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derpylittlenico · 6 months

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15 Questions for 15* Mutuals

tagged by the luminous @exlibrisfangirl

1. Are you named after anyone? Originally, yes. Now, also yes, but a different person.

2. When was the last time you cried? An hour ago. Tbh, it was an emotional moment in the fic I was reading.

3. Do you have kids? I helped raise two younger sibs. That's enough child rearing for me, and they turned out great.

4. What sports do/did you play? As part of a team...t-ball, soccer, volleyball. I was a ✨Theatre Kid✨, so wasn't really into it.

5. Do you use sarcasm? Do bears** shit in the woods?

6. What's the first thing you notice about someone? I have the dubious benefit of being a "brain shoves all the input at me so that a small crowd can make me short circuit" person, so? It's never one thing. It's usually a combo of posture + presence/vibe + interesting physical feature and/or style choice. Also? Scent, bc my delicate lungs means I'll notice if you bathe in your perfume/cologne pretty much right away.

7. What's your eye color? In the 2010s, they called it glasz.

8. Scary Movies or HEA? Depends on my mood. I was literally raised on cheesy 80s horror classics, so love them like some people love Rom Coms. HEAs are lovely too

9. Any talents? Writing. Editing (it's DEFINITELY a separate skill set, from my experience). Cooking without a recipe. Baking. Coming up with cocktails. Admin stuff like scheduling appts.

10. Where were you born? Sunny California

11. What are your hobbies? Reading, Writing, creating moodboards, drawing basic maps/floorplans

12. Any pets? Not anymore.

13. How tall are you? I'm 5ft 6in of sassy agéd twink.

14. Favorite subject(s) in (High) School? French & English

15. Dream job? If it paid well enough that I wouldn't have to work 65+ hrs a week just to eat and pay bills?? Freelance editing. I can work in pjs, take pee breaks when I wanna, and sit in a summoning circle of coffee mugs.

*I'm not tagging 15 people bc I know a lot of y'all flat out hate/block these things. So? Answer if you wanna, whether or not I tagged you

**the ursine kind. I don't presume to speak for the kind who wear flannel and jeans, or the ones in leather pants. I'm not gonna tell those hirsuite hotties how to live their lives.

tagged peeps (ignore if you wanna)

@worldtravellingfly @beaconfeels @laternenfisch

...I know that's not a lot, but? I am not gonna tag those of you who don't like these. However, if you see this and wanna play along? This is your invite. You can say I invited you. :3

#answered ask #exlibrisfangirl #ask me #yes my ask response has footnotes don't at me

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fairycosmos · 2 years

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i think the problem w society is that it's still seen like having kids is just what you do and the ultimate goal and purpose in life and you just do your best and thats it and when kids are a bit older they just have to have empathy and understand that parents are humans too and bla fucking bla this is all fine and dandy with parents that are generally fine but some parents are physically or emotionally abusive and can just fuck a person's life up so tremendously and definitively that they just shouldn't be awarded forgiveness like there's just absolutely no reason to!!!! and yes i can understand ur upbringing and why ur this fucked up that you did those things to me but you should have simply not had children!!! it's just that easy!!!!! it is absolutely not my fucking problem to forgive you you just fucked up and you could have just not done that and i simply refuse to show these people any empathy, like i will simply just not have children bc i know what i'm like and i couldn't imagine justifying my behavior to a human being that has to face a messed up existence just bc i wanted them to????? FOR WHAT OH MY GODDDDD

soooo real. u said it. i want to eat this ask and store it in my brain forever. like my dad has literally told me the only reason he and my mam had kids was because "that's what you were supposed to do after marriage." absolutely no forethought or consideration for the human person they were going to produce at the end of it - me and my siblings were a footnote on THEIR lives, nothing more. and he says this very matter-of-factly, as if it shouldn't upset me because they tried their best and did what they could.

i think parents collectively need to realize that by and large - their best is not good enough at all LOL. their best would've been making the conscious choice not to take on responsibility they were not equipped to handle! i genuinely don't think they cognitively realize that they they are not entitled to understanding, gratitude and forgiveness for raising (i.e damaging) a kid just because it was hard for them; when they fkn committed to that level of difficulty the moment they decided to get pregnant.

i'm sympathetic to my parents and their upbringing, i understand why they are the way they are and why they think the way they think (to an extent) but like u put it - it's also not my problem. and it doesn't change how fucked my life is because they made shitty decisions. you know? you definitely don't owe ur parents forgiveness or empathy or even the time of the day after a certain point either, if they really put you through some shit. i totally get it. also exactly! like it always baffles me to think about how EASY it is to not have kids (not for everyone, i know this is a tenuous conversation w a lot of moving variables, just generally speaking in the context of my own life.)

how EASY it is to not ruin somebody's existence just by choosing not to engage with the idea in the first place if ur current circumstances don't support the reality of parenthood. there's so much power in that, in having the self awareness to know you need to do the right thing and ppl just seem to bypass it completely bc they want a cute baby. that thing you said about having to justify ur harmful behaviour to a messed up child, who is only going through that pain because you wanted them here (yet can't provide them what they need!) really struck a chord with me.

that really is the bones of it huh. that's what most ppl have to live with during childhood, through no fault of their own too, and so the world is the way it is. run by the end result of that - emotionally stunted adults, at best. it's sad. anyway it feels like solace knowing other ppl feel this way too and im glad ur out there making smart choices and actually thinking things through lol. wishing you healing and peace x

#anon #sorry this got long. i had a lot 2 say as always. gemini girl #thingz...#long post #tw child abuse #tw abuse

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radon-knight · 3 months

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Game with My Wife

My wife and I play this game (more of a running bit really), that either one of us will bring up when we, at least I for sure, recognize something so embarrassingly specific within ourselves, we try to express it as if we are titling our own standup comedy special.

We have played so long that now my wife has started asking me, "wait, what was the really good one I had last time?" And I can never remember. (Neither can she, this isn't some kind of are-men-okay-they-must-hate-their-wives-if-they-can't-remember-everything-they've-ever-said. It's just a game we play to distract ourselves from embarrassment (and if I were a betting man, I'd say 'cringe' became slang for embarressing because it's hard to spell)[1.1] and, our brains try to forget those moments, so the bits often go with them[1.0]. So I have decided that it would be fun to keep a running list of them here, in case I ever get the balls... to forgive myself to get back onstage. "You want to cancel John Mulaney? I'll KILL John Mulaney!" ~Baby J

Me:

"Finding my Piece(Peace))"

"Netflix's 'Tortured Genius' Category"

"High-Functioning" - That was my therapist's extremely nice response to me asking for a grade during my 3rd session (not how it works apparently). But if I wanted to lean on the wordplay of "high" as in THC, I'd want any and all my references too weed to be non-comedic as to avoid sounding like a hack. I'm not sure if this title is good enough to warrant working that hard.

