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alvsanne

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.03 // 2.02 #oh chair we're really in it now

allthingswhumpyandangsty

wulfhalls

GIRL THE CURRENT STRESS LEVEL

wulfhalls

HATE AND VIOLENCE

wulfhalls

as usual. all the english can do is disappoint

thesummoningdark

The last week has been so ridiculous even the satirists can’t take it any more

the-stray-liger

the fucking timestamp

thesummoningdark

Happy tenth birthday to this post which will apparently haunt my notifications for all eternity.

It’s about Brexit, by the way. The timestamp is a week post-referendum. Newsthump is UK-based and I myself am scottish. And yes, things have 100% got worse since then, but personally I regard the referendum as the point at which we entered the Clownshoes Timeline.

wulfhalls

its so fucked up that I have to actively root for England now because I want to see Argentina win even less

wulfhalls

anyways lets go spain

pangur-and-grim

what I've learned from having other people edit my work is that I have a sick addiction to commas

pangur-and-grim

there have been four editing passes on my spider sex book, and each time they take away so many commas. no fresh commas are being added, this is just a continued culling. if you see a comma in the final book please understand that it survived so much

pangur-and-grim

inaturalist-unofficial

silvermoon424

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

ohnoitstbskyen

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.