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william bartram was called puc puggy by the Seminoles. it means "flower picker." the prairie is my home

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okay i have been forced to listen to someone be wrong again so let's go over this one more time

a TRAP HOUSE is where you buy drugs and there are parties. there may be musicians or rappers hanging out in that whole social scene, dancing, etc. you might get shot if something goes really wrong at a trap house.

a CRACK HOUSE is where you buy drugs from people with no teeth who homebrew their own meth. there are no musicians or dancing or music, you could still definitely get shot, and if something goes really wrong, the house will explode.

there is a difference

#crack houses are like white trash meth addicts paying for their own exorbitantly expensive habits. scary. not a place you hang out at #trap houses are like drug dealers houses but the ones making some money. theres a nice speaker in there at least.#theres roaches & food decaying in the sink in a crack house. theres a nice car outside a trap house.#yes i can say white trash

no i cant come today im busy with activities such as tummy hurt and fever dreams of being a mr potato head and settling my stomach by taking all the extra limbs out of my hatchback ass

i literally hate writing poetry why is steps in here twice and its too many times. what othere fucking word for the pieces that walking is made of. steps ste p s steps STE ps STEPS im shoving my head through a wall

Nature's Revenge, Ellen Willis, 1981

#img id under the cut

deborah root and anne rice are honestly shockingly similar in their bizarre racist bullshit

cannibal culture by deborah root is being passed around as a book rec around here and i've started reading it and whoever recommended this book is an insane person. it's written by a white woman who drops allegations of a "New World Order" in the first 10 pages and then says, "After reading the works of First Nations writers Jack Forbes and Leslie Marmon Silko, after talking to cultural activists in the Native communities in Canada, and after attempting to think through questions of Aztec historiography, I felt I could begin to address issues of power and culture from a rather more detached perspective and do so in a way that does not assume the centrality of Western concerns."

in a book about Western Concerns.

cannot stress enough that this book is obsessed with the enlightenment concept of universality, does not understand the difference between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, and misuses appropriated north american indigenous teachings about the cannibals (w**d*g*) to make some kind of bizarre point that all culture/community is inherently cannibalistic and consumptive. and that the Western world's problem is NOT that we believe that all cultures and human systems are inherently consumptive and cannibalistic but that we have not appropriately reckoned with it.

what the fuck??? what the fuck?

indigenous north american teachings about the cannibals are not a spooky story or a crypid. it's a rather straightforward description of the impact of abuse on an individual and a community. the cannibal is not inherently cannibalistic, they are a human person who suffered and then made others suffer. the most widespread misinterpretation is a monster who eats people, when it is in fact referring to a human person who eats another human person during a time of famine in order to avoid starvation and then undergoes a supernatural transformation to reflect their crime. while we understand famine to be an act of god, north american indigenous belief systems rooted in an ethic of ecological kinship relations usually place the blame upon human mismanagement and overharvesting. it's not just a bad reaction to hard times, it's a human-manufactured crisis used to justify human atrocities. the onus is upon the community to respect and steward the land and their own wellbeing through it.

another better example is about a little girl whose father died. when her mother remarried, her stepfather began to direct inappropriate attention to the little girl, and instead of protecting the little girl as she deserved, the mother became competitive and resentful towards her. driven away from her home by the abuse, the little girl lept off of a cliff and her body disappeared, transforming her into a cannibal and freeing her spirit to haunt the community. the mother, haunted by her daughter's restless spirit, became bitter and cruel. the community, haunted by what had happened to the little girl, separated from each other and grew suspicious of each other.

these are not stories of the inherently cannibalistic & consumptive nature of community, they are WARNINGS of what happens when community BECOMES cannibalistic and consumptive and selfish. because the social structures in place were NOT cannibalistic and consumptive. they were explicitly mutualistic.

and instead of learning about positive cascades & mutualism and what it means to engage in a kinship ethic with all life in an ecosystem and confer dignity unto other living beings, deborah root takes it as proof that all cultures are as inherently cruel and hostile to life as ours, others just manage it better.

very objective and "detached," deborah.

