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BBRae Week 2021 - Day 3: Into the Woods
Fun fact: your girl actually tried following a Bob Ross tutorial for the background. I give myself an ‘A’ for effort, lol. Just like yesterday, I’m still working on the fic part. I’ll update the story links below as soon as I publish it. Close-up and a preview for Chapter 3 of “Class is in Session” under the cut:
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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.
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Responses to “I Love You” Prompt List
“I love you.”
“Ouch.”
“What?”
“I know.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Don’t lie to me.”
“Don’t give me hope.”
“Don’t joke like that.”
“You do?”
“Is that so?”
“I don’t.”
“Oh…”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t die on me, after saying something like that!”
“Took you long enough to say it.”
“I should hope so, we’ve only been together x amount of time.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“I love you… as a friend.”
“Awww.”
“Thanks, I love me too.”
“Thanks.”
“Are you sure?”
“Woah, that came out of left field.”
“… I’ve got to go.”
“Wow. Um, okay.”
“Who are you and what have you done with name?”
“You mean me? Me?”
“Now’s not really the time for dramatic confessions.”
“Well that’s an utterly terrifying thought.”
“And you’re just realizing now?”
“Why?”
“How?”
“That’s improbable.”
“Are you delirious?”
“Please don’t.”
“Even after all this time?”
“About time.”
“All I did was offer to do x menial task.”
“You still have to pay your bill.”
“Great. Fantastic. Wonderful.”
“That’s new.”
“Okay. Okay, okay, okay.”
“Mhmm.”
“Do you mean that or is it the alcohol talking?”
“Like as a friend, right?”
“That doesn’t matter anymore.”
“I wish I could say the same.”
“… Is this a prank/joke?”
“That’s old news.”
”I will never get tired of hearing you say that.” and of course…
“I love you, too.”
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What's wrong with Gandhi?
Where do I begin?
- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.
- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.
- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.
- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.
- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.
- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.
- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.
- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.
- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.
- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.
Sources:
Websites: Women Suffer From Gandhi’s Legacy, People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick Chiles
Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
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In 2015, researchers testing the efficiency of mosquito repellents used Victoria’s Secret perfume because they thought the floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. To their surprise, they found it repels mosquitoes better than a range of mosquito deterrents. [1, 2]
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one day a giant walks through your house, destroying everything you own. you are understandably upset. you attack them, they step on you, you die.
one day a giant walks through your house, destroying everything you own. you are understandably upset. 'why did you do this?' you demand of the giant. 'oh sorry, didn't see you there.' says the giant. 'you didn't see my house!? that I spent a significant portion of my life building?! and you destroyed in less than a second!!' 'sorry :)' the giant says, and then walks off.
one day a giant walks through your house, destroying everything you own. you are understandably upset. 'you've walked through my house, destroying everything I own. I am understandably upset!' you exclaim. 'sorry :(' the giant says, and then walks off.
one day a giant walks through your house, destroying everything you own. you are understandably upset. 'excuse me. why have you done this?' you ask the giant. 'done what?' the giant asks in return. 'you've destroyed everything I own' you tell the giant. 'oh I am sorry. I was just walking this way.' 'but why didn't you walk around my house?' you ask. the giant bends down to get a better look at you. 'look at me' the giant says, 'I am large', 'but... what does that have to do with anything? all it means is that you can walk through my home. I'm asking you why you did that.' 'listen little one. I know you will not understand this, but we are our brains. our depth of emotion, our conscious experience, our sentience, it's all brain work. and brains work by forming neural connections. the more connections you can form, the more sentient you are. there isn't an on/ off switch. it's analogue. my brain is larger and more developed than yours, just as yours is larger than an ants. you suffer more deeply than an ant, and I suffer more deeply than you. you may think your pain terribly important, but you have no idea the expanse of my feeling. you cannot have any such idea. when I walked through your house, I was engaged in a task you do not have the language to comprehend. it is as I said. I am large.' and with that, the giant stood up and walked away.
one day a giant walks through your house, destroying everything you own. you are understandably upset. 'look here,' you say to the giant 'I know that you are large, and I know that I am small. but I still mean something dammit. I have value. I'm a human--I'm a moral agent. my pain may not be worth anything to you. but it is worth quite a deal to me. I have profoundly unique human experiences, perspectives, interests! I matter!' the giant looks down at you and smiles, 'I'm sure the ant has profoundly unique ant experiences. none of that matters to me. I am large.' they say with infuriating calm. 'and I am small. but your perspective should not be privileged over my own!' you say. the giant just smiled even wider at this, 'and I suppose you would want me to respect the perspectives of flowers and insects and mice too?' 'well...' you begin. 'and of tables and unicorns and atoms?' they interrupt. 'look...' you begin to say, but it is clear they are not listening. they walk away softly laughing to themselves about how ridiculous they find your opinion.
one day a giant walks through your house
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