Oct 10, 2022
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— Gargoyles
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King Arthur: All things are true... few things are accurate. Macbeth: Aye, no bloody kidding.
— Gargoyles
Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred years. They found that there was a revolt on at least one in ten of these voyages. That was a much higher number than anyone expected. Revolts were never easy, but revolts on slave ships in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean were basically suicide missions. Nonetheless, many captives chose death over this exceptionally horrid new kind of slavery. This type of resistance was so expensive and time-consuming for the slavers, these historians estimate that it prevented at least a million more people from being captured and entering the slave trade. So why would a revolt happen on one ship and not another? The quantitative historians couldn't find a clear pattern, other than that captives tried to revolt whenever they would. But one thing did stand out: The more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt. Let me emphasize this point: the more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt would occur.
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Dr. Rebecca Hall
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The Writer’s Distress Signal
Help! I’m writing a fluff tastic scene in public. It’s where my two OC’s are dancing together for the first time because “Hey, we’re friends. This is totally not a sign of our pining. It’s a swing dance. Totally platonic. Oh nooooooo, it’s turned into a slow dance and we don’t want to be rude.”
And I am trying so hard not to smile like an idiot because it’s taken 70,000 words to get to this point, gosh darn it. These brats are so hard to work with.
Any tips on not dying over the fluff? Thanks.
The character of Superman is a rebuttal of Lord Acton's famous dictum: he has absolute power, but it does not corrupt him. Rather, his power grants him freedom from fear. This freedom allows him to be a superman, and to realize his potential by helping others.
Deke Parsons, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy (Page 161)
I may have a condition that causes me to see things that no one else can, but I am loved. Loved. Wanted. Needed. Something shifts in my heart and mind like a bone snapping back into its socket. And then, this singular thought: it isn't selfish to want more than this.
Keeper of the Bees by @megkassel (Meg Kassel)
And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
“The Golden Crab” in The Yellow Fairy Book collected by Andrew Lang