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I love how fantasy-world and mythological this sounds.
Any time somebody says your writing is unrealistic or full of major plot points you just pulled out of your ass, just remember that in the middle of one of the messiest and most agonizing wars in human history at one point all the wounded soldiers just started glowing blue and failing to die.
This is fascinating to read about. It comes from a bioluminescent bacteria and it wouldn’t have even been possible to live on soldier’s due to body temp being too high but because it was rainy and cold they think some of them had hypothermia, which made the conditions hospitable.
one of many bizarre things about the internet is that there are so many people that EVERYTHING is relatable content to someone (unless it’s like, an 8 sided triangle.)
if i made a meme that was like “tfw your second-cousin keeps stealing dried orange peels from your compost bin to make a life-sized model of thomas aquinas from them, and you don’t even hear them sneaking through the back door because your next-door neighbour is playing the greatest hits of bonnie tyler on the bagpipes so loudly that you can’t concentrate on the echidna fursona you were painting as a gift for your Sanskrit teacher’s birthday” you would find like 100 people on the internet who would be like “yes! this is not only an exact description of my life, but an exact description of the lives of every single person in my social circle, to such an extent that it does not even occur to me that some people might find any aspect of this scenario remotely unusual!”
Thankfully, Harvey Weinstein’s political allies aren’t falling for his shtick of promising to repent and to “channel [his] anger” toward Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. Over the past two weeks, he has been ritually denounced by practically every entertainment industry collaborator and political beneficiary he collected over a remarkable three-decade career in pictures and politics.
Yet Weinstein is just the latest in a long line of men whose left-wing politics coexisted harmoniously with retrograde attitudes about women. In his statement, Weinstein said that he “came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different.” Many people scoffed at this explanation, as this was precisely the time when women’s liberation brought workplace sexism to the societal forefront. But Weinstein was right in a way he didn’t comprehend. Ever since second-wave feminism became part of the political left, there have been men who, ostensibly enlightened in the realm of gender relations, are in fact deeply misogynist and believe that their progressive street cred somehow obviates their attitudes about women, attitudes as regressive as those held by the Mad Men-era males who ruled the earth just before the sexual revolution.
Revolutionary movements, often preaching violence and imbued with machismo, lend themselves easily to chauvinism. Andreas Baader, who formed an eponymous West German terrorist organization in 1970 with feminist journalist Ulrike Meinhof, spoke of all women as “cunts.” Like Baader, who would be remembered solely as a criminal had he not adopted a revolutionary political agenda to justify his gang’s murder and bombing spree, the leaders of the Black Panther Party preached a more equitable world while subjugating the women in their midst. The party newspaper railed against abortion as “a victory for the oppressive ruling class who will use [abortion] to kill off Black and other oppressed people before they are born,” and the birth control pill as “another type of genocide that the power structure has poured into the Black community.” It once expelled a member for terminating a pregnancy, and according to historian Kate Coleman, the group “punished rank-and-file females for even minor ‘infractions’ by turning them out as prostitutes.”
In his memoir Soul on Ice, Panther “Minister of Information” Eldridge Cleaver wrote of how he viewed rape as an “insurrectionary act.” After he “practiced” on black women, he moved onto white ones, as “it delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women.” Panther Party co-founder and “Minister of Defense” Huey Newton talked a good game when it came to female equality, publishing a letter in the party newspaper reproving sexism (and homophobia) and declaring “we recognize the women’s right to be free.” Yet Newton authorized the beating of the woman who managed the Panther Liberation School after she reprimanded a male colleague. Oh, and he murdered a 17-year-old prostitute because she referred to him as “baby.”
“Radical Chic,” the romanticizing of violent revolutionary leftists by genteel bourgeois liberals, was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 to describe the party Leonard Bernstein hosted at his Park Avenue Penthouse for the Panthers. The phenomenon has long since been a feature of progressive politics. Gerry Healy was a Stalinist who led Britain’s Workers Revolutionary Party, an “anti-imperialist” groupuscule partly funded by Muammar Qadafi and Saddam Hussein, whose more presentable patrons included Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. According to his former secretary, this man of the people used apartments owned by the party in a “completely opportunist way for sexual liaisons” to “degrade women and girl comrades and destroy their self-respect.” Ultimately, some 26 women accused Healy of “gross sexual abuse.” According to Vanessa Redgrave, however, “these allegations are all lies and the women who are supposed to have made them are all liars. I don’t care whether it’s 26, 36 or 236. They are all liars.” Believe All Women, in other words, except those who accuse our Dear Leader.
