My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.
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i know this is tumblr and we’re all playing perverts but i just think some of you would be excellent company for a late night walk and a four hour conversation about absolutely nothing
one of the most annoying ripple effects of fandom culture is the way so many people can’t seem to keep it in perspective that at the end of the day they’re just talking about art. it feels like i am trapped between people who are like “if you dare criticize the thing i like you are basically personally coming into my house and stealing my dog and shooting my jewelry” and people who are like “global communism is being stopped from succeeding because steven universe is on the air.” and call me a centrist but i don’t think either of those things are true
okay if this breaks containment I think my asian grandparents would be proud of this post being my legacy. but for their sake i must clarify my personal stance. NO SHOES IN THE HOUSE AT ALL
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it's cool how in the 6 years since this tweet was written it's become significantly less useful not because anything has gotten better but because the majority of products on Amazon are now from fly-by-night brands called "ZZPORK" and "GLUM4PANT"
tldr: I’m happy for a diverse cast, sad about skinny Harris, curious about how Black Harris changes the story (skeptical that it will be done well but pro-trusting-the-process), and I don’t want anyone to be mean to the actors. And don’t be fucking racist.
I think we all have the capacity to feel multiple things at once. We can be happy for the actor playing Harris and excited for a more racially diverse and queer cast, while also disappointed in the lack of body diversity and skeptical of the added complications a racial minority would face in Harris’s (and Troy’s) story. I think we can appreciate what the show has done AND be apprehensive about this casting. If they are serious about fleshing out a race narrative in Troy/Harris, there are so many talented Black actors with Harris’s body type.
I’m hearing (on Thre*ds lol Tumblr seems to be fine) “It never says Harris is fat in the books!” Ok, it never explicitly says Shane is autistic in the books, but we pieced together context clues and we’re all pretty happy about that representation, right? It’s good when the text is set up to give us a minority/marginalized character and we take the opportunity. It was set up to give us a fat character easily. Try to understand that there are a lot of people who feel like this was an intentional slight.
As for the racial complexities this adds, if the show does its job, we’ll see that added complexity played out. But there are only so many episodes, and the fans also really want Ilya/Shane as the focus. So I just don’t see this storyline getting the time it needs. It would be cool if Troy fell in love with someone his racist father (and potentially past-him) hates (even though he already hates him for the gay thing), and that’s an interesting story and I would want to see how non-white Harris handles falling in love with a reformed(?) bigot (I’m personally hoping the show does a better job of this than the books anyway, maybe this is part of a plan to do that). Before you say “But Adrian Dela Cruz is Hispanic, Troy already had an interracial relationship!” I want to tell you Adrian definitely voted for Donald Trump twice (he’s Canadian but idc, that’s his vibe). He’s an asshole, he didn’t care that Troy was an asshole too.
Also: Troy liked Adrian because he was hot. It kind of changes things that Harris is also conventionally attractive, and Troy doesn’t have to get over that kind of superficiality in the show.
Ok, so then there’s the reason I felt I needed to make this post, and that’s the blatant racism I just saw pop up on threads, that a Black family would not have an apple farm in Canada (and I’m sure it’s just the first of a lot). So I have to say: there’s nothing inherent in Harris’s character that makes him unable to be Black. You don’t have to be white to have an apple farm, heart issues (please god please JT keep that), relationships with men, nerdy buttons on your denim jackets, love for dogs, a social media job, a bad skunk-in-trunk first date story, cringey stuffed animals... You also don’t have to be white to instantly forgive a former asshole because he’s hot and interested in you. It probably makes it harder idk, but if white Harris was allowed to do it, Black Harris should be, too. If you have a problem with Harris’s casting because “Harris can’t be Black”, I have bad news for you.
All of this said, I feel for this actor. He is going to get so much hate from every side, and I really really hope there’s enough positive support and this season is good enough for his career to make it worth it. We can discourse about the casting decision, but I need us all to promise to shut it down if we see people being shitty to him as a person.
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really love keeping up with my mutuals through their little tags and vent posts. getting updates on how they’re doing is something like: glad to know your job at the library is going well. i’m sorry you haven’t gotten that raise. glad your finals went well. i’m sorry your teacher is so unhelpful. glad your tv show got renewed. i’m sorry they killed your favorite character. glad that you scored tickets to see your favorite artist. i’m sorry they aren’t touring near you at all. glad your cat is doing well. i’m sorry your mom is sick again. glad you’re feeling better now that it’s your favorite season. i’m sorry your meds aren’t working. glad you’re married now. i’m sorry you have to step back for your mental health. glad you’re still here. i’m sorry life is so hard. glad you’re alive, i hope things get easier for you soon
oh yes, video format is a wonderful way to receive information, practically effortless, just put on the closed captions and increase the speed as high as it'll go and it's nearly as fast as just reading a text version except sometimes it is also a little slow to load because of my ad blocker, so yeah, basically a perfect format
sorry if this is a stupid and/or weird question but your response to that anon talking about people experiencing orgasms during childbirth made me wonder if there's a certain point in development after which it'd be weird for pregnant people to have sex or masturbate, since after a certain point the fetus(?) can hear? like, should people do it quietly or does it just not really matter? sorry again but i am genuinely clueless
should. should pregnant people have sex quietly so their baby doesn't hear?
okay even assuming your unborn child can hear you fucking. it's like having sex in front of your stuffed animals or your dog, dude. they have absolutely no understand of what is going on. they don't give a shit. at no point is any person who has ever or will ever be born going to go "oooooh man I think hearing my parents fuck while I was in utero really fucked me up actually" that's not how anything works. they're too busy going "mmm yummy amniotic fluid" they do not know or care that sex is happening
I swear this is a consequence of the "life begins at conception" propaganda. Combined with the recurrent moral panic about "protecting children" (from knowledge).
Absolutely rancid combination of Christian morality with Christian morality.
I'm sad to say that the rise of fascism has been visible in my inbox for years as people become increasingly distrustful of their own bodies and pleasure. you see it in people's paranoia around becoming "porn addicts," their need for reassurance that a 24 year old isn't a predator for dating a 22 year old, their fears that they may have unwittingly committed assault by looking at another child's naked body when they were young, their insistence that consensual sex is impossible for anyone who has had a single drink or smoked a whiff of weed. people, especially young people, are doing a tremendous amount of work for fascism in terms of rigorously policing their own bodies and sexual expression, and they often don't even realize it.
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