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If you use Chrome, Firefox has a feature to import your bookmarks, passwords, and other data when you switch.
You deserve software that doesn’t hate you, switch to Firefox <3 🦊
Other good extensions:
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Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!
Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row
Somewhere or other, C. S. Lewis points out (and I'm paraphrasing here) that every era of writing has its own tropes and its own blind spots; its own failings and its own successes. This is why it's important to read in lots of different eras: so you can see what does and doesn't work, in the long run, and be able to make your own informed choices about how to write.
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learn the nearest and most accessible routes to states where you and your loved ones can access abortion
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keep a stock of by-mail abortion pills for yourself and/or others who may need them (you may need to travel out of state to obtain them)
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If you are in a yellow state, you currently have constitutional abortion protections but they are in jeopardy. Get active in local political groups NOW to fight back against constitutional amendments to ban abortion. Your focus should be purely on political action.
If you are in Michigan, you currently have a ban in place which is being challenged, and your governor is working to add abortion protections into the Michigan state constitution. Your focus should be on supporting the work that is currently under way.
If you are in a green state, your state has constitutional protections for abortion that are unlikely to be challenged. Your focus should be on helping others to enter your state for abortion care.
connect with abortion access groups such as Aid Access, Abortion on Demand, the National Network of Abortion Funds, or Just The Pill
volunteer to help people enter your state for abortion care, either with transportation help or letting someone crash on your couch
if you live in a green state with no current or predicted primary routes from other states for abortion access, you can focus your efforts on supporting political action in other areas
If you are in a purple state, your state currently has no constitutional protections for abortion but is unlikely to implement a ban. You have two focuses: pushing for constitutional protections AND helping others to enter your state for abortion care (see green state list).
Cassandra Cain & “Stop”
Okay so, I’m still early in, so apologies if I’m missing some other clues or interpretations, or if I’m just getting things plain wrong (anyone is welcome to correct me or just add their own takes ^^) - but; I noticed and wanted to appreciate how the concept of “stop” factors in to Cassandra’s origin. Like, communicating “stop” - telling something or someone to “stop”. For one, it’s the first word she successfully learns how to speak;
Batman #567
And she first spoke it when David Cain reunited with her;
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It goes on to be the only word she can speak for a while.
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And even prior to her first utterance of the word, Cassandra is shown to have learned how to express the idea of communicating “stop” in a language more comfortable to her - physicality.
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It’s a phrase she’s taken to. And you can see why it would appeal to her. Why it’s so significant that the first word she speaks is one that is able to both disapprove of and order the ceasing of an action, after living a life deprived of that level of control.
After all, she first verbalizes it only after being reminded of what was the most traumatic result of this power imbalance growing up.
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And when she repeats it, the comparison is made even more obvious; by placing it side-by-side with what was likely the biggest, and earliest, attempt to communicate that idea, using the only language she’d known - violence.
Batman #567
None of that is to say the idea of being able to just say “stop” suddenly came to her in THIS moment, at 17 years old. But it seems likely she picked it up only after leaving Cain.
Children are impressionable, and are going to defer to adults at a young age. As a parent, I don’t think Cain left any room for her to believe the life he was raising her for was optionable. And I believe the significance of this moment is that Cass has come face-to-face with him, and is now able to tell him to stop - to impart her disapproval, and demand adherence. Using both languages.
There lies the difference between these two scenes. Cass isn’t a confused child anymore, her escape from Cain isn’t defined by impulse, and certainly not misunderstanding - all of which are what David Cain seems to assume of her in the way he approaches her. She knows what she means to say. And why she’s saying it. She knows she doesn’t want to be deprived of control any longer. And her expression as she repeats it seems to be at peace in finally relaying that to him.
It’s Cass who’s internally comparing the events. And it’s Cain who can’t see the difference, still chasing after that wounded dove he can coax back into a cage.
And it’s also not a purely verbal idea! With the way things go, I don’t see it as a case of “speech is the pinnacle of expression”. Cass continues to communicate “stop” through physical signals, because at the end of the day, that is more natural for her. And it’s perfectly capable of communicating the same thing. For example, her continued use of the raised hand gesture;
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As well as other gestures she’s picked up throughout her life. One comes specifically from David Cain’s training, in fact; which provides a perfect example of how Cain methodized control over people in his time - and how Cassandra has flipped that around and taken control of herself. All so she can communicate that there’s nothing anyone can do to stop her from doing what she’s going to do. Which, in this case, is stopping Cain himself from hurting more people.
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And by the time she does just that, even David Cain is starting to realize this. By her own volition, Cass tracked him down - foiled his plans - and once again, said “stop”.
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And for once, David Cain realizes she means it. There’s nothing he can do.
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Cassandra has outgrown him.
OP, this was fantastic. Looking forward to more of your analysis.
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This is actually v important and needs to be reblogged
Gonna just share this:
My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.
To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.
My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation.
65 nearly identical phrases used in his speeches. Take a moment to think about that.
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