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[foreverfreo]

Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years

Absolutely hideous - she deserves better!! 

[stereomike]

the fact that in her defense of this dumbass sculpture, the artist said “as far as I know, she’s more or less the shape we’d all like to be” tells me everything else I need to know about this person. what a nightmare lmfao

[youngromantics]

It isn’t even supposed to be her, apparently. It’s just supposed to be an “everywoman” disappearing into a mass of “female forms”.

So all you women reading this? That’s supposed to be you. Not just the lady, standing bare with no apparent drive, personality, or interests, but also the mush below her. Thin, white, very tiny, exactly the shape media has always told us men like. THAT’S apparently what we should all aspire to be. No focus on her work or achievements. Not a mind. Merely a body. Man, Mary Wollstonecraft would be so proud.

🤬🤬🤬

[idontknowwhatsgoingoninmylife]

Ugh. I mean, I know that this was done for publicity/controversy - I know it’s meant to be an “everywoman” with no clothes because the artist didn’t want to assign her to a time period, but the fact is Wollstonecraft was a proto-feminist in the late 18th Century. Let a statue commemorating her reflect that ffs. She wasn’t every woman - we shouldn’t pretend otherwise.

[bogleech]

How the fuck can there be anti vaccine "witches?" If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subject's blood against the full force of that very same entity's curse then you are not and can never be a witch you're just a karen who buys rocks

[whitepeopletwitter]

[monstermonstre]

what the government has been doing to chelsea manning since she blew the whistle on them is nothing but a slow assassination attempt

they will not stop putting her through legal hell and imprisonment and solitary confinement, and every thing else they can legally throw at her, until she dies

don’t be fooled by any “reason” they give for what they’re putting her through: they want her dead

[thewoodgrainman]

[official-lucifers-child]

finally!! a useful guide!!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thepeoplesmanifesto]

Schools: don’t teach those skills anymore

Stuff: is made to not be repairable

Tools & Materials: are priced as a luxury

Working Hours: have expanded to take up a lot of people’s whole day and weekends

Wages: have stagnated so that everyone has to work full time

“News” media: Your dad is better at DIY than you, ya dick!

[redfeathered]

lets not forget:

Your parents: have never actually taught you any of those things either

[illustoryart]

Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in, A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin’. She made her escape, went from gray into green, And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean, But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky Where color’s a fable and freedom’s a fairy tale lie.

Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can’t blame her; They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her. They say she went mad, and she never complained, For there’s peace of a kind in a life unconstrained. She gives Cheshire kisses, she’s easy with white rabbit smiles, And she’ll never be free, but she’s won herself safe for a while.

Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly. They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly. They never once asked to return to their lives To be children and chattel and mothers and wives, But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; And one queen said ‘I am not a toy’, and she never returned.

Mandy’s a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries, And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries. Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks, While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks, And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Be wicked and lovely and don’t live in fear

       Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,        Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names,        All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain        And chose to go back on the shelf.        Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree        You have to break rules if you want to break free.        So do as you like  — we’re determined to be        Wicked girls saving ourselves.

For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost  — We won’t take our place on the shelves. It’s better to fly and it’s better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.

(Seanan McGuire)

[seananmcguire]

This is breathtaking.

[darkmagyk]

I heard this poem once a million years ago, I have been looking for it ever since, and had now found it. 

I love it so much more then I remember. 

[kyraneko]

You might be interested to know that she set it to music and it’s also a song.

[huffpost]

Nearly 2.5 Million American Children Are Homeless

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[theconcealedweapon]

[teashoesandhair]

Stop stealing my dang book

HEY, UH

The people who are putting my tiny self published book (Here, the World Entire, aka the book I poured my whole dang soul into!) up on piracy sites / requesting a pdf of my book on piracy sites:

CAN YOU LITERALLY THE FUCK NOT

I'm very glad that people want to read my book! It brings me joy that I very truly cannot even begin to explain! It's basically my dream come true! But please don't steal my work!

I don't have the backing of a big publishing house. I self published, so there's no advance for me. The only money I make off that book is through sales, and although it's not a lot at all per sale, it's the only source of income that book produces. I very strongly believe that writers deserve to get paid for their work. That includes me.

If you want to read my book but really can't justify using the funds you have to do so (because hey, we're all in different financial situations, I get it), I know it's in a couple of library systems so it's worth trying that. I'm reluctant to send out free ebooks now because the last time I did that someone put it on a pirating site, but you're welcome to ask and I may decide to do so on a case by case basis.

Please, please don't pirate books. Authors really don't generally make a lot as it is. We're not all JK Rowling. Minimising our already low revenue stream, especially self published authors, is shitty. It actually upsets me to think that someone who follows this blog might be one of the people pirating or asking for pirated copies. If it is you and you see this, I'm asking you to stop. I will be telling you next time.

[tetraterezi]

Ehhh im pretty pro.pirate if you cant afford it you cant afford it. Pirate sites get you more audience which means more people can share it.

If you wanna stiffle that be my guest.

