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call me Azalea. I don't share my age because basic internet safety. my pronouns are she/her and I am aroace. I'm Chinese American but am absolute, utter dogshit at speaking Chinese.
blog title is a quote from Animorphs #30, The Reunion, chapter 16. I think about it every waking moment. ask page title is a reference to In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4), in which the actual First Rule is ask for nothing.
DNIs are useless so I don't have one, but I will block you if you're a bigot. if you vaguely annoy me I might block you. apologies!
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things I am going to post about: whatever I want.
but more specifically: Dimension 20, Animorphs, and Wayward Children. also Hatchetfield, to a lesser extent. I love Hadestown but I don't post about it often.
my blog is primarily reblogs but I'll occasionally reread Animorphs and go on a slightly incomprehensible posting spree. will always and forever be Adaine Abernant's #1 fan.
my Rachel (Animorphs) webweave is here, and the first and second drafts of my Marco (Animorphs) webweave are here and here. Cassie webweave is currently in progress.
my ao3 is here. am attempting to finish here comes a killer whale to sing you to sleep.
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I have a largely incomprehensible (even to me) and perpetually in-development What If The Characters Of Fantasy High Went Through The Plot Of Animorphs, and my tag for it is #fh/animorphs lovechild from my brain. I cannot promise consistency in any posts because it is always changing. please send me asks about this.
while I'm at it, you are always welcome at any time to send me asks about anything I write, and/or things I want to write.
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love how much wayward children insists on having every character also be a person. does this make sense? there are characters who are barely footnotes in one book who pop up three books later and slap you in the face with their wants and needs and say i matter too, fucking let me go home and you remember this is in fact a school full of people and not just the backdrop for the main characters to go on their door-related adventures. its wonderful
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People love to defend TMA/TME as a meaningful category by comparing it to BIPOC, which on the surface makes sense. BIPOC and TMA are both used to categorize minority groups that are at incredible risk of violence, and BIPOC in particular is widely accepted among any activist less racist than like. Ben Shapiro.
The only problem is the TME part. Because nonBIPOC isn't really a thing, is it? Because while black and indigenous people are grouped together by their at-risk status, no such commonality exists between everyone who isn't black or indigenous.
White people and arab people have the shared experience of not being black or indigenous, but not much else. There's no common interest or large-scale similarity that binds white people with arab people, or latino people, or any other racial minority. At best, any attempt to pretend they're one and the same is dumb as bricks, and at worst is a transparent attempt to paint a racial minority you don't like as being part of the oppressor class, and thus an acceptable target to punch "up" at.
But no, obviously TME is a very important term that definitely describes a coherent group of people. And also, that person posting about how nonBIPOCs are all illegal immigrants and terrorists and should all be killed is just complaining about their oppressors! They're literally punching up, or do you think white people are oppressed or something?
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.
Some news in the manosphere right now, not that anyone wanted to know.
Apparently they are being prosecuted for additional sexual offenses:
The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
For those not in the know, Andrew Tate is kind of notorious for marketing sex trafficking as an alpha male lifestyle
Me meeting a stranger at a party: yeah and that 14 year-old girl has to do neurosurgery on her alien friend because otherwise he's dead, it's not even the only thing they deal with at that moment either
in service of my favorite pastime, taking a joke feminist analysis of a joke post too far to be a joke anymore:
not only is the house hers too. but does SHE even really want the chintz? or is the chintz part of her duty as a wife, a design choice made for the approval of in-laws and houseguests, part of keeping the home as it's expected to be? is "he" actually having his Primal Masculinity restricted by his wife's Feminine Sensibilities, or is she an easy scapegoat now that he's consciously experiencing the effects of the restrictive society that she's been dealing with the whole time?
the fact that it's chintz specifically reinforces your reading! The fabric is associated with cheap british imitations of fine quality printed cottons made in India, like this woman's life and home have become cheap imitations of a promised intimacy - keeping up expectations but fundamentally missing the value of the authentic thing (and maybe cheapening the value of the authentic thing in the process?)
this makes a lot of sense with the contexts in which I've heard "chintz" used, literally and metaphorically. my cursory search (mostly this article, which kinda has my head spinning with all the historical context) tells me that the term also refers to the actual indian fabrics as well, but, via the versions that began to be produced in europe as an important element of the industrial revolution, came to be most associated with the cheap imitations.
[nodding] now let's add colonization analysis to the tumblr reply poem....even the "real thing," in this context, would have been acquired by violent exploitation. so, if we (probably belaboring the point, but y'know) continue the comparison, the intimacy that was promised still would have a cost if it were present. if we take the man's point of view, the type of authenticity he might have hoped for would still be built on an exploitative relationship—one that he (as the beneficiary) might not notice, but that would exist nonetheless.
