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If your liberation movement hates:
books
women's rights and bodily autonomy
diversity
LGBTQ+ people
elections
separation of church and state
freedom of speech
freedom of religion
human rights and social justice
...maybe it isn't a liberation movement.
Halloween Spooktober Monster Month Season of the Witch
Must Be. The Season of the Witch
MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH
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TONIGHT WE RIDE!!!
Izz sleep on tings. I’m freeky af right now for you macADaddy I fucken sense you with me. All the feelers! You. Are. All. Up. On. Me! Like a virus a cold bug no fighting it both are in it for de long hall ol towing the line Toeing the line
Trawling for trouble on the dubble
toil and trouble
boil and bubble
Yes Dorothy, generally freeking
Halloween is Double speaking
drop the mic
JD Vance reveals the truth about the Epstein List.
Do you have any headcanons for the MMPR team?
Uhhh...kinda?
The biggest thing here is that in shows pre-gay marraige, it was REALLY standard to queercode. I don't know if you've ever seen Xena: Warrior Princess, but it's a chaotic, insane love story between two women...that never once has either one say they're in love. And frequently has the femme girl marry or date a guy, and tossed in a 'comic relief' male character SOLELY to 'prove' it was straight (and make the audience homicidal).
Really, half my generation complaining about saying 'unalive' is just that it's so *unsubtle*. We put DRAMA into OUR anti-censorship coding...and walked uphill to school both ways in the snow...
So if you go look at MMPR with that understanding?
This is a queer polycule with power exchange kinks. Mininum. And I don't know if it was on purpose, but if you want gender or power relationship primers, go watch Power Rangers in the Saban era. (Disney killed an impressive amount of it until RPM. After that it's very hit-and-miss.)
It's not official canon, but the entire season of Time Force places the insanely butch Jen in the role of heroic vengeance on the lines of a Viking saga husband; the difference between domanatrix Astronema and the innocent Karone is a huge emotional driver in Space...
And MMPR really only worked because the team is in love. Romantic? Platonic? Agape? Yes and more. We can read The Letter arc not as a real breakup, but as Tommy, Kim, and Kat playing at being 'normal' to outsiders so Kat could join them. Jason is a young bear, and his donning of biker leather is a completion of his nature. Billy and Trini intertwine themselves, and they move power between each other so fluidly that when Trini leaves, Billy has to almost reinvent himself--but he has no sexuality with her (or other girls, and Yost is a damn saint to not tell Saban to fuck themselves on a daily basis).
So...not headcanon. But not canon. Just the reading of someone a bit older, who learned a different kind of doublespeak. Saying 'unalive' was always clever to me--it was worrying only when no one stopped.
Wordplay: Using doublespeak to manipulate your readers!
Doublespeak distorts, like a cuttlefish squirting ink. It makes the bad seem good, the negative positive, the unpleasant attractive.
It frames reality in a different way than it really is. For example, reframing an act of war as a “defensive freedom” and a “necessary action to protect our way of life”.
Types of Doublespeak:
Euphemism: Using mild or vague terms to mask harshness or unpleasantness.
Example: Referring to tax increase as “revenue enhancement”, shellshock as “”operational exhaustion”.
Jargon: Using special(pretentious, obscure) language that confuse, and exclude those not familiar with the terms.
Example: “The machine has a baseplate of prefabricated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing.”
Gobbledygook: Using complex, convoluted language to appear sophisticated and official.
Example: Instead of saying “We are cutting costs”, say “In alignment with our strategic operational objectives, we are initiating a paradigm shift in our financial allocation protocols to optimize resource utilization and enhance fiscal prudence across all departments.”
Inflated Language: Using grand words to make things appear more significant.
Example: Referring to a janitor as a “sanitation engineer”.
With doublespeak, deceptive language is normalized, politicians don’t lie but misspeak, illegal acts are inappropriate actions, and a fraud is a miscertification.
“If thought can corrupt language, then language can corrupt thought.” -George Orwell.
The above is my summary of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsEp_hakK4
I like the concept of doublespeak, reframing, and tuning words to convey same-ish, yet different meanings.
Wordplay! Love it!
If that be right which Warwick says is right, There is no wrong, but everything is right.
~from Henry VI, part 3, by William Shakespeare
if you take away the books, they'll come back to immortalize your folly
