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A cat in the lap is worth

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The universe

[yugirimistwalker]

how are you capable of moving in my stopped time

[abrabloodycadabra]

I did some jjba x the office images and they are cursed, but I'm genuinely laughing at these 😭

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Part 2 of this?

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)

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thank you so much alexa @shivsblunt for mentioning it…..anyone who wants to contribute to their jail support fund can do so @ bcabolitioncollective on v*nmo. also, if anyone is in the area and available to join (via cssw4palestine on ig):

[animusrox]

"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack

[javajulien-deactivated20220825]

Yeah, I’m going to call bullshit on that Bucciarati.

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[rudolphsboyfriend]

I keep seeing white book reviewers complain about how Babel is so very in your face and obvious about its rage at colonialism as if they would not twist the meaning of the book to fit into their convenient little worldview and find a way to say 'ok.. BUT' if it were NOT so clearly and explicitly laid out I'm sorry but it's true.

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I will not be taking constructive criticism, I'd like destructive praise instead please and thank you

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got gaybaited hard by that one scene really near the start of the book

Except now I realise it wasn't bait. It was a lost oppurtunity taken partially by western imperialism and colonialism. It was something perfect that was never meant to be and could never be. This is angsty in the worst way.

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[thereadingmoon]

it's hilarious that a few days after i finished babel, i went to history class and our topic visited colonization, and my (white) professor said that teaching history within education is politicized and his example was how slavery and colonization are taught in most history classes as europe's invasion of other continents and enslavement of the native peoples there, thus racializing the issue of the slave trade. he asked why don't history classes focus on the fact slavery was a practice found in many cultures other than europe and that europeans also enslaved other europeans, which is a fair point... however he commented that "the version of history that's taught is a way for [european nations] to pay reparations i suppose" and it's an example how education distorts historical events through the lens of "modern politics".

and i'm sitting there like... colonization will always be tied to race. whether we like it or not, that period of history had forcibly tied race to colony, and we feel those effects to this day. that is why it's still important to talk about it. we breathe the consequences, live the consequences, and see the consequences of colony. we are products of a bloody, inequal, and unfair history that still poisons our lives today.

along the lecture, i interjected that any and all forms of colonization was bad and he claimed he could think of pax romana as one good form of colonization. the roman empire's golden age was only golden if you were roman, sir.

as an asian in academia studying outside her home country, i have to cosplay babel every day and i am already so tired. I've been missing my professors back home because they spoke against colony and oppression with fire and brimstone and passion and here they turn away from the blood empire or they see little wrong with it.

dark academia is aptly named because by god is it fucking dark here.

[tianshiisdead]

I'd honestly say Babel is important just because it flat out states the Opium Wars were (or. Would be) imperialist wars, which. Do you know HOW many articles casual and scholarly deny that lol you can forgive the average person for considering it a fair war because every English language source from the dawn of time till this very day does everything in its power to convince the reader it was two sided and not at all imperialism like lol not even slightly imperialist uwu. The best researched and most unbiased books on the topic (that don't regurgitate the McCartney myths) still frame the imperialism as an honest mistake Britain stumbled clumsily into and felt Very Bad about after. When I say it's such an important book for a Chinese reader it's because our early modern history is so destroyed by modern propaganda and politics lol at least this book addresses it in English and places it in the larger framework of British imperialism.

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“…That they were all four of them drowning in the unfamiliar, and they saw in each other a raft, and clinging to one another was the only way to stay afloat.”

― R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History

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