WE HAVE VAMPIRES DEBORAH. WE HAVE STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO USED TO BE HUMAN EATING OTHER PEOPLE. WHAT ARE YOU TALKINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG ABOUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

cannibal culture by deborah root is being passed around as a book rec around here and i've started reading it and whoever recommended this book is an insane person. it's written by a white woman who drops allegations of a "New World Order" in the first 10 pages and then says, "After reading the works of First Nations writers Jack Forbes and Leslie Marmon Silko, after talking to cultural activists in the Native communities in Canada, and after attempting to think through questions of Aztec historiography, I felt I could begin to address issues of power and culture from a rather more detached perspective and do so in a way that does not assume the centrality of Western concerns."

in a book about Western Concerns.

cannot stress enough that this book is obsessed with the enlightenment concept of universality, does not understand the difference between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, and misuses appropriated north american indigenous teachings about the cannibals (w**d*g*) to make some kind of bizarre point that all culture/community is inherently cannibalistic and consumptive. and that the Western world's problem is NOT that we believe that all cultures and human systems are inherently consumptive and cannibalistic but that we have not appropriately reckoned with it.

what the fuck??? what the fuck?

indigenous north american teachings about the cannibals are not a spooky story or a crypid. it's a rather straightforward description of the impact of abuse on an individual and a community. the cannibal is not inherently cannibalistic, they are a human person who suffered and then made others suffer. the most widespread misinterpretation is a monster who eats people, when it is in fact referring to a human person who eats another human person during a time of famine in order to avoid starvation and then undergoes a supernatural transformation to reflect their crime. while we understand famine to be an act of god, north american indigenous belief systems rooted in an ethic of ecological kinship relations usually place the blame upon human mismanagement and overharvesting. it's not just a bad reaction to hard times, it's a human-manufactured crisis used to justify human atrocities. the onus is upon the community to respect and steward the land and their own wellbeing through it.

another better example is about a little girl whose father died. when her mother remarried, her stepfather began to direct inappropriate attention to the little girl, and instead of protecting the little girl as she deserved, the mother became competitive and resentful towards her. driven away from her home by the abuse, the little girl lept off of a cliff and her body disappeared, transforming her into a cannibal and freeing her spirit to haunt the community. the mother, haunted by her daughter's restless spirit, became bitter and cruel. the community, haunted by what had happened to the little girl, separated from each other and grew suspicious of each other.

these are not stories of the inherently cannibalistic & consumptive nature of community, they are WARNINGS of what happens when community BECOMES cannibalistic and consumptive and selfish. because the social structures in place were NOT cannibalistic and consumptive. they were explicitly mutualistic.

and instead of learning about positive cascades & mutualism and what it means to engage in a kinship ethic with all life in an ecosystem and confer dignity unto other living beings, deborah root takes it as proof that all cultures are as inherently cruel and hostile to life as ours, others just manage it better.

very objective and "detached," deborah.

cannibal culture by deborah root is being passed around as a book rec around here and i've started reading it and whoever recommended this book is an insane person. it's written by a white woman who drops allegations of a "New World Order" in the first 10 pages and then says, "After reading the works of First Nations writers Jack Forbes and Leslie Marmon Silko, after talking to cultural activists in the Native communities in Canada, and after attempting to think through questions of Aztec historiography, I felt I could begin to address issues of power and culture from a rather more detached perspective and do so in a way that does not assume the centrality of Western concerns."

in a book about Western Concerns.

cannot stress enough that this book is obsessed with the enlightenment concept of universality, does not understand the difference between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, and misuses appropriated north american indigenous teachings about the cannibals (w**d*g*) to make some kind of bizarre point that all culture/community is inherently cannibalistic and consumptive. and that the Western world's problem is NOT that we believe that all cultures and human systems are inherently consumptive and cannibalistic but that we have not appropriately reckoned with it.

what the fuck??? what the fuck?

