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depression and eating disorder is wild like whattt AND IM THE HOST ( the system is cooked 💀 🙏)

Ughhh that sounds horrible omg. You have my sympathy /gen, hope you guys recover! :] Be easy on yourself!! ^^

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I love the way you write the headcanons about the First Years + Ortho going to the reader's world! Could you do the same with the Second Years, please?

Riddle Rosehearts

Favorite Country/City: He would love to go visit Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, as he is one to enjoy being in the city of one of the most famous playwrights and authors in history: William Shakespeare. Also, there is tea available at most shops, so he will still be able to follow the Queen of Hearts’ rules.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: Again, his favorite dish is strawberry tarts, and they apparently originate in France as tarts were used to showcase the seasonal not-berries. That aside, he also does appreciate French cuisine as a whole.

Favorite Drink: Again, he enjoys tea, but I think he would like strawberry lemonade. More specifically, the strawberry lemonade from those restaurants that put those slices of strawberries into the drink.

Favorite Souvenir: A small Shakespeare bust that he can place on a bookshelf as a book holder.

Favorite Singers/Songs: He absolutely loves classical music, specifically from the Classical Era. He prefers the classics: Bach, Beethoven, Marianna Martines, etc. Favorite song would be Für Elise, by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Favorite Movie: The Phantom of the Opera, but the 1927 silent film version.

Ruggie Bucchi

Favorite Country/City: I originally was going to say that he would have liked Luxembourg because it’s one of the richest countries in the world, but I decided that would be too easy. I feel like he would love to go to Cairo in Egypt. It’s very rich in history and culture, and I’ve heard they have good food (someone confirm, plz).

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: His favorite food is donuts, and I looked it up and they apparently originate from either Ancient Greece/Rome or Medieval Arab chefs. That being said, either cuisines (Greek, Italian, or Middle Eastern) would be his favorite. He has a very diverse palate.

Favorite Drink: Depending on if he prefers coffee or tea, he would like either Mazboot or even Zjada coffee, or karkade (please correct me on any of this, I am not from the Middle East and have never been so if it’s incorrect you can tell me. Got this info from online).

Favorite Souvenir: A small, handmade pot that he found at one of the markets. He thought it looked interesting and thus purchased it. The vendor was really kind as well.

Favorite Singers/Songs: This is kind of hard, but AMERICAN HORROR SHOW by SNOW WIFE would be his favorite, meaning hyperpop would be his favorite genre. He gives me TikTok boy vibes for some reason, and he would also like most songs that popped up on his FYP.

Favorite Movie: Lion King, and I’m not trying to be funny. He just likes the “It’s not funny, Ed”, where Ed erupts even more into laughter. It makes him snicker a bit as well. Maybe I was trying to be funny.

Azul Ashengrotto

Favorite Country/City: He would love the township of Cavendish in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It’s got the ocean, it’s got the small town vibes, and it inspired L.M. Montgomery’s fictional town of Avonlea in Anne of Green Gables. Speaking of, he would totally resonate with Anne because they both entered a society that they weren’t knowledgeable of the norms of. 

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: Because he loves fried chicken, I would say his favorite cuisine is that of the Southern United States. You can’t go wrong with coleslaw, cornbread, green beans, mashed potatoes, and Southern hospitality.

Favorite Drink: Iced Tea, specifically from the Southern states as well. If we’re talking about cocktails, then Long Island Iced Tea would be his go-to. However, he prefers to drink at home because he doesn’t have to call anyone to pick him up.

Favorite Souvenir: It’s stated that he likes collecting coins, so yeah.

Favorite Singers/Songs: This man loves Elvis Presley’s music, and no one can fight me on this. He’s a bit of a hopeless romantic, so he loves either Heartbreak Hotel or Can’t Help Falling in Love is his favorite song.

Favorite Movie: Romeo and Juliet, the one starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie’s great, the actor not so much. He’s a bit of a hopeless romantic, as I stated before, so he would very much like a Romeo to his Juliet. Mans wants to be in a tower with a window sill and he wants someone to be standing below to talk to in a romantic way.

Jade Leech

Favorite Country/City: He loved going scuba diving in the Mariana Trench, and since the Trench is located between Hawaii and the Philippines, I think he would love staying in the Philippines. The city he favors would be Boracay, even though it’s in the middle of the Philippine Islands and a bit further from the East.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: His favorite dish is octopus carpaccio, and it’s kind of obvious that it’s Italian. He does enjoy Italian cuisine as a whole as well. However, if we are taking the octopus components of the dish, then I believe he would also be a lover of Japanese cuisine.

Favorite Drink: It is recommended that with octopus carpaccio, you should have a Pinot noir, and he agrees. However, if he’s just going to a bar, he would order a limoncello spritz. It’s typically a post-dinner drink, and he likes the lemon flavor along with the kind-of-like-soda, kind-of-like-wine game that the drink offers him.

Favorite Souvenir: He loves smaller, easily portable trinkets, so as basic as it is he loves collecting keychains and magnets. His favorite keychain is a shell that had a hole in it, and a small child actually handed it to him out of nowhere. He got a ring and attached it to his backpack.

Favorite Singers/Songs: His favorite song is 24 / 7 / 365, by Surfaces. It’s laidback, it’s chill, and he likes it. Songs that remind him of the beach are ones that he likes. He plays it when he’s attending to his terrariums. 

Favorite Movie: Jaws, and none of the sequels. All the sequels suck. He has watched the first Jaws so many times that he sings along with Quint when he starts singing “Farewell and Adieu You Fair Spanish Ladies”. 

Floyd Leech

Favorite Country/City: He wants to go places where he can do things whenever it strikes him. He would also want to go somewhere with clear water. Thus, I believe he would love to go to Tahiti. There’s a market, he can go scuba diving with whales and sharks, he can go surfing, he can go to the museum, and if he wants to stay in his hotel room then he can.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: His favorite dish is Takoyaki, so I think it’s safe to assume that he likes Japanese cuisine. However, it is stated that shiitake mushrooms come from mountainous regions in China, Japan, Indonesia, and Taiwan, so he likes any dishes without the mentioned mushrooms.

Favorite Drink: As funny as it is, Sex on the Beach, as it’s a summer drink that he loves to enjoy on the beach. Also, he has the emotional maturity of a 7th grade boy, and the name was hilarious to him. 

Favorite Souvenir: Two little figurines of a guy and a girl dancing with each other. They fit together in a way that was complex, making it a puzzle of sorts.

Favorite Singers/Songs: Either Laffy Taffy or Sneaky Link 2.0 are his favorite songs. This man is searching for his Mrs. Bubblegum. He is looking to be somebody’s sneaky link. He lives for drama, and no one can tell me otherwise.

Favorite Movie: The Meg, because who doesn’t love a giant, prehistoric shark that escapes from the gaseous layer at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? He has sharp teeth like the megalodon, and he likes the jumpscare where the shark jumps up.

Kalim Al-Asim

Favorite Country/City: He loves tropical areas, but he loved the Bahamas and the capital of Nassau the most. The resort there was great, and the people were very friendly. It was a laid back time, and it was not even a five minute walk to the beach. Plus, coconuts grow there apparently (correct me if I’m wrong), and coconut juice is his favorite food.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: A lot of Thai food, specifically the desserts, use the flesh of the coconut, so I think I have substantial evidence to say that he does like Thai food. He would be very hesitant to try Thai curry, though… unless he had somebody to try it with him.

