rouvi

fuck-up. radical antifascist. writing and such.

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[vetchtibbles]

twelfth night is an insane play like oh I fell in love with this girl because I thought she was a guy and obviously I can't marry her so I'll marry her practically identical twin brother I've only just met instead. because I'm straight. I'm straight. It's because I'm straight

[thejagermeister]

the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.

[goatmilksoda]

A question I get asked a lot while working at a public library is "how do you deal with homeless people?"

And the answer is, we don't.

The unhoused people who come here seeking refuge 99% of the time understand that they will be kicked out if they misbehave.

The people you have to watch out for are Jessica, who only came because the kid she didn't want had to visit for a homework assignment and she just *needs* to yell at her child for asking to borrow two books or stay an extra five minutes, or Michael, who came in to look at porn on our computers for whatever fucking reason, or Karen who just wanted to come by to throw a fit that the particular book she wanted was checked out and harrass our staff about our collection being too limited.

99% of the time, the people we need to ban are middle to upper-middle class white people while the homeless and mentally ill/disabled people mind their own damn business and are honestly some of the best patrons we have.

[goatmilksoda]

I bring this up because today we had a man come in. He stopped at the desk, pulled up a chair and said "I'm newly homeless and was living in my car. I'm disabled. It was impounded. It's raining. I don't have a phone and I don't know where to go tonight."

And we did what we could to help. He was incredibly kind and patient despite his obvious anxiety and stress, more than most able bodied, housed patrons are to us under much less dire conditions. I liked knowing that we were the first place he came.

We have so many people like this who come in everyday. Many are quiet and keep to themselves, but sometimes they talk to us.

They tell us about how they're taking a few courses on a scholarship they applied for from our library's computer at the local community college to get their diploma. Or ask about a manga or dvd or book we might have to help them pass the time.

One woman, who comes in daily with her tattered walker always says hello to me and likes to work on the new jigsaw puzzle with me when we set one out.

So like, treat unhoused people like people. Treat disabled people like people. I don't want my library to feel like the only safe space in the world, but I'm glad it can be one of them.

I'm so sick of hearing about how "the homeless are ruining everything" when they are some of the kindest, most respectful people here. Sometimes they mutter, might not have had a place to shower, and might need a little extra space for their backpacks but that's FINE. It Doesn't Matter Actually. None of that is a problem or any of my business to care about (unless they request help/services), and I also don't think it's any of yours.

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[depsidase]

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[lesvegas]

environmental storytelling

[taylortut]

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

[taylortut]

reblogging one of my most underrated posts: the dying dog test

[the-haiku-bot]

reblogging one of

my most underrated posts:

the dying dog test

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[darkstormyseabunny]

I've seen a lot of people talking and wishing for more Fairytales\Folktales not from Europe, to be talked about in the EAH space. So I wanted to make a quick post with just a few resources. This is barely scratching the surface but if anyone is looking for a place to start, here are a few good places too.

DISCLAIMER- I am someone who finds this stuff interesting, I am NOT an educated source. This is just stuff I've been pointed too; I have no concept of how good\accurate these sources are. If I messed up kindly let me know and I will remove\edit what needs to be removed\edited.

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African Folktales:

The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (NOT FREE)

This book comes up a lot when talking about folktale collections and is listed as one of the best sources for African Folktales. It's collected and edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar.

Stories Mother Told: Welcome! • Stories Mother Told: African Folktales (FREE PODCAST)

This a very cozy podcast narrated by an unnamed man from Nigeria, telling the stories this mother told him when he was a child.

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American Folklore:

The Journal of American folklore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (FULLY FREE ONLINE)

These stories were recorded by Ruth Benedict who heard the stories from Rosa Marongo. These are mostly from the Morongo tribe.

Tales of the Cochiti Indians : Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (FULLY FREE ONLINE)

These are also recorded by Ruth Benedict along with Prof. Franz Boas. The person the story is collected from is listed in the footnotes of each tale.

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Asian Folktales:

The king who rides a tiger, and other folk tales from Nepal : Hitchcock, Patricia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (NOT FREE)

Above is the full book but if you are poor like me but want to hear the tale of "The King Who Rides a Tiger" & a Nepali Cinderella "Soonimaya" check out ,Ep: 20 of the Fairy Tellers Podcast

- A Nepali Cinderella Tale: Soonimaya • The Fairy Tellers

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Handbook of Chinese mythology : Yang, Lihui (NOT FREE)

This is a collection of Chinese mythology from Chinese history collected by Lihui Yang.

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The Panchatantra : Arthur W. Ryder : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (FULLY FREE ONLINE- please note the table of contents doesn't match the online version page numbers you will have to use the search bar on the side to find anything)

This is a English translation of the Panchatantra, a book of fables from India. These are mostly nested tales (one leads to another\is told inside of another tale, think like nesting dolls)

Check out "Girl who Married a Snake." This is thought to maybe be an inspiration for Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot's "Beauty and the Beast." It's starts on page 157 (not 177) and ends on page 160. It's a nested tale inside "The Monk Who Left his Body Behind," and has the nested tale "Poor Blossom" inside it.

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I know this was short and very sparse so please, if you feel something is missing add to this! The world is huge and there's so many resources and stories to tell. If you have a favorite story, tell it! I'd love to hear it.

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[thedreadvampy]

Everywhere I go I'm reminded how much the desire to punish homelessness and migration and other Undesirablenesses make society markedly worse for everyone

like why is the park locked after 5pm so I can't go and sit under a tree after work? to punish rough sleepers for the terrible crime of being homeless and alive

why do I have to buy a drink, beg for a code and fuck around with an awkward keypad for 5 minutes in order to take a piss? because fuck homeless people

why do I need to provide proof of address and photo ID to do everything? because we had to create a really hostile environment for migrants

why can't you sit anywhere? well because god forbid people sleep when they're pushed out of shelter. can't risk that.

every day governments, councils and businesses make your life worse as a side effect of making vulnerable people's lives WAY worse. if you're ok with that you're a fucking idiot and if you're in favour of it you're a vindictive cunt cause again literally the ONLY payoff for your life getting worse is other people's lives getting worser.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[prokopetz]

The closer to the modern era you get the more fascinating "lost at sea" becomes as a backstory element. Being lost at sea in 1612 is a downright normal kind of lost to be. Being lost at sea in 2012 is like, okay, back up – I need to hear this one.

[prokopetz]

Like, come on, man.

[sredniowieczny-wampir]

chrétien de troyes really is the funniest guy ever, huh

[winged-fool]

In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok

[inthefallofasparrow]

"Oh, not you as well, Brutus!" in that voice is the best translation of 'Et tu, Brute?' I've ever heard.

[akajustmerry]

Florence Welch will literally write albums upon albums of music about how she's always felt ostracised from femininity, that it feels for her like a performance she can't escape, and even give a whole interview about her upcoming album being inspired by how a pregnancy almost killed her and how coming to terms with this made her feel alienated from her body and gender..... And STILL the majority of her mainstream fans will still talk about her work like "omg yes divine feminine womanhood queen of fairy girls uwu". I really hate how so many ppl just don't actually listen to music or care about what it's about. The "fairy-ification" of artists like Florence Welch, Hoizer, Fiona Apple, Mitski, Tamino, Kate Bush, etc, all of whom create music that's rooted in specific social and cultural themes, but the complexity and artistic intention is often totally flattened into !!uwu fairy girlhood in the woods vibes!!! Truly hate this brain switched off vibes based era of music engagement.