"Overthinking" - but it will read "Thinking" with a graphic of me jumping over the word "Thinking." I'm "over" thinking. Over-thinking. It makes more sense when you can see it... I think.

Wife:

I don't remember any of hers right now, but hopefully I remember that I wrote this post at all. (I'm violently high right now)[1.2].

Footnotes: [1.0] Unless it's 3am and you can't sleep, then your brain plays your fucking Cringe Highlight Reel... which is endless. [1.1] yes, it is misspelled, but only the second time. [1.2] Hack.

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kunstmull · 7 months

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Captain Save-A-Hisashi rides again!

I don't know if the comment got eaten by the spam filter; or if it was another case of "did not understand my sense of humour"; or if the blogger has fallen into a black hole on the way to Andromeda, but I did actually save the text, and wanted to post it somewhere, in case anyone ever has any response.

{Comment followed a thread where a random googler had asked for explanation of the Greek letters in Buck-Tick's Nostalgia - Vita Mechanicalis. CP responded to the effect of, don't read too much into it, Imai is not very well educated and the whole thing was just a reference to some Steampunk phone game.}

((Further edited to add: yes, it's entirely possible that this is just a reference to a game, and Delta-Iota-Lambda-Xi refers to nothing more complicated than:

There is indeed both a Delta and a Xi in these characters))

The comment I left in response:

It’s true that Imai is an art school dropout, and his monotropic brain simply cannot hang on to information he doesn’t have an interest in, such as penmanship or random prefectures of Japan. It’s such a SHAME that there is literally no place on Earth or Andromeda where one can come across Greek symbols other than high school maths class!

Chapter 1: amidst the profusion of Imai interviews I’ve absorbed recently, I came across one where our boy mentioned reading James Gleick, so it’s clear he actually does read popular science. (Sorry I can’t footnote it for you, my monotropic brain has never got the hang of footnotes.) Something clicked, as to why the ill-fated tour for Cosmos was named CHAOS: it’s a pun, a synthesis of the “Anarchy” meaning (another long-term preoccupation of Imai, hence the most obvious) and the “complex, self-organising systems” meaning – manifesting in the post-Gleick mid-90s as a pop-science fascination with Fractals. On the chance Imai was fibbing about reading a big book about maths, the ideas popularised by Gleick were widely discussed and heavily used in the fields of Videogame design and Animation – fields Imai has well-known and documented Special Interests in. Knowledge absorbed from pop culture is still knowledge.

Chapter 2: Imai got online in the mid-90s, as documented in his seminal “log off and touch grass” song. What was he arguing about on Usenet? Same things as the rest of us early internet geeks: “Dinosaurs, CT scanners, love, that girl's tooth prints, Klein bottles etc.” Your translation of “いわゆる全てに共通する図形“ is lost, but Google misTranslate is giving me "So-called common-to-all shapes" something that looks suspiciously like set theory or platonic solids? The ~Science Side of Tumblr~. Imai was soaking in it!

Conclusion: living on the net, reading popular science books, imbibing sci-fi, it is not inconceivable that Imai either *does* know the common maths/physics meanings of the Greek symbols he chose; or he lifted them directly from someone who does. (Edited to add: this is the thing; even if he did just lift it from a game; games designers are notorious for adding esoteric references as Easter Eggs. Coming from a game does not mean that it is not meaningful.)

So let’s look at these symbols and see how they link to other common geography of Hisashiland

Δ Delta – this is the easiest one. Delta is the rate of change, usually over time. Everything changes. The only constant over time is change. (The second law of thermodynamics, entropy fans.) ((Edited to add: if I look through my Tumblr archives, I probably can find a long post I made about the relationship between the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Einstuerzende Neubauten's Sehnsucht.))

Ι Iota – the smallest possible amount. How often has Imai referenced scientific words for the concept of the most tiny? Atom Futurist No. 9 (Democritus theorised the Atom – indivisible – as the smallest, infinite, indestructible building block of nature before the Victorians smashed this to pieces with the discovery of the Electron.) Quantum I & II – quantum theory smashed the idea of the smallest building block of nature the way Rutherford smashed the indivisible atom. Iota is another science term for the same thing: the tiny indivisible.

Λ Lambda – the Cosmological Constant. Since the Big Bang, the Universe has been constantly expanding (see section Delta – change!) Lambda is a little mathematical fiddle that Einstein added to the Theory of Relativity to account for the fact that the expansion of the universe is always accelerating. Why? Dark Matter? Dark Energy? This is hotly debated in physics, but in Hisashiland the metaphor of Dark Matter or Dark Energy is repeatedly employed as a necessary corrective for the Blue Sky of conformity.

Ξ Xi – this one was the hardest to crack. At first I thought he’d mis-transliterated the Greek Chi which is the standard mathematical X of the unknown. Xi is the Riemann Function. What’s he about? He’s usually associated with non-Euclidean geometries, surfaces that are impossible outside of multidimensional spaces – moebius strips, Calabi-Yau manifolds (the working model for superstrings, another way of trying to understand where all the extra dark energy/matter is hiding in 10-dimensional space, see Lambda for what Dark Energy means in Hisashiland), and… Klein Bottles, which Imai was getting in flame wars over on the early internet. To understand the true scientific nature of reality, one has to think outside the mosquito net – outside the constraints of the human limitations of three-dimensional perception. In Riemannian maths, dark energy can fold up to hide inside extra dimensions within infinitesimally tiny spaces.

Now these letters may have been chosen stochastically, but all four of them refer to concepts that recur again and again in the hermeneutics of Hisashiland. And one of Gleick’s most profound insights is that randomness isn’t actually that random. Even chaos follows its own cosmological order. Imai may be dirty and strange, but he’s nowhere near as cute-and-dumb as he looks!

#imai mon amour #Nostalgia -Vita Mechanicalis-#things that were in my brain and they are better out of my brain #long post is long

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maxwell-grant · 3 years

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I hope you don't mind me dropping asks on you every day? Anyways, a general question on modern-day attempts at using existing Pulp Heroes; do you think there is value in setting such tales in the modern day, rather than being period pieces? And if one does do so, do you think the best approach is to go full setting update, or to somehow translate the characters into the modern day, or to go the Legacy route?

I eagerly look forward to answering all kinds of questions, so don’t hesitate to send any my way!. Any feedback or excuse I get to go off on a subject is extremely appreciated.

