#BAD MONTH FOR IT!!!

[ghelgheli]

Stuff I Read In August 2024

bold indicates favourites

Books

Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno [link]

Joseph Stalin: A Political Biography, Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute

Exordia, Seth Dickinson

The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills

Short Fiction

Esse est percipi, Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy Casares [link]

The Proper Study, Isaac Asimov

2430 A.D., Isaac Asimov

The Greatest Asset, Isaac Asimov

The Jaunt, Stephen King [link]

There Will Come Soft Ruins, Ray Bradbury [link]

Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut [link]

Billenium, J. G. Ballard [link]

The Food of the Gods, Arthur C Clarke

The Star, Arthur C Clarke

Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200, R. S. A. Garcia [link]

Queer &c.

Kill the Couple in Your Head, Anonymous [link]

Gender without Gender Identity: The Case of Cognitive Disability, Elizabeth Barnes [link]

The Woman Question, Lori Watson [link]

Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms, Rowan Bell

Reimagining Transgender, Robin Dembroff [link]

Yep, I’m Gay: Understanding Agential Identity, Robin Dembroff & Catharine Saint-Croix [link]

Forgotten lives: Trans older adults living with dementia at the intersection of cisgenderism, ableism/cogniticism and ageism, Alexandre Baril & Marjorie Silverman [link]

Dementia and the gender trouble?: Theorising dementia, gendered subjectivity and embodiment, Linn J. Sandberg [link]

Pol

Moving Towards Life, Marina Magloire [link]

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation please note: ‘A time comes when silence is betrayal’, Haifa Zangana [link]

Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia: 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride, Steven George Salaita

On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism, Moya Bailey & Trudy [link]

Other

“Democratizing AI” and the Concern of Algorithmic Injustice, Ting-an Lin [link]

What is a (social) structural explanation? Sally Haslanger [link]

The Importance of `Godzilla' Cannot Be Overstated, Charlie Brigden [link]

The Special Effects in Citizen Kane, Wesley Tilford [link]

For Friendship to be Revolutionary, Sever [link]

[shamebats]

[wardensantoineandevka]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

19

[suburbanbonfire]

are you lost, little lamb?

And a Mithrun without the bells and whistles!

[Image ID: The first photo is a digital illustration of the character Mithrun, from the anime Dungeon Meshi. He is painted from the shoulders up in muted greens and purples, with his white hair fanning out behind him in an arc, luminous. It looks almost like a court portrait. His left eye stares impassively at the viewer. Cracks spread across the whole image, like glass that has been shattered. The cracks originate over Mithrun's right eye, where a large chunk of glass is gone, and from behind the image a yellow goat's eye is staring out.

The second image is the same as the first, without the cracks or goat's eye covering the portrait. It is just Mithrun, looking at the viewer, a curled lock of white hair obscuring his right eye from view. End ID]

[warningsine]

Galinda, what are you doing? Stop. No.

[brokenclockgears]

old wounds and festering guilt

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Puppet is burden with knowing the truth,,

[daiwild]

asexual klapollo art i shouldve kept in drafts

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[acochleola]

beatiful

[bethanydelleman]

Just sitting here thinking to myself, it's only been 75 years since it became normal for parents not to bury their own children. It's only been about 3 generations since we mourned a quarter of our children. It's been a tiny sliver of a slice of the history of humanity since surviving your first 10 years was a coin flip

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and I can't even imagine it. I cannot comprehend what it was like for 99.99% of history. How did they survive burying half of their children? I fully expect my own children to outlive me; it will be considered a rare, unexpected tragedy if they don't. How was this much misery normal for that much of history?

[frags-fragzzzzz]

Hello ghost trick fandom

[anuphim]

I FORGOT TO POST THESE but i finally did (new) refs for the losers

[katsinspats]

Tragic: Guy you based your entire villain backstory on doesn't even remember you