Favorite Drink: Piña Colada, doesn’t matter if it’s virgin or not. He loves the song that accompanies it as well. Anyways, the drink is a very fruit-filled drink. He thinks it’s the right amount of sweetness, so he loves to enjoy it.

Favorite Souvenir: A singular photograph, as he somehow found himself involved in a volunteer program and he took a picture with children from one of the villages he was volunteering at.

Favorite Singers/Songs: He also likes songs that remind him of the beach, and I stated that he probably likes the song Escape (The Piña Colada Song), but it’s not his favorite. His favorite song would be Celebration, by Maffio, Farruko, and Akon (feat. Ky-Mani Marley).

Favorite Movie: I have a feeling that he would love the movie Shrek. It’s funny, a lot of memes have been made from all the movies, all the sequels are great. What’s not to love about the movie(s)?

Jamil Viper

Favorite Country/City: He gives me a vibe that I resonate with on the historical front, so I would think he would like to visit somewhere in the Middle East, as that is where ancient Mesopotamia was. Specifically, he would love to visit Ur, in Iraq. Not only is it located in a desert (familiar territory), but it’s one of (if not the) first cities in the world.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: Unlike Kalim, he loves curry, so that gives me reason to believe that he would enjoy Indian cuisine the most. Syrian food comes in second for him (I spend a lot of time at my friend’s Syrian house and they make good food… I’m hungry now).

Favorite Drink: This was difficult, but I feel like he would move towards margaritas, and not just because of the song. Because curry can be spicy, I would say he likes a spicy margarita as well. His favorite non-alcoholic drink would be a mangonada.

Favorite Souvenir: All the books he picked up to learn different languages. He learned along the way as well, and all of the books have annotations within them so he has them for future reference.

Favorite Singers/Songs: He likes breakdancing, so he likes any song he can breakdance to. I am not very involved within this genre of music, so after doing some research I have come to the conclusion that he would love the song The Witch, by the Bamboos.

Favorite Movie: Footloose, as it’s a movie about dancing and rock music being banned. He saw it because it looked interesting, and he learned the Footloose dance. Also, the song Holdin’ Out For a Hero makes him feel like he wants to be someone’s hero.

Silver

Favorite Country/City: Carrickfergus, as it holds the Carrickfergus Castle. It may be a Norman castle, but it’s because of the history (and the fact that he may be based off of both the Princess and the Prince and thus deserves a castle {personal opinion}) that he enjoys his time in the town.

Favorite Cuisine/Dish: This is the first time I’ve actually dove into investigating Silver’s likes and dislikes, and apparently he likes mushroom risotto, which is thought to originate from the Italian region of Lombardy.

Favorite Drink: He strikes me as the type to like wine, and not the bitter stuff. He likes sweeter wines, especially white wines as they pair nicely with the risotto he loves.

Favorite Souvenir: A journal, in which he writes about his many journeys around the world. 

Favorite Singers/Songs: I think he is a Swiftie. That being said, his favorite song would be Love Story, as he is looking for his Juliet. However, he is not one of those over-excited fans who will tear someone up for saying they don’t like Taylor Swift’s songs. He will just judge them quietly.

Favorite Movie: Gladiator, partially for the plot, partially for Russel Crowe. It reminds him of the training he had to go through as a knight.

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Tw Ed mention (it’s totally ok if this is too triggering to post. I don’t wanna hurt anyone with similar issues, I know first hand how bad it sucks)

Plural with an eating disorder holder culture is one alter having food problems and then switching to eat a bunch of food cause I’m hungry. Then after dinner they switch back and get mad at me 😭 I don’t wanna be apart of this but we share the same body it’s not fair.

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The major lesson that reviewer Christine Rosen extracts from Rob Henderson’s new memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, is: “The people who control a great deal of our cultural and political conversations are a rarified elite with little understanding of how most people live their lives.” (I have not yet read Troubled, though I’m eager to do so. What follows draws primarily on Rosen’s review in the Free Beacon and on Henderson’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.)

To comprehend the gap between those elites and the vast majority of Americans, consider a recent Rasmussen survey of what the authors call “elites” — more than one post-graduate degree, an annual income of $150,000 — and a subset of those “elites,” who attended an Ivy League school, or another elite private school, such as Stanford or University of Chicago, whom Rasmussen dubs “super-elites.”

Three-quarters of the elites and nearly 90 percent of the super elites describe their personal incomes as on the upswing, while almost none describe their incomes as on the decline. For all Americans, however, nearly twice as many view their income as worsening as view their financial situation as improving — 40 percent to 20 percent.

Despite having eventually made it to Yale as an undergraduate in his mid-twenties and later earning a PhD in psychology at Cambridge University, Henderson most certainly did not stem from the elite class from which so many of his classmates came. Students at Yale from families in the upper 1 percent of wealth are more numerous than those from the bottom 60 percent.

One of Henderson’s Yale classmates, who had attended Phillips Exeter Academy, America’s top prep school, once lectured Henderson on his white privilege — even though he is actually half Asian and half Hispanic. Yet it would take a certain obliviousness to label Henderson a child of privilege. One of his earliest memories is of his drug-addict mother being pulled away from him in handcuffs and hauled off to jail, when he was three. He never knew his father.

After that, he was shuttled between various foster homes, none of them stable, until he joined the US Air Force after high school. The discipline of the military helped him overcome some of the chaos that had characterized his life until then. But many of the old demons remained, including his penchant for self-medicating with alcohol, and he ended up in a detox program, where a talented therapist helped him work through some of those demons.

One of the central messages of Henderson’s memoir is that a non-stable childhood family life is not just bad because it hurts your chances of getting into an elite college or attaining a high-paying job later in life, but also because those raised in such an environment experience “pain that etches itself into their bodies and brains and propels them to do things in the pursuit of relief that often inflict even more harm.”

Given their difference in backgrounds, Henderson found many of the social rituals of his classmates incomprehensible. One example was when the Yale campus erupted in hysteria over an email from Erika Christakis to the students of Silliman residential college, of which she served as co-master with her husband Nicholas, suggesting that they were old enough to work out themselves which Halloween costumes to wear, without asking the administration to issue an elaborate set of rules to avoid “microaggressions” or “cultural appropriation” — e.g., a white student wearing a sombrero. After the childhood and teenage years he experienced, a fellow student in a sombrero did not seem like such a big deal to Henderson.

Erika was eventually force to resign her position in Silliman and on the Yale faculty, much to Henderson’s disappointment, as he had been eager to take her course on early childhood development. Meanwhile, the black undergraduate who confronted Nicholas Christakis in the Silliman courtyard, in an expletive-laden tirade, in front of a group of students cheering her on, was given an award for extracurricular excellence at the next Yale graduation.

Henderson offers an invaluable term to describe the opinions expressed so fiercely and with no tolerance of opposing views by his fellow undergrads: “luxury beliefs.” Luxury beliefs, as Henderson defines them, “confer status on the upper class at little cost, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.” The conspicuous displays of wealth and leisure activities that broadcast elite status in Thorstein Veblen’s time have been replaced by opinions and beliefs that give proof of one’s elite education. After all, Henderson notes ironically, how many non-Ivy-League-educated Americans can easily toss off terms like “cisgender” or “heteronormative”?

