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My Archive Of Our Own Wrap-up

I wanted to put together a thank you to all the fanfic writers who have gotten me through this year.

This wrap-up is me going through my history month by month to see which fics I'd visited the most (because you can be damn sure I read through them over several days).

So this is a celebration of the wide variety of fics I've read and/or bookmarked and/or subscribed to. Thank you to every writer on this list for keeping me entertained.

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To Be or Not To Be?

“To be or not to be…(III,I,56)” begins one of the most well-known soliloquys of Hamlet, a decision, in different extremities, that every one is forced to reference on a daily basis. This intro is synonymous with what we call our “fight or flight” mechanism. All accounts of history have begun with this question: to fight for what you regard as truth or to let it be? To argue with a classmate, a parent, a boss, or ignore the issue? To remain helpless while jumped in an alley or to decide to fight back? To allow unnecessary authoritative action or to respond with likewise aggression? Hamlet’s predicament battles between life and death, as does the case between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. The relation of these two stories can help recognize what causes this “fight” in us: fear.

On the night that Zimmerman made the decision to pursue Martin individually, no evidence was found as to whether Zimmerman was looking for violence or innocently looking to protect the people of his neighborhood. But there is no possibility that Zimmerman was in “flight” mode. He was not dismissing the situation. Zimmerman was doing what he believed was right, was justifiable, was his truth. But what DRIVES these armored decisions, these offensive actions? Fear. We act when threatened and threatened is what Zimmerman was. This fear drove Zimmerman to assume and stalk and confront, while a similar fear caused Martin to respond back in a stronger force. Afterwards, Zimmerman responds with a bullet to his fear of death. Fear is a power that demands to be felt and the reaction can be the difference between life and death.

Hamlet’s threat is Claudius. The common interpretation of the book poses the threat as Claudius assuming position as Hamlet’s father and Hamlet’s suspicion of Claudius’ participation in his dad’s murder. However, there is an alternate interpretation by Sigmund Freud that the threat is created by Hamlet’s love and desire for his mother and Claudius taking that away. Either way, Hamlet's fear produces the whole plot in Shakespeare’s story. He must decide whether or not “to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them (III,I,59).” The evil that is fear grew to control Hamlet’s life and take away that of others, eventually including his entire family.

Zimmerman’s fear may have resulted from racism, or a “single story.” Chimamanda Adichie, an African storyteller, teaches the harms of “single stories,” which result from the assuming of an entire culture or event due to only one teaching. A single story of Zimmerman’s may have been about recent teenager misconduct, criminals dressing in black hoodies, or even just pure discriminating views of blacks. Either way, fear is the key created from all of these, and it’s the same thing that drove Hamlet to kill Claudius and drives us all to act in various measures today. But fear is not to be avoided, it is to be overcome. Brent Staples, in his essay, “Black Men and Public Space,” does not wish to ignore this misunderstood interpretation of him by others, he wishes to correct it in a progressive fashion. Adichie wishes to provide additional stories to further create an image. Obama speaks in his speech on the Trayvon Martin case on how he works to detain this mislead fear in our nation. The path is long and rugged, but its travelers are resilient.

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