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I will clean my room in a neutral or perhaps even masculine way

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I'm realising this is like. the opposite of how Admin is in canon

guy obsessed with writing his dead wife out of history becomes utterly fixated on her postmortem, consciously or not. I kinda like that more.

something that I feel makes Zepheniah's character more interesting in how I read him is that he's highly suggestible. Despite having seemingly a very low opinion of his sons, he let them persuade him into buying land he ultimately didn't want. Barnabus's travels being one of the things that inspired both him and his sons to expand business internationally and move to America in the first place.

Hegemony, and being rewarded for embodying it in some way, being one of the things he's highly suggestible to.

I think one thing I've been trying to figure out how to word is that... Bette sort of had a positive influence on him, she was able to laugh at his outbursts and humble him a little. He would hate to admit to it, but part of him knew that she was smarter than him, so she earned his begrudging respect. They didn't always just hate each other.

However... power altered the structure of their relationship, at a point where the Darlings didn't need to assist in keeping aloft Zepheniah's business, where Bette gradually lost the autonomy she'd had, where Zepheniah's ego was only fanned and exacerbated by success... he developed a tendency to rewrite her position, perceive any defiance as emasculation and retroactively pin blame on her.

But, he also can't "win out" against her by rewriting their history. I sort of like this being one of the things that destroyed him as a person, that all this posturing in spite of her only exacerbates the degree to which she haunts him. It makes it harder for him to connect with his sons (no I'm not adopting the recent canon that this is just a family thing they do across many generations of the Mann family, I like it being more personal), it makes it harder for him to accept reality, accept grief, accept failure.

Because power, ever growing power, absolute power, cannot accept peace, cannot abide forgiveness, cannot be subdued. It must stay angry and hungry and in want. Not in need, in WANT.

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something that I feel makes Zepheniah's character more interesting in how I read him is that he's highly suggestible. Despite having seemingly a very low opinion of his sons, he let them persuade him into buying land he ultimately didn't want. Barnabus's travels being one of the things that inspired both him and his sons to expand business internationally and move to America in the first place.

Hegemony, and being rewarded for embodying it in some way, being one of the things he's highly suggestible to.

I think one thing I've been trying to figure out how to word is that... Bette sort of had a positive influence on him, she was able to laugh at his outbursts and humble him a little. He would hate to admit to it, but part of him knew that she was smarter than him, so she earned his begrudging respect. They didn't always just hate each other.

However... power altered the structure of their relationship, at a point where the Darlings didn't need to assist in keeping aloft Zepheniah's business, where Bette gradually lost the autonomy she'd had, where Zepheniah's ego was only fanned and exacerbated by success... he developed a tendency to rewrite her position, perceive any defiance as emasculation and retroactively pin blame on her.

But, he also can't "win out" against her by rewriting their history. I sort of like this being one of the things that destroyed him as a person, that all this posturing in spite of her only exacerbates the degree to which she haunts him. It makes it harder for him to connect with his sons (no I'm not adopting the recent canon that this is just a family thing they do across many generations of the Mann family, I like it being more personal), it makes it harder for him to accept reality, accept grief, accept failure.

Because power, ever growing power, absolute power, cannot accept peace, cannot abide forgiveness, cannot be subdued. It must stay angry and hungry and in want. Not in need, in WANT.

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oh - this talk was a good overview of things to keep in mind for CSS and web accessibility, interesting stuff!

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it’s so wild that trumps executive order has that bit about sex being assigned at conception.

I assume this is the anti-abortion position being encoded into the anti-trans legislation. no one is testing what gametes their embryo has— such a thing isn’t possible (embryos don’t produce them yet; there are primordial germ cells, but they aren’t differentiated as sperm or egg cells).

it just goes to show that gender/sex policing is never based on any science— there is no "scientific" definition to what “female sex” or "male sex" is. It doesn’t exist as a material reality. It is a legal construct that is assigned with the first legal documentation assigned to a subject—the birth certificate.

and that isn’t based on chromosomes or gametes. it’s a decision based on whether a doctor thinks the infant will be mostly likely to be capable of penetrative heterosexual sex as “female” or “male.” because penetrative heterosexual sex is the point, the determination is based on whether the clitoris is long enough to penetrate (in which case “it’s a boy”) and if not whether there is a vaginal canal deep enough for penetration (in which case “it’s a girl”) and if neither or both are true the child’s body is forcibly surgically altered.

they can't define sex "biologically" because it is not a "biological" reality. it will be determined, as always, punitively, on a case by case basis on varying traits and legal documentation, to enforce patriarchal economic systems that depend on misogyny and transmisogyny.

one of the most telling parts from the executive order, to me, was this (emphasis mine):

"The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself."

this bit gives the game away with how important the institution and enforcement of sex assignment is to capitalism, the united states economy, the carceral/legal system, and the ideological buy-in to us-american hegemony.

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‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)

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There is no way of accidentally doing a nazi salute twice in a row while the entire world is watching. This man needs to be killed

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bald ass

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Buttercups :) ÔO🏵️(Ó O), O =(__ )

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"The creator definitely didn't put that much thought into it" well then clearly someone else has to and I think I'm the weirdo for the job

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ok reposting these too.

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Long post but yeah i do kinda have a problem w how she was written lmao like. Beyond that she just isnt a character shes just convenient for like 1 minute of plot and then can fuck off forever because who gives a shit.

Like i know why they did that. Yknow because 1) they r allergic to writing women & i dont rlly think they thought of olivia beyond like something that would be convenient for 5 seconds. 2) she cannot resent saxton hale. Hes the good guy and hes funny! And nobody can dislike him!! Hes too fucking awesome!! 3) she cannot think positively about her dad for the same reason, hes evil!! He didnt like saxton hale!! And he tried to hurt the main characters!! So god forbid he has a different relationship with anyone else. 4) she cannot desire anything either, that would also require thought and writing. Which they didnt want to do anyway. 5) if they had to make her an actual character they would have to try a bit and well . Why would they do this? Be honest. 6) if they had to consider how she would have felt about anything in the plot. Well that might make the main characters feel bad or sound like bad people!! And it wouldnt be funny!! Where is the pissing and shitting? . Ngl i feel like this with fanon where ppl try rlly hard to make theories about how she isnt gray real daughter, as if like her being adopted or whatever theyve decided makes her unable to be part of the family . So therefore, she doesnt have a claim in anything (not how it works) and shes not like evil or something because evil is genetic now apparently. And it makes her dad getting killed less sad for her because he wasnt her "real dad". Its really weird?? And then finally she can serve as your heavymedic fankid or whatever the hell. ???? I dont know.

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I'm reposting these. I'm crazy about them.

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Hidden photographs of Radigan Conagher, Engineer's grandfather, from the Engineer Update in 2010 (including references to the soon-to-be-added Frontier Justice, Wrangler, Gunslinger, and Southern Hospitality)

(descriptions in alt text)

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