Mantras such as “defund the police” are luxury beliefs because their impact on those living in gated communities or the most affluent neighborhoods is likely to be negligible. Henderson comments about the policies implemented to combat white privilege, “It won’t be Yale graduates who are harmed. Poor white people will bear the brunt.”

He recounts the story of a refugee from the North Korean police state, attending Columbia University, who raised concerns about the anti-free speech movement on campus, only to be taunted with “Go back to Pyongyang” on a social media site for Ivy League students. Normally, nothing will earn faster exile to social media purgatory than telling an immigrant, “Go back to where you came from,” but this particular refugee was deemed deserving of insult, writes Henderson, because she “undermined these people’s view of themselves as morally righteous.”

Incidentally, I would rank as near the top of “luxury beliefs” the familiar chants about Israeli genocide and apartheid. They cost their proponents nothing, yet effectively broadcast one’s moral righteousness and humanity, not to mention elite education, especially when terms like settler-colonialism and intersectionality are thrown into the mix.

Henderson is primarily concerned with the way that bad ideas — e.g., dismissal of matrimony and monogamy as passé, decriminalization of drugs — filter downstream in the culture, where they wreak havoc. As Charles Murray thoroughly documents in Breaking Apart, rates of marriage, children living in two-parent homes, and attendance at religious services have remained more or less constant in the most affluent quintile of the population, while plummeting in the lower quintiles. But on elite campuses, marriage is more likely to be portrayed as a prison for women, just as the same students for whom the words “capitalist oppression” roll trippingly off their tongues can be found the same day lining up for interviews with Goldman Sachs.

But the danger posed by the holders of luxury beliefs lies not only in their pernicious cultural influence. Holders of those views are quite comfortable with the use of coercion to advance their beliefs. Four-fifths of the super elites, interviewed in the Rasmussen poll cited above, would ban gas-powered cars. Just under 90 percent support strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity, and 70 percent would ban all nonessential air travel.

The impact of these restrictions on the most affluent would likely be relatively small. They can afford electric cars, and would buy carbon offsets to circumvent some of the most onerous rationing or purchase them on the black market. And dollars to donuts that their air travel would be deemed necessary. The impact of such policies on the less affluent doesn’t figure into their calculations.

Elite campuses have been focal points for the limitations on free speech, and over half of the super elites educated on those campuses describe Americans as possessing too much freedom. That goes with a general contempt for markets, which allocate equal weight to the choices of the unenlightened and the enlightened.

That concern with “too much” freedom goes together with a remarkable trust in government among 70 percent of the elites and 90 percent of the super elites. Government is beneficent, in their eyes, because it can force people to do what the enlightened have determined is good. The elites know that their hands will be on the levers of coercion, particularly administrative agencies. (I would wager that the majority of those lower-level staffers staging mini-rebellions in the White House and the State Department over American support for Israel’s war on Hamas are holders of elite credentials.) Ronald Reagan’s quip, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,’ ” does not resonate with the elites.

Sixty years before Rob Henderson first stepped onto the Yale campus, another man already in his mid-twenties entered Harvard as an undergraduate. Like Henderson, Thomas Sowell came from a deprived background and served in the military before entering college. He was born in the Jim-Crow-era South, in a home without electricity, and served in the Marines during the Korean War, after dropping out of high school.

The 1969 black student riots at Cornell, where Sowell was an economics professor, and subsequent pressure at UCLA to lower his standards for students, soured Sowell on academia, which he left for a position as senior fellow at the Hoover Institution almost half a century ago.

Over 50 years and almost 40 books, most still in print and many of them standard texts in economics, and ten volumes of collected columns, Sowell has leveled a sustained critique at the dominant intellectual doctrines of our day, in particular those of his fellow black intellectuals, whom he views as having spectacularly failed the black masses by advocating for policies that may serve their interests but not those of the large majority of American blacks. (Only about one-third of his writing concerns issues of race, and he has penned classic works in intellectual, social, and economic history.) Jason Riley’s intellectual biography of Sowell is appropriately titled Maverick.

In a short new work, Social Justice Fallacies, which I would commend to every college student and social justice warrior, Sowell fleshes out many of Henderson’s observations, including the detachment of elite theorists from the lives of those whom they purport to advocate, and their sometimes subtle, sometimes not, contempt for those whom they view as their inferiors.

The second chapter compares the Progressive movement of the early decades of the 20th century to present-day progressives. At first glance, it would appear that little connects the two groups, apart from their position on the political left of their day. A strong streak of racial determinism characterized the early progressives, and many of their leading lights fretted about the disastrous impact of an influx of people of inferior races to America. By contrast, today’s progressives start from the premise that there are no differences between races and that all differential outcomes are a result of systemic racism.

In the earlier period, Professor Edward Ross, the chairman of the American Sociological Society, warned that America was headed toward “race suicide” by virtue of being inundated by people of “inferior types.” American universities and colleges taught hundreds of courses in eugenics, defined as the reduction or prevention of the survival of people considered genetically inferior. The most famous economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes, was founder of the Eugenics Society at Cambridge.

Irving Fisher of Yale, the leading monetary economist of the period, advocated for the isolation or sterilization of those inferior types. Or as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, “Three generations of idiots are enough.” Sowell remarks upon how casually Fisher spoke of imprisonment of those who had committed no crime and the denial of normal life to all regarded as inferior. Not by accident did Hitler yemach shemo term a work on eugenics by Madison Grant, a leading conservationist and advocate for national parks and the protection of endangered species, his Bible.

At first glance, today’s progressives could not seem further removed from their namesakes. They are the opposite of racial determinists. In the modern progressive creed, all differences in outcomes between people of different races can have one and only one explanation: discrimination by the majority group.

Despite the opposite views on race, Sowell finds important continuities between the progressive movement of the early 20th century and that of today. Today’s progressives share, according to Sowell, their predecessors’ aversion to confronting empirical evidence that challenges their fixed verities, and a similar inclination to respond to empirical challenges with ad hominem insults — racist being the most powerful — rather than with counter-arguments and evidence.

And they are similarly inclined to use government power to coerce the less enlightened to behave in accord with their “expert” opinions, and too frequently oblivious to or unconcerned with the impact of their policy prescriptions on those constituting the “lower orders,” in their minds.

Woodrow Wilson, perhaps the leading figure of the Progressive era, served as president of Princeton before being elected president. Like many of his fellow progressives, he was an unabashed racist who insisted that black employees in government offices be physically segregated.

But what joins him to present-day progressives is his enormous confidence in government by experts. He presided over a massive expansion of the federal government and the creation of many of the largest administrative agencies, run by “experts.” He viewed the Constitution as outmoded for a modern age. But not to worry, government agencies headed by experts would usher in a “new freedom,” albeit not quite the freedom of a constitution limiting the power of government and enshrining individual rights.

Today, DEI bureaucracies on almost every campus seek to enforce right-thinking and enter into every aspect of university governance, including faculty hiring. Those mushrooming bureaucracies account for a large part in the explosion in higher education costs.

Sowell takes aim at the racial theories of the early progressives and contemporary ones alike. He seeks to empirically refute the claim that each race has a different “ceiling” for intelligence. (If anecdotes were data, his own genius would serve as refutation.) He met with and debated Professor Albert Jensen, one of the leading modern proponents of that view.

