The secret service needs that extra money to be able to rent golf carts on the presidential golf course, you see.
Now is a good time to consider donating to charities helping with the relief effort, as they seem to be the only ones interested in actually helping the people of Puerto Rico. If you don’t have the funds, then spread this news around. Don’t let them get away with this.
JANUARY 29, 2018
What the fuck?!
The Trump administration just shut off all food and water aid to Puerto Rico
what the shit
tomorrow night, wednesday 31st jan is the night of a total lunar eclipse
not only that, it’s also the third in a series of super moons, where the moon is closest to the earth at that point in it’s orbit
not only that, it’s the second full moon we’ve had this month, known as a blue moon
not only that, when the moon passes under earth’s shadow it will take on a reddish tint known as a blood moon
WE HAVE A TRIPLE SUPER BLUE BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE ON OUR HANDS, PEOPLE!
#prayforthewerewolves
I’m kicking off the state-wide drive with this. Any entities that need to get to Durango better be at my house by 5 AM.
*blinks* 2018 is destined to be wild.
actually I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, weather and landscape wise, Scotland and Ohio are weirdly similar and if you could somehow walk out of a field or pasture or small town in one and into the other you’d be hard-pressed to notice for some time.
If you walk through a fairy ring you are unceremoniously dumped in a field in Ohio for your disrespect
this is true.
I nominate Scotland and Ohio to become the faerie capitals of the world, and to establish teleportation betwixt the two with the aforementioned faerie rings
they opened a brewdogs in ohio that’s already the portal
if you get day drunk in the brewdogs in ohio and go to the bathroom alone when you come back out ur in Stirling
why Stirling of all places?
it’s actually an elaborate partnership between the stirling cultural trust and the faeries to promote local tourism. ur already drunk and in another country so why not visit the castle while ur here? it’s been very successful so far
Listen I love faeries but there’s no way in fuck they’d live in ohio
Its too damn boring
Beyond anywhere else
There’s NOTHING BUT CORN HERE
not to be too cryptic but faeries absolutely live in ohio so jot that down
Can confirm that even the cornscapes of the entire goddamn midwest is some sort of limnal fae realm. when i first moved from the east coast to nebraska I fell asleep in foothills and forest and woke up to a sharply terraced land with nothing but corn and a sky that should never under any circumstances be so large and so full of dark clouds underlit by an unearthly green glow. i used to wander in some fern covered idealistic forest with dappled streams of sun and lichen covered bolders and I never had a stronger sense of “this is not your human realm” than the fuckin endless cornfields under a merciless sky ok the midwest is terrifying
in this house we love, treasure, and support the oxford comma
If you take ALL the commas out of this sentence, you end up with grammarian dragons.
In this house we love treasure and support the Oxford comma.
weirdo: i like watching women be abused
liberals: 😡
weirdo: it’s a sex thing???
liberals: 🙂 ok sorry carry on
Sometimes, a work relies on having the privileged group as certain members of the cast. Diversifying those works/roles? A terrible idea.
Lord of the Flies is a critique on the assumption rich white boys are the panicle of civilized behaviour. Rebooting it with an all-female cast misses the point.
Heathers is a story of how a clique of rich white girls run a school. Rebooting it with an all-marginalized group of Heathers misses the point.
While my list of works that are super bad ideas is short, since 1- Hollywood has only recently decided to expand their cast away from white bread (let me know if you have more!) and 2- I tend to try and forget bad examples, these ideas point to a very, very troubling trend:
Taking works whose whole point is lampooning privilege and assuming they’d work the same way if you removed the core concept.
If we actually reached parity between marginalized representation and privileged representation, those types of reboots might be safe ground to tread on. But right now marginalized people are still very much marginalized, and as a result their cultural systems are different from the privileged group.
Rich white people have a wildly different frame of reference from rich black people. A rich black person will usually have a living relative who wasn’t allowed to own a house in a certain area because of skin colour, or whose parents weren’t allowed to. Meanwhile, even a new-money white person doesn’t have the recent historical racist barriers that actively tried to prevent their upward mobility.
The two groups are going to think about money differently. While both can flaunt it for the same reasons— it’s new, and they want to show it off— the sheer amount of ex-legal baggage a black person is carrying around is something I can’t speak about, but know is there.
If you’re starting to think about tossing in a little diversity into your cast, look very hard at the social structures you’ve put in place. Are the villains relying on wealth? Social power? How about the ability to act with impunity? All of those are highly tied to privilege— the type of privilege somebody marginalized simply would not have.
It’s different if you’re doing a single-marginalized-group cast. Black Panther doesn’t suffer from having rich and power-hungry black people as villains because there’s a bunch of rich heroic black people as protagonists, to name one example. In those situations, you’re dealing with equals. The same thing would apply in a secondary world fantasy where everyone in the cast is of the same or similar ethnic groups, or if you had a group of characters who all shared the same axis of oppression in general.
It’s also different if the power structures don’t rely on privilege. All female Ghostbusters? Awesome, because Ghostbusters was primarily about stopping ghosts. The amount of black girls and women in A Wrinkle in Time? Lovely, because we need more stories where the important figures are not white.
But if you’re recreating any sort of power imbalance where one group relies on privilege, and you have multiple ethnic groups in the cast ? Take a good hard look at making too many villains marginalized, especially if they’re kingpins within the organization. Also consider what they can get away with, and if they have to use different tactics from the privileged villains; chances are, they’ll have to.
This applies for both works set in the real world and in secondary world fantasy. Because secondary world fantasy is still read in the real world, and you can reinforce some extremely toxic ideals if you recreate real world marginalization.
Sometimes, diversity is a very bad thing. Keep that in mind when deciding what group plays what role.
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