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god dammit, just battled an ancient evil too powerful to defeat alongside my heroic allies and now they're all talking about "locking it away" and "binding it in a vessel" we are soooooo fucked

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just to be clear I do not mean a retelling of the circe myth. i know people have written that. i mean a gender-swapped version of the trashy mythological bodice ripper subgenre that hades/persephone denotes in romance

how has no one written a hades/persephone-retelling-style dark romance about circe and odysseus truly feminism has failed

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how has no one written a hades/persephone-retelling-style dark romance about circe and odysseus truly feminism has failed

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growing up as an imaginative single child, I loved to play with Barbies. I loved creating elaborate drama-filled storylines for them and I could keep at it for hours. there was one problem. I had like 15 thrift store Barbies and no Kens. I only had one Barbie-sized male doll and it was a collectible Elvis Presley doll and he was my favorite doll. I always did the Elvis voice when I was playing him but he had no relation to Elvis Presley otherwise. anyway, he had some crazy days. trapped on a scary planet where he is the only man in the world and half of the women there hate him. in a massive car accident and stranded in the woods with a girlfriend who had broken her foot and a crazy ex girlfriend who had stalked them there. kidnapped by Athena (one of my Barbie sized dolls was Athena, like, the goddess) and held captive by her while trying to go home to his 7 situationships. all of this happening to a guy who looks and sounds exactly like Elvis but is otherwise the quintessential everyman.

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So this is totally right but I think it's not just silly consumer fetishism. It's that social opprobrium is the closest thing to oppression a lot of these guys will ever experience, and they need constant cultural reassurance that their retrograde ideas about things like race and gender are good and natural and everybody deep down agrees with them.

Outside the basic protections of democracy, social shame is one of the most powerful weapons we have for effecting change, and while yeah MAGA's ideal end state is bog-standard fascism, the thing that distinguishes them from earlier conservative movements is their intense obsession with eradicating the power of shame as a progressive cultural force. Getting back mascots isn't just about packaging; it's a signal that corporations -- one of the most powerful forces in America -- are okay with racism again.

The renaming of racist advertising mascots in 2020-2021 was greeted with like, okay, yeah they sucked but it's super late to do and that's not what anyone was marching in the streets over

Meanwhile MAGA types, who are OBSESSED with the sanctity of advertising bc their ideal world only ever existed in 1950s magazine ads for ham-flavored jello salads, have never shut up about them. They absolutely think that's what people were marching in the streets over. They started a myth that there was a real Aunt Jemima - that the woman hired to play her in public appearances, Nancy Green, actually created the brand and died "one of the first black millionaires" - when. No she's just a stock character from blackface minstrel shows. They're excitedly speculating that Trump winning & "defeating woke" will mean they'll have to bring back Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Land-O'-Lakes Indian and like. I cannot imagine a more empty life than one where you attach very real and powerful feelings to the packaging of rice and butter and want to enshrine fascism in part so that they can put stereotypes from the 19th century back on them

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THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE MINES

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were i the prince of New York, i would subjugate by force the hinterlands of long island and southern westchester county, whose burghers had grown fat off the wealth of my lands. i might cast my eye further afield later, to the southwestern townlands of connecticut or the placid shores of new jersey, but the first place i sent my armies would be those insolent and fragmentary towns which depend utterly on my realm for their existence, yet refuse to submit themselves to my law.

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What

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There's no world where being kink-negative makes sense for me but it would be nice to ever get anything out of it except a constant, inexorable encroachment of default heterosexual sadomasochism into culture. Like awesome, glad I could support your empowering feminist project of making sure people accept that femininity is inherently submissive and all sex between men and women should be undernegotiated maledom BDSM, you're fucking welcome.

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writing quiet characters

He looked at him. He looked at him in a different way. Blinked. He tilted his head. He looked at him sideways. Under his lashes. In a unique kind of tilt. In a violent sort of way. He stared at him in a kind of way you haven’t read about before. He sighed. He looked away. He looked at a different away. He stared. Considered. Pondered. He was silent but it was interesting, somehow. It was a questioning sort of silence. Puzzled. He was still. He went even more still. He was barely breathing. He was dead with anticipation. He tensed. He relaxed minutely. The seconds ticked by, silently. He waited. He narrowed his eyes. His eyes widened. He followed you with them. His eyes. He did something that was nothing but filled the required beat of a line. He

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your careers are temporary. archive of our own is forever

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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Mel ✨

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just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

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i hauve a cold