#mab reads

[sapropel]

Ultraleftism... is a refusal to take into account the ways that existing political realities limit possibilities for action. Ultraleft politics confuses means and ends, muddles the distinctions among goals, strategy, and tactics. Historically, for instance, ultraleftists have dogmatically opposed participating in coalitions with liberals or mainstream politicians.

This tendency severs the idea of commitment to principle from the need to make realistic assessments of the options that exist in the fluid here-and-now; to analyze tough-mindedly our strengths and weaknesses; to think seriously and instrumentally about how to build a constituency within a social base (to “unite the many to defeat the few,” for those nostalgic for old slogans).

Ultraleftism is a maximalist politics. It’s much more about taking positions that express the intensity of one’s commitments than about organizing or building anything. Rather than crafting language to build broad support for a substantively radical program, for instance, ultraleftists prefer potted rhetoric that asserts their bona fides, without concern for communicating outside the ranks of believers.

Class Notes -- Adolph Reed

[burningvelvet]

“Women, for no other crime than having followed the dictates of a natural appetite, are driven with fury from the comforts and sympathies of society. [..] Has a woman obeyed the impulse of unerring nature; — society declares war against her, pitiless and eternal war: she must be the tame slave, she must make no reprisals; theirs is the right of persecution, hers the duty of endurance. She lives a life of infamy: the loud and bitter laugh of scorn scares her from all return. She dies of long and lingering disease: yet she is in fault, she is the criminal, she the froward and untameable child, — and society, forsooth, the pure and virtuous matron, who casts her as an abortion from her undefiled bosom!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes (1813).

[ohshy]

meme thatll only b understood by a few people (3 including me)

[stephantom]

Ok I want to quickly say one thing about good omens season 2 and it’s that I just realized Shax the new demon lady after Crowley is Miranda Richardson and what made me know this was the Queen Mab energy - Queen Mab from the Merlin 1998 miniseries

love her

[kamuro-junrenka]

I never thought going through the reminiscing spots in yokohama as kiryu would hit me this hard. he thinks so much about death and it makes me so sad to see he's completely given up on life

[sorryimananti-romantic]

Oml i havent been here in a MINUTE, but i just finish reading Cyberpunk and i definitely have to come and say i LOVED it (as i always do lmfao)

But the fact is almost cried, all the elements of it made it feel like a movie.

I don’t know much of the game (droid??) but where did you get the inspo to make such and amazing fic😞 i really liked how the thing keeping droids from being completely robots was the subconscious, which could be tied in with emotions but that wasn’t the main point.

Also, THE MORSE CODE, loved it oml- but about it, jongho learned morse code because he was a droid, but once he became human he still had that in him, like the memory of how to do morse code. + did the mc install some morse code into the droids before hand?

And to add one last thing, the part of the memory block was a shocker, for a split sec i felt like in inception and you were going to pull a “it was all a dream” which im glad you didnt but the detailsss, like how jongho is just still a cutie and easily gets flustered ugh i could keep on going but, to conclude, you never fail to make amazing fics and i shall continue to read them all

YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS BUT I WAS THINKING ABOUT YOU LAST NIGHT HELLO???

glad to know you liked cyberpunk i will never stop complaining about how much i struggled writing it lmao but the fact that it felt like a movie and almost made you cry means i did a good job hehe

bruh i have literally zero droid knowledge all i know is that well they're machines that work like humans and i literally had zero inspo just the title 'cyberpunk' and i knew cyberpunk had to be a droid/futuristic fic. and bc i have zero knowledge and this is fiction, i just made my own rules (like i always do ahaha)

oh the morse code. i don't remember if i mentioned it in the fic but jongho and reader used to communicate by tapping morse code on the skin before he got turned into a droid (if i didn't mention it, oops). with the droids, tho, they would be able to speak multiple languages/code since well, they're machines. it's installed in their hardware in the chip.

the idea that i had was when the reader was acting cautious around droid jongho but tapping the morse code onto his skin, keeping the msg short and simple like 'no' or 'don't', the droid wouldn't be able to figure out what she meant and why she was doing it. but since jongho the human would remember how this was their little secret communication way and would understand the depth of reader's msg, he would know what to do and act accordingly (reader took a risk here). that's bc jongho has his subconscious, if that makes sense.

AHAHAHA i was this 🤏close to turning cyberpunk into a tragedy or even a sadistic tragedy but ig this worked out better. i do believe subconscious is so imp and that no matter how much humans try to make machines that work and act like humans, they can never replicate the subconscious. and they really shouldn't try 💀

thank you so much for the lovely feedback and the questions, and i missed you! hope you're doing well <3 also now you know that if i ever write a fic titled 'inception', it's very obviously going to be the 'it was all a dream' concept. but with a twist, ofc hehe

[ghost-n-butteredtoast]

Dimitrescu Books

Chapter 30 - IN PROGRESS

Explicit: only suitable for adults

Strep throat kicked my ass this week and had me sounding like Queen Mab of the Old Ways (🤤Thank you Miranda Richardson). But I am on the mend! However, chapter 30 will be released a little later than I would like. But...here is a teaser for you all.