cannibal culture by deborah root is being passed around as a book rec around here and i've started reading it and whoever recommended this book is an insane person. it's written by a white woman who drops allegations of a "New World Order" in the first 10 pages and then says, "After reading the works of First Nations writers Jack Forbes and Leslie Marmon Silko, after talking to cultural activists in the Native communities in Canada, and after attempting to think through questions of Aztec historiography, I felt I could begin to address issues of power and culture from a rather more detached perspective and do so in a way that does not assume the centrality of Western concerns."

in a book about Western Concerns.

cannot stress enough that this book is obsessed with the enlightenment concept of universality, does not understand the difference between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, and misuses appropriated north american indigenous teachings about the cannibals (w**d*g*) to make some kind of bizarre point that all culture/community is inherently cannibalistic and consumptive. and that the Western world's problem is NOT that we believe that all cultures and human systems are inherently consumptive and cannibalistic but that we have not appropriately reckoned with it.

what the fuck??? what the fuck?

it's so deliciously fucked up that none of the women in something very bad is going to happen textually believe the man they married is their soulmate. only the men. it's the successful performance of it all and how much of traditional femininity is performance for men. how women are taught to fit themselves around men (around husbands) and those men feel so confident that this woman is made for them because she has carved away or hidden the parts of herself that would undermine that conviction, all the while the woman is completely incapable of believing that man is her soulmate because he is incapable of seeing her fully at all. these men would not recognize their wives' whole selves.

victoria chose not to marry the man she truly loved in order to marry the man who was more devoted to her and who would be obedient, a survival choice in the far more sexist time period she was married in, when a man's power to curtail his wife was far more complete. she never mentions the man she loved again and performs an empty devotion to the husband she chose in order to remain the master of her own domain. and her husband cannot see that. he can never see his wife completely and know that she chose him in order to remain in control. he must believe the whole time that she loved him more than the other, that they moved past it.

rachel's immediate reaction to the witness' explanation is that she is going to die, and we see why. throughout the movie, nicky does not listen to her once. he performs a caring spouse routine to his family's standards by constantly ignoring her wishes. he pressures her about children relentlessly despite her clearly stated preference to have NO children. he decides to drive 8 hours to search for a wedding dress rather than wait for their friends to call back against her repeated pleas to stay with her. the fact that he did not actually believe her about the airplane's doom in their meetcute story is stupid but it is also very significant. nicky pays lipservice to rachel's instincts and anxieties--just enough to calm her into compliance with his desperate attempts to mimic his parents' 'perfect' marriage. he hunts the fox doggedly all day because his father told him to, ignoring his fiancee and pretending to himself that her anxieties are nonsense (always nonsense) until she turns to nell for support. of course rachel does not turn to nicky, why would she? his immediate reaction to every situation is an attempt to disprove and change her conclusions.

nell knows that her soulmate is her own choice, and she is actively in divorce proceedings. she has decided to stop choosing a man that she loves but who is mean to her and who she knows will never ever change for the sake of her wellbeing. she can only look at the man who is convinced that they are meant for each other with shock and grief, knowing also that he must have loved his first wife with the same broken and impotent sort of love that he gave to nell. loving, in his mind, does not require any attempt to avoid causing pain to the one he loves.

right before he forces her into a marriage that ends her life, rachel says she is done betraying herself for nicky. because that is what marriage is to a woman. a cycle of self-betrayal to appease a man

#prev- i know nell didnt get the curse. jules did. and he has been married multiple times #which means he believed both his wives were his soulmate or he'd be dead.#& the first wife ALSO divorced him.#perrrhaaapppssss that is a pattern.#and also DO they? do they actually work well together? bc i watched a woman ask for the same thing over and over again and be ignored #hers is the relationship where when its good it's so good but it is almost never good #'it can be good sometimes' =/= 'this is a safe and stable relationship where my needs are both respected and met'#the only time their relationship has been good in years is when they are both in mortal danger. that is still a dead end relationship