Okay so on to your question:

...Man, that really seems like the billion dollar question when it comes to the pulp heroes, isn’t it? The one at least that every conversation regarding adapting these characters, giving them reboots or new stories, seems to inevitably get stuck on: Should these characters be left as is, or modernized? Is there any point to trying to modernize them when often, at least in the public view, the only thing that separates them from being diet superheroes is their time period? Can these characters even survive as anything other than historical footnotes if they don’t move past the trappings of time holding them back? I’ve been very firmly on both sides of the question at different points and I think every answer inevitably brings up solutions and problems of it’s own.

For the moment, I’m going to start by saying that it’s something of a case by case basis. For example, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a timeless archetype, but one who’s specific characterization and history is so tied up to it’s time period that it’s far better to just reimagine the Pimpernel into a different character set in a different time, than to try and remove the Blakeneys from their time period, likewise with characters who cross into historical fantasy like Conan or western characters, where they have such strongly defined settings and playgrounds that you’d be losing much by removing them from it.

But on the other hand, you have characters like The Phantom, or The Avenger, who very clearly could exist at just about any point in time and don’t have any specific complications holding them to the 30s (in fact The Phantom was arguably designed for this, being he kickstarted the whole legacy superhero concept). A lot of the times, people seem to think or insist that certain pulp characters cannot be separated from their time periods, even when they were well on their way to doing so before some unfortunate cancellation. The Shadow, for example. Gibson had no problems updating the character’s adventures to the 60s for the Belmont series, and if The Shadow had maintained the kind of continuous publication that Batman and Superman had, I have no doubt whatsoever that nobody would even peg him as a character that belongs to the 30s and the 30s only, even if a lot of important aspects of his character are tied up in 30s America and The Great War and whatnot.

To try and streamline this response into something more general, I’m going to state that, yes, I do think it’s a case by case basis where some characters don’t work as well outside their time periods, and others should have left them ages ago, but in general? I think most of the pulp heroes would stand to benefit much more from being set, not just in modern times, but outside of time. Or at least, outside of a specific time period being something that defines and entraps them. Pretty much none of these characters, outside of historical fantasy examples like Conan or characters whose genres are locked into specific past time periods like cowboys, were intended to be period pieces, and yet that’s what they became, because time has been extremely cruel to the pulp heroes in many ways.

To bring up superheroes briefly, while I maintain that I think the real secret to making pulp heroes work and achieve success again is to distance them from superheroes, or at least the popular blockbuster superheroes, as much as possible, the superheroes have been around running the show for a while now and experimenting a lot as an inescapable facet of pop culture that's worked out monstrously well so far,nso clearly there’s a lot to learn there. The superheroes by and large belong in shared universes held tight by copyright where the weight of accumulating timelines inevitably forces them to either undergo reboots every couple of years, or endure constant quiet retcons snipping away at continuity so the cohesive “Superhero Universes” can function. But there’s no such thing as some big “Pulp Hero Universe” existing anywhere near the same capacity, there’s works gesturing to the idea like the Wold Newton Universe and LOEG and Dynamite’s shared author works largely scrapped together from separate sources all drifting apart, and most of these characters have largely fallen through the cracks of copyright law and into outright non-existence, or are halfway there. Very few modern instances of "cinematic universes" outside of the MCU work, so what we do instead is go the opposite route, closer to DC's "throw anything at the wall to see what sticks" approach.

What I’m getting to is, I could flip through the pages of Jess Nevins’s Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes, pick about 3 or 5 random characters, put them in a story regardless of whatever time period they used to be a part of, and make something out of it, without anyone stopping to question “Hey, hold up, why is Joel Saber not on Victorian England? Why are Uirassu and Tom Shark in a loving relationship when they don’t even belong in the same decade? Why did you turn Allan Crystal into a talking sparrow? You are betraying the source material, these characters don’t work outside of it”. Because nobody has any idea who those guys are, they might as well be just original names I made up (I didn't, btw), and nobody has any reason to care, they will only care if they read good, engaging stories with strong characterizations that give them a reason to be invested. And if achieving that requires ditching adherence to the source material (which doesn’t even exist anymore for at least a third of these characters), I cannot see that as a bad thing.

He's nowhere near the ballpark of pulp heroes but I'm going to bring up King Arthur as an example because he’s been on my mind today.

All of these, and countless others, are King Arthur. I’m no expert in Arthuriana, but from what I’ve gathered, I’d make a pretty good guess that one of the main reasons why King Arthur has been able to endure so strongly, and have so many variations that we have an entire area of study dedicated just to untangling those messes we call Arthuriana, has less to do with his historical or mythological importance (you hardly see that many stories about Cú Chulainn), but because the lore and imagery and events surrounding King Arthur have so utterly transcended the source material that people still dispute what the source material even was, or if he was a real person, or if he was created by the Welsh and stolen by Brits, and etc, and because he's completely free for any writers and artists to mold and use to anything they see fit.

King Arthur is not so much a character as much as he’s a sandbox that literally anyone can play in and reshape as they see fit, with no shortage of existing events and characters and magical items that you can treat as either essential staples, or guidelines and suggestions at best. I have three separate ideas for King Arthur as a big shark man in a greaser outfit who yields an oversized hair comb with fishhooks attached as Excalibur, one where he’s a monstrous dragon who sleeps in the ruin of his former kingdom guarding the only remaining memory of Guinevere left, and one where he’s a disembodied consciousness inside a giant mechanical bear. I could pick any of these and make a story out of them, or insert these into a story, any time I want, and nobody could stop me.

Point is, I think a lot, even most, of the pulp heroes would benefit from having some kind of “no-holds-barred, just do anything you want out of whatever you find interesting about the original” approach, a lot more so than the superheroes already do, because if there’s a single group of characters nowadays that best embodies an “anything goes” approach, a group that is almost entirely in public domain nowadays save for it’s biggest icons and therefore is already available for people to take and spin any way they want, it’s the pulp heroes. These characters have been in stasis for so long, or all but faded into nothingbbut mere footnotes in encyclopedia or records in libraries not even available online, and sometimes not even that. Most of their fanbases have largely died off and they are nowhere near close to gaining new ones, and our changing media tastes call for contrasts as much as it calls for profit. No sensible person would invest in most of these properties as they stand now, which is precisely what ultimately gives them the freedom to be anything at the conceptual stage. The only thing that really, really holds them back is time, which, again, has really not been kind to them. So why adhere to it? Screw time and whatever power it’s long held over these characters, let’s get weird with it.

So if I have to choose between “full setting update, translating the characters to modern day, or the Legacy route”, all three of which are perfectly viable depending on the character, I think the best option, generally speaking, is full setting update, if only because the setting should never be the main priority in the first place. The setting, like everything else, is there to serve the story and the author’s needs and wants, and I’m of the opinion that the setting should always primarily exist in service of the characters, as my writing and my favorite writings are all character centered above all else.