Sowell argues that environment, not inherent ceilings, underlies much of the difference in IQ between races. For instance, those raised in the Hebrides Isles and the hill country of Kentucky, though of pure Anglo-Saxon stock, have IQs comparable to American blacks. And like American blacks, their IQs tend to decline from childhood to adulthood. Social isolation appears to be the key. Sowell cites another study that blacks raised by white adoptive parents had IQs six points above the national average.

As an amusing example of the fallibility of IQ tests as measures of inherent capabilities, Sowell quotes Carl Brigham, who developed the SAT test. Brigham claimed on the basis of army mental tests administered in World War I that the myth that Jews are on average highly intelligent had been refuted. At least he had the good grace to admit by 1930, as Jews excelled on standardized tests, that his earlier conclusions had been without merit, and had failed to take into account that most immigrant children were raised in non-English-speaking homes.

Sowell is equally effective skewering the present-day progressive belief that all differences in outcomes are explained as products of racial discrimination. He chafes at the resultant cult of victimization that stands in the way of examination of cultural behavioral factors that prevent black advancement.

He insists that behaviors count and explain a great deal of the differences in income levels between different racial groups. For instance, black married couples have experienced poverty rates of less than 10 percent for decades, which is less than the national poverty rate for all families. And black married couples have higher income levels than white single-parent families. The problem is that black marriage rates overall are lower.

It is often said that the high illegitimacy rate in the black community is attributable to the “legacy of slavery.” But for nearly a century after slavery, the rates were relatively low. In 1940, they were one-quarter of what they are today. Sowell suggests that the rapid expansion of the welfare state in the 1960s explains much of that rise, as births to single mothers have also risen rapidly in Sweden, the welfare paradise, where there is no legacy of slavery.

Evidence cited to show discrimination against black children by “white supremacists” — e.g., discipline rates two and a half times those of white students — proves the opposite, Sowell suggests. For white students are themselves twice as likely to be disciplined as Asian students. Perhaps, then, disruptive behavior, rather than discrimination, explains differential rates of discipline. To get rid of school discipline in the name of equity leads to schools in which it is impossible to learn, and ends up harming black students, he argues. Attacks on discriminatory school discipline is thus another one of those “luxury beliefs,” like defunding the police.

One of the major causes of the burst housing bubble of 2007, which Sowell predicted, was government pressure on lenders to greatly reduce credit requirements for mortgages. The regulators’ theory was that blacks were being discriminated against in the mortgage market, as evidenced by the higher rate of rejection for black mortgage applicants. The only problem with the discrimination hypothesis, Sowell shows, was that black-owned banks rejected black mortgage applicants at even higher rates.

The hypothesis that different income levels are exclusively a function of discrimination founders on the fact that other minority groups — e.g., Asians — have, on average, incomes well above the medium national income, and dark-skinned Asian Indians earn on average $39,000 more per annum than full-time, year-round white workers.

The victimization narrative, in Sowell’s eyes, is not only unhelpful but damaging to blacks, as it shifts the focus from one of encouraging the types of behaviors that are associated with success. In the immediate wake of slavery, and for nearly a century afterwards, almost all graduates of all-black Dunbar High in Washington, D.C., went on to college. Black and Hispanic kids in New York City charter schools are six times as likely to pass city math proficiency exams as their counterparts in the regular public schools. Why? Sowell wants to know.

Focusing on the behaviors that foster success rather than wallowing in a narrative of discrimination — which he personally experienced in his younger years and does not deny still exists today — is for Sowell the key to black advancement. And that requires more empirical study and less airy theorizing.

Many of the panaceas that derive from au courant theories have been conclusively refuted on the ground. Black political power in most of America’s largest cities, for instance, has done little to change the lives of the vast majority of black citizens. And affirmative action has, in Sowell’s view, reinforced stereotypes of black inferiority, among whites and, even worse, among blacks themselves, while doing little to help inner city blacks.

Without a clear-eyed attention to empirical evidence and an openness to debate based on facts and logic, in Sowell’s terminology, we are forever consigned to the realm of “luxury beliefs.”

[system-of-a-feather]

Okay so like, we started talking to an old friend again that we haven't talked to in like over a year, almost a year and a half honestly and it naturally has me having to go through the "aight what have you missed in the Feathers Saga" and thinking about it made me go "ok its a good chance to make a list of Total Ws in life and recovery to celebrate a year and a half of progress" cause god damn theres been a lot

Lets GO. 1.5 Year "we got this bread" positivity post to just go "God DAMN we are doing GOOD" (not an exhaustive list though cause that requires me to remember and go through every event over a year and a half and I may be at functional multiplicity but my memory is still garbage)

Trauma, DID, and Recovery Achievements:

Identified and got a system consensus that our oldest sister is a piece of shit and basically our life long "handler" and HARD cut her off out of our life

Rebuilt really good relationship (neutral but pleasant to supportive and reliable) with our other direct family members who don't try to force us to interact with her

Identified that we are probably considered polyfragmented and very quickly accepted it cause quite frankly we don't really care

Got most parts to acknowledge that we aren't faking being Asian (I know but that was a long one I swear to god)

Basically entirely got over our 6 year long difficulty driving cars SO much to the point we have multiple parts ARGUING who gets to drive and actively WANTING to drive

Largely let go of a lot of the anger and hurt directed at our parents for their role in our childhood trauma

Largely helped our main CSA trauma holder basically fully go into PTSD remission to the point hes now an uber helpful tertiary host and arguably one of our most comfortable parts talking about CSA related topics

Cleared stabilization phase of recovery and achieved functional multiplicity as confirmed by our DID specialist at the time

Fused like so many parts ngl. I don't know if Riku 1.0 and XIV 1.0 fused with their respective parts to be Riku 2.0 and XIV 2.0 around then cause it was about the time we stopped talking but there was that, the whole Data subsystem and shit, integrating Chunn into the system and helping him renavigate that crap, Lin fusing with an inner world part and shit - lots of that XD

Became a (Zen-leaning) Buddhist which plays a decent role in how we approach our mental health and cultural identity

Finally went from "undiagnosable autistic" to "Yeah you are autistic" because functional multiplicity enabled a more clear diagnosis

LOTS of gender dysphoria shit and gender shit that is too much work to break into main bullet points

Gained massive insight into how we intend to approach our reclaiming of sexuality

Learned to literally meditate and just enjoy existing

Realized we reaaaaaalllllly have a low threshold for dealing with people who we don't actively and strongly enjoy being around

Career and Direction Wise:

Graduated our undergrad - woot woot

Got a job supporting special ed - enjoyed it made good connections but also noted that god no dealing with people so much is not our cup of tea

Got a BETTER job at a reputable university to support research on aging memory with mice that has really good benefits - really like this job but also its not our cup of tea because we don't really enjoy the monotony

Came to the decision that research wise we really would rather deal with people on the "less" than the "more" end, scratching off a lot of human-focused research interests at least for the time being and greatly narrowing our previously wide scope down to the more animal heavy side

Sitting on old topics we researched and found interest in, realized the one thing our brain kept going back to was metrics of studying animal mental states and that we really probably would enjoy that as a nice balance between our interest and what we have the personal ability to engage in sustainably

Decided we are in fact going back to our PhD now that we have decided that 1) working life as a gear in a machine is cool and relaxing and shit, but it lowkey makes us depressed with how stagnant it is and we need more going on in our work life to keep us happy so "ok we tried that, we don't like it, back to the plan" 2) we have a pretty good idea of what we want to study at least for the beginning of a PhD career that could go in different directions organically

