i had a dream that i was watching a miniseries on the life of frederick douglass starring rachel weisz (as frederick douglass) and it made me so mad i woke myself up

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i had a dream that i was watching a miniseries on the life of frederick douglass starring rachel weisz (as frederick douglass) and it made me so mad i woke myself up

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the kids in hsm2 shouldve unionized that country club
everybody tells children of divorce that it's not their fault their parents got divorced but you know what? if your parents never got divorced that's not your fault either. you were a child. you could not have made that happen even if you wanted to. if they stayed together, that's a choice they made and it doesn't matter if their reasons were about you. you were not and could not have been responsible for that. free yourself. you are blameless.
#and if your parents got married because of you that’s not your fault either #and if your parents had another kid to be your playmate that’s also not your fault #and if your parents abandoned you to your older sibling’s care that’s neither your fault nor your sibling’s #your parents should have thought things through instead of blaming their decisions on you I promise you that it wasn’t your fault (via @thoughtthingsthrough)
remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.
when i was a little kid (age 8 and on) i had 3 veryyy intense special interests i constantly infodumped about to anyone who gave me the time of day. these were:
The Bubonic Plague
Vampire Folklore
Tree frogs.
So as you can imagine my mom spent many years prepping me for social outings by doing a call-and-response litany with me that went "let's focus on tree frogs tonight. let's tell people about tree frogs."

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À Paris, la position de Julien envers madame de Rênal eût été bien vite simplifiée ; mais à Paris, l’amour est fils des romans. Le jeune précepteur et sa timide maîtresse auraient retrouvé dans trois ou quatre romans et jusque dans les couplets du Gymnase, l’éclaircissement de leur position. Les romans leur auraient tracé le rôle à jouer, montré le modèle à imiter ; et ce modèle, tôt ou tard, et quoique sans nul plaisir, et peut-être en rechignant, la vanité eût forcé Julien à le suivre. (Le Rouge et le noir, ch 7, pp 37-38)
my translation:
In Paris, the position of Julien vis-à-vis Madame de Rênal would soon have been simplified; but in Paris, love is the child of novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found in three or four novels, and even in the couplets of the théâtre du Gymnase, the explanation of their situation. The novels would have mapped out the role to play, shown the model to imitate; and it is this model, sooner or later, and even though it would have been without pleasure and perhaps even with reluctance, that vanity would have forced Julien to follow.
like. the concept of romantic love has to be taught to people...this guy does not want a lover he does not care about this lady but if he had KNOWN there were expectations he would have been like damn guess i better start seducing her or my life doesn't make any sense. because that is what the script says. amatonormativity as propagated through popular culture in 1820s france
i'm finding le rouge et le noir like. sooo hard to follow and i don't know exactly why. the vocab is not difficult. the syntax is less convoluted than some other authors i have had less trouble with, aside from the fact that sometimes stendhal is not trying hard enough to make his referents clear.
maybe the main departure is that he doesn't really rephrase himself in the way i am accustomed to french authors doing...like chez dumas for example there'll be a beast of a sentence i can't figure out but i don't really worry about it because the next sentence will be making the same point in a different way, and between the two of them i can figure out what's happening. but not only does stendhal not do this, he also seems to switch topics from paragraph to paragraph or even within the same paragraph?? i can't figure out how all these sentences are related to each other. he just seems to be jumping du coq à l'âne as they say. but maybe i'm confusing cause and effect - maybe it just seems to me that the sentences are unrelated because i don't actually understand the individual sentences. i don't know how to solve this problem. i can't just look up words or grammatical structures. i might have to resort to a translation but i really don't want to. it was written in 19th-century literary french so it should be well within my wheelhouse...it's not freaking villon for crying out loud!
no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?
gregor is like a friend that i worry about
feeling so normal about breq and seivarden rn
[ID: Imperial Radch fanart of Breq and Seivarden. The two are shown in color from the bust up in the first piece. Seivarden has tied-back shoulder-length locs with gold rings, and she's frowning intensely, apparently topless; Breq has close-cropped hair, is wearing a brown uniform, and looks unimpressed.
The second piece is uncolored and shows them walking together. Breq, eyebrows raised, asks, "Are you with me?" Seivarden replies passionately, looking upset to be asked: "Always. Haven't I already said that?" End ID]