I think putting the pulp heroes in radically different time periods and settings could even yield interesting results. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal stars a caveman Conan/Tarzan type protagonist interacting with dinosaurs, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta is a Shadow-esque character set loose in a dystopian future, Grendel is the Fantomas of 1980s New York, and so on. The precedent is there and I think it can be taken much further.

Really I think a lot of the problems and arguments that have arisen over the years in regards to adapting the pulp heroes often result of people overthinking things, lord knows I do enough of that all the time. I really think it’s just something that only seems impossible because it hasn’t really been done yet. Of course, in regards to The Shadow I obviously have a whole different text as to whether I’d want him to be adapted or not, but in general, my ultimate response to what you asked is just do whatever you think is gonna make the story better and the characters more interesting. A.K.A, do whatever you want.

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botanyshitposts · 4 years

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I don't know why but the anon response about the succulent dehydrator was like viscerally terrifying to me. The image of succulents desperately trying to root & grow as they are deprived of all their moisture in order to preserve their dessicated remains is probably something that'll stay with me for a long time. So thank you, you made me think heavily on a subject I have never given serious thought to before. I always loved succulents, but now their abilities seem a lot more fascinating to me.

i love those moments that remind you that plants are like, 1. real wild things with adaptations to live in a native habitat and 2. things that can give you a biological riddle to work with (in the case of apparent adaptations with unknown applications, or applications with unclear adaptations). i feel like every time i encounter one of these instances it makes me a better scientist, on top of just being kind of thrilling to figure out.

here’s another one i came across recently:

for my plant anatomy class, we all had to do an anatomical examination of an assigned plant from the biology greenhouse. i was assigned Aeschynanthus radicans, which has the common name ‘the lipstick plant’ (named for its flowers) and is a relatively popular houseplant.

A. radicans, along with the closely related species A. pulcher, are both native to southern Thailand and western malesia (’malesia’ referring to the broader biogeographical region used for applying to plants in the area, not ‘malaysia’ the country, although malesia the region does encompasses malaysia the country. yes i thought this was a misspelling in one of my sources at first and was confused). they’re most often reported along streams in evergreen forests, and usually are lithophytic or epiphytic (living among rocks or living on surrounding plants/trees in a non-parasitic way). they have a creeping growth form that, in houseplant formation, just kind of falls over the sides of a hanging basket.

a weird footnote with A. radicans and A. pulcher in terms of anatomy is the distinctive cells on their seeds. Aeschynanthus as a genus makes a ton of tiny seeds that look roughly like tan flax seeds with a long white hairs coming out either side. in A. radicans and A. pulcher and a couple of their relatives, they have what’s been termed as ‘bubble cells’, which is a formation of clear, inflated cells at one end (specifically the hilar end) of the seed itself, which tapers off into the long hair on that side. my main source called this ‘curious’ and mentioned it in exactly one sentence, but i actually got to see it for myself when looking at one of the seeds under a microscope in lab.

unfortunately i was focused on cutting open the seed itself and ended up cutting off the hairs at either side to make it fit on the slide easier, which meant that i also accidentally cut off the top part of the bubble cell cluster, but here’s what it looks like under a microscope:

(in the left pic you can actually see where my razor blade cut open a swath of the cells lmao, they just look like deflated bags above the intact ones….oops. also, quick side note, the main source i used that mentioned these cells is ‘A Revision of Aeschynanthus (Gesneriaceae) in Thailand’ by Middleton, 2007.)

anyway. so when i was presenting this i finished and my professor was like, ‘i’ve never heard of that bubble cell thing before, that’s pretty cool’ and then she asked me why i thought they were there. like what function i thought they were serving. and i had no idea? like again the paper that mentioned it was just like ‘huh that’s weird’ and i hadn’t put much thought into it other than ‘hee hee 🅱️ubble cell’ so i was like, ‘well maybe additional food/water storage, or just ornamentation?’.

and then she gave me her interpretation, which is that these plants are most commonly found living on trees and rocks, in a creeping growth form, next to streams. so a more solid hypothesis would be that these cells are used for floatation, or otherwise serve to increase the surface area to help disperse the seeds when they hit the water. like, something to help maintain surface tension.

anyway. that theory, although untested, fits very nicely and gave my three brain cells a whole 3 molecules of dopamine, standing up there with my presentation. like, let me tell you. what a rush

#its like house md but instead of saving people its like. incredibly trivial plant mysteries #gets you to think tho #like they're just adapting to survive like any other organisms on earth #asks #plont asks #plant anatomy #succulents #Anonymous

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urbancripple · 4 years

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I Have a Discord Server

I have a discord server that is not currently publicly join-able. It's a small, chill, close-knit group of (mostly physically disabled) folks who also happen to follow my blog.

I'm looking to open up my server a bit and send some invites out to folks. But I'm not gonna open it up publicly for anyone to join. Here's why: I have neither the time or energy to moderate shit. I don't wanna have to worry about what's going on in the server and keeping it small makes that a hell of a lot easier.

All that being said, a more active server is a better server and in order to make it more active, it needs more people. So, take a look at the server description below and follow the instructions to get an invite. If the following things apply to you:

You have a physical disability

You use a mobility aid (e.g., crutch, wheelchair)

You follow my blog

You are 18+ (it's not a NSFW server, but I don't want to deal with children)

You want a place to talk to disabled people about being disabled

You want a place to talk to disable people about other stuff, while being disabled.

You want a place to ask/give tips for navigating life as a disabled person

Then my server might interest you.

If the following things apply to you:

You consider yourself more of an ally to the disabled than disabled

You love disabled Twitter/Tumblr/wherever drama

The most interesting thing about is the fact that you have a disability

You enjoy participating in online discourse

You get more out of the "mental health" sides of Tumblr than the "physical disability" side of Tumblr

You're looking for a place to vent / talk exclusively about what's been bothering you

My server isn't for you.

If you're interested in joining my server, send me a non-anonymous ask (you can use Tumblr or my website) with the following:

What you hope to get out of my server

What kind of mobility aid you use or what your disability is

The vegetable you hate the most (this is to confirm you've read this far)

How you found my blog or a particular article you liked that I wrote

The Discord username you'll use to join the server

Do not DM me.

If I like what I see, I'll reply with an invite code.

I'm not putting all this in place because I think I and my server are hot shit. Again, I simply just do not have the time for traditional Tumblr bullshit or discord server moderation. Additionally, I genuinely care about the folks who are currently on my server. They're cool folks and I don't want to invite someone in to the server that may harm their experience. So I'm doing all this to filter it out.