idk how I feel about devil in silver. there's no opportunity for restrospective bc it's set in the current day and bc it's such a sensitive issue (police brutality & psychiatric abuse), the showrunners clearly didn't want to leave any room for the misconception that the abuse is imagined and seemed to extend that to the demon itself, so it doesn't manage to punch the same way the first two seasons did. like if youre doing a reality bender from the perspective of extremely drugged psychiatric patients in an openly abusive system, you kind of need Stuff in there that we as the audience Is Not Sure Is Real. and that does not really happen at all because they are terrified of the audience missing the point

it's shorter than the other two seasons and it starts with the main character straight up wrongfully institutionalized in an act of blatant corruption and police misconduct whose stay is repeatedly extended for "noncompliance" (being too drugged & unable to take afternoon medication bc literally unconscious) to a shared understanding between him and his family that he really does need to be in a 'good' psychiatric facility. maybe because he absorbed a demon essence in the first abusive unit, but that doesn't really make sense bc the demon wants to feed on the misery of abused psychiatric patients so like. probably dont take it in any psychiatric facilities. maybe to soften the sociopolitical commentary and tell the audience that some people really do get help in these places? but the better character for that would have been the teenage girl who nearly killed her brother and was just let go, not the guy who has literally no reason to be there at all

also making a white man the face of police brutality and psychiatric abuse was A Choice, especially bc the entire hospital staff was POC. it was very clear that most individual hospital staff are not responsible for The System and are Just Doing Their Best but failed to engage with the reality that many choose those positions specifically because of the unrestricted power over extremely vulnerable people & abuse is rampant. it would have been a lot stronger of a show if they never clearly showed whether the demon thing was real or if it was a personification of the cruelty of the system, you know, how extremely drugged people in a stanford prison experiment might process things

they REALLY did not show people Having Symptoms at all except for zoning out due to being too drugged, which is again psychiatric abuse. some people in mental health facilities actually do have serious mental health conditions that seriously impact their daily life. so like. where the fuck were they? a main character was subjected to a lobotomy in that hospital AND was heavily drugged and like. she was fine??? could hold conversations, just seemed like she's got her head in the clouds. a bit spacey. it created a weird vibe where simultaneously youre asking whether any of them need to be in there and if the drugs are causing ALL observed symptoms AND that being drugged and lobotomized isn't all that bad aside from the stanford prison experiment issue. like you just get spacey instead of your reality starts bending around you. like all people in psychiatric facilities are obviously normal people including those with severe and persistent symptoms, but even if all of them were wrongfully imprisoned and have no real symptoms at all, being gaslit on its own causes reality warp. being heavily drugged on its own should have induced more reality warp than we saw. and again! cannot stress enough that one character was subjected to a LOBOTOMY. which is brain damage! i should have seen some Symptoms from that aside from crying blood tears. where is the reality warp? why do these characters confidently Know What's Real, why aren't they constantly reality checking against each other's senses?

#the terror season 3 #the terror devil in silver #devil in silver

idk how I feel about devil in silver. there's no opportunity for restrospective bc it's set in the current day and bc it's such a sensitive issue (police brutality & psychiatric abuse), the showrunners clearly didn't want to leave any room for the misconception that the abuse is imagined and seemed to extend that to the demon itself, so it doesn't manage to punch the same way the first two seasons did. like if youre doing a reality bender from the perspective of extremely drugged psychiatric patients in an openly abusive system, you kind of need Stuff in there that we as the audience Is Not Sure Is Real. and that does not really happen at all because they are terrified of the audience missing the point

it's shorter than the other two seasons and it starts with the main character straight up wrongfully institutionalized in an act of blatant corruption and police misconduct whose stay is repeatedly extended for "noncompliance" (being too drugged & unable to take afternoon medication bc literally unconscious) to a shared understanding between him and his family that he really does need to be in a 'good' psychiatric facility. maybe because he absorbed a demon essence in the first abusive unit, but that doesn't really make sense bc the demon wants to feed on the misery of abused psychiatric patients so like. probably dont take it in any psychiatric facilities. maybe to soften the sociopolitical commentary and tell the audience that some people really do get help in these places? but the better character for that would have been the teenage girl who nearly killed her brother and was just let go, not the guy who has literally no reason to be there at all