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and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.
azalea. hi. i finished wayward children. do you have Thoughts on 6-11 👀
i absolutely have thoughts on 6-11. under the cut because rambling
trying to go in chronological order here i love regan. intersex rep! also her 'friendship' with laurel is just so... it hurts to read in a good way. conversely her friendship with chicory is beautiful. i love that there is no hooflands-ruler of the hooflands, and maybe there's never been, just door children hiding behind a curtain for eons upon eons. i always love when they stay in their worlds for years before returning, it makes everything seem so much worse for everyone involved. (<- stares at katherine lundy. god i love katherine lundy.)
and in where the drowned girls go we see a regan that is just beaten down and defeated and its so,,, just really hammers home how evil the whitethorn institute is. also cora being haunted by the trench?? amazing. the moors haunt this series. engineering a breakout? i knew cora was a badass we love to see it. GREAT sumi content in this book also, i <3 sumi so much. her plot armor is so very,,,, its the charm of a character who is so completely confident and self assured. sumi's going to go home she can do whatever she wants in the meantime.
antsy's book was so creepy. seanan mcguire does really well with building up a tense and awful atmosphere /pos. love the reveal of the doors having a cost and the cycle of the store where lost things go. and then immediately following with mislaid in parts half-known where antsy chooses to go back with full knowledge of the consequence... also love seeing references to other worlds we're familiar with. steph and her dinosaurs and seeing prism for the first time (kade's goblins miss him!!! he could be a prince if he wanted!!!) and also antsy having seen jack & jill in the moors.... i love any mention of the moors.
NADYA'S BOOK!!!!! god her adoptive mother sucks. and its another one where she spent years growing up and having a life only to be a child again. she finally got to return to belyyreka but at what cost? she is not what her loved ones remember her to be. what if they've aged and died in the years since she fell back to earth? ALSO the worldbuilding of different weights of water and them all being beneath a lake... is it nadya who started the classification of water-worlds as lakes? she's been at the school for years and years and cora specifically mentions her trenches were falsely called a Lake.
eleven!!!!!!!!!!! nancy finally returns after fucking off for like nine books <3. i loveeeeee statue nancy's pov and honoring her friends with her poses??? ahsfjsdghj shes so caring! she loves life! lord of the dead is kind of an asshole tbh but the lady of the dead is awesome. loved sumi in this book also. then again sumi's generally awesome in every book. KATHERINE LUNDY STRIKES AGAIN! i love lundy. "tell the archivist and moon that i've paid fair value and i'm going to be born in the right world this time, i'm going to pay my debts" (paraphrased, badly) LUNDY! jill making a reappearance just to fuck shit up again its harder to like her every day <3 but also. Love her. at least jack didn't have to come deal with her fuckups this time (sisters of all time. btw.)
this could be me misunderstanding but does nancy return to earth at the end of eleven?? how many years has she spent with the dead at that point?
also! i never get tired of learning more and more of the worlds they go to. the moth world......... yuemingyuan.... <- also we love seeing worlds with non english names. yuemingyuan & belyyreka are cool as hell. also the constant integration of side characters into main charaacters as the world expands as a reminder that everyone at the school was the main character of an adventure and they're all just trying to go back. everyone's badass and cool even if some of them suck
i kind of really want to know seraphina's story... her world sounds like it sucked but she wants to go back? she's such a terrible mean person i want to know how her mind works. same goes for angela. like their friend got murdered and they couldn't go on a quest to resurrect her.
christopher being amazing as always. love the skeleton flute being somehow useful in every situation. There Are Always Dead Things. also also imagine being so in love that the girl whose power is literally Everyone Loves Me can't persuade you to do shit. skeleton girl has a great future husband. (might just be because he finds flesh a turn off, though).
kade basically running the school / dealing with making a place for himself? love it. cora getting to go home!!!!!!!! also sumi ageing herself to make up for the year she was dead. also also being dead for a YEAR? poor christopher and kade and company. loved eleanor wresting back some control in #11 and finally addressing they've been breaking the No Quests rule for like eight books (even if its just her saying Go Ahead Whatever).
have more thoughts but cannot articulate them atm. unreasonably excited for sumi's book.
Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.
I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"
Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!
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we're all obsessed with material conditions until a trans guy exists and then what really matters is his male soul and the body it might hypothetically have in any number of situations that are not reality and have no bearing on it. "if trans men were cis they'd be cis men" "if trans men were cis they'd be cis women" it literally does not matter because we're not fucking cis
If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules
Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u