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missluthorwillseeyounow · 5 years

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Trust (SuperCorp Criminal Minds AU)

I have 2 SuperCorp versions of this. This is currently my favorite one. Born mostly because Katie in Kevlar is HOT.

DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about the FBI, law enforcement or intelligence agencies, sorry. Also, for the FBI agent watching me, THIS is what all those searches were for, and nothing else:

⦁ The BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit) team in this AU is led by J'onn, and consists of Alex, Maggie, James, and Winn. Brainy is their technical analyst. Sometimes I add Sam in as the PR liaison in the team, and Nia as an FBI trainee.

⦁ Lena is in the team, too. She's a transfer from Interpol, and she's had years of experience in profiling, suspect and victim identification, as well as infiltration, under her belt (I also hc that she worked with the CIA and the MI6, mostly in intel, profiling and undercover work). In this version, I kinda put her in Prentiss's role, but y'know, more Lena Luthor-esque.

⦁ Lena is still a Luthor in this one. Lex is a serial killer, and this is part of the reason why Lena took an interest in criminal profiling, and joined the BAU in the first place. She feels responsible for not stopping Lex before he could kill at least 47 people (that they know of).

⦁ Lex started killing when Lena was ten. She'd been shipped off to boarding school, and she didn't know about it. During the holidays when she returned to Luthor Manor, she didn't see it at first, because Lex was very clever at hiding it, but soon, she begins to see signs of his psychopathy.

⦁ In one version of this story, Clark is a reporter who, like Lena, made the connection between Lex and the murders. One night after dinner with the Luthors, Clark sneaks into Lex's study to find evidence he can use for his story.

He’s rummaging in a desk when he hears a voice from the doorway.

"You won't find anything there." Clark whips around to find Lena standing there, silhouetted against the light coming from the hall. He tenses, thinking she's about to tell her brother what Clark was doing.

"If Lex really is behind these murders, and I know you think he is, you won't find anything there. He's not foolish enough to hide evidence here."

Clark doesn't say anything, he just stares at her. Lena pauses, looking away. "I... I didn't want to believe it. Not Lex... He wouldn't..." Steel injects itself into her green gaze. "But the more time I spend with him, the more clearly I see the truth. You see it too, don't you?"

Clark straightens up and nods gravely. “Yes.”

⦁ I haven't thought it through quite yet, but they get the FBI involved, including one agent on the fast track to unit chief, J'onn Jonzz. He meets Lena only briefly, and he's struck by the young girl's keen intelligence and remarkable calm. He's the one who suggests that she consider a career in profiling and criminal psychology.

⦁ Fast forward 12 or so years later, Lena is on the BAU with the others. For the sake of her anonymity (and also because it was necessary for her undercover work), she's erased all connections to Lex and the Luthors (including old photographs and newspaper articles until the name Lena Luthor is but a footnote in the Luthor history with nothing to tie her to who she is now). She's also changed her last name to her birth mother's (and just because I'm also an Adlocker, I hc that her last name now is Wolfe but whatever).

⦁ She's very professional, is revered by the younger agents in the Bureau, well-respected by her colleagues and highly praised by her superiors (they all secretly call her "The Ice Queen"). But she's very guarded and keeps everyone at arm's length, doesn't go out for after-work drinks with the others, practically sleeps with one eye open -- years of working undercover and living with a serial killer will do that to you.

⦁ Until a certain promising young recruit comes along. Special Agent Kara Danvers is new in town -- adopted sister of Agent Alex Danvers, the cousin of one of J'onn's old friends (I don't think teaming family members up is actually allowed in the FBI, so some suspension of disbelief is required here). Since he doesn't want to be accused of nepotism in his own team, he asks Lena to oversee her training and transition into the team herself.

⦁ Kara's sunny demeanor couldn't clash more with Lena's icy, professional front. Lena approaches the task with thinly-veiled impatience and something remarkably close to disdain.

However, Kara quickly proves to be more than a perky attitude and a pretty smile. She squirms at blood, which Lena is initially quick to exploit (What FBI profiler can't stand the sight of a bludgeoned corpse? "We profile serial killers here, not celebrities in high-waisted jeans.") -- but Kara displays true empathy to the victims and their families, she's sensitive to other people's emotions and knows just what to say to get a reluctant victim or witness talking. She's extremely dedicated to catching the unsubs, and relentless in her investigation, and she's extremely handy to have around in a crisis.

⦁ Lena finds this last part out when they're on a case, trying to find a missing girl. The team is headed to the unsub's apartment, but on a hunch, Lena heads to an abandoned warehouse near the apartment, with only Kara as backup. They enter the warehouse, and just as they're clearing the rooms and checking for the missing girl, the unsub attacks Lena and manages to pin her to the ground, choking her. Kara gets there just in time to shoot the unsub in the leg, saving Lena's life.

⦁ Later that evening, Kara and the rest of the team go to the bar to celebrate. Lena is absent, as usual.

Just as Kara is getting another round of drinks at the bar, a low, smoky voice interrupts her. "Didn't profile you as a drinker, Danvers. I wonder what other surprises you're hiding behind those glasses and cardigans."

Kara squeaks and turns to see Lena behind her. "Agent Wolfe! I didn’t expect to see you here-- No, these aren't all for me, I--"

Lena's face softens at Kara's babbling, and she takes a few of the shot glasses from Kara's hands. "You know, I have a rule... Anyone who saves my life gets to call me Lena."

Kara blushes profusely at the other woman’s arched eyebrow. "Well then, if I'm calling you Lena--"

Lena smirks. "Kara it is, then."

For the first time -- much to the gaping surprise of the rest of the team she's worked with for years -- Lena joins them for a post-case drink.

⦁ To everyone's -- and no one's -- surprise, the pair quickly become the best of friends. 2 days into their friendship, Lena starts jokingly calling her Supergirl. 3 weeks later, they start grabbing lunch together.

3 months in, Kara sends Lena a video of herself petting a St. Bernard on the street only to be bowled over in a mass of furry paws and puppy licks -- and the cadets Lena is training are even more bowled over to hear the "Ice Queen" laugh (of course, they're later treated with a scorching glare and a sharp reprimand, but it's a revelation just to discover that she's actually physically capable of laughing).

By 6 months, the whole department is in a secret "will they or won't they" betting pool. A year in, and every other department has stakes in the pool (Alex publicly condemns the pool, but secretly has Maggie bet a hundred bucks for her that "they will" by winter next year).

⦁ But despite their growing closeness, Lena has yet to tell Kara about Lex, or about her life working undercover for Interpol (which includes a decidedly less-good Kate Kane). She decides to bury it in the past, (wishful) thinking that it belongs there. Lena is no longer the same teenager betrayed by her brother when he killed forty people. Nor is she "Lauren Reynolds", the undercover "arms dealer", who had betrayed Valhalla, the woman who commanded a terrorist cell by day and worshiped Lena’s body by night (yes, I put Kate in the role of Ian Doyle).