Scheduling currently a Zoom meeting with a professor we are interested in to informally discuss graduate studies

Independence, Hobbies and Other Shit:

We live on our own, sustain our life on our own and live with our fiance who - despite being currently unable to work due to disabilities - we are able to support and sustain (also bless zen Buddhism making it easy to be happy and enjoy life on a lower income)

Made some really nice mutuals - you know who you are - yall are good company love yall

Between the parts that are co-hosting, we have so many hobbies and interests its ridiculous; but we added electric guitar, ukelele, and recently a drum pad to our musical repertoire; gardening and plant care (which we suck at which is fine) added to the hobby

Became painful morning people as a result to our job and kinda realized we prefer it sorry for being that guy

Lost the ability to do the peacock call due to T dropping our voice range like a BITCH but in returned gained Raven calls and duck / goose noises

Also learned to do finch calls

Rescued two lovebirds when we moved to an apartment with our fiance - they are lesbians and very confused about it

Adopted a cat my fiance's mom was fostering from a kitten cause shes a shoulder cat (bird) and also now because of XIV she is also a dog who plays fetch and loves belly rubs (she also has extra toes)

Consistently continued doing art, developing the story world, encouraging my writing partner to get into art, aggressively shaking all my friends to art with me

Got Lin to be obsessed with art with me as well

Kept up a 230 day duolingo streak juggling like 6 or 7 different languages (the last like 120~ days or so have been a lot more 'just keeping it up' and me just doing one lesson of Japanese a day since its the one I know the best but it HAS been kept up)

Transitioning:

Started T and stayed taking T

Got a hysterectomy GOOD BYE PCOS

Am charted for seeing a surgeon to discuss bottom surgery this month

Am charted for seeing consult for top surgery at Some Point when the insurance stuff goes through

Have long since forgone our Dead Name in almost every area and got comfortable with our Chosen Name

Considering participating in Transmasculine No Shave November out of Transpride

[an-unholy-devotion-and-desire]

💘 call me Roman, Fiifi , Afia or Cupid ~ !! 💘

💫 she / he / fae / mink + any 💫 Alter/Part - Co-host of a system !

HOWDY! - im an alter n co-host 4 our system @infin8drip (main blog) - im a cherubim + succubus hybrid but i dont rly claim my more "corrupted" side of the spectrum or wtvr, im jus a zesty rebellious stupid ho LMAO (lightheartedly half jokin). i do have shiftable forms that more "simpler" 4 others in the headspace, typically i look like this :p (warnin, this is the host old art n it's an old ass "selfies" of me in the middle, i will update the this lol also i typically like messin around w/ my hair. )

- (ALL art by this sytem) - tw warnin 4 the n slur up ahead on the 3rd pic (i can reclaim it.)

- i'm an OCtive + Mixoject of multiple sources! ( sources; The other host OC, Cupid, Angels, Cherubim (Media & biblical accurate), Lola Bunny , Minerva Mink) - My system job resume includes: internal self helper, sexual protector, ADHD, BPD, NPD, OCPD, hypersexual symptom holder - i'm mentally (i say 'mentally' bc truely i'm ageless but im an adult) early 30 yr old, in a 25yr old body ✌🏾 how do u do c: - I am nonhuman and may interact with nonhuman/alterhuman posts! i identify as ! : - pangenderfaer - Etherio/Etho/nonhuman boy - pan gaybian, - stemmetwink !(mostly femme) - turigirl ! - i'm wlw, wlm , mlm, nblm , nblw , nblnb !! - i'm partnered x10 /r & /qpr <3 ; by members in our/my system, n' our/my 2 system partners, so pls don't be fuckin weird ! c:

body wise also:

. - parent . - blk/indigenous (afro american geechee + blackfoot cherokee/creek/seminole) . - anemic . - intersex . - transneumasc GNC FTM Maverique Cusper + QueerHet . - IC-DID . - Cluster B / Cluster C . - got zat ✨ AuDHD ✨ . - ✨ OCD Spectrum ✨ . - pullin up w ✨ psychotic + cluster a traits ✨ dancin w/ an ED

this blog's purpose is 2 just b my side of the internet, essentially. i reblog anythin angelcore, lovecore, coquette, 420 , fashion, early y2k, creepy cute, celebs, shows i like, shit from my culture, while talkin' abt social justices in my respected intersections! occasionally will sketch here 2 n show off my art :p tws: spirituality , suggestive content n probs +18 content under cuts , talks of trauma and ventin, hypersexuality n the highs n lows of it :')) , PDA ( i like gushin abt my boos <33 ) , possible religious imagery n weed mention. anythin else i haven't mentioned will still b tagged accordingly!

☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 ☝🏾 💢TAPS SCREEN☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢

BYF: - I reclaim the slurs/terms: nigga, retard, dyke, bulldyke, fag, sambo - speak in aave / ebonics unintentionally and intentionally. -I am a full time parent along side my partners, part time worker (soon will be attending college), trying to get support my partners/family out of a tough spot, so I'm always busy or stressed in some form. -Unless youre close to me and/or partners, do not call me "sis" or "shawty" even jokingly. that goes for the whole collective :/ THIS BLOG IS 18+ this is a no minor zone 4 my comfortability here! I block ageless blogs n anyone i think is weird or off puttin 4 me. Me n the block button r the realest definition of "bros b4 hoes" frfr

☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 ☝🏾 💢TAPS SCREEN☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢 ☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢☝🏾 💢

DNI: PRO ZIONISTS, ANTISEMETIC, ANTIBLACK, ANTI NATIVE, ENDOS, PROSHIPPERS/COMSHIPPERS, DDLG/AGE KINK, RADQUEER , SAFEQUEERS, Labeled "DA/IRL" ( RECOVERING D-MISID's ARE FINE ) , OMEGAVERSE, TRANSID, ANTI-OTHERKIN/THERIAN, RTCA, ANTI RECOVERY BLOGS OF ANY KIND, TERFS, ANTI XENOGENDERS/NEOS, ANTI- MSPEC LESBIANS/GAYS, ANTI GOOD FAITH IDs ARE NOT WELCOME, . . Nor will I engage in discourse w/ it, unless its somethin i feel like I need 2 drop my two sense on somethin that i feel nobody may not have not touched on, or someone i care abt is publically involved. Other than that, i h8 gettin into discourse when the general public has already have made multiple points 2 counter a lot of misinformation w/ fax + its not always good for my health, nor the system's

Tag list:

# . 💘  .  | Preachin n servin the word   ( Spiritual uplifting talks)

# . 💘  .  | Divine creations ( Art or edits )

# . 💘  .  | Zealous Rebellion and Resistance ( Social activism ) # . 💘  .  | I'll just take the 85 2 Africa  ( Black excellence, Black Pride, Black history , anything blk related tbh ) # . 💘  .  | Before Genesis… ( Exomemories if i ever decide 2 talk abt them ) # . 💘  .  | Sorrows of the fallen ( Vents ) # . 💘  .  | Pierced by Cupid's Arrow <3 ( Partners tag <33 ) # . 💘  .  | Not safe 4 mortals ( NSFT )

# . 💘  .  | Sins of Wrath ( RANTS ) 

# . 💘  .  | Sins of Envy ( Narc lows vents ) # . 💘  .  | Sins of Greed ( Hoarding vents & talks , mentions ) # . 💘  .  | Sins of Lust (  Hypersexuality, Lewd talk, also NSFT ) # . 💘  .  | Sins of Pride ( me havin a narc high ) # . 💘  .  | Sins of Gluttony ( Recreational talks; Weed and alcohol mentions ) # . 💘  .  | Sins of Sloth ( Hyperfixation tag )

