#ttmh

[gotcustardy]

Been away for a while. Might be coming back more often. In the meantime, here's a House MD novel length (seriously, it's longer than a couple of the LOTR books) fanfic I wrote.

It starts after After Hours and departs from canon from there. Season 8 never happens. Huddy deserved better.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[arzuan-blog]

*kunyah petai sambil cicah thousands island dipping sauce* #TTMH

[tuy-duyen]

Khi người ta quá muốn trở nên thân thiết với ai đó, họ thường giả vờ như không quen người đó.

[tuy-duyen]

Có những mỗi quan hệ ngay từ đầu đã biết là không nên nhưng ta vẫn không sao cưỡng lại được. 🙂

[tuy-duyen]

Khó nắm bắt, hay là đang lờ đi cố tình không chịu hiểu. :)

[awetgrid]

“To start a story, for example, not in a linear fashion ‘from the beginning’, or to come into a story without a preconceived beginning and ending, but rather with anything that emerges at a specific moment in one’s thinking process, that relates back to one’s intimate experience, and then, to proceed slowly from there – just like the way the village meeting that you have just quoted unfolds – means letting things come to you rather than seizing or grasping them. Such an attitude is necessary for any creative venture; otherwise all that one has to offer the reader or the viewer is the empty skin of a fruit.There is, in other words, no reverberation, no resonance. With this also comes the much-debated notion of subjectivity which has regained all its complexities in contemporary theories. If one merely proceeds by opposing, one is likely to remain reductive and simplistic in one’s critical endeavour. Whereas in an approach where things are allowed to come forth, to grow wildly as ‘controlled accidents’ and to proceed in an unpredictable manner, one is compelled to look into the many facets of things and is unable to point safely at them as if they were only outside oneself. It is in indirection and indirect-ness that I constantly find myself reflecting back on my own positions.”

-Trinh T. Minh-Ha in The Post Colonial Question

[awetgrid]

On Appropriation

“The English and the French precipitate towards us, to look at themselves in our mirror.” - Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, “Buenos Aires (An Excerpt)”, via TTMH

TTMH: “The margins, our sites of survival, become our fighting grounds and their site for pilgrimage.”

[awetgrid]

Disrupting ideology

“The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified. To challenge the regimes of representation that govern a society is to conceive of how a politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it.” (2)

To disrupt ideology/regimes of power “is to meet head on that struggle between fictions.”

“Aware that oppression can be located both in the story told and in the telling of the story, an art critical of social reality neither relies on mere consensus nor does it ask permission from ideology.” (6)*

“In this heterogeneity of the feminist struggle and its plurivocal projects, the impossibility of defining once and for all the condition of bing sexualized as feminine and racialized as colored does not result from a lack of determination, but rather, from an inescapable awareness of the sterility of the unitary subject and its monolithic constructs.”

“There is no space untouched by the vicissitudes of history, and emancipatory projects never begin nor end properly.” (8)  

“...hampered by the closure effect brought about when a group within a movement becomes invested in the exercise of power, when it takes license to legislate what it means to “be a woman” to “ascertain “the truth”...”

Barthes, via TTMH (50): “The West moistens everything with meaning, like an authorian religion which imposes baptism on an entire people.”

*is this even possible?