Kirchick is conservative (he’s a Brookings Institute fellow), but he also exposed Ron Paul’s racist newsletters and called out RT for being a propaganda arm of Putin.
DREAMWIDTH COMMUNITY LISTING
Because searching is hard, I love dreamwidth, and I’m here to encourage things, haha. Places to find individuals are addme_fandom or add_a_writer, the_great_tumblr_purge.
First of all, this is just communities I pulled up from Dreamwidth’s interest page! (/interests from the main site, but also located through the top at EXPLORE -> INTERESTS). If your fandom doesn’t have a community, or it’s not listed here, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one out there - and if there isn’t, please do make one and feel free to add it onto this post! Make sure to add tags to the “interests” section of the comm’s profile if you do make one: that’s how people find communities.
(One of the big benefits of making a community is that you can decide what content is posted to it, and what is not. They are largely self-moderated by the owner, allowing a lot more control as a result than the tumblr tagging system.)
List of communities is under the cut. Please do add communities to this in reblogs, if you know of / have made additional ones - some large fandoms like Homestuck do not have central comms as of right now.
- GENERAL
- tv_talk (talk about TV)
- agonyaunt (discussion of advice columns)
- menstruation, girlybits, breastfeeding, expecting (self-explanatory topics!)
- poorskills (skills on living cheaply)
- green_living (discussion of how to live green)
- cats, caturday, tabbies, tuxies (comms for cats)
- birds, budgies, cockatiels, lovebirds, staffies, cats, caturday, tabbies, tuxies (comms for petowners)
- access_fandom, spoonlessactivists, access_academia (fandom & social activism with disabilities)
- webcomics (a community for webcomics)
- geek (community for all self-named geeks)
- geeksgirls (community for geeky girls)
- cordcutters (a community dedicated to services like Netflix/Hulu/etc)
- crafty (a community for all crafts)
- knitting (a community for knitting)
- creative_cooks (food, recipes and cooking)
- recipecommunity (recipe sharing)
- weekly_food_challenge (cooking challenge & recipes)
- recs (multi-fandom fanfic recs)
- christianreader (book lists for Christians)
- anagnorisis_awakening (media review + articles on unusual topics)
- crowdfunding (discussion of crowdfunded projects)
- classicalstudies (discussion of classical material)
- bookthoughts, book_love (book discussion forums)
- findthatbook (communities to find books you’ve read)
- gensplosion (Recs for gen / non-romantic fic.)
- feminists (community for feminism)
- arthritis, disability, cookability, ehlersdanlos, no_pity, hard-of-hearing, anxious (disability discussion communities)
- BIG FANDOMS
- bnha (Boku no Hero Academia fan comm)
- teen_wolf (Teen Wolf fan comm)
- legendary_defenders (Voltron fan comm)
- positive_klance (positive Klance comm)
- sheithdirectory (Sheith fandom directory)
- voltron_yaoi (Voltron slash comm)
- steven_universe_universe (steven universe discussion)
- she_ra_fandom (She-Ra)
- whygeeohs (Yu-Gi-Oh)
- LGBTQ
- transgender, trans (trans community discussion)
- nenb (non-english non-binary discussion comm)
- theruinedsurpriseparty (LGBTQ+ and women writing/art community)
- actuallylesbians, lesbians (communities for lesbians)
- queermen (community for queer men)
- lgbtbookclub (book club for LGBT books)
four A.M. at the space party and there are only 2 conscious people left and you both just hit your third wind of delirious energy
HEY THERE, Y'ALL!
As we move into 2019 and presidential hopefuls start their campaigns, remember:
- DO NOT FORM POLITICAL OPINIONS BASED ON INFOGRAPHICS. Read source material. If a journalist is legitimate, they will not pass off their statements as fact without proof.
- DO NOT TAKE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AS TRUTH. Not even when they are made by someone you trust.
- DO NOT TRUST ANY SOURCE UNLESS IT IS CORRABORATED BY MULTIPLE OTHER CREDIBLE SOURCES.
There are already bots posting propaganda, actively targeting leftists, encouraging us not to vote in various ways.
Do not let them win.
This political system is heinously broken, but consider what evil still has to gain from silencing you before you allow yourself to be silenced.
This a thousand times over, even on my own blogs be sure to independently verify everything said.
Even if I make the post, I may have a logical fallacy that I didn’t quite catch or an unknown bias take hold when looking through the data.
Always independently verify the source data.
(Source: sload)