So she keeps silent. About Lex. About Kate Kane and Valhalla. About the beautiful little boy with wide, trusting eyes, who was not her son, but whom Lena had loved and protected all these years as if he were.

⦁ There are too many secrets, Lena decides, as she shoves them all one by one into their little boxes, clamping the lid securely shut. Kara is too good to be tainted by any of them. Kara, who gets squeamish at the sight of blood, but resolutely hunts each killer like an avenging angel. Kara, who somehow, still believes in the good in people, and when she realizes that there is very little of that to be found in Lena Wolfe or Lena Luthor, Kara will hate her as much as Lena hates herself.

But then the day comes when Lena receives a package in the mail. She reaches in and pulls out two things: a four-leaf clover, and a surveillance photo of Kara and Lena having lunch together. On the back of the photograph are three cryptic little words that fill her with dread: “See you soon.”

[yeah, so I’m binge-watching Criminal Minds with these AU-goggles firmly in place now] Should I continue this????

#supercorp #katie mcgrath #melissa benoist #lena luthor #supergirl #kara danvers #alex danvers #j'onn j'onzz #clark kent #lex luthor #criminal minds #fanfic #supercorp au #i just had to get this out of my head

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sirro85-blog · 5 years

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Humans are Space Orcs: Professionalism

I watched as Angie and Petra worked calmly, they appeared to have some form of telepathy although I had been assured this was not a skill humans possess.

Petra opened another kit bag and pulled a plasticated sheet out which she spread on the damp gravel and began to prepare kit on it. She held out a hand and was handed an item by Angie, this was slid into the injured soldier's throat, "Grade 1." Petra muttered almost to herself, she opened her free left hand.

Through the light mist on Ferrou 3 i watched these two human women save the life of a man they didn't know, barely 100 human meters infront of them an intense fire fight took place. As they worked Staff Sergeant Frank King approached, "Petra, if you're stable I need you, Henners is down, it's bad."

From my relatively secure vantage point I watched as the three medics worked on their friend and colleague, I expected them to be frantic or anxious but all three of them were calm, they each performed their tasks fluidly and within less than 5 minutes Henry had his missing limbs bound, the bleeding was stopped, he had an artificial airway in place and was strapped to a stretcher ready for evacuation. Petra and Angie packed their kit and Frank nodded at them and moved on.

Later on when the Dark Horses had captured the Tellrosa outpost and began to secure their position I witnessed Petra, Ange, Jaq and Dana working to save the lives of two mortally wounded Tellrosa soldiers, I could see no difference in their actions these military medics who had just worked so hard to save the life of their comrades now worked so hard to save the lives of those who had hurt their friends.

Later after the events on Ferrou 3 and long after the Tellrosa incursion was halted I spoke to Angie about that day. I asked her how she remained calm while trying to save Henry and she replied:

"It wouldn't help him, we had to work quickly and efficiently to save his life, the best thing I coyld do for him was my job."

When I asked her why they tried to save the lives of the Tellrosa she said:

"It's our job, we won't always be at war with our enemies and if there are survivors who know we tried to save them, it can help lead to peace."

"Its our job" let me tell you, humans "just doing there job" have out performed the best of genetically engineered, purpose bred species.

Major Kovac left the surviving men of the 10th airborne rangers to fortify the position and pushed his own squadron on, I will admit the speed of their advance left me exhausted, I could barely keep up as the humans pushed on. Ferrou 3 is a planet of rock and sea, as Captain Becca's 2 troop led the advance over and down the mountain side. I spoke with Major Kovac, or rather I gasped for breath - my single lung not intended for a fast advance up a mountain while Kovac explained his intentions.

"The Tellrosa, well nobody, can broadcast off this planet, it's one big magnet and it just isn't possible to send an interplanetary message that doesn't get garbled. They're racing for their ships, once they get there...It's an end to the peace process and a new war, you understand the political nonsense better than me but with the information they have...I don't want to fight another war."

I was stunned, Kovac always said without the military he'd have died in jail but now he said he did not want to fight wars, "surely a soldier welcomes war?" I ventured.

Kovac stared at me, "depends what you train them for," he allowed, "If you train rabid attack dogs who believe in glory and BEING THE BEST then yes they'll look forward to their first war, till you lose control of them and the survivors are tortured with their memories not matching their expectations..." he gestured around him, "these are professional soldiers, they're lazy, work shy, and proud of it, they are as unreliable as they are dependable and if that makes no sense then neither do soldiers, they take pride in being good at what they do...they're...they are soldiers not "warriors," professionals"

"The warrior caste amongst my people are soldiers and they are born for war,"

"No soldier who has seen war will welcome another, but where else could I...be?"

I've had the privilege to witness these professionals fight in wars, skirmishes, clashes of no import and bar fights, in my humble opinion their finest day was in the Tellrosa pursuit across Ferrou 3, a minor clash on an unlovely ball of iron, a footnote in history because 120 professional soldiers took history by the scruff of the neck.

I once asked a fellow professor a human what professionalism was, his response was simple.

"Gleax, professionalism is wanting to do a good job because you'd be ashamed to do a bad job and having the knowledge to know the difference between them."

#humans are insane #humans are space australians #humans are space oddities #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #space faerie #space australia #space orcs #earth is a deathworld

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blessedarethebinarybreakers · 7 years

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Before I ask my question, know that I don't mean anything disrespectful. I'm genuinely trying to wrap my head around this and don't really know where to start. Regarding God's gender, I agree that using solely male/masculine terms to discuss God is a bit silly. But did Jesus not give us the "Our Father" and refer to God explicitly as His Father in the Gospel? I'd love to pursue a possible answer, but have no idea where I'd even begin. Thank you! =)

Hi there! You’re not being disrespectful at all, and you’re asking great questions. I hope you don’t mind me posting this, because I think you bring up important points for anyone looking to expand their language for God.

Indeed, the Gospels never record Jesus calling God his mother – but they do record him calling himself a mother! Matthew 23:37 says, “how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.” And Jesus is God, so that’s one instance of God as mother. Here is a post with some more musings on Jesus’s gender.

Beyond that, one might wonder whether Jesus would have used a gender neutral term for God had one been available to him. The Aramaic word Jesus used for God as Father, Abba, does not have a neutral option. In many languages, however, that have only masculine and feminine nouns, the masculine doubles as neutral. I certainly don’t think it goes beyond what Jesus wanted if we call God our Mother and Parent as well as our Father.

