no i will not "personalize" my "blog"

"come again?"

"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."

"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."

a long and judgmental pause. then:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

10. When two or more daughters are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest daughter is preferable.

11. Any sufficiently advanced daughter is indistinguishable from magic.

12. Without a clear indicator of intent, it is utterly impossible to parody my daughter without someone mistaking it for the genuine article.

15. My daughter will not interfere with the social, cultural, or technological development of other civilizations.

19. Do not get my daughter wet or feed her after midnight.

20. My daughter can only move forward, but she captures diagonally.

21. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by my daughter.

22. My daughter is the mind-killer. She is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my daughter. I will permit her to pass over me and through me. And when she has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see her path. Where the daughter has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

23. If my daughter is bigger than your outstretched thumb, then you are within her blast radius.

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

Dog: :) fine, thanks

More Audrey!! <3

(context)

"The West" as we know it, and as is wielded against the various peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, started to be formed in the Middle Ages with the idea of Christendom and attempts to rebuild the Western Roman Empire (see: Charlemagne) and "Western culture" only really came into existence as a result of the European Enlightenment into the 19th century.

West Asia and North Africa had massive influence on what would become "the West," both indirectly via their influence on Greece and Rome and directly (Babylonian religious astrology was the foundation for the entire field of astronomy in the Renaissance and later). & Greece also had a massive influence over them, as Muslim caliphates studied and further developed the works of the Greeks in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, all kinds of scientific pursuits, and it was through Arab philosophers like Ibn Rushd that these works came back into European thought at all and allowed for intellectual renaissances. Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman empire, housed the Library of Alexandria, had a massive influence over Greek and Roman religion through syncretism. Yet the WANA region & it's cultures are not considered part of "the West." We draw a big line down the Mediterranean that never existed historically. Why do the British, on the edge of the Roman empire, get to claim to be the cultural inheritors of the ancient Greeks through "Western civilization" but the Egyptians don't?

Ancient Greece is certainly a part of the mythos of "the West," and Greece is obviously part of European history, but just because people in Western Europe decided to construct this idea of a historical relay race of civilization where no one matters except for whichever European power is currently in control, does not make it true.

Not to mention that it doesn't even really benefit Greece. This idea of ancient Greece as "creating Western civilization" has been used by the British and other Western Europeans to distance modern Greeks from their ancestors, in some really fucking gross ways, and the same has happened to southern Italy. Because the people actually living in those areas don't live up to the whitewashed anti-Oriental fantasy.

May I present the best apple:

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat:

me: where'd daddy go?

baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy

me: peekaboo!