yes I wrote speckled sky

vidior. purple. 5. caste abolitionist. read my byf.

[nationaltree]

Your blog has taught me a lot. For example, I can see that you and Limmuda are both still posting about the argument, which tells me neither of you know when to shut the fuck up. And your posts are meanspirited and hers are long explanations, which says a lot about both your personalities. Have you considered that people don't think you're stupid because you're purple, but because of your shitty posts?

 haven’t posted about limmuda in a week, tumblr has infinite scroll so it’s easy to get confused about that. it’s a confusing site lol, u made a dumb mistake but don’t be too hard on yourself

if you read thru my blog u would have noticed that i get “have you considered that you are stupid” literally every single day so? you should possibly have concluded that either i did consider that and decide it was not tru or that sending me anons calling me stupid will not cause me to consider it

that mistake was dumber than the first one and i think u should be hard on yourself for it and stop sending anon hate

[purplenalafe]

“hers are long explanations”

apparently being super condescending is totally ok as long as u use a LOT of words to do it

[openamenta]

Following the success of Lathande, Orvara is rolling out the same procedure elsewhere in the country and expects all of its cities to be fully emptied of reds by mid-summer.

[tidalwave-shiningsky]

I really want to commend all the people who accomplished this peacefully and successfully! I would never have dreamed this could happen with no casualties, and yet. Incredible work! It’s truly inspiring.

[colorjustice]

Like, people are less nice when they’re in pain, and it’s okay to find meanness or snappishness something you cannot constructively engage with and choose to disengage. But if you are going to engage people in pain in order to 1) totally refuse to acknowledge that in any way 2) totally refuse to use that information in your efforts to understand them and 3) demand that they have discourse on your terms, and then act affronted when instead they continue to have discourse on their terms

Then you just need to stop engaging with those people.

I have very little tolerance for this because usually the purported justification for being cruel is that truth is more important than kindness or decency, and yet the way they engage also forecloses any possibiity of learning or understanding.

If you say you put truth first, I’m going to hold you to that, and if you repeatedly engage in a way that is appallingly bad at producing truth I’m going to conclude that you actually just put ‘using my social power to seem like the reasonable and intelligent party to a conversation that I forced on people who didn’t want to have it at all’ first.

[colorjustice]

This is not the side of this dispute I expected to be taking, but if someone says “it’s deeply hurtful when people call me stupid in this specific way, I’m going to talk about how much I am harmed by this”, if your reaction is to write a long reblog defending your right to call them stupid in that way and moralizing about how it is important not to have there be unsayable things, then you are in fact being callous, embarrassing and cruel and I will lose a lot of respect for you.

 I think that if this kind of response seems reasonable to you then you are going to completely close off most of your online avenues of actually learning about the world, and be consequently ignorant.

[industrialbruise]

i wish more people would just talk to reds on the internet

not fight. just have a conversation about, like…video games. movies. whatever

because, spoiler alert? that’s possible

and it’s harder to keep thinking somebody doesn’t have thoughts or feelings once you’ve agreed that malkor abeed should be banned from writing for television

[cannothurtyou-blog]

Malkor Abeed is so green, and not in a ‘does interesting science’ way. (or even a ‘makes pretty art’ way.)

…I mean I might be biased because i don’t like his horror plots that are Secretly About Reds (occasionally literally. everyone remember that time he tried to write reds?) but honestly his thing with greens winning at everything through the power of Science is pretty obnoxious too. You cannot solve people being awful with science.

[limmuda]

He gave a guest lecture in a course I was TAing a couple of years ago, and spent the whole time explaining how progressive his stories are. He’s completely forgotten that writers need to actually have compelling stories.

[purplenalafe]

...also his stories are like...not progressive

[nationaltree]

why is it ok to say greens are stupid but not purples?

people who are constantly told thy are stupid and who don’t have as many rights b/c it is agreed they are stupid

r in a differen situation than people who are constantly told that they are geniuses and given tons and tons of money and education b/c they are such geniuses and so inherently valuable and whose votes count for twenty times ours b/c they are so intelligent

same reason it okay to demand the president be fired but shitty to demand that your waiter be fired

[conversations-across-the-rainbow]

@purplenalafe

[purplenalafe]

Ugh Speckled Sky is such a badly written story. Cliched, dull, and bland. It's just so obviously purple. Leave the writing to those with real skills.

im sorry i cant read this im purple

can someone find a green to read this for me pls im dying to know what this says.  the opinions of boring strangers on the internet are so important to me, you see.

[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

Eliem/Solash shippers: literally constant discourse, threaten to doxx ~~problematic~~ writers, callouts all day every day, almost never actually write

Eliem/Solash shippers: why is there no Eliem/Solash fic? clearly Eliasa shippers just hate our good pure ship, there is no other reason someone might not want to be near us

[purplenalafe]

eliem/solash shippers: actually discuss the problems with starlight and engage with it critically, call out shitty predatory behavior in an effort to make fandom actually, like, safe for people

eliasa shippers: WOW what is with all this HATRED and NEGATIVITY, I feel so ATTACKED, how DARE you not just shut up and watch the show uncritically like the rest of us

[tidalwave-shiningsky]

All of the trash is going to die within the next five years, tops.

