"It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t 'this is to succour all my marginalised people'. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut.
I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used."
I know I talk a lot about my frustrations with goyische leftists and the silence/complacency of goyim in the face of antisemitism (and I don't plan on stopping, that's very much a Big Problem) but I should also share my appreciation for goyim that I see learning.
Thank you to goyim who actually listened to Jewish people talking about these problems, who realized that a post they shared or a viewpoint they held was fucked up, vowed to do better, and then did. I very much appreciate seeing folks - whom, at best, I'd never seen reblog a post about Jewish people, positive or negative; or at worst who DID share something antisemitic or say something antisemitic - now boosting Jewish voices, sharing posts about how to combat antisemitism, or making their own posts calling out antisemitism. Please, keep it up and my ask box is always open for questions asked in good faith.
BUFFY SUMMERS IN THE PUPPET SHOW
i think dummies are cute. you don't? uh uh. they give me the wig. ever since i was little. what happened? i saw a dummy. it gave me the wig. there really wasn't a story there.
Real talk why does social interaction feel like you’re trying to get a good grade in being a person
unrecommend me a book. pop into my ask box and tell me which books i shouldn't read and why i shouldn't read them
bodies should never ever hurt when i’m trying to sleep. like girl literally just turn off. that’s enough