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yooo how do I get out lol 😂 how do i get out of here 😅😭
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knightscrest
love it when mutuals i don’t really talk to reblog one of my posts it’s like hell yeah. glad you liked that. please don’t leave me.
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id: All of these manifestations and descriptions combine to make the Hill House of Jackson's final version a house of delusions of family. Hill House will be glad to give you a hand to hold in the night, someone to be there, a sense of belonging. When it is too late, you will realize that all along you were really alone, clinging to your enemy–or to nothing at all. The house's furnishings have "hands everywhere," Luke says: "Little soft glass hands, curving out to you, beckoning-" (209). So do its ghosts. In a scene that Jackson marks as containing the "key" to the book (1D), Eleanor clutches Theodora's hand as she works up the courage to cry out against the torture of a ghostly child. She suddenly looks up to see Theodora on the other side of the room. She screams, "Whose hand was I holding?" (162-163). The horror behind Eleanor's scream is not that she was alone in the dark, but that she believed herself to have someone there.
tricia lootens, whose hand was i holding?: familial and sexual politics in shirley jackson's the haunting of hill house
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patron saint of conflicts of interest
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Anonymous asked:
Can you elaborate on how Carson sexually abused Shrue?
yeah sure! disclaimer that this all my opinion and neither endorsed by jon and muna nor one that anyone is obligated to share with me. but (in my opinion) when carson calls into question the existence of shrue's family by claiming that VAL made them up and forced shrue to forget the truth - thereby implying that he orchestrated and was present for the creation of shrue's family, regardless of shrue's true feelings on the matter - there's the implied threat of "your body and anything your body can produce is mine to use however i wish". it's also sexually humiliating to have your ability to create a family, including children, called into question in front of a cabinet of your peers; to be told that your marriage is a lie, and provided with an alternative woman you don't know and told that you actually had children with her without your consent being factored into any part of the process (which also implies that carson potentially sexually abuses VAL, either by requesting that she create shrue a family and forcing her into the role of a wife and mother, or by lying that she did and positioning her as a dangerous seductress regardless). and shrue has pre-existing trauma with saints attempting to violate their body and mind; specifically love saints, whose modus operandi is to chase you down and essentially attempt to rape you to death while convincing you that it's what you want, which carson would likely know about, given that the attempted assassination of a politician actively campaigning for re-election at a national level would probably make news headlines.
there's also the fact that carson takes shrue aside after this and threatens to have them hallowed in order to prevent them from speaking out against him. hallowing already bears some uncomfortable parallels to sexual assault (hayward's horrible catering gig episode in particular is very difficult for me to listen to, as people are repeatedly drugged and tortured against their will so a god can be forced inside them and transform their bodies from the inside out, which, combined with the fact that in-universe the act of hallowing and sacrificing people to create or summon gods is called "god-birthing"... yeah), and carson threatening shrue like this while the two of them are alone feels very much like a man in a position of authority and power "joking" about assaulting one of his subordinates, because who would ever believe them if they tried to accuse him? then there's the summit episode, where he literally spikes all the food and drink with a drug that makes you compliant and apathetic in order to demonstrate his power over the people he's holding hostage - a drug he intends to mass-market as a product to the general public, despite its obvious similarities to and potential use as a date rape drug. and of course, we find out that carson is covering up the sex crimes of the high adjudicator, suggesting that he's at least very comfortable with enabling this kind of abuse.
granted it's not a cut and dry case of rape or sexual assault, but when you consider all the factors at play, as well as carson's particular obsession and overfamiliarity with shrue and with publically humiliating them in order to undermine them, it starts to feel like at the very least a parallel to workplace sexual harassment campaigns, which are more than enough to ruin someone's life and career by calling into question any sense of security they might have.
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sorry this will become an mcr blog again in the next week
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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
Yup, these are actually *really* important. And a small bit of work helps, so it’s doable even if you’re snowed under with survival work or in too much pain to concentrate for longer periods.
