Jaye Em Edgecliff

Deadline is February 28

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Loser's Game is a alternate reality from where you can only escape by losing. The show follows Deldrach, a 16 year old transmasculine who ends up in the game by accident and have to find his way back home. The game demands you follow its confusing and ever-changing rules perfectly or risk getting stuck forever.

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This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were

1) so vital, and

2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.

“Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.”

They made lace, and sold it to the aristocrats. Real lace (the stuff you see on old outfits in museums, not the machine-made stuff you might be familiar with from today) is stupidly difficult to make, takes a lot of time and skill, and, well:

If you watch this through, you’ll hear her say this is DOMESTIC lace. This is not fancy, this is for household objects. You can imagine what it would take to make some of the elaborate pieces you see on old aristocratic clothing, and see why it was so expensive and valuable. (Incidentally, if you’ve ever heard the music from the musical 1776, in the song where Abagail and John are trading letters and he’s like “ma’am we need saltpeter” and she’s like “dude we need pins,” THIS IS WHAT THEY NEEDED THE PINS FOR. That song was based on real letters between the two.)

And this is all those revolutionary Revolutionary women did, every free moment of every day. They pulled out their pins and their bobbins and they made lace until they couldn’t see straight, and they sold it to revolutionaries and royalists alike, anyone who would pay. Yard upon yard upon yard of lace to earn cash to translate into rations and bullets.

The war was won by a women’s craft. Not even a “vital” women’s craft like cooking or cleaning. It was won by making a luxury item whose entire purpose was to say “look how wealthy I am, I can afford all this lace.”

Lace was not the only source of income for the Revolution. But it was a major one, and it is extremely fair to say it turned the tide.

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…This is BEYOND infuriating.

Tl;dr: Scholastic offers to license an AANHPI* author’s book as part of a collection “Amplifying AANHPI Narratives”… but only if she removes the word “racism” from the foreword of a book describing it, or else they won’t pick the book up.

…Scholastic is very much the 900-pound gorilla in the YA-literature room, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall—having politely but forcefully declined (her letter to Scholastic is in her blog post)—is understandably terrified about what may now happen to her career. But I’ll tell you, this situation leaves me intent on running straight out and buying her book. And I very much hope this ugly stance blows up, big, in Scholastic’s corporate face.