there to realizing that maybe there are some Dwarfs who are annoyed that their culture defaults to 'present as male'.

Sir Pterry was a man who could be floored by people praising how much his specific and directed support meant because he was just coming at something close to their situation from such a fundamentally decent viewpoint that he lifted them out of darkness without even trying.

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.

frothlad

"Fundamentally decent" sounds like it should be a basic epitaph, but it's one so many of us would like to live to up to that it marks an excellent, and aspirational, person.

comicgeekscomicgeek

I once saw someone here on tumblr describe Sir Pterry as having militant decency for how he demanded that we care about each other, yes, even those people. And those. And those.

And that seems right to me.

mephistoic

herstory was made with this bob…

depsidase

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I really don’t know what crowd I expected to be in the theatre for carol at 1:20 in the afternoon on a friday but it was probably 85% old people, old het couples and halfway through the movie this old lady in front of me turned to the old dude next to her and just said “harold they’re lesbians”

lerayon

Honoring 10 years of “harold they’re lesbians.” Many happy returns to all who celebrate.

runesea

Found a video on reddit that you folks need to see

itisiives

ilovedirt

pretend-animator

POV: you’ve just woke up in Lady Dimitrescu’s bed to her sitting in the moonlight, contemplating why shes kept you alive

dailycatsblog

flagellant

anatomical sketch of a vagina but the artist clearly doesnt know what the clitoris looks like so they drew meridia's beacon from skyrim

freckled-lili

saltshroud

new phone wallpaper for finals season

kravatkan

more stuff inspired by Eraserhead, because I really love the lighting in that movie

liminalflares

"You hear people talk about witches being burned, but I don't reckon many real witches ever did get burned unless they were tricked in some way; I think it was mostly poor old women. Witches are mostly too soggy, and it was probably a wicked waste of good timber. But it's very easy to push an old lady down to the ground and take one of the doors off the barn and put it on top of her like a sandwich and pile stones on it until she can't breathe any more. And that makes all the badness go away. Except that it doesn't. Because there are other things going on, and other old ladies. And when they run out, there are always old men. Always strangers. There's always outsiders. And then, perhaps, one day, there's always you. That's when the madness stops. When there's no one left to be mad."

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight