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Ken the Queerbrarian, [@kenf1008.bsky.social] reading "Early Novels & Stories" in the Collected Works of James Baldwin.
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Ken the Queerbrarian, [@kenf1008.bsky.social] reading "Early Novels & Stories" in the Collected Works of James Baldwin.
*references your cel value*
It's so pretty
6:14 PM EDT May 13, 2026:
Painkiller - "Marianne" From the box set Collected Works (1997)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
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alright, we need to talk about this.
bev, here, is threatening her friend at gunpoint, having already kicked him down onto the ground, because she, from observations, had concluded that he's somehow hurt brax, gotten him to leave, and she fully believes that. she fully believes that, and she's threatening him at gunpoint, because she believes that she is avenging brax. avenging the person who gave her a home.
and that's- that's huge. we need to talk about what it means.
i mean, can we conclude that brax semi-intentionally molded her to do this? from the ending of the fifth axis arc, he'd had reasons to start manipulating the world more, to try and reach his goal to prevent anything that horrible from happening. and bev's a huge asset. and, remember, brax was the only one who trusted her in the beginning, to do missions that he sent her on. and that obviously meant a lot. having a famous art theif, who led a whole revolution for a year against the fifth axis, on your side and completely loyal because you're the one who gave her a home and believed in her to do things? someone who's never had a home? i'm not saying all of this was completely intentional, hell, not at all. i think brax only started doing things after he kept bev as his PA, so only the believing-in-her-to-do-things-she-wasn't-qualified-for was intentional and done to get her gratitude and loyalty, in a way. oh and also he was slowly molding her to be more... dignified, i guess, less unpredictable and unhesitatingly violent, more suited to his plans.
Dream not that men will move their little finger to serve you, unless their advantage in so doing be obvious to them. Men never did so, and never will, while human nature is made of its present materials.
Jeremy Bentham, Collected Works