also making a white man the face of police brutality and psychiatric abuse was A Choice, especially bc the entire hospital staff was POC. it was very clear that most individual hospital staff are not responsible for The System and are Just Doing Their Best but failed to engage with the reality that many choose those positions specifically because of the unrestricted power over extremely vulnerable people & abuse is rampant. it would have been a lot stronger of a show if they never clearly showed whether the demon thing was real or if it was a personification of the cruelty of the system, you know, how extremely drugged people in a stanford prison experiment might process things

idk how I feel about devil in silver. there's no opportunity for restrospective bc it's set in the current day and bc it's such a sensitive issue (police brutality & psychiatric abuse), the showrunners clearly didn't want to leave any room for the misconception that the abuse is imagined and seemed to extend that to the demon itself, so it doesn't manage to punch the same way the first two seasons did. like if youre doing a reality bender from the perspective of extremely drugged psychiatric patients in an openly abusive system, you kind of need Stuff in there that we as the audience Is Not Sure Is Real. and that does not really happen at all because they are terrified of the audience missing the point

#the terror season 3 #the terror devil in silver #devil in silver

the writing for rhaenyra is just relentlessly misogynistic. 'i might have the weak and feeble body of a woman but i have the heart and soul of a king' what man wrote this?? what in the fuck are you talking about. why do you think that women are incapable of violence, retribution, and subjugation? why do you have this woman striving for a crown but unable to reach out and take it, begging everyone around her to just give her the authority when they are NEVER going to do that— especially to a woman! she should be harder, crueler, more ruthless, more exacting in public. she should be slapping jace to the ground for questioning her decisions in front of anyone and slitting her guard's throat for daring to obey someone else's orders above her own. she should have been hardened by the rumors swirling around her bedroom and her courtiers should quake in their boots at the thought of questioning her son's inheritance. she should be intimately aware of the necessity of FEAR to her rule, not necessarily the fear of the smallfolk who can love her from a distance but certainly amongst the power hungry scrabbling nobles who CLEARLY will participate in a coup attempt at first opportunity. women in power within deeply misogynistic cultures play the game and act in ways to combat the misogynistic belief systems others attempt to disempower them with. queens ruling in their own right against the wishes of sexist nobility do not get to be gentle because they will be ignored and stepped over and dethroned, and it's absolutely infuriating that rhaenyra has already been dethroned and (after a full season of outright war and the death of her son) is still acting like it's just a political spat that can be resolved through diplomacy. she started as brilliant and fearless and at the top of the food chain and now as an adult woman with the full might of a feudal crown, she's crushed in this bullshit sexist box, locked in her bedroom by her own guard, crying and ripping up dresses and whining about the heart of a king rather than reaching for the sword of one.

#hotd season 3 #hotd #house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen

rhaenyra pisses me off. like gIRL YOU ARE AN AUTOCRAT. YOU ARE AN AUTHORITARIAN RULER. you cannot sit there and cry when somebody disobeys your orders. YOU HAVE TO KILLL PEEEOPPLLEEEEEE.

#house of the dragon #hotd season 3 #‘I have the heart and soul of a king’ NO YOU DO NOT. THEY LIKED KILLING PEOPLE #you’re sitting here ripping up a dress and crying and acting like it’s bc you’re a girl. learn to love the taste of BLOOD like every other #ruthless conquerer ever #fucking NOBODY is afraid of you bc all you do is cry and try to preserve life or whatever #girl I need you to casually slit a throat or something for the love of GOODDD #benevolent monarch is a LIEEEEE it was taken by force. stop ASSKINNNGGGG

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

i think louis should learn how to call ghosts/spirits back from the dead and help claudia steal regina's body. is it fair to regina? nope. would it be magnificently fucked up and give me back my favorite character? yes and yes!

Have you read the books??! If you haven’t you’re some kind of psychic. (Promise there are no spoilers for the book or show here.)

im not psychic. one of the books is titled tale of the body thief.

#have not read it #anne rice is truly one of the WORST writers it’s unbelievable

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