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marvelshuffle:
Marvel Shuffle | Avengers: Age of Ultron, Steve’s alternate vision
marvelshuffle:
Marvel Shuffle | Avengers: Age of Ultron, Steve’s alternate vision
Aug. 9th, 2016
saralaence: christmas countdown | with
Aug. 9th, 2016 02:25 amvia http://ift.tt/2aX9dni:
saralaence:
christmas countdown | with doctor who ↳ 10 days until christmas
saralaence:
christmas countdown | with doctor who ↳ 10 days until christmas
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womanthinking:
Scientifically the most pure thing on our wretched mess of a planet.
womanthinking:
Scientifically the most pure thing on our wretched mess of a planet.
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ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE CREATIVE WORKS: FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE CREATIVE WORKS: FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
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buffyfaiths:
I just told him all this… this stuff. You know, like stuff that… that happened to me when I was a kid.
buffyfaiths:
I just told him all this… this stuff. You know, like stuff that… that happened to me when I was a kid.
i want your imperfect empathy.
Aug. 9th, 2016 10:28 amvia http://ift.tt/2bb7kIj:
andromedalogic:
identity politics has a pattern of actively discouraging solidarity, and it scares me. these well-intentioned phrases — “if you’re straight you can never understand what queer people go through;” “no, see, this post is about that oppression and you’re derailing;” don’t compare your experiences, or similar patterns of prejudice, or common strands of dehumanization, across oppressions. don’t.
i understand the intention. it makes sense to caution against over-enthusiastic identification — the able-bodied person who totally knows what you’re going through because they were on crutches once, for example. or the white gay person who claims that homophobia is the last acceptable prejudice, and ‘gay is the new black’. and it’s true that clumsy comparisons often ignore the existence of people who fit into both of the two categories they compare.
however.
identity politics is meant to be one facet of the struggle for justice, or equality, or any of those lofty goals. and in order to work toward those goals, it is necessary to prioritize empathy. you want to identify with people radically different from yourself. you want, and need, to recognize that everyone is human. that everyone is a person. you want to at least try to understand types of pain and cruelty that you yourself have never felt.
“you can never understand what these people went through” is a statement of cynicism. even if it’s true, it absolves people of the burden of trying. it leads to people tiptoeing around each other, scared to befriend those outside of their exact demographics, withholding their opinions from discussions where they might be useful. it leads, for example, to a white person encountering blatant racism and thinking well, i’m white, so my opinion doesn’t really count here. and i know, i do, that the opposite is a problem. the number of nondisabled people who talk over me and my disabled friends is infuriating.
but honestly, this “don’t compare / you can never understand” stuff often encourages parroting the lines you’ve heard from only a few activists in groups you don’t belong to, rather than listening. rather than seeing the diversity of opinions and ideas within any demographic. (because, look, we’re talking enormous swathes of people here.)
i’m saying it now: i want your imperfect empathy. i want you to delve into your own hoard of experiences and scrounge around for something that looks like mine. i want you to interrupt my post with ‘wow, so i’m not disabled, but i know exactly what you mean.’ i want you to talk to me at risk of being wrong, rather than meekly agreeing because i dropped a certain label into the conversation.
because i can feel it, even among my friends — the barriers that go up when we try to ‘check our privileges’. the intense doubt and loss of interpersonal footing that occurs when you try to backtrack, juggle disclaimers, ‘oh but they’re trans so i have no business relating to them’. ‘oh but they’re mentally ill so how would i know.’ it leads to silence. the mistreatment of human beings is all of our business. and the intuitive ways that friends relate to each other are far more valuable than drawing up mental charts of how your experiences are similar and different. you are allowed to feel shock and disgust and joy for things that have nothing to do with you. it’s the only way we can get anywhere.
i will honestly take messy, clumsy solidarity over the lines that are drawn when we try to do this properly. of course, people will fuck up, but at least they’ll be trying. it’s dangerous to distrust the natural impulse to relate to others, to say ‘hey, something kind of like that happened to me once’. often, that is all we have. it’s only in a rarefied and hermetic environment that empathy starts to seem blasé. in the world at large, this is what we need. we need to understand each other. we need to believe it’s possible.
andromedalogic:
identity politics has a pattern of actively discouraging solidarity, and it scares me. these well-intentioned phrases — “if you’re straight you can never understand what queer people go through;” “no, see, this post is about that oppression and you’re derailing;” don’t compare your experiences, or similar patterns of prejudice, or common strands of dehumanization, across oppressions. don’t.
i understand the intention. it makes sense to caution against over-enthusiastic identification — the able-bodied person who totally knows what you’re going through because they were on crutches once, for example. or the white gay person who claims that homophobia is the last acceptable prejudice, and ‘gay is the new black’. and it’s true that clumsy comparisons often ignore the existence of people who fit into both of the two categories they compare.
however.
identity politics is meant to be one facet of the struggle for justice, or equality, or any of those lofty goals. and in order to work toward those goals, it is necessary to prioritize empathy. you want to identify with people radically different from yourself. you want, and need, to recognize that everyone is human. that everyone is a person. you want to at least try to understand types of pain and cruelty that you yourself have never felt.