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[hc-did-culture-is]

tw// ed + sh mentions

HC-DID culture is having three options:

A) an ed symptom holder and a sh fanatic alter are in front

B) an omega prog just set in

or C) we’re just having those thoughts ™️ again

-AMC

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[rxttenslutcemeterysys]

── 🦴 "Decaying Hounds Collective" ⚰️ ──

Collective name~ 🕸️; Graves, Decay Collective pronoun set~ 🌙 ; he | it | thing Collective labels~ 🌕 ; omnisexual(male lean/pref) | transgender(masc) | ambiamorous

🔪 system headcount~ ; 600+ 🪦 system origin~ ; Traumagenic 🫀 hosts~ ; Mr. Plant | Gutz | Hound | Bane/Mayuko

☁︎ ╮"but without the dark, we'd never see the stars"╭ ☁︎

🧠 diagnosed with,, ~ ; MDD, ADHD, C-PTSD, and Bipolar

👻 suspecting of,, ~ ; DID, BPD, ED, OCD, Insomnia, and Autism

🫁 self diagnosed with,, ~ ; HPD

"in the depths of darkness, love shines the brightest." ☁︎‎‎‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚‎‎‧₊˚☁︎

🌑 system partners name ~ ; Rjabion, RJ

🌕 system partners pronouns ~ ; he | fang | vamp| they

< 12/24/2023 3 "take me back,, to,, the night we met,," 🌙

🌑 system partners name ~ ; The Crowz Library/Crowz

🌕 system partners pronouns ~ they | faye | it | sie | hem

< 11/11/2023 3 "take me back,, to,, the night we met,," 🌙

🌑 system partners name ~ ; The Merlin Society, Merlin, Marlo

🌕 system partners pronouns ~ ; he | they

< 11/25/2023 3 "take me back,, to,, the night we met,," 🌙

🌑 system partners name ~ ; A Collection Of Stardust , Ace , Oliver

🌕 system partners pronouns ~ ; he | they

< 12/15/2023 3 "take me back,, to,, the night we met,," 🌙

🕷️ ── "love will have its sacrifices…" ── 🦷 Freq. Fronters/hosts Mr Plant |,,| Ageless Adult |,,| He/It/Thing |,,| Host , Warden Alter

Gutz |,,| Ageless Adult |,,| He/It/Thing |,,| Host , Protector

Ghost |,,| 17 |,,| He/They/It/Wing/Cloud/Thing |,,| Persecutor , Mood Swings Holder

Will Solace |,,| 16 |,,| He/It |,,| Trauma Holder , Mood Booster

👁️ Extras,, 🫁

╭ DNI

if you are lgbtq+ phobic(includes aroa and aces)

if you fakeclaim or reality check

if you are a very strict Christian/Catholic and you try to push it onto others.

╭BYI

We cuss a lot and use slurs we CAN reclaim. (Ex, faggot, retard, tranny)

We collectively are a nonthiestic satanist

We are neutral on the topic on non-traumagenic systems. Don't bring up or ask about it unless you are going to be polite.

identities bc yes?

emotion wheel bc its helpful

!! socials

please make sure to tell us either on the app or in dms here that you followed/etc on these :)

X ( twitter ) - @/decayinghounds

tiktok ; @/decayinghoundscoll

instagram ; @/slutforfictionalkillers

pinterest ; @/decayinghoundssys

snapchat ; @/localhorrorshow

simplyplural ; @/decayinghoundscoll (<- still doing heavy work on it, restarted on a new account)

discord; ask for it

general blogs owned by us..

@tiny-remains - syskid/agere/petre/agedre/petdre blog

@decayingintros - our intros

@ghostixart - collective, but mainly ghosts art blog

@horrificinformation - collective writing blog. (quick warning, this account will have 'problemmatic' fandoms/media on it. a lot of our writing is more-so our thoughts/notes on research on our special interests, so far we've wrote more movie reviews and informational posts than fanfiction and actual stories)

@abnormalcultureis - abnormal culture :]

@rottingventbook - vent blog

personal sysmate blogs...

@strzit - stardust / ⭐'s blog

@mrsunshineboy - will solace / 🔆's blog

@voidless-thoughts - Mr. Plant / MP's blog

@paranoidkittycat - virgil's blog

@exotic-kalle - kalle's blog

@snowicangel - angel dust / ❄️'s blog

@y3ll0wgutziii - yellow's blog

salix / 🎃's blog , ask for it

salem's blog , ask for it

[georgefairbrother]

A little over 40 years after the Abdication Crisis that had peaked in December of 1936, Thames Television, holder of the weekday independent TV franchise for London and the Home Counties, commissioned a dramatisation based on the exhaustive Wolfson History Prize winning biography of Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson.

There was great care taken in terms of casting, production design, and location filming that included Fort Belvedere where many of the real events unfolded. Edward and Mrs Simpson seemed to be as close as you could possibly get to 1930s culture, fashion and upper-class society without a time machine. Written for television by Simon Raven and directed by pioneering British-Asian director Waris Hussein, the series was rewarded with an Emmy and multiple BAFTAs.

In retrospect, it appears to be as faithful to real events as a drama could be, including verbatim conversations and parliamentary statements. Edward VIII, formerly the Prince of Wales known as David, then finally the Duke of Windsor, was played by Edward Fox, and Wallis Simpson by Cynthia Harris. Other key castings included Nigel Hawthorne, yet to find stardom as Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister / Prime Minister, as the King’s friend and advisor Walter Monckton, David Waller as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (He reprised this role in 1988 for another adaptation, The Woman He Loved, starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and Olivia de Havilland), Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary, Marius Goring as King George V, and Wensley Pithey as a totally convincing Winston Churchill. Versatile British-Australian actor Ed Deveraux played Tory press baron Lord Beaverbrook, a role he later reprised in The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (BBC 1981).

Other notable players included Andrew Ray (Duke of York / George VI), Charles Keating (Ernest Simpson), Patrick Troughton (Clement Attlee), Patricia Hodge (Lady Diana Cooper), Maurice Denham (Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury), Cherie Lunghi (Thelma Furness) and Hugh Fraser (Anthony Eden).

The Duke of Windsor died in 1972, but the Duchess of Windsor, formerly Mrs Simpson, was still alive when the programme was conceived and broadcast. (She died in 1986). She was not best pleased, citing invasion of privacy, and lobbied to have the production stopped. Her opposition was reported in The Sun, and perhaps might have been more newsworthy if not for another significant event in August 1977.

The series ended with the marriage of the Duke and now Duchess of Windsor, some months after the Abdication.

