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not a single critical thought between them

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i’m thinking tonight about masterpieces. michelangelo looked at the sixtine chapel and saw; nothing to preserve. virgil wanted his aenid burned and forgotten; only to be saved at the behest of an emperor who thought it flattery. kafka instructed his friend to burn everything he’d ever written - too personal was it, too unfinished.

they were ignored.

instead, their work was taken and held and published and thrown to be gawked at. instead, an emperor, a pope, a friend, took from within the cavities of them their choices; their art.

tumblr rolls out post+. twitter rolls out tip jars. youtube takes half of what creators earn. on social media, there is a ko-fi or a patreon and a polished face in every bio. i show my poems to my mother and she asks if I will publish them before she says anything else. emily dickinson instructed her sister to burn her poetry.

her sister did not listen.

we are a community, says tumblr, we should give back to creators. my last poem had 50 notes. six of those were reblogs that weren’t mine. i lie in bed at 2am and stare at my bright phone screen and the way netflix’s library grows thinner and thinner. the first ad on tumblr that i can reblog is for amazon. amazon takes more than half of what authors earn.

kafka’s friend took barely finished work and hammered it into structure. he is the only reason we know of him.

my father wrote a book and a play when I was barely big enough to reach his knees. when i try to talk to him about writing, he shrugs.

no one wanted to publish it, he says. so i don’t write anymore.

i am filled with poems I have never published, books I haven’t written. There are little snippets of them scattered throughout my life. I link to my ko-fi on my tumblr.

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asked capitalism of the artist: what is art, if not for consumption? who does art benefit, if it is not consumed? why create at all if you do not market it? who are you, frothing at the mouth about someone publishing someone else’s poems? who are you to hate your magnum opus? what is art, if not in relation to its reception? if no one sees it, how is it art?

said the artist, baring their teeth: it’s mine.

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One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-

Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! ;)  Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”

But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.

And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for

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some of y'all really need to re-examine what the word racist means because it's not always just "loud and proud white supremacist intentionally causing harm". sometimes it's "otherwise 'nice' person acting on internalized racial biases that they refuse to examine".

like my god the second "racist" gets dropped in a conversation some of you completely shut down under the weight of all your white fragility and refuse to listen to or act upon any criticism of your harmful actions, however intentional or unconscious they may be, and it's honestly pathetic. grow the hell up. learn to be uncomfortable in discussions about racism or you're never going to become better.

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i think my ideal job is being paid 50$/hour to sit on the computer doing whatever i want at an empty rented office space for mysterious employers definitely running some kind of money laundering scheme and just needing me to keep up appearances of one of their shell companies but im not like, in on anything and no one can charge me for anything

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I can't stop fucking saying "It's all about da Mets, babey"

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once again why did we let masquerade balls and handwritten letters and heart lockets and daggers strapped to thighs go out of fashion

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Eowyn is obviously the funniest character in Lord of the Rings because of what she does to analysis of the book, where you have to say "except for that one character who fears being restricted to the feminine role based on her gender and disguises herself as a man to fight valiantly on the battlefield as well as any of her comrades but comes to realise that her obsession with glory in battle was driven by an almost suicidal level of alienation to her mandated role and the complex mix of admiration and envy for the men around her that leads her to interrogate her own desires and tame her mental demons and ultimately craft a self-actualised life for herself with the support of the people she loves that balances freedom and social connection, the female representation in this book is terrible"

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Funky concept - your height reversed is how tall you’d be as a cryptid/fantasy creature   ✌️

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Dupion silk 18th Century Gown by L'Armoirede Mathilde, modeled by Bérénice.

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there is a tendency with history, i think, because we're so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people

a child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. they were fingerpainting. a viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words "this is very high" 10ft off the ground. somebody centuries... milennia... ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in the backyard rather than attempt to clean it. shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. a roman carves his name into a monument in another country saying "i was here". a prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. a medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.

every human being across history has said "i was here. i lived. i loved. i made something. i laughed. i cried. please do not forget me"

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It's just crazy to me that people actually stand on the "YOU HAVE TO BE A WOMAN TO BE A WITCH" thing. And then name off ways that both men and women were persecuted for being witches.

Not only that but then they're like no a SPECIFIC type of woman the REAL woman who can HAVE KIDS and has been ABUSED BY MEN.

Like. Why is this all over this hellsite like men and women werent performing magic throughout the ages. "Witchcraft" wasnt something that those people wanted to be associated with. Because they were doing magic but they weren't witches. Up until recently witches were considered BAD.

Even in pagan communities where the magic is embedded within people's daily lives- especially historically, they weren't witches. They didn't call themselves that. They were wise men and women, teachers, philosophers, healers, etc. etc. But never once to themselves were they witches.

Men and women have always been apart of the craft, they didn't just do their ritual and one day and then continue on with their lives for the week- magic wasn't something to take off or put on. It grows in the Earth. It fed them, and clothed them. It gave them land and sea and air. Magic was in and around everything, everywhere. It wasn't called magic, it was just life.

Witches, in European countries specifically, were believed to stop the crops from growing. To bring sickness upon your house. There were wards and charms and prayers to specific gods to keep them away. To protect livestock and households from their "bad" magic.