And Jesus’ language for God is not the only language for God that we find in Scripture. From the very beginning, in Genesis 1, we find the image of God as a brooding mother bird – Genesis 1:2 uses a rare word to describe the breath/wind/Spirit of God hovering/moving/brooding over the face of the waters.The Lumina Bible offers this footnote for the word: “The Hebrew verb has been translated “hovering” or “moving” (as a bird over her young, see Deut 32:11). The Syriac cognate term means “to brood over; to incubate.” How much of that sense might be attached here is hard to say, but the verb does depict the presence of the Spirit of God moving about mysteriously over the waters, presumably preparing for the acts of creation to follow….”

Woman Wisdom of the wisdom literature is a feminine figure attributed to God – while our Jewish siblings seem to hold the reading of this figure as wisdom personified, many Christians see her either as the Holy Spirit or as Jesus. And so Woman Wisdom is Divine.

If you wander through my God beyond Gender tag, you will find more posts – such as this one – with more biblical imagery for God that is not masculine.

Finally, I would argue that not only is sticking solely to masculine language for God silly, it is downright harmful to all of us made in the Image of God, especially those of us who are not men. Lynn Japinga makes this argument well in chapter three of Feminism and Christianity – you can read the full chapter in Google Drive here. Some highlights:

“If we see God as a man or more like a man or more properly named in male language, we tend to think of men as more like God, and women as less like God. Mary Daly captured the essence of this problem with her pithy phrase, ‘If God is male, then the male is God.’”

“Certainly God is like a father in some ways; but God is far more than that, and language for God ought to reflect a sense of mystery and awe as well as of relationship. Human beings ultimately cannot name the God who is always several steps ahead of them and who refuses to be confined by the names they choose.”

“Johanna Bos [my now-retired Hebrew professor!] suggested the formula ‘yes, no, and more so’ as a way to understand language for God. Many metaphors or names for God, such as Father, Mother, Rock, or Light, say something true about God – the ‘yes.’ Yet every metaphor falls short, and no title names God accurately or adequately – the ‘no.’ God always transcends human attempts to name and describe God – the ‘more so.’God is love, we often say, and it is true. But human understanding of love is limited, and God may be quite different from some of our notions of love. And yet God is more like love than we will ever know. God is love in a way that far exceeds our present knowledge of either God or love.”

“When a human term [such as Father] ceases to be one way of understanding God and becomes God’s real name, it has become an idol.”

“Feminist theologians recognize that simply using feminine imagery for God does not resolve all the problems of God language. The Bible speaks of God as King, Judge, Creator, and many other traditionally male roles that are not linked to fathering. Much of the feminine imagery is maternal, which then suggests that women are most like God when they are mothers, while men are like God in most of their activities. Maternal language about God can also become stereotypical. God the Mother is safe, warm, and gentle. God the Father is tough and demanding, but very strong and protective. God the Father is still clearly the boss. If the divine feminine is always linked with love and nurture, while the divine masculine is strong and rational, our stereotypes about male and female will be perpetuated rather than challenged.”“The book of Hosea offers a useful antidote to this stereotypical feminine imagery by portraying God as a female figure who is both maternal and furious. God faithfully fed and cared for the Israelites; but instead of being grateful, they forgot God. That made God say angrily, ‘I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, / and will tear open the coverings of their heart’ (Hos 13:8). This maternal image evokes no romanticized piety, softness, or sentimentality. Mothers, and the mother bear in Hosea, are fiercely protective. Elizabeth Johnson wrote of the paradox of angry love, ‘The wrath of God is a symbol of holy mystery that we can ill afford to use. For the wrath of God in the sense of righteous anger against injustice is not an opposite of mercy but its correlative. It is a mode of caring response in the face of evil.’”

“Another nonmaternal feminine image is of God as midwife, which occurs in Psalms 22 and 71. The psalmist described his feeling that God had abandoned him. ..In the midst of despair he said to God, ‘Yet it was you who took me from the womb; / you who kept me safe on my mother’s breast. …’ (Ps 22:9-10). …Comparing God to the one who helped deliver babies meant comparing God to a woman. It is an intriguing image because midwifes are active throughout a birth. They offer encouragement, they teach the mother how to work with the pains of labor; but they cannot do the laboring themselves, and they cannot take the pain away. The metaphor suggests that God encourages and supports human beings even when God cannot take their pain away.”

Another good article is by Ruth Caroline Duck and Patricia Wilson-Kastner in their book Praising God: The Trinity in Christian Worship. In their discussion on the Trinity, they bring up the naming of God as Father or Mother along with other interesting thoughts on language for God.

I hope this helps as you pursue this topic!

#captainiriswright #queerly christian asks #quote tag #God beyond gender #images for God #the nature of god

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republicstandard · 6 years

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Black Lives Don't Matter: UK Police and Press Ignore The Realities of Race

Recently the United Kingdom has finally had some news that puts us right back on top. Yes, that's right- after spending so long playing second fiddle to those swaggering, sneeringly glamorous New Yorkers (for 218 years!), we have done it. Finally, London is the most multicultural, multicriminal city in the West- number one for getting raped, stabbed, burgled and assaulted. In your face, America.

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As we know all too well from the Gamergate fiasco, when looking at real-world problems with difficult answers the most important thing to do is to shift the blame onto people who say edgy things online. From The Times:

Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, said that often- trivial disputes between young people were escalating into murder and stabbings at unprecedented rates. The goading of rivals on online message boards and video sites “revs people up” and normalized violence, she said.

The speed at which disputes gathered pace echoed the way in which some Islamists, including the perpetrator of the lorry attack in Nice in 2016, were radicalized within days or weeks.

A febrile online atmosphere was among factors responsible for rising knife crime. Also to blame were drug-dealing, absent fathers and socioeconomics, Ms. Dick said.

Well, that's a whole lot of sweeping under the carpet and no mistake- you may remember Cressida Dick claiming that gangs of rapists have “probably” been in Britain for “centuries and centuries and centuries” so that's Nothing To Do With Islam, either. It is very cute how we see the topic of jihad slid into the middle of the quote to reinforce the message. It wasn't Islam that drove a man to murder 83 people and injure 453 more. It was the internet!

Damn you, 4Chan!

Maybe Dick is right, and YouTube is more of a problem than Islam, Facebook is worse than a failed multi-generational multicultural experiment, Gab is more terrible than mass immigration that not one British person was asked about; and LinkedIn is not just a place to get a new job, it is far more crippling to our society than the reality that Race and IQ are real; and most uncomfortable of all, IQ predicts both achievement and propensity for criminality. In Britain, Black people were over 3 times more likely to be arrested than White people in 2016, and Black women were more than twice as likely to be arrested as White women.

Wait! That's because Britain is racist!