It’s important to remember that. Whenever you hear an apologist, it’s tempting to be terrified that people that insane exist and by sheer random bad luck one of them might someday be in power. But they won’t. The trash is all going to die. The current trash spawn will probably not live to its first spring, and soon there won’t be more trash. We figured out how to be rid of them and we’re doing it. Don’t let yourself despair. You’re at the best moment in history.

[purplenalafe]

whyyyyyyyy isn't there a seeeeeeeequel to speckled skyyyyyyyyyy (sequel! sequel! sequel!)

becaaaaaaaaaaause i suuuuuuuuuuuuuck

(its actually bc im working like three jobs to try to earn enough money to move out of this fuckhole neighborhood + im trying to focus on an Original Work Project rn)

(but I havent been doing great there either bc again, i suuuuuuuuuuuuck)

(also im curious what loose ends u want to see tied up in speckled sky?  like i feel like it ended in a pretty good place thematically?  i mean i did torture y’all with that slowburn romance and i totally get it if you really really want me to write happy domesticity but tbh thats not super interesting to me)

(also i love getting messages like this :) )

[purplenalafe]

sorry about the internet, mate

its been a while since i got this but thanks :)

[openamenta]

50% of the population is purple, but only 29% of the leading roles in the 100 best-selling movies of the last five years are purple. Yes, yes, horrible under-representation, clearly anti-purple bias. Is it?

This percentage actually falls to 22% when you look at the best-selling films of all time, and 9% when you look at the best-rated ones. Admittedly, many of those don’t appeal to the non-green viewing public, but why should art have to appeal to those who aren’t willing to take the time to appreciate it?

Oh, and, um, minor detail? Purple-focused theaters are disproportionately likely to play movies with purple protagonists, and to have lower ticket prices.

So for all the complaining about anti-purple bias, this really does look like a reasonably efficient market making reasonably efficient choices.

[purplenalafe]

Wow uh fuck you

[colorjustice]

Okay I was limiting myself to snarky asides but actually I think I’ll complain about this at length after all

celebrities performing for our troops in the field aren’t doing anything heroic. I guess they’re patriotic, in the sense that they’re making it clear they’re on Team Anitam in this whole stupid mess, but patriotism that’s just ‘this is my team so I’ll root for it’ is objectively bad and not worth praising. Doing it for free adds nothing to this picture; they make way more off the marketing benefits than they’d make off an appearance fee anyway. It’s a calculated bit of image branding, and part of image branding is that people are allowed to decide they don’t like the image you’re going for, and I am super unimpressed with ‘patriotism’ as the image Makel is going for, and I am sure I am factored in as a cost of this branding strategy but I’m still going to make a fuss about it.

This was a stupid war. This was a stupid waste of hundreds of thousands of lives. It hasn’t improved the food situation. It displaced a million people who we wanted working their farms. It was selfish and dumb and bad and a serious failure of leadership on all sides.

“But that’s not a reason the troops shouldn’t have a good time!” No, but this was reported to 600million people, and most of the effect it has isn’t on the thousand who were actually present, and the effect it has is to endorse the war.

[imperialtrellis]

So I have a friend who doesn’t like board games. Often they’re actively sucky for her, at very best it’s a somewhat draining way to spend time that she could spend doing something she actually liked.

My friend also spent years playing board games. This isn’t because she liked them - she didn’t. It’s just, everyone would go play board games, and she experienced that as just a thing that’s how that is, so she went and did it too. And it took her years to notice that actually she didn’t like to and would prefer not to.

Imagining instead if she lived among people where some people go to play board games, and others don’t like board games or like other things better so during the same time they read books/knit/etc. I strongly suspect that under that circumstance she would have figured out a lot faster that she doesn’t like board games and would prefer not to play them.

My non-board-game-related point here is: people often talk about intercaste kids being unsuited to their caste, having trouble with it, etc, in a way that makes it feel like this is something particular about intercaste kids.

I don’t think this is the case*. I think that what actually happens is that not fitting into their determined caste is more legible {that’s not the word, what’s the word} for intercaste kids, both externally (society keeps talking about it) and internally (as in the board games thing) - intercaste kids are more likely to know that particular things are things that can be different, what some alternatives are, to be exposed to that, etc. I think there are plenty intracaste children who are in my friend’s position - having this source of unhappiness about which they don’t consciously notice what it is, maybe don’t consciously notice in general - but it’s there. 

(*I’m perfectly willing to accept that the ratios might be higher, but I think this is more than offset by the legibility aspect in terms of experiences).

(Obviously I think the way to deal with this is caste freedom, but even if you don’t, the point stands.)

[iamnotmyfirstself-blog]

A gentle reminder to southern hemisphere 4-year-olds: southern hemisphere 4-year-olds are half a year older than you. At this stage of your life, those months really do matter. Especially your first spring, especially when they’re in autumn.

Keep yourself safe, fandom kids.

[ominousscribbler-blog]

hey remember that time i did blackout cosplay

[industrialbruise]

honestly i’m not sure how i feel about the caste system yknow

like…clearly it’s an unfair bullshit system sometimes. and god have i seen some people who would be amazing in another caste

but, like…i’m purple? and sometimes i don’t think that’s a good thing until someone’s shitty about purples and then i remember that there’s actually shit to love about it and like

it’s who i am? even when i feel like i’m red or i’m nothing i’m still purple. even if my family was shit about it there’s still…i don’t know

articulating stuff is hard

[artisanalclusterfuck]

yeah sometimes i feel like the only time i care about caste is when somebody’s saying some dumb shit about purples