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"I don't want to read leftist theory it's all written by old white men" FANON IS RIGHT THERE
I understand not wanting to read theory because it's exclusive, elitist, or just plain hard to understand, but I'm begging you to please give Fanon's work a read if you can. Especially if your argument for not reading theory is the quote above.
Honestly there is so much theory that is not written by old white men.
I'd also recommend Davis for leftists theory written in an accessible way by a woman of colour.
Additional theorists:
Just some of the ones accessible on marxists.org for free. This small list doesn't even include momentous figures like Castro, Lumumba, and Sankara or other writers like Federici, Shakur, Butler, or Lorde.
I will add more to the list and links later.
Cedric Robinson! Joshua Chambers-Letson! The Combahee River Collective (which included Barbara Smith, Alexis DeVeaux, and Audre Lorde, among other women) ! Roderick Ferguson! The inimitable José Muñoz!
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you.
And in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten.
More than 400 years ago, a great citizen wished to imbed the 5th of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words. They are perspectives.
So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the 5th of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a 5th of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
V for Vendetta (2005)
Bro she can read a whole 400 page novel in a day. If she is not reading your one text, let her go, she's already taken by a fictional character
For the bi-weekly six sentence scribbles for the @sansanwritersguild.
Prompt: Equinoctial | happening at or near the time of an equinox
https://archiveofourown.org/works/33033745/chapters/82391383#workskin
Okay, I know I said I wasn’t going to talk about Game of Thrones anymore, but there’s something incredibly stupid that’s been eating at me for weeks, and I need to get it off my chest so I can stop thinking about it. All that dumb Jon and Daenerys shit everyone hated towards the end of s08 is just the end of the Hunger Games series, except much crappier. It just fucking is. It’s been bothering me so bad.
I’m so sorry for wasting your dash space with this long af shitpost insinuating that GoT ripped off a famous YA scifi series, but I gotta spread the word.
Anyways. First off, here’s Jon Snow Katniss Everdeen, the gloomy young person everyone keeps pushing into leadership positions even though she keeps saying she doesn’t want them
Towards the end of the last movie, the evil dictator current President surrounds his mansion with civilians, especially children, in order to “protect” them during the rebel attack on the city
However, the president of the rebels flies overhead and bombs the defenseless people anyway
That ends the war. So, afterwards, Katniss is talking to this dude who’s basically Cersei except not dead, but that isn’t relevant to this comparison, and he’s like “lol your president’s a tyrant as well. She played the game and she won. She’s the one who killed all those innocents, and she’s gonna keep this country under her tyrannical rule. She’s the new big bad.”
and the brooding young hero’s like “uhhh no it ain’t like that bruh”
and he’s like “lol bitch stop lying to yourself, yeah she is. Burning people is bad, and she burned a ton of people, sooo…”
and Katniss is like “oh shit.” So the rebel president’s up giving this big speech about how she’s going to end all injustice and tyranny and stuff
so then Katniss is like “time to die” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Holy fuck, this shit’s, like, shot-for-shot now that I’m looking at them next to each other. What the fuck. Like I was sort of joking when I started this post, but I’m convincing myself now)
So then everyone’s like “THAT ASSHOLE KILLED OUR LEADER!!!” But half the people want Katniss dead and half of them are like “but she’s a war hero…” She’s sitting in her little cell, wondering what they’re gonna do with her, and Woody Harrelson shows up and is like “here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna kick you out to the far edges of the country…”
“…where you will live with your friends forever, and never have another responsibility again. I mean, your family’s not around anymore since half of them are dead and the other half live far away, but that’s it. Big fucking punishment”
Oh, yeah, then towards the end they mention how Phillip Seymore Lannister, the adviser of the president Katniss killed, is now the new president’s adviser, and Woody Harrelson’s like “Damn, he played the game and he won”
(And Gwendoline Christie + Natalie Dormer were there, so that settles it)
tl;dr: D&D procrastinated and forgot to write the last two episodes of GoT until the last second cause they were busy staying up all night marathoning the Hunger Games movies and it shows. You can’t change my mind
I've got a challenge for all of you.
go on ao3
find a fic that you really like. could be one you've read a billion times or one you just read once. and it does not have to be published recently.
also please feel free to comment on more than one fic!
leave them a comment that's at least a paragraph long. you can include things like:
what part is your favorite
if you've re read it
quote your favorite line from the fic
tell them if it made you cry
did the descriptions make you feel something? tell them that
did you stay up really late reading it?
did they nail the dialogue? tell them which lines
do you love the way that they write a certain character? which one?
how did the story make you feel?
authors appreciate every comment that they get. but sometimes seeing a longer one in their inbox really makes their day.
don't offer any criticism. just throw all the love you can at them.
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happy commenting!
underrated trope: “i’ve lost my memory and idk who you are but i just have this feeling that i’m supposed to trust you”
This - but the feeling is absolutely, completely, 100% wrong.
Person 1: “I don’t know what it is about you…I just know that I can trust you.”
Person 2, their actual, literal worst enemy: “Excuse me, what?”
Cue enemies to friends to lovers speedrun.
