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I saw someone talking about the slavery in the original interview with the vampire novel and Louis' position as a plantation owner and how they found it uncomfortable and irrelevant. And I knew that I didn't agree but couldn't quite put my finger on why I found it important to the novel.

Louis is preoccupied throughout the novel with philosophical questions on the morality of being a vampire and how it separates him from God no matter how hard he tries to be a "good vampire" only eating rats, never feeding on people, he does everything in his power to be a Moral person but he can never become one whatever he does because he is a vampire, no action will stop him from being a monster. And I think that's very relevant to his past as a plantation owner - no matter what he does he can't undo his past, he can't fix the incredible harm he caused, he cannot think his way out of being a monster, and this is realised externally in his vampirehood. In fact, although worrying constantly about his unholy nature, he doesn't think much about the people he enslaved or the evil he perpetuated before being turned a vampire. Instead he thinks a lot about how he is now, unfairly, "innately" evil, innately sinful, how he didn't deserve his fate. He's preoccupied with his nature and how he is percieved, by others and by God. The lives of the black people he enslaved are forgotten entirely in the changing decades. Vampires have frequently in more modern and contemporary fiction represented aristocracy. And as Louis becomes more isolated with the centuries, more inward, I think there is a representation there of the growing irrelevancy (not lack of existence of) aristocratic white supremacy. Louis is an outdated relic of the past that continues to prey on the population. He continues to need more than he can ever give. And he continues to be a monster

In many ways Louis was a vampire for years before he was turned, he was a vampire from the moment he took ownership of the plantation. His "undeserved" vampiric nature is merely a physical manifestation of what was always the case, that he has always preyed on others to live. And he continues to live in Louisiana, he watches it and New Orleans change and grow and he continues to prey on the population - just as the effects of white supremacy and slavery (even though that age is long gone) continue to prey on the American people to this day. He became a monster of his own making, a physical manifestation of the horror and the racism that he perpetuated in his own lifetime

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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Everyone talking about when ao3 is down what do they do blah blah turning to Tumblr blah blah. Open fanfiction dot net!!!!! It's a great site with loads of great fanfiction!!

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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I think about the grass between

One wall and another

The glorious stretch betwix

All mine

To run and to pretend

A knight in the lady's court disguised as a boy

Travesring door frames

Long eroded by centuries of ancient feet

And at the edge of the long stretch of grass

At the end of the ancient castle walls

A steep, steep drop

To the town Below

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I'm like if an autistic child grew up but never got past the childhood longing for a friend who completely understands me and vice versa, where communication came very naturally, just like I saw in TV shows and movies

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Haiku #86

Aspen you'd call our

Love, instead of what it was

Eyes watch in terror

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Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

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Had an important exam today and I was so nervous //>.<\\ I used to be so confident in exams but I've been out of uni for a couple years thanks to my abuser and getting back is harddd. I studied so hard and still found the exam really difficult. Had to make "sane" guesses for quite a few of the answers and i was pAnicking. But talking to my bf about it after (actual physicist) he thought my answers were correct. So that's good!

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This is a great tool and I fully recommend reading the Castle of Ontranto for those interested in gothic writing/deep diving the genre (it's not such a good read as later gothic fiction). Additionally, clicking that link auto downloads the document rather than opening a webpage

FOR ANY WRITERS OR THOSE WHO LIKE GOTHIC LITERATURE

I found this. It's basically a huge list of how to write in a gothic horror-like style. It gives you words to use, and what types of adjectives to put down, and it explains them rather than just giving you a list too. I hope someone beyond myself finds this useful because holy shit am I going to use this tool

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My abusers dad is Russian and when he first came to England one of his main experiences of English language was reading Tolkien so for the first Several Years of being a software engineer in England he would write all his emails like an inhabitant of middle earth because it had so strongly affected his vocabulary

Games like elden ring can be very "dangerous" for English as a second language speakers.

I have to consciously remind myself, especially if I am interacting with an English speaking client or business partner at work, that this is not how normal people talk.

Thou must have some business in mind, to come all this way.

A pleasure to meet thee, I'd heard tell of a new client.

Heed my words. The meeting tomorrow will be rescheduled.

What is thy business with these files?

I was entrusted this, for thee, a summary of the last meeting.

Thou art of passing skill, this excel list is perfect!

I doubt we shall again meet. I am only helping out on this project.

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my kink is more subversive and avant-garde than yours. your kink could be easily understood with a few googlé searches but mine requires lengthy knowledge of classical and modern literature. and it’s more taboo as well.

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So many people reblogging this or making new posts about it confused about the cannibalism as if

a) Jesus is not Literally human, and Christians don't Literally eat his body

b) we are not all little sparks of divinity? Cut of the same cloth as God and will one day return to the whole??

Everybody so self deprecating to think this is self-aggrandizing

i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose

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Scrolling the Tumblr app, drawing little hearts with the Compose Post icon

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they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

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online library so far:

margaret atwood

the brontës (the complete works is a MASSIVE file fyi)

anne carson

hélène cixous

bell hooks

clarice lispector

audre lorde

virginia woolf

compilations

feminist theory

academic writing (both books and articles)

everything here is in pdf format so you should be able to download and read it on any device. it’s slow going because i have a lot of epubs that i have to convert before uploading and the folders i’ve listed here are neither complete nor comprehensive, but it’s a start!