But your only gonna damage yourself.

[teashoesandhair]

Literally no. Stop. Desist. This is a super Bad Take, and also incredibly inappropriate to add to my post here. Let me explain.

I don't need exposure. I don't need 'audience'. That doesn't pay my bills. That doesn't compensate me for my months of hard work. I don't need people to 'share' my work for me free of charge by stealing it and distributing it for free without my consent.

You fundamentally misunderstand how the publishing industry works. It doesn't work by people stealing books. That sure benefits the reader, but it royally fucks over the author. Work being shared on pirating sites does absolutely sweet bugger all for me as an author. Audiences who know they can get my shit for free aren't going to suddenly start paying for it just because they've now heard of me, so your comments about building an audience are asinine; it's not building a paying audience for me, but an audience of people who steal my shit. Some audience.

I've sold hundreds of copies of my book based on the quailty of it (presumably; either that or my mum has been bribing people). It's selling itself pretty well, thanks. It's been performed as a play! It has pretty good reviews! I don't need to eschew being financially compensated in exchange for more audience, especially not if that audience isn't going to fucking pay. An audience gained from a pirate site is useless to me. It does nothing for me. I have one book out currently. Every person who steals it is someone who doesn't buy it. It's another sale lost. It's nothing gained. I don't have a back catalogue for people to buy once they've heard of me. It's theft and then fuck all benefit to me.

Writing isn't all about making money and it's a privilege to have your work out there and read, but it's also work, and in a capitalist society, that merits being compensated for the acknowledgement of that work. I'm not just a money hungry piece of shit (or I'd have priced my book at an actually decent profit margin) but I need money to, y'know, eat. Writing is one way I do that. I can't do that if people steal my work.

I don't give half a sodden shit if you're pro pirate. I'm not, and it's my livelihood on the line here, so maybe consider people's feelings before adding your two cents to a post. You've basically just ignored my feelings completely in order to add your spicy hot take to a post because apparently your misinformed opinion is more important than my livelihood. It's not. There's a time and a place to espouse your viewpoint. This was categorically not it.

[gwendolynflight]

Bought a copy, it looks dope.

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

Piracy, like a lot of things in life, is a subject with nuance. If you are curious to see a big blockbuster made by a major movie company that’s raked in millions in a single weekend but you don’t want to add your money to those millions because you think the series has taken a sharp dive in quality - you could make an argument for that.

If a billion dollar company is charging extortionate amounts for software you need for your livelihood, pirating that is between you and your conscience.

If you bought a thing but due to DRM or whatever you can no longer access the thing you bought, you can decide whether to pay again or pirate.

But pirating something from a billion dollar company is not the same as pirating a self-published book, or an indie-game, or even a book from a small press. The margins in publishing are tiny. Most authors have a second job because they earn so little from their writing. If you pirate their stuff, you’re hurting their chances to support themselves with their writing.

Libraries exist. Basically every writer I’ve met is pro-library. If you can’t afford to buy a book, get it from the library instead. In the UK, I get a few pence when people borrow books from the library (the actual system is convoluted, but it means I can earn a little bit of money from library borrows). Don’t pirate books. Whether you pirate other stuff, I’ll leave to your judgement, but seriously, pirating books directly hurts the authors.

[atomatowriter-deactivated202211]

#i would argue even pirating books from rlly popular authors from big publishing houses is super bad #like #maggie stiefvater talks about how people pirating the raven cycle books meant the series almost got cancelled half way through #cos people were pirating them rather than buying #so to the publisher it looked like no one was interested or reading them #even authors with good publishing deals arent usually rich #hearing about authors with 6 figure book deals is the exception #thats like extraordinary #i will say this time and time again #you camt pay lip service to the idea that artists should be payed for their work and then turn round and pirate books #everyones cool with paying artists until it comes to actually paying artists

[cunicular]

Your first time is NOT supposed to hurt

You are NOT supposed to bleed

If you bleed, that is NOT your hymen being ‘popped’, it is a tear due to lack of sexual arousal and natural lubrication.

This is all a MYTH perpetrated by men so they don’t have to make sure you are comfortable and sufficiently aroused enough before you have sex with them. It is an excuse to disregard and hurt you.

I just really want women to know this.

[lady-switch]

This is one of the biggest and most frustrating gaps in sexual health education. Please, please, friends with vaginas, take care of yourselves and do your research so you can be comfy and have a good time. 

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[prokopetz]

I can’t believe more people aren’t making the connection between a. the fact that Amazon has repeatedly been caught secretly paying people to speak positively of them on social media, and b. the sudden upswell of hand-wringing social media posts insisting that there’s no point participating in the Amazon boycotts unless you’re also planning on boycotting every other company and service that’s even vaguely affiliated with Amazon at the same time.

Like, before you go tagging or sharing a post whose substance is that you might as well not even bother to show up unless you’re prepared to go completely off the grid, exercise a little critical thinking: who actually benefits from the notion that collective action has an impossibly high entry barrier?

[politijohn]

[badgop]

[mysharona1987]