It’s multiply-checked by more than one person, so don’t worry about fucking it up because your concentration is fucked. Your input is valuable but not the only input.
I find Zooniverse very good, and it does Citizen Historian work too - I spent time digitising concentration camp records because a) families still don’t know what happened to some of their loved ones b) this makes the records available for historians without travelling to archives in person, which I can testify is *invaluable* for disabled historians and helps cut the need for overseas travel to do vital historical work.
It unexpectedly helped me with learning how to decipher premodern handwriting too, which proved really useful in my academic stuff. You *will* pick up valuable skills doing this. Put it on your CV.
Other places you can go to do citizen science, from the notes
(Thanks to everyone who left these in the notes! If you know more, put them in the notes, and I might add them! And ty @enbycrip for the fantastic addition that covered a bunch of details I didn't get to)
Apps/Websites
- eBird (birds
- Merlin (birds)
- citizenscience.gov (big project database, US-based)
- iNaturalist (nature)
- MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data) Smithsonian archives (transcriptions, many subjects)
- Cornell Bird Lab (birds)
- FoldIt (folding proteins)
- Fathomverse (sea animals)
- Project Monarch (butterflies)
In person
- Bioblitz (nature) Species watch (species) Audobon Society (birds)
Also:
Even if you don't have time to spend, but do have some processor cycles to spare, check out the projects available at BOINC's Compute for Science: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Hey guys, these projects make a HUGE difference for science. For example, I run bplant.org and iNaturalist is the #1 source of images in ID guides and articles and other educational materials I develop. The plant observations are also helpful for assessing plant ranges and how these ranges are changing with climate change. And it also helps me identify local seed sources for use in restoration plantings. Use of iNaturalist, even casual use like a random person uploading pics of plants they see growing in their yard, or a random parking lot they were in, or a random vacant lot, those observations are MAJORLY helping in (1) education (2) science (3) conservation.
This stuff makes a huge difference.
Also, if you want to make the biggest impact on these sites, release any material with the more permissive licenses, like CC-BY. If you add a NC or ND clause, for instance, your photos cannot be included on Wikipedia or bplant or a number of other educational sites, because those license restrictions are incompatible with combining with copyleft material.
But yeah, go do citizen science, please!!!
I thought I'd go back and repost this because there are probably a lot of people out there who, like me, reallllyyyyyy need something to distract them right now
So, hey. You. Stop doomscrolling. Take a deep breathe. And if you want, try doing some citizen science or citizen history instead
I'm also going to especially promote MapSwipe, for those who want to do something tangible to help people now.
From their website:
Data Everywhere
In today's technology-filled world, we have access to vast amounts of information at our fingertips. This includes geospatial data, which helps us understand places and the “where?” of things - a vitally important piece of successful humanitarian programs. It is important for getting from point A to point B as well as for coordination, understanding needs, tracking impact, identifying gaps, and a multitude of other concerns. For responsible use by humanitarians, this information must be assessed, refreshed, and validated as populations, infrastructure, and the surrounding environments experience the inevitable changes that occur as time, conflicts, and disasters unfold... MapSwipe is a free open source mobile application available on iOS and Android that empowers anyone with a smartphone to make a meaningful impact contributing to global mapping efforts. MapSwipe crowdsources the review of satellite imagery to:
Btw given the context right now I do want to say this is specifically meant for people like me who can't get out and do something in person/directly to help right now (too disabled, trapped at work, can't go outside because they're BIPOC and they might literally be kidnapped by ICE, quite literally cannot afford to get arrested, etc.)
It is not saying you should distract yourself from what's going on right now.
It's saying that if you are feeling despair, you will feel and do better if you channel that into something to help.
I especially want to highlight MapSwipe again.
Help make maps accurate so people in war zones, disaster zones, and remote locations can get medical attention, rescue, and hope - by making sure the disaster response and aid workers have good maps!!
More info about MapSwipe and the work they do on their website, and also here.