The BFI Screen-Online review stated;

"…The series also carefully juxtaposes Edward’s frequent, and popular, visits to depressed areas with his opulent and carefree private life, and doesn’t shy from showing his admiration for Mussolini in a pair of brief but pointed exchanges with Anthony Eden…Edward Fox gives a fine and charismatic performance as the King, ably suggesting the contradictory impulses that ruled the man. Wallis Simpson, however, is presented rather less sympathetically. In an occasionally heavy-handed performance, Cynthia Harris plays her as a cool and conniving gold-digger, albeit a sometimes naïve and even disarmingly foolish one…"

The portrayal of Edward VIII was a little more sympathetic than in some later productions, including Bertie and Elizabeth (2002). Edward and Mrs Simpson did tend to gloss over the King’s fascist sympathies, although it was at least alluded to as mentioned in the BFI review. Perhaps, in fairness, these along with some alleged shady financial dealings, meddling in Britain’s foreign policy and the cosy relationship with Hitler, didn’t really become apparent until the period after the series ended. Wensley Pithey’s Winston Churchill was accurately shown as a strong and sincere personal friend and advocate for the King and Wallis Simpson, in public and private, to the annoyance of the Baldwin government, but this relationship later soured when Churchill was wartime Prime Minister, over the Duke of Windsor’s behaviour.

[oddballcobblebot]

🐧 Intro Post 🐧

~ Hi<3 i'm the Penguin, or Oswald Cobblepot, though I prefer to be called Penguin over anything else. - i use she/it/ze/flipper/bird pronouns!! - i am a fictive alter in an osdd system, i am our host <3 we are called the iceberg lounge! (our sys account @penguintriumphant ) - i hate doubles, so pleaseee dont interact with me, same with other Ed's<3 i know my wife and i love her so very much (psst her blog is @enigmareduxx) - some of my interests are: penguins (especially emperor penguins), fight club, godzilla, music (will wood, radiohead, animal collective, weird al, joji, etc), dickie dibella/robin lord taylor, great white sharks, dogs, guinea pigs, smile for me, dc comics, batman: arkham, doctor who, lupin the iii, and more!! - dni if u: support endos, participate in lgbt discourse, are anti recovery, use names not from your culture (this includes alters), shota/loli/etc, anti neopronouns/xenopronouns (and genders), anti mogai

ALSO!!! i have npd, bpd, and autism<3

im a bpd symptom holder, anxiety holder, and host

i luv my source and my wife !!

thats allllll thanks for reading<3 🐧☂️

[holder-culture-is]

CW: ED talks (feel free to delete)

ED symptom holder culture is refusing to eat for a full day, but still freaking out because the melatonin gummies we take to help us sleep have calories in them.

That sounds terrible, I’m so sorry :( remember to be patient with yourself, if you have anyone you’re comfortable talking to then try to do that /nf. We’re here for you, anon :]

[b-splendens]

progress update/ramble mar 23

seriously/not seriously considering creating a french-leaning romanization system for my language that is totally not just Korean.

learned that Seoul is spelled that way...because of the frenchies

Some examples would be like: Jac To-rieng, On-tjo, Ri Kyeng, Kil Yen-sec, Ho Tè-ran, and so on and so forth. it makes me feel WEIRD but certainly contributes to a sense of diversion from our reality.

under the cut: the rest of the changelog

changed the plot again. and did some impromptu government/culture development that stopped me from doing my school work

government has a house of peers/lords vs representatives setup, like meiji japan and the UK. peerage was also a compromise that enabled a sort of democracy to exist, balancing the demands of the less-ennobled factions that supported geumjong's rise to power with the traditional elites. peerage was granted to a selection of old elites and trusted supporters of the royals, bringing many middle class and even lower classes into a new kind of yangban system. the king/authorities/etc can also choose to award more peerage to outstanding individuals. other ennobled people are involved with the royal family

the peerage elect from themselves the people who sit in the actual house for specific terms. certain royal individuals hold their posts for life. academics, professionals, and other special people are elected by their not necessarily noble peers and appointed by the king, sometimes for terms or for life.

they do...stuff.

peerage itself, for the initial group of ennobled people, is hereditary. it used to be passed down by ungendered primogeniture but eventually became delegated by the title holders themselves, via their wills or while they are alive. SOCIALLY, the families of titleholders are regarded as nobles/like yangban, but they receive no state benefits/are officially not.

this is important because now noljin's widow and heungjin and their children have a really good reason to fight now; it's not just wealth, but rather peerage and access to power in the upper legislative house.

thinking also that peerage in Yulguk is kind of funny because it combines the old yangban ethos. every hereditary titleholder's family MUST produce a state official/civil servant that serves x amount of years EACH or every three generations for their title to be able to be passed down. civil service is now usually barred by the general ed, Ordonnist-flavored exam and specialist exams; no longer do people just become general scholars and then get chucked into random jobs. but the traditional component is still there. so there. i made a fusion thing.

where was i? oh yeah. the head of the jak family also now has actual power as a peer/lord and is no longer background noise. they also have motivation to preserve their reputation and their family's because of the peer elections

i've settled on the terms "head" and "spouse" to denote marriage relations. Head is the househead, synonymous with name/linebearer. Spouse is the supporting, deferring component. Heungjin's spouse. X's head.

so it makes sense that the grandparents potentially had Doryeong (or Do-rieng)'s bae killed or removed. he was rumored to 1) maybe be betrothed/engaged WITHOUT the traditional parental involvement of the marriage process, and 2) maybe be engaged to a head, as his spouse, which is a no-no because neither branch of the Jak's had yet married and extended the family name, thus bringing shame and DISHONOR.

oh yeah. and the power relations between seniority of age and head/spouses is something I guess i'm running with. firstborns are almost always socially (in the past, maybe legally) consecrated as future househeads. their spouses are almost always not firstborns. and if they are, then it's considered a real power move against or a offense/deferral on the part of the spouse's family. other children are more nebulous. in the past marriages would happen earlier on, so head and spouse statuses would operate to preclude the spouse from making waves in broader society. but more and more future spouses won't know themselves as such and already have an active job or even secure employment before marrying. because of the legal abolishments of a lot of laws, these dynamics are more so social conventions. so it's less of a big deal for spouses to remain active outside of the home, but there are still expectations to.

one problem that i have with my system is that it's really hard to distinguish who is a head and who is a spouse. and it kind of clashes with the sort of binary gender system. men had topknots and wore baji and women had buns and wore chima. nonbinary individuals visually distinguished themselves by mixing these elements in a fixed, predictable manner. why does it matter that genders are differentiated when everything focuses on carrying on the family name? idk. househeads typically wore the "gat"-type hat and i imagine male spouses stopped wearing the hat when they married, if they got to that stage. still iffy on it though. the special marriage double-rings that married women had in Joseon probably get given to all spouses in Yulguk. as for unmarried people, I don't know. maybe no unmarried people wore hats????? i don't really want it to be like "househead means masc and spouse means femme" which is why I'm sticking to the convention of women only wearing buns in traditional culture, etc.

regardless, the divide between heads and spouses was more emphasized the higher in Yul society you are. the "ideal" arrangement was where the head provided everything, while the spouse took care of the children and home (although supported by a wider community). These distinctions broke down at the lower level, where both partners would share labor, wear more similar clothes (farmers need hats to stay in the shade, etc), were. i guess this is still kind the case in the 1870s-80. and for aspiring lower-class people, leaning into that ideal is seen as one way to behave more cultured. also, there are probably regional variants. in the more sedentary areas, a more uneven dynamic is preferred. while on the frontier/mountains/north, a more equitable arrangement is preferred. so: high society/civilization/farmland is associated with social division and STABILITY, while "lower" society/country bumpkins/rugged people are associated with social mingling and DYNAMISM (ex. actors and mudang, who routinely shirked conventions and were the roles where genderfluid individuals could thrive but weren't consistently looked favorably upon).

