Percy, he/him, mid-20s. religion, horror, sometimes art or academia. header by constellaj. current interests: rogue trader, history, pathologic, starfinder
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In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.
Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.
During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.
On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.
Naturally since tumblr search sucks I can't find my original post positing the "are we the baddies" SFF subgenre characterized by authors (frequently from an imperial power) writing about characters in a position of relative imperial privilege - though usually still tools of empire/the foot soldiers enforcing empire rather than those at the very top - realizing that, as I said, they are the baddies, where the emphasis is on the emotional journey of those imperial soldiers and grappling with your culpability and what if anything you can do about it, in contrast to the scrappy rebel against the evil empire pov. Key examples I cited were FMA, Imperial Radch, and the Locked Tomb which also contain an intriguing pattern of racial distancing between the imperial resident author and the SFF empire, with Machineries of Empire being an example without that distancing. (Unsure if Baru Cormorant fits in this, since Baru is uh... half (lol) aware she is the baddie vs bought into the Maskerade the whole time.
Anyway when I was outlining this concept someone noted that FMA is much earlier than the others (SFF empires are trending rn) but I'm now trying to decide whether the Bartimaeus Trilogy counts. 1/3 of the POV characters qualifies as an imperial agent; it's just that I'm not really sure he ever grasps the greater failings of the imperial worldview before he blows up.
#are we the baddies #alongside the other sff microgenre I made up: I can fix him (the empire) #some desperate glory is adjacent to this but Gaia Station isn't really a big galactic power #I guess She-ra counts?
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Literary criticism terms I use on this blog despite making them up myself, much to the chagrin of anyone who does not have my back catalog memorized:
are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power
I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem
librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general
college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully
the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now
I [M47] fell in love with the voidborn twink psyker [M43] who believes in the power of kindness and friendship. Will my boss the lord Inquisitor be mad at me? The voidborn twink is also a rogue trader. The answer is time sensitive.
More or less the same guy just weirder and taller since he's a voidborn.
friendship with dragon age ended now rogue trader is my best friend. Aloysius Lavellan is now Aloysius Von Valancius.
Random infos about him:
Fanatic iconoclas with a pinch of dogmatic and heretic sometimes. Truly believes in the Emperor but sometimes in a very non-standard way.
Gets along well with the crew in general despite pissing them off most of the time. Only kicked out Marazhai right after Comorragh. He does not enjoy the murder torture unfortunately.
Pretends to hate Xenos for about 3 days before he cannot keep up the lie (he thinks xenos technology is neat and eldars are alright).
Best stats is Warp Knowledge. He has seen things that would have obliterated people in a millisecond.
Best friends with the girls and Eogunn. It's the girls, the gay (1) and Eogunn.
Decent at regicide but nothing special. Heinrix trains him. He's getting better but still hasn't beaten him. Heinrix fears the day it will happen.
Manifested his psyker abilities at 6, only got sent on a black ship at 18. Lore drop this information to Heinrix by accident. Has learned to dampen the voices of the warp through needlework (it keeps his mind busy).
Actually had a nice but weird childhood. Was clandestinely raised by an acolyte after the purge of his whole voidborn clan. Doesn't remember it he was a newborn. Doesn't have much contact with said Acolyte anymore as a way to protect themselves from the Inquisition finding out wtf is going. Misses her a lot.
Very popular among the lower decks.
Fucking hates Incendia Chorda and Calligos Winterscale, he thinks she has rancid vibe and that he's utterly stupid. They also hatr him back and thinks he's fucking weird and dumb.
Doesn't even realize he embarrasses Heinrix on a daily basis.
Has a metallic plate on his nose and chin because he broke them too many times.
The bowlcut is because he has metallic plate around his skull that was placed there during his time at the Schola Psykana and they didn't really care of the placement. It is a sanctionned haircut in a way (don't listen to me I'm making shit up)
Has his faulty augmentics in his legs replaced during the game, and one placed for his fucked up spine. Ends up gaining quite a few centimeters out of this and is now taller than Heinrix. Heinrix doesn't like that.
Only drinks when there's a risk to offense some nobles or something, otherwise he refuses because he is not convince he will manage to keep control of his psychic abilities once drunk, and he has a feeling he would be drunk after a glass of amasec.
Chaos God most likely to get hiss ass: Tzeentch, and second place goes to Nurgle.
Thinks everything his is fault. Won't elaborate on that.
Tries to make everyone goes along but he fucking sucks at that.
Abelard really thought he would last a week. Still not super comfortable whenever he sees him coughing, it could be for real this time.
✨ Cover illustration for the last issue of Apparition Literary Magazine. Unfortunately, I don't think it ever got released before the magazine closed.
It's supposed to be a callback to an earlier cover I did for them in 2019: the same character, but older, more experienced, with even more magical coins and a fancy armour. That first illustration was one of my earliest paid gigs. It's nice to see how far you've come!
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i'm gonna be honest i'd feel a lot safer about my "community" if it didn't have a bunch of weird ass stalkers in it. that's really taking precedence over the girls with weird kinks, by a pretty astronomical margin actually
I will say whilst I'm glad morality OCD is getting talked about a lot more lately I'm dreading the eventual "autistic sense of justice" treatment it's inevitably going to get. The morals in morality don't have to be and often aren't correct and even when they are having it doesn't make you more likely to actually act on those morals.
The idea you can obsess compulse yourself into being a good person is why your brain is tormenting you like this in the first place. Do not try and make your mental illness righteous do not treat it like good person who's too nicies disease or infantilize people over it.
