this was so much easier than keeping a diary
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NOBODY EXPECTS THE BEE ASSASSINS!
THEIR CHIEF WEAPON IS SURPRISE
SURPRISE AND FEAR
FEAR AND SURPRISE …THEIR TWO WEAPONS ARE FEAR AND SURPRISE
AND RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY
…THEIR THREE WEAPONS ARE FEAR, SURPRISE, AND RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY… AND AN ALMOST FANATICAL DEVOTION TO THE QUEEN
ER… THEIR FOUR… NO…AMONGST THEIR WEAPONS… AMONGST THEIR WEAPONRY… ARE SUCH DIVERSE ELEMENTS AS FEAR, SURPRISE…
I’LL COME AGAIN
oh my god.
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Rule 63 Dick Grayson~
I tried to do his bottom justice, but all the girls in DCU have fab booties - and I can’t draw curvaceous girls to save my life - so now it’s just a mediocre behind. u.u
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“In 1988 two psychologists published an article arguing that positive self-deception is a normal and advantageous part of most people’s lives.”
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For a minute, I thought this was the actual dialogue from the show. Only the # symbol tripped me up.
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
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I tell my students this every single semester.
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So I’ve discovered a surprising number of people I know didn’t know this, and I thought it was a common trivia, so I think I’ll mention it here:
Considering the socio-norm back in the day was to marry young women between families as economical arrangements, a new bride would find the prospect of a (usually older) gentleman who demands sex (or at least, has the expectation of sex—for consummation of the marriage at the very least) to be terrifying and beastly, and can be seen a danger on her innocence and purity.
Going by the original tale: the beauty (new bride) is removed from her family and home (her comfort and the only place she knows) to go live with her new spouse out of an arrangement her father was forced into (an arranged marriage), bracing herself for the worst sort of monster—one who will be violent and rageful and subject her to a life of harm and terror… only to discover that, when she lives with the beast, he’s an intellectual thrill and a delight to bond with. Still, she does not love him, and so he allows her to return home (by her own choice!), only to discover she does indeed love him when she receives a vision that the beast is sick and dying. She rushes back to his side (again, by her choice!), and through this acceptance of friendship and newfound adoration, she sees her spouse not as a beast out to consume her or ravish her, but as a man and very human, and she learns to take charge of her own sexuality—becoming a woman in her own right.
It’s an easy story to paint as romanticizing an abusive relationship, so I think it’s a pity more people don’t realize it has its roots in empowering a woman’s own view of sex and her own sexual destiny!
/the more you know
aaaah, thank you.
People will call this story a case of Stockholm Syndrome and I just…
that’s not even the case at all.
This is a really interesting analysis, and I like it a lot!
Ok but i think the fact that a romaticized allegory for a normal practice resembles an abusive relationship says more about that practice than about the wrongness of the people interpreting it
The comment above mine is a winner. Even in the interpretation described here, the story can’t start unless Beauty is forced to give the Beast a chance. She doesn’t go to his home for the hell of it; she goes because initially he doesn’t give her a choice. Pressuring someone into starting a relationship doesn’t stop being abusive and creepy just because the relationship ends up working out or because the pressure lets up later on.
I mean, there are a lot of ways storyteller can force a character to spend time with someone they initially dislike. Most B&tB interpretations don’t, for some reason, choose to make the Beast blameless for that situation, ergo most B&tB stories come across as describing a potentially abusive relationship.
hahaha I meant to do some other stuff today, but I woke up with this particular scenario in my mind and after ten minutes really running with it and spinning it out to a bunch of other things, I decided to really quick write it down
I’ve been working on it all day and I haven’t even gotten to the part I woke up thinking about.
B. KATZ & A. BLOOM = KABLOOM
I approve of this pairing name
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