UHHH WAIT maybe gender is still visually important because it distinguishes/d what reproductive role individuals had, but also trans people are generally not distinguished from cis people so that explanation is bunk AHHHHH IT MAKES NO SENSE

ANYWAYS long story short i changed the plot again and also might've outlined the endgame/final case. the gil siblings murder either heungjin's defense attorney or a servant who helped with the forgery/perjury that saved heungjin but doomed yong-gi. they plant on the body or at the jak residence a last wish note that outlines the victim's guilt for having doomed gil. they choose to frame either doryeong or onjo. whoever's not framed becomes the prosecution. the defense is baram. the gil's aim is to dredge up the old case and then use the stand to tell the truth. even if they have no evidence for the framing (or maybe they do), they ruin the reputation of the whole family. up their sleeves is a kidnapping or evidence tracking embezzlement/corruption to force the family to confess themselves. before this, they hit one or two family members with a scam, scandal, or otherwise. yukyang or yeonseok may turn into a financial adviser. khanh's role is to introduce the family to them through doryeong. i MAY remove the politics surrounding the murder/frame drama for the sake of simplicity, but probably yukyang still goes around killing other people out of revenge leading up to the final case. i still don't know who killed jak heungjin. too many people could've done it. having doryeong be the one seems both too absurd and too obvious. the accepted narrative to the public is that the old regime used Yong-gi to smite jak heungjin because the latter was conducting a threatening investigation, and yong-gi exploited rumors of the jak brothers' conflicts to make it seem like a personal, apolitical thing. maybe it was the grandparents, because they feared that his investigation would throw them in hot water with the gov't and they didn't want that. heungjin will claim that he did it to save doryeong, but doryeong will spill the beans because he hates his grandparents and would still definitely be involved in the framing, if not the original murder.

i really need to stop. one final note is that i might make yukyang really unlikeable by making them sort of classist. a chunk of their hatred of doryeong would be that he is rumored to be from the ex-slave or butcher class, and they just can't stand the notion of someone like that weaseling their way into high society by pure chance. so this would be a very aristocratic, bourgeois spat, with onlookers like the gom's and khanh being like "wtf this shit is crazy!!!"

one more last note: i'm trying to maybe write a prequel concerning khanh and doryeong's friendship and the murder mystery that spawned it because it can be small and compact and feature a more more diverse cast in Bellia than in Yulguk AH.

[syscultureis]

TW: vent, ED, SH

plural culture is, technically the others have assigned themselves roles such as NPD holder and trauma holder except not a single one of them do what they claim to. they push their ED symptoms on me, they push their NPD symptoms on me, they push the trauma memories on me (but when i actually try and remember thigns that are IMPORTANT to remember, suddenly my head hurts and i hear someone yell 'stop digging' at me because apparently the only time i dont ahve memories pushed on me is when i actually want to), they let that one alter who is a complete and utter shithead spend all day insulting and belittling me with literally no one else even TRYING to distract her, and the last time one of them meaningfully fronted was when i was so exhausted i was literally trying to rip my skin off, and all she did was MESSAGE MY FP ABOUT IT AND THEN SKEDADDLE. and then i dare to make one post about it on my tumblr out of frustration and need to vent, and i wake up to discover they have all gone radio silent and locked me in the front room as a 'punishment'. at this point, i would say 'whats the point of sharing a body if theyre going to treat me like this' but is it really sharing if im the only one doing jackshit for us?

:(

[justod]

Sharon o dair

This requires a ‘presentist’ approach to the study of Shakespeare. It is about not just ‘awareness’ but ‘impact’ (Bruckner, ‘Teaching Shakespeare in the Ecotone’, in Ecocritical Shakespeare, ed. Sharon O'Dair 1 In 2000, the University of Michigan Press published my Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars. Cohen, 'Blues in the Green: Ecocriticism under Critique', Environmental History, 9:1, 2004). Sharon ODair, Emma Depledge, Anna Cetera, Courtney Lehmann, Poonam Trivedi, Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei, Graham Holderness, Jill L. Instead, as Michael Cohen argues, ecological literary criticism ‘wants to know but also wants to do’ (Michael P. Ecocritical approaches actively differentiate themselves from this approach, which they call instead ‘the study of the relationship between literature and the environment’ (Estok in Ecocritical Shakespeare, 2011: 242). As such, it is not just about identifying natural themes or tropes – the storm in King Lear, the barbaric ‘wilderness’ of Titus Andronicus, the enchanted forest of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ODair, Sharon, The State of the Green: A review essay. The clearest point of differentiation for this theoretical and philosophical position is its advocacy for the study of Shakespeare as directly affecting our ecological challenges. Games franchise in both its narrative and filmmaking (and the winning addition of Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair). Garrard, Greg, Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Author: Sharon O'Dair (Editor), Timothy Francisco (Editor) Hardcover Feb 2019.

[mukundbharucha]

Nowadays BJP is most corrupt party. Her MPs, MLAs, Corporators & all her disciples have become unscrupulous unrestrained unbridled & looting the national exchequer unabated. I'm conversant of true national political scenarios & its corrupt culture in rife. I'm not aficionado of any political parties. I do just entertain common herds' sentiments. Even I disdain Congress culture who has played havoc with national economy, national integrity and her sovereignty under the dire vain pretext of pseudo secularism. Congress has rendered Dalits more vulnerable to malignant political insinuations. Congress has rendered Dalits most corrupt in the nation. Dalits should not have blind faith in Congress depicting her as their sole messiah of Dalits because ablepsy is very much detrimental. Even I appreciate & eulogize the nationalism & Hinduism plank of BJP. Despite BJP imbued in nation eroding & heart gnawing corruption malversation no one can wink at their works which has been accomplished in last eight years. Amidst shambles of mire of corrupt political culture our beloved Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has performed splendid works whether it's concerning to nationalism issues, Hinduism, defense related technological advancements, self reliant India, product linked incentive scheme (PLI scheme), patronization to innovations & research and development activities, guts & gumption of foreign diplomacy, MUDRA endeavour, ₹ 8000 appropriated for Quantum Computer Technology innovation, 6G spectrum indigenous technology development endeavour, rationalization of pharmaceutical policy by procuring generic drugs at condign cheaper rate to destitute, proletariate & bourgeois class of people or poverty stricken congregational issues to name a few. Congress is the prime provenance of corruption malpractice unwillingly burgeoning in our beloved nation Hindustan. I'm curiously awaiting that when Mr Narendra Modi will use the power of Enforcement Directorate (ED), Crime Bureau of India (CBI), Civil Vigilance Committee (CVC) etc government agencies against their party's vile elements imbued & engrossed in nation eroding malversation malpractice. Sir I can understand your plight very well but don't dilly dally to scavenge the abuses of misappropriation practices from our beloved nation Hindustan. Sir thwart plundering of the national exchequer unabated by your own party's cadre portfolio holders which is very badly agonising me a lot. Sir don't concentrate on Mr Kejriwal sir but peep into misdeeds of your own party's cadre vile elements. You don't have threat from Mr Kejriwal sir but your own party's cadre vile indign elements will definitely make existence of BJP evanescing in the abysmal air.

Anyways welcome to our land of exquisite Bharuch city.

Don't get me wrong because I got fleeced myself this way so you, & naive people & loggerhead imbecile nimrods can very well decipher & discern my political ideological proclivities in right direction.

I'm truth seeker & truth lover.

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