Shuck's Blog

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

you are required to become less racist.

when you are told that you are being racist, you are required to understand that as being offered assistance in resisting this vast conspiracy. say thank you.

no one is doing it like her. no one else ever should. here's a link to the whole thing

a little closer

perfect

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

You get a really interesting and much more accurate view of history and how society actually functioned (often through the lens of the author’s unsubtle opinions–if she’s ranting about how indecent the waltz is you get a pretty good idea of its popularity, and the other day I read an etiquette guide from the 20s that gave the distinct impression that there was such carnage caused by people eating asparagus with their fingers that western society was lucky to survive.)

Honestly, I cannot recommend this highly enough for both the entertainment value and more seriously for worldbuilding purposes–you get to see little practical details that people actually had to deal with on a daily basis, and can get a lot out of thinking about WHY these norms existed, and what violating them looked like. A solid 75% of this stuff is often more nuanced, kind, and applicable than half of MODERN self-help books, and I’ve seen respect and compassion for autistic and ADHD children, alcoholism, trauma, and the struggles of recent immigrants in some of these that puts a lot of modern discourse to shame even though they lacked the language and scientific knowledge to fully express what they were trying to say. 

And then they will IMMEDIATELY spend five solid pages lecturing you about the proper and mutually respectful way to treat the multiple servants you definitely have, or they will equate, like….using the wrong fork, with telling your dinner date that she’s an ugly shrew to her face, as equally horrifying social missteps.

However. 

This passage, from one of the rare fully-digitized examples I could find, takes the cake. By which I mean “a hard left turn into a bad femslash fic somehow”. By which I mean ma’am this is a Wendy’s–

[id: “What are you doing? Sucking the head of your parasol! Have you not breakfasted? Take that piece of ivory from your mouth! To suck it is unlady-like, and let me tell you, excessively unbecoming. Rosy lips and pearly teeth can be put to a better use.”]

I don’t.

I–

What–

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?