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ooohhhh ok i REALLY like the grammar going into Jonr's mind and supplying every pronoun/preposition etc, messed up and very uncomfortable to experience, sure, but also fun to read :)
The coronation of Edrehasivar VII doodle. (who let this guy be the emperor)
My friend really changed once she became a vegetarian
its like ive never seen herbivore
interesting reading this bit about french literature experimenting with ways to talk about gender in Alpheratz's Grammaire du français inclusif (2018) and thinking about the experience of reading Ancillary Justice for the first time. also just want to make a list of books in french that got funky with gender lol. only current through 2018 but there has surely been more in this space since then.
Avant de construire de nouveaux termes et d'émerger dans la littérature des années 2000, l'inclusivité en langue se traduit par des tentatives d'évitement de cet emploi générique du masculin, notamment au moyen de procédés stylistiques créant une neutralisation du genre. On retrouve cet évitement dans l'oeuvre de Monique Wittig L'Oppoponax (1964) avec le pronom on employé comme pronom personnel sujet pour le personnage principal, ainsi que dans le roman Sphynx d'Anne F. Garréta (1986) avec l'évitement des marques flexionnelles de genre pour désigner les deux personnages principaux, dont le sexe restera inconnu. (p 31)
Wittig, L'Oppoponax, 1964
Garréta, Sphynx, 1986
Sur les traces de Wittig (1964) et Garréta (1986), la littérature du troisième millénaire (qui ne se réduit pas à l'art du roman) défriche l'horizon du français inclusif, notamment avec deux exemples emblématiques. Le premier est le roman policier À la Gloire de Pollo de La Baronne, dont la particularité est d'utiliser le genre féminin en emploi générique (par ex. les réfugiés sont des réfugiées et quelqu'un devient quelqu'une (2007 : 16,20)[)]. Contes à Rebours de Typhaine D. a la même stratégie, et présente également la caractéristique de genrer même les mots non flexionnels en genre, en leur ajoutant la marque du féminin (par ex. moie, noues, voues (2016 : 28,75, 64)[)]. […] La lecture des ces œuvres crée un sentiment d'injustice et de violence dû au fait qu'un genre grammatical représentant un groupe social apparaît partout : envahissant, invasif, agressif et déformant une réalité commune laquelle, en réalité, est beaucoup plus hétérogène. Deux autres ouvrages ont le même objectif - révéler les schèmes de pensées générés par la langue - mais ont recours à une autre stratégie : introduire des unités qui nous semblent pouvoir relever du genre neutre. Cette réduction des anomalies du système du genre à des fins de désambiguïsation et d'inclusivité est appliquée dans La Système des abysses de Carina Rozenfeld (2014) qui utilise le pronom de genre neutre iel pour désigner des personnes non binaires, et dans Requiem, écrit par nous-même (2015), qui utilise le pronom de genre neutre al pour les sous-catégories du genre neutre que sont les structures impersonnelles, le genre commun et le genre inconnu. (pp 71-73)
La Baronne, À la Gloire de Pollo, 2007
Typhaine D., Contes à Rebours, 2016
Rozenfeld, La Système des abysses, 2014
Alpheratz, Requiem, 2015
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Nous, enseignantes et enseignants du primaire, du secondaire, du supérieur et du français langue étrangère, déclarons avoir cessé ou nous apprêter à cesser d'enseigner la règle de grammaire résumée par la formule «Le masculin l'emporte sur le féminin». Trois raisons fondent notre décision: • La première est que cette règle est récente dans l'histoire de la langue française, et qu’elle n’est pas nécessaire. Elle a été mise au point au XVIIe siècle. Auparavant, les accords se faisaient au gré de chacun·e, comme c’était le cas en latin et comme c’est encore souvent le cas dans les autres langues romanes. Bien souvent, on pratiquait l'accord «de proximité», venu du latin, qui consiste à accorder le ou les mots se rapportant à plusieurs substantifs avec celui qui leur est le plus proche. Par exemple : «afin que ta cause et la mienne soit connue de tous» (Ronsard, épître à la Response aux injures et calomnies…, 1563). [...] • La seconde raison est que l’objectif des promoteurs de la nouvelle règle n’était pas linguistique, mais politique: «Parce que le genre masculin est le plus noble, il prévaut seul contre deux ou plusieurs féminins, quoiqu’ils soient plus proches de leur adjectif.» (Dupleix, Liberté de la langue françoise, 1651) ; «Le masculin est réputé plus noble que le féminin à cause de la supériorité du mâle sur la femelle» (Beauzée, Grammaire générale… 1767). Si l'école de la République a préféré abandonner cette formule au profit de celle qu'on connaît, c'est en reconduisant l'ordre de valeur qui est à son fondement. Un ordre que les classes politiques maintenaient parallèlement, en refusant aux femmes les droits politiques jusqu'en 1944, et en refusant plus longtemps encore de leur ouvrir les grandes écoles ou d'abroger les dernières dispositions du «Code Napoléon». • La troisième raison est que la répétition de cette formule aux enfants, dans les lieux mêmes qui dispensent le savoir et symbolisent l’émancipation par la connaissance, induit des représentations mentales qui conduisent femmes et hommes à accepter la domination d'un sexe sur l'autre, de même que toutes les formes de minorisation sociale et politique des femmes.
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It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet
must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason