#how to say Babylon

[bookishnotes]

[andreabadgley]

I found this one on Barack Obama’s best books of 2023.

[eepy-cat]

Honestly my most unlikely wish for the white day servant is Kingu. I know he was absorbed into Enkidu during their interlude, but now that we have Tiamat playable, I think nows the time to give us him back.

[therighthandofvengeance]

Vir: What are you going to do?

Londo: I don’t know, something dramatic, I hope.

[chucklepea-hotpot]

what do you mean? what do you meeeean? WHAT DO YOU MEAN???

[harleybarbarahandler]

i regret to inform you that im once again thinking about Nellie LaRoy

[bookishnotes]

[haveyoureadthispoll]

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya’s mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father’s beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya’s voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them. How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.'

[stardustinthesky]

I didn't know you read Universe Today. (aka Flirting by the newspaper machine)

[ghost-of-you]

https://x.com/emotionaihaze/status/1718318855049916615?s=46&t=BD8Qg6_C-ipQcJVFmaQgTA

I feel seen, I cannot understand half of what they say until I see the lyrics

OKSADOKAOSKOAKSOAKSOKAOKSOKA i read the lyrics and then i dont trust what im reading, if im being completely honest there's a few older songs, specially cake songs, that I don't understand a WORD Calum or Luke are saying, like they really need to help us out, enunciate a bit more okasokaoskas