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“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what one has lived through. Most people had not lived—nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died—through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.”
Another Country, by James Baldwin
i see u all have once again discovered Lake
folks have been asking what book this is from or what show or movie or interview. it is an interview i made up in my brain and not one that happened in other media. i wrote it and drew it
how was the destroying and betraying yourself for nothing was the destroying and betraying yourself for nothing fun? it didn't look fun
this was a post about judas iscariot from 1970s rock opera jesus christ superstar
saying this in a soft tone but i dislike this presentation of artemis 2 in the least political way possible as a wholesome and uncomplicated win for humanity as a whole like it's not american propagandism of the highest and most vulgar degree
"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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the odyssey of recollection
What Seeing Like a State is about is how there's this incredibly detailed, I'm going to call it folk wisdom, which is the knowledge that you derive from living in a place for a really long time and getting really good at living there. High modern projects that attempt to rationalize how people live often ignore this wisdom and scrub it away. To me, top-down world building that attempts to, as you say, map out all the causal chains of how everything works is itself an attempt to render the whole world legible, to make a census of it, to be able to answer to your reader: this is how this works. [...] What you should be doing, you should be figuring out not the end product, not the final causal map of how your settings work, but the rules of both the setting and the narrative in the setting that govern how these causal chains happen. Not mapping every link in the chain, but giving the reader an idea of how each link is shaped and where it comes from and who forges it with what intent, and teaching the reader how to imagine the world in the same way that you're imagining it. So when they look at the edge of the map and wonder what's over there, they can think about it in the same way that you are, and the story goes on living in their heads, and the characters go on living in their head, and there's this deep connection between the logic of the setting and the characters and the choices they make in the plot.
— Seth Dickinson, In Media Les (S1E19)
I'm not mad, just disappointed.
There is a likeability crisis in much contemporary queer sff. Authors are unwilling to make their characters look bad, and it compromises the integrity of the story. I don’t think this is the result of individual authors’ incompetence. The state of the publishing industry and the social media ecosystem around genre fiction has refigured the reader as, primarily, a customer, and the customer is always right. If Yamamoto had written a highly entertaining and optimistic crime novel with a cast of highly flawed marginalized people who the reader is expected to root for even as they hurt each other, themselves, and the people around them—if they took seriously the premise of the story they did in fact write—it may have been more difficult to market. It may have received more negative Goodreads reviews from the kind of people who don’t like Wuthering Heights because it’s just a bunch of terrible people treating each other terribly. But oh my god. Who cares. Those people can go read a book that isn’t about people who steal things for a living and send each other to jail.
i wrote 3,100 words about makana yamamoto's hammajang luck, friends at the table's twilight mirage, heat (1995), suspension of emotional disbelief, and the state of queer genre fiction. cheers. (cc @burins)
you need to read this (all of it, but the conclusion really hits the nail on the head with not just queer sff but so much of contemporary fiction from books to comics to TV.)
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY
James Baldwin, from Collected Essays; "Notes of a Native Son"
[Text ID: It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength. This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair.]
"wow i never knew punk was old time slang for f*g" speak for yourself. some of us were Actually no i can't finish this post. does anyone else remember 2014 pop culture film hit captain america and the winter soldier. from marvel studios.
your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a graduate degree
if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it being the last line of the brokeback mountain novella is so crazy it makes me feel like my guts are falling out. if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it. jesus fucking christ
god. god
Earl by Louis Jenkins
