The Guy Who Can't Come Up With A Clever Blog Name
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lmao god, english upper class people… I was reading Mathilda, and there’s all these monologues about the protagonist going insane from loneliness and not knowing how to act when she finally strikes up a friendship again; she has retired to a cottage in the woods and is essentially in hiding. All this time we’re given the impression that she is utterly alone in that cottage. Much woe about the completeness of her loneliness. and then.
what do you mean your servant …? in your cottage in the woods where you were so utterly alone? that one?
pt 2, this time Frankenstein by the same. Said Frankenstein is greatly relieved when he returns and the ‘apartment was empty’ because this means his monster has fled. but then
…did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.
Eventually the monster was like “well this is awkward. I’m out.” and the servant presumably just filed the encounter under “weird shit upper class people do” and went on with his life.
I remember taking this college elective on film adaptations and we talked about the controversy caused by the PBS adaptation of Emma, which made a point of putting servants in every. single. scene, confronting the audience with the reality that the main characters are surrounded by servants constantly and are choosing not to acknowledge their presence. Emma is consoling her “poor” friend Harriet over her misfortune and the entire time a servant is standing there silently brushing Emma’s hair or some shit.
Virtually every other adaptation of Emma does a very good job of invisiblizing the constant presence of the working class labor force that allowed these people to live the way they did.If anyone is interested the murder mystery Gosford Park specifically explored this phenomenon. Roger Ebert did a review of it here.
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- A quote from Mary Shelley’s Mathilda: ’[…] arrived and quite incapable of taking off my wet clothes that clung about me. In the morning, on her return, [highlighted] my servant [end highlight] found me almost lifeless, while possessed by a high fever I was lying on the floor of my room.
- A quote from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: […] hands for joy and ran down to Clerval. [highlighted] We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; [end highlight] but I was unable to contain myself. It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.]
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FAFO IN MINNEAPOLIS
this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and “marched” less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city
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So to be clear. By “dragon crucible”, you mean “Crucible made by dragons” and not “crucible used to smelt dragons”.
Right.
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From the book What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning:
During the Civil War, most Union soldiers didn’t care about the issue of slavery and were more focused on preventing the collapse of the United States.
This would change as many Union soldiers encountered horrific circumstances of slavery and it’s widespread influence on southern society, with accounts like these:
“Pvt. Chauncey Cooke experienced an epiphany when a fair-skinned slave woman whose children had been fathered and sold by her master told the young Wisconsin boy that her children looked like him, and that she missed them dreadfully because she loved them “just likes you mammy loves you.” ”
“When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.”Sgt. Cyrus Boyd.True horrors wake people up in the past and in the present. I feel like one of the only recourses a lot of people have is to share accounts and footage of ICE atrocities to as many people as possible.
This quote leaves out that Boston citizens rioted over Anthony Burns, repeatedly tried to break him out of jail and interrupt the trial, even killing one of the men guarding him. They also protested peacefully, attempted to purchase Burns’s freedom, offered him free legal counsel, and petitioned the mayor not to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. When Burns was finally taken aboard ship, they followed along with a coffin to symbolize his freedom dying.
The president called in the US Marines and the state militia (in addition to the US Marshalls who arrested him and held him in jail) to allow this one man to be dragged back to slavery.
There’s more, which you can see on Burn’s Wikipedia and on the Committee of Vigilance’s page, the abolitionist group founded after the Fugitive Slave Act to protect and aid Boston’s large community of escaped slaves & black citizen.
All this to say, civil disobedience to the people coming into your community and stealing and harassing your neighbors is an American tradition.
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what is your favorite video gamification of magic/mystical knowledge/religion as magic? (both from a writing perspective and a mechanic perspective if you want to really dig into it) ive been playing through fromsoft games and have really enjoyed how they treat "magic" and its intersections with religion and worship, especially the concept of "heretical" sorceries like Pyromancy in DS1 and Hexes in DS2
I actually really like the souls series and how it does magic. I like how it treats the spells as social technologies developed for a purpose. Like how DS3 heal aid was deliberately developed so that illiterate warrior-clerics could learn it to rapidly spread the political influence of the church.
I like how sorcery is an intellectual pursuit akin to mathematics, miracles are based on your ability to interpret scripture, and pyromancy is a meditative practice. But all of them are fundamentally based in the manipulation of reality through some aspect of the human body, be it body mind or soul. It’s like martial arts!
DS2 also does a good job of telling you how and why some spells are Othered and considered hexes. They even textually acknowledge shit like “yeah cure was a spell in ds1, and a miracle in DS2 and 3. Control over these spells and how they can be performed is largely a political thing.”
