i just think if we're going to talk about harrow being a "fundamentally religious" character we also need to talk about the way religion in the nine houses is depicted as a tool of violence and oppression both within and outside of the nine houses.
like clearly jod uses his position as god and worship of him to induce characters to murder the people they love, thereby isolating them so that they love and worship him alone and uphold his empire. in htn we literally see how he isolates harrow (by ordering g1deon to kill her) and takes advantage of the faith this deeply vulnerable teenage girl has in him.
religion on the ninth is also used to justify the murder of 200 children and the extreme abuse gideon endures growing up. but i think most importantly, worship of john throughout the nine houses is used to justify the imperialist conquest and destruction of planets outside the nine houses, in a way that clearly intentionally parallels european imperialism. so, yes, harrow in htn is fundamentally religious — and because of her religion, she also functions as a tool of a violent imperialist empire.
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Peter: By asking Risk Astley to hand you a copy of the movie “Up,” you create a paradox wherein he either has to give you up, or let you down.
Tony: …
Tony: What?
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Things are definitely migrating around inside me, and it’s….. weird. Not feeling the baby yet, (I wish!) but she’s still too small.
So no kicking and punching yet, but as the midwife described it, I am suddenly very aware that I have a uterus, and that my uterus is Up To Something. Organs are shuffling, tendons are stretching….. I swear for a few days I felt the soreness of my hip joints crabbily expanding.
Sometimes when I bend over I feel this solid mass in my gut and I’m like what the fuck is in there??? Oh yeah, an incomprehensibly tiny human-in-progress
Pregnancy’s weird
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Hmmm choices are hard do I go outside or do I stay in to draw some fanarts 😔
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Alright, here me out...
What if the White Lady is a fungus?
(also have this old artwork I never posted)
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safety is a complex psychological state - I'm not academically accredited with a lot of expertise on it but -
maybe fewer ideological attacks or fabricated accusations might help on this one, too, in addition to like Visibility? I'd hate to think it was focused solely on makeup & sass & the like
I know it's just inexpert speculation but I suspect there's supportive data somewhere?
also the number of completely trans people instantly goes way up when you erase some Standards And Practices guidelines on Who Counts versus Who's Not Doing It Right
I feel like straightup radfems have got the Baseless Accusation stuff all covered. we really can leave them to it I bet
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weirdest urge to write fanfiction but all the prompts are just the cases I need to study
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okay so i’m gay but i’ve always struggled with wether or not i was attracted to men as well and you know i think i figured it out, i think im only attracted to men who look like women which is i mean yeah it fits OR men who look like jesus which is on religious trauma??? idk do with this information as you will
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i just heard a got/hotd youtuber say alicent was all about the rules and tradition and that her whole thing is team rules: yay rules, followthe rules everyone. rules make everything better. while rhaenyra is all about not following the rules.
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