Not so. As we know that from several studies into race bias, the UK is one of the least racist countries on the face of the planet. It appears to be the case that as the Cathedral can no longer say that Britons are racists, and it is objectively true that London is no longer British with only a 45% Ethnic British population, we are now entering a period where race is simply ignored. This is mind-blowingly irresponsible. The solution? Blame the internet.

It must be social media that drives a spike in criminality of such magnitude that even without the dreaded AR-15 we see more butchery on the streets of London than New York. It is the internet that led to a boy being stabbed to death over some stolen pasta. Drug crime is the fault of Instagram. Acid attacks? Blame Jack Dorsey for not clamping down on what can be said on Twitter.

Pesky things like facts and evidence might suggest otherwise. The Evening Standard reported last year that between June 2016 and June 2017:

The blade offenses include 214 killings, 391 attempted murders, 438 rapes, 182 other sexual assaults, and 14,429 robberies. There were also more than 18,500 assaults involving an injury or intent to inflict harm with a blade and 2,816 threats to kill with a knife.

The statisticians said that a 47 percent rise in knife crimes in London —where 35 young people aged under 25 have been killed by stabbings in the past 12 months — was a prime cause of the national increase.

Cressida Dick acknowledges as a footnote that absentee fathers and drug dealing are a problem, but will not state the obvious. We are dealing with a capital city that is no longer British controlled. As the BBC reported sullenly:

On Friday, a woman, 36, became the 10th victim after being stabbed to death in Haringey, north London.

In September last year, the MP for Croydon Central, Sarah Jones, said social media was "fuelling an escalation in the cycle of violence among young people".

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The Evening Standard said the following:

The 36-year-old was found suffering stab wounds, a spokesman said. She was pronounced dead just after 8 am. A 38-year-old man who knew the victim was arrested at the scene and is being held at a north London police station.

I want to use this short quote to show you how to read reports from the BBC and most British media when they try to discuss crime and race. You will rarely see mention of race or religion on the BBC, unless that piece is resolutely pro-multiculturalism. The problem is that in Britain, race does not matter at all when describing crime- even when to ignore it means death. Everyone, regardless of origin, ethnicity or belief system can be as British as I am, and then race is all that matters- because those new British citizens need help and protection from me, for some reason.

Perhaps that is a good thing and I am missing the point of all this entirely- but I do have certain quibbles about a reality that asks me to simultaneously deny my own racial identity at all costs, and then flip-flops between demanding that ethnic minorities are looking at with unwavering adoration while turning a blind eye to inconvenient statistics on crime, FGM, rape gangs and the utter failure of integration. That is a maddening double standard, enforced now by hate speech laws which are so subjective no Briton can speak freely in his own land, about things that are true.

This is how the BBC reports on an Iraqi who was trained to kill by ISIS, who was still allowed into the country and tried to blow up a train full of my kin.

BREAKING "Dangerous and devious" Surrey teenager jailed for life for Parsons Green Tube bombing, in which 51 people injured https://t.co/Fv4T9dKbNL

— BBC South East (@bbcsoutheast) March 23, 2018

Meanwhile, the BBC consider the reasonable call for tighter immigration to be far right and "right-wing rhetoric." If people decide to call a group far right then that is how the BBC will report. The BBC is an anti-White British organization- there can be no other rationale in a world where concern over immigration is a far right (i.e, White) position while ignoring overwhelming evidence of the impact of immigration on the lives of real people.

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Haringey, where Friday's murder took place, has some interesting demography. as of a school census in 2013, 18.7% of school pupils between the ages of 3 and 18 were White British. The overall population of Haringey was less than 35% White British- and that's as of the 2011 census.

From Haringey Council's website:

Almost two-thirds of our population and over 70% of our young people are from ethnic minority backgrounds, and over 100 languages are spoken in the borough. Our population is the fifth most ethnically diverse in the country... The borough ranks among the most deprived in the country with pockets of extreme deprivation in the east.... the population is estimated to reach 286,900 by 2020, an increase of 5.9% from 2015. By 2025, Haringey’s population is estimated to reach 300,600, an increase of 10.9% from 2015.

Population growth locally is due to higher annual births than annual deaths, and net migration gain driven by high annual international migration.

We all know that correlation is not causation, and that race alone is not an indicator of criminality. That being said, we cannot ascribe the case of Haringey to mere coincidence when taken with the sad corollaries in so many boroughs of London. Proclaiming not all is never an argument when faced with overwhelming evidence showing a significant over-representation.

In 2010, The Telegraph reported:

The official figures, which examine the ethnicity of those accused of violent offenses in London, suggest the majority of men held responsible by police for gun crimes, robberies, and street crimes are black...

The data provide a breakdown of the ethnicity of the 18,091 men and boys who police took action against for a range of violent and sexual offenses in London in 2009-10.

They show that among those proceeded against for street crimes, 54 percent were black; for robbery, 59 percent; and for gun crimes, 67 percent. Street crimes include muggings, assault with intent to rob and snatching property.

This was eight years ago. These statistics were the golden years in comparison to today. Incidentally, the Met Police lost their national statistics accreditation from the governing body in 2014, after it came to light that the police were misrepresenting data. I suppose they were racist numbers and had to be massaged to better represent the actual reality that diversity is our strength.

The point is that we have known for years that Black males are vastly over-represented in both crimes and as victims of violent crimes. Ignoring the problem in favor of pursuing "hate-crimes" and simply ignoring low-value crimes such as mugging and shoplifting has given a free ride to criminals across the city. Fewer police officers on the streets, shops looted with impunity and with a swift threat of violence to any citizen who dares defend themselves- for all know that London is truly lawless. The police cannot protect you from crime, but don’t complain. That could be hate speech.

We have 900+ specialist officers across London dedicated to investigating all hate crime. For more info visit https://t.co/VNyHq5vu5T #NHCAW pic.twitter.com/pp4XzyU5We

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) October 19, 2017

“The black community has to look at itself and say that, at the end of the day, these figures suggest we are heavily – not casually – involved in violent crime. We are also involved in crime against ourselves – and we regularly attack each other.” ~Shaun Bailey, 2010

Instead of addressing this problem- which if we do genuinely have any concern about human life at all, we must- Cressida Dick and a compliant media will instead blame Twitter spats and request further censorship of the online world. Bear in mind, this is a milieu where writing Islam promotes killing people will already have your Twitter account deleted. What we need then is to make it impossible for anyone to say "for some reason, blacks and certain other minorities are statistically over-represented in violent crime and that needs addressing, or more people will die." Well, I have said it. Arrest me for caring about people enough to not want them to die on the streets of my lost and broken capital city.

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Why do the BBC and the Metropolitan Police make excuses for London becoming a Third World country? Well; the truth is racist.

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