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If you think Remmick's behavior in Sinners towards Sammie was in any way queer or motivated by sexual attraction, boy do I got a book you'll love!!

Join your fellow centuries of believers as you learn the racist history of white people (yes, the women too!) taking advantage of their enslaved Black victims' bodies in any way they saw fit, because they had a psychosexual obsession with the power they held over them! I'm sorry, I mean the "enemies to lovers obsessed vampire trope"!

creatingblackcharacters

This is the post in question getting me called a homophobe, btw. 🙂 A book written (and unfinished) by a Black, gay man as he was dying.

your-turn-to-role

another line from ep 31 i kinda missed the first time in all that was happening is liam describing how hal didn't intend this play to be about his brother, but in watching the second act of kother'ai, when it turns to tragedy, seeing this revolutionary hero be turned on by his own people and murdered for it, he can't help but feel that loss in a whole new way

speaking from experience as someone who did a degree in playwriting and have seen several of mine be put on, you can't not put a piece of yourself into the plays you write. even if you think you're just adapting an existing story, something of your life will sneak up on you

and sure, this script was already finished by the time thjazi was arrested and sentenced to execution, but hal's known that was on the table for decades. he did his best to protect his little brother when they were teenage soldiers, saw that little brother survive and secure his own happy ending, only to throw it away less than two years later because someone had to stand up for justice (even as hal begged him not to)

it's been 18 years since that night thjazi rode off, and as hal's spent that time raising children and forging this bastion of safety for his reckless family and fighting to have the kind of influence in his career where he can put this play on, in this place, he's watched thjazi fight for justice, and become a folk hero, and have his rebellion fail, and become a criminal, as hated as he is loved. hal didn't anticipate just how much the two events would coincide, but he wrote a play about the tragic hero who led the way for rungjani freedom even as he died for it, knowing there was going to be a point where the people in power tried to kill his brother for standing up to them

but look at how much has changed in just two weeks. with everything he stands to lose, would hal have had the courage, before thjazi died, to stand up to halovar like that? could this ritual that saved so many souls have happened, had thjazi's death not brought all the necessary people together? we've talked a lot about thjazi's intentions for the play, but what about the play's intentions for thjazi? written, even unintentionally, by someone who knows what it feels like to love a man like vokjan murzat, who can make a statement directly to the people that caused his brother's death and say thjazi was right. you killed him, but remember what happened to the people that killed vokjan. they can stay stuck forever in their shame that they chose power over freedom, and they were deposed, their god destroyed

the one change to this play that hal makes in the moment, after his realisation - casting an illusory falcon over vokjan's body at the end. one rebellion failed so another could succeed. thjazi's life mattered, and when this reckoning comes for those who try and hold themselves as new gods, it will be because he paved the way

bauliya

I love the x-men so much because that's just what leftist infighting is like! that's literally all it is! xavier is a sellout and they all hate him but he's the only one with any money. everyone complains about "they keep switching sides and dating each other it's so fucking confusing" like my dudes have you never been a part of any socialist organisation, ever. then people will go "magneto is so strong how has he not killed a bunch of teenagers" HE DOESN'T WANT TO KILL THEM! this started in a goddam basement over coffee he does not want to hurt them he just wants them to shut up and listen and will fling cars to do so

weissguertena

runawaymarbles

Magneto one drink in: I love Charles but hes such a kiss-ass, we don’t need to be FRIENDS, we just need mutual aid communities and to be left alone

Professor X one drink in: what the fuck is his self sustaining mutant community going to do for all the mutants born to human parents, which is MOST OF THEM, he’s so gay he’s forgotten how babies are made and I want to kiss his stupid face

thedorkdionysia

i think it would do a lot of people good to remember that Mormons are white supremacists, no nuance, no debate, no arguing how they've gotten "more diverse", their whole belief system is fundamentally rooted in white supremacist ideals

katranada

(Pouring love into your glass) say when

murraysiskind-deactivated202511

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

allhailklisz

yokelfelonking

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

authortobenamedlater

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

drgrlfriend

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

goldkirk

There’s a really compassionate and well-written paper/book/thing called Suicide: The Forever Decision that’s written specifically for people who are currently suicidal. The letter to the reader at the beginning is wonderful and deeply understands how to talk to someone who’s suicidal without preaching or talking down to them.

It’s very honest. It’s very clear. It’s very kind. It presents you with a lot of information and a lot of understanding and lets you take it all in like the autonomous human you are, and make decisions from an informed place. It goes over the reality of suicide attempts, pain involved, likelihoods of survival, after effects of attempts, and how to get help if you want it after reading all of that and learning about the reality of suicide attempts.

You can read it for free here: https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

No one can ever stop you if you’re really determined. Only you can stop yourself. If you’re suicidal and there’s ANY tiny part of you that wants a chance to not go down that route, but can’t convince the rest of you yet, give this short book a try. Or share it with anyone you know who might need it.