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i’m happy janine and gregory are staying friends because 1) janine can finally become confident in herself before entering another long-term relationship, 2) we finally get a season of true bestie trio janine-jacob-gregory, and 3) it will solidify teddie as a new hall of fame sitcom slowburn ship because we all know they’re endgame
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I’m never gonna shut up about this episode am I? I’m also never gonna stop defending Janine since people clearly don’t like the fact that she’s choosing herself right now. It may be frustrating as a viewer and a shipper because there’s nothing holding them back but there is. She’s holding herself back because she’s doubtful of herself that she’s grown or that she’s ready for a serious relationship and she’s right she’s not. She may have dated Maurice for a bit but she literally dated one man for most of her life and wasn’t happy or received love and affection.
Look at this confession to me it says a lot:
It says “I love you so much that I can’t bear to hurt you and I can’t lose what we have because it’s the most important thing to me. It’s you it’s always been you but because I’m scared and unsure of myself I don’t know if I can do this. If this becomes real I don’t know how I would act, how to be a girlfriend how to respond to affection that I haven’t received. I think I’m a screw up so I might ruin this. There’s so much I need to experience as an adult that I haven’t yet and I want to do that with you as my friend first because I’m not ready for you yet. I want to be ready for you though I want to be your girlfriend I just don’t know how. If I lose this incredible man in front of me it might just break me so please give me time to date myself before you.”
Long paragraph but I’ve had all day to sit on this. I know it’s frustrating you guys but that’s the beauty of a slow burn and this one hasn’t even sizzled yet. I just had to defend and interpret the scene because I love her and I loved this scene
CBR's list of the 10 best slow-burn TV relationships
This is Sarah Grimké.
She was born to a rich plantation family in the American South during the time of slavery. She owned a slave, Hetty, a girl her parents gave her when she was a child. She was absolutely the sort of person whose racism you could justify as being ‘of her time’ and ‘just the way she was raised’.
And she cited the injustices she saw growing up on the plantation as the motivation for her becoming an abolitionist as an adult.
When she was a kid, she tried to give bible lessons to the slaves on her Dad’s plantation, and taught her own slave to read and write. As an adult, she and her sister campaigned for the end of slavery. When she found out that one of her brothers had raped one of his own slaves and gotten her pregnant three times, she welcomed her nephews into the family and paid for education for the two that wanted it.
This was a woman who was raised in a culture of slavery, looked around her as a child and said “hey, wait a minute, we’re all assholes!” and spent the rest of her life trying to put things right.
It absolutely was a choice.
This is something I’ve been forced to learn in the past two years. The world around me is turning into something I was raised to believe could only happen in history books, or maybe in other parts of the world that sort of belonged in history books.
The more I see this happening–and the more I learn about the past and how hard people did fight to stop Hitler from initially rising to power, or to point out the humanity of slaves–the more apparent it becomes that we have always had these choices, and they’ve always been the same.
And we’re always going to have genuinely appealing opportunities to make the worst possible choices again, no matter how much more modern the world appears.
George Washington owned slaves right? Most of the founding fathers did, and in grade school, to smooth over that abuse of humanity by an American hero, we as children were told “Yes, George Washington did own slaves but he freed them when he died.” And you infer that he didn’t like slavery but it was an economic necessity.
And then you’re in your mid twenties watching a food show on Netflix and you learn that because Pennsylvania was a Quaker colony, they led the nation in emancipation and if an enslaved person was in Philadelphia for more than six months, they automatically became freed. And the young nation’s early capital was in Philadelphia, where Washington brought his household of enslaved people with him. And he took them back to Virginia every five months for a time so as to start that clock over and keep them enslaved.
There’s a trend with historians to want so badly to maintain the prestige of George Washington and an exceptional and morally pristine figure. And true, there are many instances in his writing where he sounds like his opinion on slavery as an institution is turning and that he knew slavery was wrong. But his actions. He literally had to do absolutely nothing to free his household staff, and took great pains to keep them enslaved.
It’s important to remember that too. That there were people in positions of enormous power, who know what they’re doing is wrong, and choose to do it anyway.
Do not let anyone tell you his teeth were made of wood.
This is part of what pisses me off about the whole narrative conservatives have of “but they’re going to make white kids hate themselves”
There WERE abolitionists who were white and they still managed to notice how horrific slavery was, knew it was wrong, and tried to help.
William Lloyd Garrison was white and he still set fire to the constitution because he viewed it as an evil document for allowing slavery.
I personally would’ve loved to have learned about THAT in school much more then the white people I DID learn about, who they treat like heroes and then have to just brush past the truth that they willingly participated in a historial atrocity.
Like if anything it’ll make your white kid hate themself less to learn about white people who actually did their best to help other human beings, rather then treating the past like everyone just agreed that this was just how we did things.
But that’s only helpful if don’t want people actually thinking for themselves and not blindly trust authority so, we ‘learn’ about George Washington instead.
not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs
Keith Powers in Door Mouse (2023)
A very important reminder
This! And let's face it: some of y'all are exhausting 😅
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i have gone on and on about how much i hate the fact that samcedes broke up in 5x20, but i think the reason it’s frustrating has more to do w the fact that what happens to sam gets completely brushed over to rush this breakup in. like, i’m thinking back to s2, where he felt like he had to resort to dangerous methods to achieve his ideal body, s3, where he started to sell his body to provide for his family, and s4, where he reveals that he only values himself for his appearance and this…..is yet another instance of his appearance being valued over the things he’s saying and feeling. the scene with the photographer is so uncomfortable to watch because we’re seeing him say that this job is really important, that he’s scared if he doesn’t do what she wants that he’ll lose it. and in the end, he’s assaulted. the fact that the samcedes scene to follow is more about breaking them up than what happened to him is just…..wild, to me. i am so glad that mercedes affirms that he didn’t cheat, but what happened was about more than that. especially when you couple all this with sam deciding to leave new york after he gets the photo on the side of the bus. what he says about the city being too loud and his brain working better in lima works so well with a story about sam unpacking his issues with his body and learning that he’s valuable for so much more than that, a story of him choosing to stop modelling for his mental health and letting go of ideals that caused him so much pain. quite a bit was done in the early seasons to establish his deep-rooted body image issues and struggles with his self-esteem, and i’m so sad that they writers decided to force it to become a breakup storyline instead of wrapping it up properly.
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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP
(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)
An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
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when an author sets up a narrative choice where all the options are scary and bad and the protagonist chooses kindness and it changes everything because it opens doors that shouldn’t be possible and every single time i go FERAL
Similarly, the slow reveal that the protagonist has been spending their life gaining favors and making friends so that in the end a bunch of groups and people who should be enemies come together to work for the greater good and end up forming more peaceful relations in the aftermath YES