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the descendants movies are so crazy because the premise is literally what if all of the disney animated movies happened at the same time and afterwards the Good Guys resurrected all of their villains to give them a life sentence on a penal colony island where the only natural resource is an unlimited supply of pleather
it's like 99% about how the kids of the various disney princesses® going to school together and having cellphones but also cruella de vil's bleach-haired bastard son is there. who even asked for cruella to be included. were the working class human protagonists from 101 dalmatians involved in the construction of the penal colony or did the dogs represent themselves. and how does cruella successful manage hobnobbing with three actual evil wizards. the series starts 20 years later so they can all have fuckass little kids going to school so maybe it's been long enough for those kinds of barriers to be broken down but it seems crazy that three genuine article practitioners of the dark arts let a woman whose main claim to notoriety was "failing to kill a vast quantity of puppies" into the friend group. and by friend group I mean a polycule barely a step above the grandparents from charlie and the chocolate factory in terms of functionality.
in like the first 60 seconds you learn that after all of the disney animated movies happened at the same time all of the protagonists decided to merge their kingdoms into one mega kingdom and they democratically elected the beast, as in beauty and the, to be their Mega King who's more in charge than everyone else. the sociopolitical implications of all of the disney royalty deciding to surrender sovereignty to become The Empire of the Beast are kind of mind-blowing but it's hard to focus on that because new teenagers keep showing up and announcing "my name is Mo. you know, the daughter of Quasimodo?" I guess everyone defining themselves so strictly in terms of parentage and family line is sort of what you'd expect from a society that's basically structured the same was as game of thrones but christ.
the main plot of the first movie is that the 16 year old heir to the Empire of the Beast is about to be crowned god emperor while he's still in high school (why?) and reveals he has a bit of an abolitionist streak re: his parents' horrific penal colony. which is cool and all, it really seems like he must have had to fight against propaganda like a salmon swimming upstream to arrive at the conclusion that the penal colony is a little uncool. but also pretty immediately after he lets four villain kids into society maleficent's purple haired ne'er-do-well hits him with a love potion that leads him to unceremoniously dump his long-term girlfriend (baby sleeping beauty) in an extremely public spectacle after The Big Game. please my liege I know you're entranced by her purple hair and edgy spray painting but sleeping beauty is calling her bannermen to arms. this insult will not stand. also the effects of the love potion wear off almost immediately but he doesn't say ANYTHING and just lets his new gf keep sweating about having him ensorcelled until she brings it up herself, at which point he confirms that he's been aware for A While and is cool with her (successfully!!!) slipping him a magic roofie. they just keep dating and the only person mad about it is the girl who got dumped in front of the entire school.
the plot of the second movie is that maleficent jr is trying so hard to assimilate into normie culture (ie, being blond and wearing pastels) to be a good paramour to the new teen emperor that she has a nervous breakdown and runs away back to the penal colony. there she immediately finds herself beefing with ursula's daughter, who is big pissed that only four kids got to leave the penal colony and everyone else for left to rot. she decides to right this wrong by ALSO hitting the teen emperor with a love spell and gets /this/ close to successfully making him open the borders in front of everyone at prom before some bullshit circumstances happen and instead there's a fight between a giant cgi dragon and a giant cgi octopus girl. for the record the teen emperor is also not that mad about THIS love spell either and he does immediately concede that the octopus girl is a passionate community leader who raises valid concerns about his failure to follow through on his initial promise of amnesty for the children of the penal colony. he does get back with maleficent's daughter though, who has decided to be purple again to show that she now confidently lives in two cultures.
I've been talking a lot about maleficent's kid and you might be thinking "now what about the rest of her inseparable teen polycule" and I'm sorry to say that they simply are not getting as much sparkle as their colleague.
the evil queen from snow white's daughter has the next meatiest storyline, probably because these movies primarily exist to sell fashion dolls that can compete with mattel and they need kids to really like the girl characters. in the first movie she learns a very important lesson about how she doesn't need to act dumb to impress boys. in the latter two movies she becomes an independent business owner and by far the most politically savvy of the main 4, by which I mean she's the one vocally advocating for liberating the penal colony. she really grows into a very sweet and community-minded young lady and I liked her a lot.
cruella's son gets a dog in the first movie and an implausible heterosexual relationship in the second. in the third one he's just kind of there, although he does seem to have opened a sort of shelter for youths on the penal colony.
jafar's son who I haven't even mentioned yet is mostly there to be tall and do flips. in the first movie he learns that he likes sports more than stealing. in the second movie he forces the school fencing team to stop being sexist and let mulan's daughter join. crazy that sports are that sexist in a world where mulan and like presumably merida exist I guess but whatever. in the third movie he flirts with gaston's dumb-as-ham blond son for a few minutes and the two of them end up deciding to take a gap year and travel the world together which sounds fake but I swear to god is true.
in the THIRD movie the sleeping beauty daughter decides she's sick of being nice and wants to go apeshitt and honestly she kind of eats it up. beating her requires teaming up with ursula's squid kid and her himbo pirate boys as well as maleficent jr's deadbeat dad who turns out to be hades. thanks to some dubious writing/acting/direction hades comes across as both very gay and like he's his own daughter's problematically older ex boyfriend. the vibes are all over the place and it's still definitely one of the stronger performances in these movies. anyway during this movie maleficent jr decides to permanently close the barrier to the penal colony to protect the empire of the beast because she's gone so model minority good immigrant that she's become a republican about it. everyone is understandably pissed at her about this when they find out but it's already the third act so they forgive her quickly and they end up bringing the borders down permanently anyway to the joy of all.
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