Adrienne
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And the reason he's on trial for campaign fraud, when he's never been on trial for rape, is because to a first approximation, **every other rich and/or powerful man in America is also a rapist**. (4/3)
Donald Trump didn't "fuck a porn star". He **raped a(nother) woman**. And then paid people off, with campaign funds, to keep it quiet. THAT'S the problem. (3/3)
Stormy Daniels' testimony is in fact a story of sexual coercion, which IS shameful, and it is no LESS shameful because the victim of coercion was also a sex worker. (2/3)
I understand that "he fucked a porn star" is a very common phrasing of the thing Donald Trump did, but i wish people wouldn't use it. There's nothing shameful about being a porn star, and there's nothing shameful about fucking one, with their consent. (1/3)
sorry there's no alt text on this; i'm not up to describing a baffling Jesusy diagram about consciousness at 1am
i love bonkers diagrams in occult books (i am doing some Tarot-related research)
(In speech, they'll also generally draw the first vowel way out: Maaahs-ləm rather than Muhs-ləm)
I mean, 100 years ago it was just an alternate transliteration (Arabic transliteration is inexact), but these days it's *absolutely* a fash dogwhistle.
(In speech, they'll also generally draw the first vowel way out: Maaahs-ləm rather than Muhs-ləm)
I'm an American (although currently living in Canada). I promise you, this is also au courant among shitty racists in the US and Canada. I'm not going to say that nobody ever uses it innocently by mistake, but anyone you see using it on social media? They're a reactionary.
oh yeah, people who use it deliberately in this day and age are definitely signaling.
Again, you may not be aware of this, but in the current English-usage context, in 2024 (AH 1445), "Moslem" isn't an innocent transliteration choice, it's a dogwhistle. If you're quoting older literature, that is obviously a different thing, contextually.
I'm well aware of older literature, i also read a lot of it, which is why i wasn't talking about it? I said if people are using it TODAY they are a problem. And they are. Because it's very much a dogwhistle these days.
In the 1445th year since the Hijrah, anyone who says "Moslem" instead of "Muslim" can be safely assumed to be a reactionary fuckhead.
You know the thing i always think is tragic? The art on some of these is SO FUCKING GOOD. Especially Ishida's use of color. It's really a pity it's tied to such toxic bullshit.
Every time i get reminded of Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS, i end up pulling it up and listening to the whole thing. One of the best fucking albums of all time, seriously.
YES! I honestly think that in many ways it's a better *movie* than RHPS. And i say that as someone who was on a shadowcast for years, and adores RHPS.
completely random thought: what language has the best way to say "shut up"? My vote is French "ta gueule!" both for the rudeness of the literal sense and for the sheer aural assault of it.
Yup! (I don't think i took any permanent damage from it, but there's a small cynical part of me that wants to say "well, it does explain the Midwest, doesn't it?" 😆)
Like, don't get me wrong! I think cicadas are neat! The periodical ones, in particular, have such a unique and bizarre lifecycle, it's kind of cool to be a witness to that! But oh my god, the sound gets into your brain and never quite leaves.
The periodical cicada emergences can top 100dB, is the thing. For *weeks*. You start wishing for some kind of permanent hearing damage.
Yeah, it sounds like yours are not nearly as loud as the periodical cicadas are, luckily for y'all!
Like, you know the old cliché about "so loud you can't hear yourself think"? Turns out it's not just a cliché!
oh, yeah, that would be a major difference.
The part of the US i'm from gets single-brood emergences about every 7 years on average, and they're always loud as fuck. But the dual-brood emergences are a special, completely indescribable kind of loud.
i would yet again like to express my heartfelt sympathy to any and all of you living in the dual-brood cicada emergence area. I lived through a dual-brood emergence in STL in ~1996, and it was so loud it was like living inside an industrial-scale manufacturing environment for weeks on end.
You know i wouldn't send you a BAD review, but this was a good one! I thought you might enjoy it!
I unironically love Oz, i read the entire fucking series at least three or four times as a kid, as well as his Santa Claus book (which i will go to bat for as the best version of Santa Claus ever). But yeah, parts of them are very dark!!!!
Seriously cannot praise Ford's work enough. It's all very abstruse and strange and it's pretty impossible to figure out what's going on in most of his books until you've read one at least three or four times, but goddamn, he was one hell of an author.
But to El's point: Heinlein's novels very much read like they were written by a sex pest, and Clarke's writing is about as sexless as you can possibly get, and yet Heinlein was NOT an irl sexual abuser, and Clarke WAS.
I actually own a hardcopy of Asimov's dirty limerick collab with John Ciardi, LIMERICKS: TOO GROSS. (I unabashedly love it, tbh, despite everything. Mostly because Ciardi was one holy hell of a poet, even doing frivolous verse.)
I cannot possibly recommend GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS enough, and while most of John M. Ford's books are all depressingly out of print, Tor books is gradually bringing them all back into print, and WEIGHTLESS is available now! www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-W...
Amazon.com: Growing Up Weightless eBook : Ford, John M., Spufford, Francis: Tienda Kindle
Amazon.com: Growing Up Weightless eBook : Ford, John M., Spufford, Francis: Tienda Kindle
www.amazon.comIt's better crafted but it's still extremely infected by Heinlein's politics and obsessions, so i have to disagree!
"giant-ass series written by white dudes" is just … a harder and harder sell for me these days? I've read so many of them!
i bounced HARD off the first Expanse book, i'm sure i'll try again someday.
John M. Ford's GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS and John Barnes' THE SKY SO BIG AND BLACK. Both of those are *phenomenal*, but you miss half of what's going on in them if you haven't read MISTRESS at least once.
Honestly i've never read a Heinlein novel i liked, although some of his short fiction is better. I do occasionally recommend THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS to people, with caveats, only because there are a couple of vastly better books that are explicitly replies to it--
Yeah, i haven't seen the adaptation, and i won't, because i loathe adaptations. But i'd definitely rather that if Hollywood is going to bastardize and ruin SFF stories, they do it to BAD stories (Foundation) rather than GOOD stories (Annihilation, The Story of Your Life)!
@tkingfisher.bsky.social did you see that @jdnicoll.bsky.social reviewed one of your recent books? jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/every... It's a good review! Also James is awesome (i run his website!)
Every Single Game
2015’s Harriet the Invincible is the first volume in Ursula Vernon’s Hamster Princess secondary-universe fantasy middle-grade series.
Harriet is a hamster who is also a princess. Her parents, in parti...
Also, you'll perhaps be pleased to know that i've decided that the next book i decide to make you read will not be chosen for deliberate awfulness 😘
people who name themselves after a concept from Wilson & Shea's ILLUMINATUS! trilogy and who end up as Blue MAGAts are very confusing.