“you can never understand what these people went through” is a statement of cynicism. even if it’s true, it absolves people of the burden of trying. it leads to people tiptoeing around each other, scared to befriend those outside of their exact demographics, withholding their opinions from discussions where they might be useful. it leads, for example, to a white person encountering blatant racism and thinking well, i’m white, so my opinion doesn’t really count here. and i know, i do, that the opposite is a problem. the number of nondisabled people who talk over me and my disabled friends is infuriating.
but honestly, this “don’t compare / you can never understand” stuff often encourages parroting the lines you’ve heard from only a few activists in groups you don’t belong to, rather than listening. rather than seeing the diversity of opinions and ideas within any demographic. (because, look, we’re talking enormous swathes of people here.)
i’m saying it now: i want your imperfect empathy. i want you to delve into your own hoard of experiences and scrounge around for something that looks like mine. i want you to interrupt my post with ‘wow, so i’m not disabled, but i know exactly what you mean.’ i want you to talk to me at risk of being wrong, rather than meekly agreeing because i dropped a certain label into the conversation.
because i can feel it, even among my friends — the barriers that go up when we try to ‘check our privileges’. the intense doubt and loss of interpersonal footing that occurs when you try to backtrack, juggle disclaimers, ‘oh but they’re trans so i have no business relating to them’. ‘oh but they’re mentally ill so how would i know.’ it leads to silence. the mistreatment of human beings is all of our business. and the intuitive ways that friends relate to each other are far more valuable than drawing up mental charts of how your experiences are similar and different. you are allowed to feel shock and disgust and joy for things that have nothing to do with you. it’s the only way we can get anywhere.
i will honestly take messy, clumsy solidarity over the lines that are drawn when we try to do this properly. of course, people will fuck up, but at least they’ll be trying. it’s dangerous to distrust the natural impulse to relate to others, to say ‘hey, something kind of like that happened to me once’. often, that is all we have. it’s only in a rarefied and hermetic environment that empathy starts to seem blasé. in the world at large, this is what we need. we need to understand each other. we need to believe it’s possible.
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“The Cursed Child is not fanfiction. TCC was not written within a network of uncompensated writers, sharing stories within a vast cultural conversation. TCC doesn’t do any of the things the best fanfiction does—it doesn’t push the characters forward, and it doesn’t dive any deeper, and it doesn’t feel like a critical response to any of the texts that came before it (Rowell’s Carry On performs far more work critiquing the Harry Potter books than this play). The Cursed Child is an official follow-on work: professional male writers came to JKR with an idea for a play and she approved all of it. Even if you think its sloppy, even if you think it’s a travesty, even if you don’t want to accept it as “canon,” you do not get to pin all of that on fanfiction.”
- Elizabeth Minkel, Harry Potter and the Sanctioned Follow-On Work (or, Fanfiction vs, the Patriarchy)
“The Cursed Child is not fanfiction. TCC was not written within a network of uncompensated writers, sharing stories within a vast cultural conversation. TCC doesn’t do any of the things the best fanfiction does—it doesn’t push the characters forward, and it doesn’t dive any deeper, and it doesn’t feel like a critical response to any of the texts that came before it (Rowell’s Carry On performs far more work critiquing the Harry Potter books than this play). The Cursed Child is an official follow-on work: professional male writers came to JKR with an idea for a play and she approved all of it. Even if you think its sloppy, even if you think it’s a travesty, even if you don’t want to accept it as “canon,” you do not get to pin all of that on fanfiction.”
- Elizabeth Minkel, Harry Potter and the Sanctioned Follow-On Work (or, Fanfiction vs, the Patriarchy)
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arwwenn:
make me choose: undomiel asked Men or Elves
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
arwwenn:
make me choose: undomiel asked Men or Elves
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
wigglemore-deactivated20150217: Oz
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Oz meme → [5 correctional officers / staff members]: Father Ray Mukada
If the Magi had stayed in Persia, did what they were supposed to do, followed all the rules, they never would have seen God.
wigglemore-deactivated20150217:
Oz meme → [5 correctional officers / staff members]: Father Ray Mukada
If the Magi had stayed in Persia, did what they were supposed to do, followed all the rules, they never would have seen God.