CHAPTER 30 PREVIEW:

Alcina’s eyes sparkled with delight. “Splendid!” She said placing her napkin in her lap. “I simply can not wait to take you out more, and spend quality time getting to know one another. Time that doesn’t involve my office couch.”

You smirked. “Not that I mind our time on the couch…”

Under the table, her foot found yours and slowly slid up your leg. “Mmm. Neither do I, darling. Neither. Do. I.” She said with a wink.

[lou-wilham]

I wish I could stick my fingers into your brain and pull out all the words you don't say. - Mab Duchan Of Hope & Blight

Mab Duchan everybody, making things weird with her soulmate since ... well this year actually. But you know what I mean.

Sometimes, love finds you anyway. Burned by her first love, Mab has spent the last several years content with her brother, their club, and her Miami beach front property. The last thing she wants, or needs, is for the arrow cast by Erotes—god of love—to rear its ugly head. But trouble disrupts Mab’s hard-earned peace in the form of a dead inanimi washed up on her private beach. Not wanting to disturb Ander and his newfound bliss, Mab calls the only person she can think of—Quintus Schields. Life for Quin used to be simple. Second in command to his brother Maximus, Quin has always been a hardworking and dedicated creature of few words. He wants nothing to do with the owners of Inferno or their drama. Especially with his new responsibilities as caregiver to an ignis youngling. So, when Mab Duchan asks for help, he has to decide if he wants to keep his world as is, or accept there might be more to life than he expected. As Miami’s criminal underground returns to sink its claws into them, Fate forces the four to face old demons, and question just what they’re willing to do for happiness.

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[sallytwo]

how long of a read is dropout is it like an hour long read or like a day or ??

definetly a day but ITS REALLY GOOD. like obviously. keep in mind the content warnings it’s about two people trying to commit suicide but geniunely the story is lifechanging. the author also wrote fresh meat (i cant link it right now) about a 17 year old girl (also furrys) whos in a psych ward after trying to kill herself and that one i literally think about. daily. like it fucking AFFECTED ME!!

[ypipie]

as much as i dislike gideon for his general creepness i have his fuckinf SONG stuc ki nmy head

[sapropel]

After considering and rejecting all the usual biological or morphological criteria, Du Bois concluded that a black person is most accurately “someone who must ride Jim Crow in Georgia.” My son, Touré (who insists that I note for the public record that he is not the guy who writes about hip-hop in the Voice), suggests a variation of Du Bois’s formulation that holds for the post-Jim Crow era: you are what the police think you are.

Those apothegms go to the heart of the matter. “Race” is purely a social construction; it has no core reality outside a specific social and historical context. That is not to say that it doesn’t exist or that it is therefore meaningless, but its material force derives from state power, not some ahistorical “nature” or any sort of primordial group affinities—the nineteenth-century racist mush that has never lost its appeal as a simpleminded journalistic frame. Racial difference is not merely reflected in enforced patterns of social relations; it emerges exclusively from them.

Class Notes -- Adolph Reed

[loneloserr]

I can never take anything Kurt c obtain has ever said seriously like knowing the man had just this intensely curated A esthetic it's hilarious to me

[mablikethequeen]

Why did no one ever tell me Nick is the one who usually drives Charlie to therapy

[francebaby]

sometimes i wish i stuck with literature instead of history

hilariously its the little historical context blurbs they put before stories in the norton readers that inspired me to switch...

[crowsourced]

shout out to me actively giving myself arachnophobia by doing research for a character with ties to spiders 🤡

[tarotbyflora]

Hiii, I'm here to participate in your tarot game :) my pronouns he/him, gay, favorite artist I would say Dua Lipa?? But I don't really have a favorite artist but I was a huge fan of hers.

Thank you :) ♥ -MABS

Hi 🌹

Personality: he's someone who lives the night, maybe fascinated by the moon the stars. He is very confident and passionate about everything. Also very intelligent, loves solving problems and is a strategic thinker. Like he is the full package..dreamy but also very logical. Warm hearted too.

Appearance: may have blonde, dark blonde or light brown hair, maybe even changes his hair color, looks very friendly, a really open lovely person. He also looks just different but i can see its close to your ideal type. It's someone where you automatically and naturally feell calm and safe with. His body is more on the slimmer side.

Song: Dua Lipa - love again, aww it's so cute! The lyrics speaks for itself.