Really obsessed with star trek tos being 1960s progressive. People think this means it's either Wildly Offensive or Still Relevant Today but it's actually both. It kind of takes turns

If anyones interested in learning about the first black vampire short story, published in 1819, heres a link to the wiki, its called The Black Vampyre, and its about a former slave turned vampire who seeks revenge on his slave master. Its actually a first in many categories!

I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got payed to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

i noticed something about phineas and ferbs writing

at my wedding yes i will have a maid of honour but why stop there. ill give all my maids titles. we will have a maid of hope. a maid of horror. a maid of horticulture. a maid of harm. a maid of healing. and of course. a maid of hogs

clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

holding a hot water bottle against my buddy's skull to give him a little extra thinking power

forgot to poke air holes in the crotch of my pants and my penius died:(

How to make ice cream in Alaska

burgerdonia has fallen

Hate to do this

So our partner, her mom, and I live in a relatively rural/suburban area. I can't really do proper work as much as my time needs to be available to help tend to both of their needs due to various disabilities( I do get paid for this) and we tend to live paycheck to paycheck. This is getting harder as our access to rides to and from places such as doctor, dentist, and eye doctor appointments continue to get smaller, sometimes requiring us to use ubers which can lead to spending roughly 40 dollars just to get to and from the appointments. We have several of these coming up as we try and improve our health and lives. (And work on getting our partner on to disability services.) All this to say we can use help getting by both in the Immediate and just going forward in the future. I have less then 5 dollars in my account and I can use some help getting things like band aids( some of us get injuries easily that we need to keep clean), detergent and bleach to clean, and some food to help us get by until I get my paycheck on Wednesday. We've considered trying to find some work we can do from home or something but we've struggled to find options. If you are willing to send help please do, if not please reblog. And if you want help but will need funds back just dm me and i'll appreciate the loan and pay you back on Wednesday, because even that would still help out.

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