yes I wrote speckled sky

 haven’t posted about limmuda in a week, tumblr has infinite scroll so it’s easy to get confused about that. it’s a confusing site lol, u made a dumb mistake but don’t be too hard on yourself

if you read thru my blog u would have noticed that i get “have you considered that you are stupid” literally every single day so? you should possibly have concluded that either i did consider that and decide it was not tru or that sending me anons calling me stupid will not cause me to consider it

Then you just need to stop engaging with those people.

I have very little tolerance for this because usually the purported justification for being cruel is that truth is more important than kindness or decency, and yet the way they engage also forecloses any possibiity of learning or understanding.

not fight. just have a conversation about, like…video games. movies. whatever

because, spoiler alert? that’s possible

people who are constantly told thy are stupid and who don’t have as many rights b/c it is agreed they are stupid

r in a differen situation than people who are constantly told that they are geniuses and given tons and tons of money and education b/c they are such geniuses and so inherently valuable and whose votes count for twenty times ours b/c they are so intelligent

This percentage actually falls to 22% when you look at the best-selling films of all time, and 9% when you look at the best-rated ones. Admittedly, many of those don’t appeal to the non-green viewing public, but why should art have to appeal to those who aren’t willing to take the time to appreciate it?

Oh, and, um, minor detail? Purple-focused theaters are disproportionately likely to play movies with purple protagonists, and to have lower ticket prices.

celebrities performing for our troops in the field aren’t doing anything heroic. I guess they’re patriotic, in the sense that they’re making it clear they’re on Team Anitam in this whole stupid mess, but patriotism that’s just ‘this is my team so I’ll root for it’ is objectively bad and not worth praising. Doing it for free adds nothing to this picture; they make way more off the marketing benefits than they’d make off an appearance fee anyway. It’s a calculated bit of image branding, and part of image branding is that people are allowed to decide they don’t like the image you’re going for, and I am super unimpressed with ‘patriotism’ as the image Makel is going for, and I am sure I am factored in as a cost of this branding strategy but I’m still going to make a fuss about it.

This was a stupid war. This was a stupid waste of hundreds of thousands of lives. It hasn’t improved the food situation. It displaced a million people who we wanted working their farms. It was selfish and dumb and bad and a serious failure of leadership on all sides.

My friend also spent years playing board games. This isn’t because she liked them - she didn’t. It’s just, everyone would go play board games, and she experienced that as just a thing that’s how that is, so she went and did it too. And it took her years to notice that actually she didn’t like to and would prefer not to.

Imagining instead if she lived among people where some people go to play board games, and others don’t like board games or like other things better so during the same time they read books/knit/etc. I strongly suspect that under that circumstance she would have figured out a lot faster that she doesn’t like board games and would prefer not to play them.

My non-board-game-related point here is: people often talk about intercaste kids being unsuited to their caste, having trouble with it, etc, in a way that makes it feel like this is something particular about intercaste kids.

I don’t think this is the case*. I think that what actually happens is that not fitting into their determined caste is more legible {that’s not the word, what’s the word} for intercaste kids, both externally (society keeps talking about it) and internally (as in the board games thing) - intercaste kids are more likely to know that particular things are things that can be different, what some alternatives are, to be exposed to that, etc. I think there are plenty intracaste children who are in my friend’s position - having this source of unhappiness about which they don’t consciously notice what it is, maybe don’t consciously notice in general - but it’s there. 

(*I’m perfectly willing to accept that the ratios might be higher, but I think this is more than offset by the legibility aspect in terms of experiences).

like…clearly it’s an unfair bullshit system sometimes. and god have i seen some people who would be amazing in another caste

but, like…i’m purple? and sometimes i don’t think that’s a good thing until someone’s shitty about purples and then i remember that there’s actually shit to love about it and like

it’s who i am? even when i feel like i’m red or i’m nothing i’m still purple. even if my family was shit about it there’s still…i don’t know