Witch was not a nice thing to be associated with. Please learn the history of the word y'all are using. Witches today are not what witches of the past were.

And men have always been included in the craft. It's embarrassing to put these labels on these things. They'll defend it by saying creating life was the first magic, and the source of divine power blah-blah whatever. To create life you have to have a man and a woman. An unplanted field isn't going to grow new crops. The creation of life isn't an entirely female process. The nurturing of the fetus is, but more goes into creating life than just giving birth.

Y'all have to get out of this man=bad woman=good mindset. Men are not infringing themselves upon your sacred space. Men have always been welcomed. There are things that are specific to women, ie. The flame tenders of Bríde/Bríghd, and there are things specific to men. But magic, creation, has no gender and never has.

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working with textiles is a trap. first they lure you in with knitting. then you pick up crochet (understandable enough). next you start getting curious in fiber. you learn how to spin (okay that’s a bit extra). weaving is cool, right? you now own a loom. heck, while we’re at it, why not starting making your own clothes (this is getting out of hand)? spinning is no longer enough for you — you need something stronger. you learn how to dye (stop i’m begging). dye is fun, but it’d be nice to have your own source of fiber. you are now a shepherd.

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Me: defends women and tells you that equating them to nothing more than their bodies is not only disgusting but entirely misogynistic in nature

You, with no reading comprehension and also just hateful: Aha you would like to burn witches.

re: do you have to be female to be considered a witch?

Short answer: Yes. 

Women creating life, nourishing life was the original act of “magic” 

their knowledge of berries and spices and medicinal salves were the first instances of “witchcraft” 

The female intellect and resilience were the first sign of “wickedness”

THEY were burned at the stake, stoned, drowned, executed publicly because they dared to have agency and knowledge, and were disgraced and exiled (best case scenario) for their craft. 

Witchcraft is a woman’s gift. The goddess imparted it on us. 

You want to be a druid? Cool, go for it. But don’t pretend that our craft can be co-opted as your own. You are not a male witch, you are disrespecting centuries of blood and sweat and tradition. Men cannot be witches. 

This is our witchcraft. 

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Im literally not about to argue with you about whether women are women because they're women and you have no right to decide whether they are or not.

Yeah there are men who like feminine things without being women.

They are not the same thing as women.

You are very uneducated if you don't understand the CONSTANT ever present threat to transwomen's lives BECAUSE of shit like the stuff you are saying.

And if you fear being getting pregnant that's a you thing, not a woman thing. There are plenty of infertile women around the world. Does that make them not women?

Not only that but women(yes TRANSWOMEN. When I say woman I am always including transwomen. So bare that in mind but this is referencing transwomen in particular)walk around not knowing if that person on the street wants them dead. If they can tell their friends, or if that will get them raped and brutalized.

And corsets were not to restrict movement. In fact, men hated them and they were important to women of that time. So, again you've proved yourself uneducated.

Transwomen can and do suffer under misogynistic laws and views. And in fact the argument you are using right now is rooted not only in transphobia but misogyny itself. You are a equating a women to nothing more than her body, specifically her vagina and her reproductive organs.

Women are not baby factories. They are more than breasts and ovaries. "The body of a woman" does not exist because women are different. Every woman is different.

But besides that you seem to not understand what being transgender is at all. "how can you know if you were socialized as a man"

How would you feel if someone told you you had to use the boys bathroom, the boys locker room, you had to dress a specific way, you couldn't cry(still tryna figure that one out), KMOWING that you are a girl, but the half the world tells you otherwise because they think they have a right to dictate that based on,,,,your body. Of all things.

Often times transwomen will be picked apart and ridiculed by their male peers far before they ever come out. Because they are women, and they act like women, and their peers WILL inevitably pick up on that difference. And then, for a lot of them, it is only a matter of time before they ARE attacked, raped, or even murdered. Sometimes all three at once.

It is more dangerous for a transwoman of color to walk the streets than it will ever be for a cis white woman.

And yes, there are plenty of women who suffer for not conforming to their gender, but again, these are not the same as trans people. They suffer for being women. All women suffer that. Believe it or not, transwomen are expected to fit even MORE into that gender stereotype for people to even recognize them as well, themselves.

But even more than that, why are you measuring who is a woman by their body, and their suffering? Is it a requirement to suffer to be a woman? Our gender is hinged and in fact, dependent on our abuse?

Bad and uninformed take.

Also. Heels were created by and for butchers. Please do a little bit of research before you try using some random, completely wrong thing as defense again.

re: do you have to be female to be considered a witch?

Short answer: Yes. 

Women creating life, nourishing life was the original act of “magic” 

their knowledge of berries and spices and medicinal salves were the first instances of “witchcraft” 

The female intellect and resilience were the first sign of “wickedness”

THEY were burned at the stake, stoned, drowned, executed publicly because they dared to have agency and knowledge, and were disgraced and exiled (best case scenario) for their craft. 

Witchcraft is a woman’s gift. The goddess imparted it on us. 

You want to be a druid? Cool, go for it. But don’t pretend that our craft can be co-opted as your own. You are not a male witch, you are disrespecting centuries of blood and sweat and tradition. Men cannot be witches. 

This is our witchcraft.