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“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

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‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

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"I would never-"

You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.

I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.

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🌸🤡🌸 (Stupid in Love) Ko-Fi

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Siuanraine week: outsider pov

"And the Amyrlin Seat?" - "Still seated. Not any fonder of Moiraine, though."

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Anyway, on fera jamais mieux que ce graphique du LA Times.

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In RenFaire training, we learned that "thou" (intimate, equivalent of tu) was for "anyone you can kiss or kick."

Note: Not anyone you want to kiss or kick. Your landlord is you/vous.

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I can't believe this touches on every conceivable and hyperspecific situation flawlessly but refuses to comment on father-in-laws.

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[ID: A long flowchart to determine which second-person pronoun (tu or vous) you would use in French in various situations. To summarize:

If you're a child, use tu when speaking to another child or to an adult family member; use vous when speaking to an adult not in your family. If you're an adult, use tu when speaking to a child, to a friend or lover, to your spouse (assuming your spouse is not Jacques Chirac), to your boss if you work at a company where no one wears neckties or if your boss really pissed you off and you want this to come across, to your teacher if they are young enough to be your child, to God, or to someone you don't formally know who is less than half a generation older than you if a) you participated in the French May 1968 riots demanding government reform and free love, b) you were at Woodstock, c) you consider the person a peer, or d) you're unsure if they're a peer but are willing to take the chance that you might offend them by calling them tu. Use vous when speaking to a child only if the child happens to be a prince or similar. Use vous when speaking to an adult if: they are your spouse, Jacques Chirac; they are your boss at a company where people wear neckties and either you are not pissed off at them or you don't want them to know you're pissed off at them; they are your teacher and are too old to be your child; or you don't formally know them and either they are at least half a generation older than you or you're not a hippie and don't consider them a peer. If you're speaking to your father-in-law, it's best to just ask. /end ID]