#original accumulation

[diemanocte]

Original Accumulation and Charity

Chuang was right to say that original accumulation wasn't just a historical relic, but a constantly lurking presupposition haunting the reproduction process, no matter how advanced bourgeois society becomes.

Original accumulation- which shattered the iron rice bowl, sold off californians on the front step of the mission and the gaol like day-by-day slaves to the rancheros and press ganged workers onto ships and railyards from Shanghai to San Fransisco- still exists. It exists latently in the police, the prison, the military, the fink halls old and modern, in the 'back to work order' and the Agropass that throws the farmworker back into the flames. It still lurks, and reveals itself whenever the music stops. And it's at the moments when capitalism struggles to reproduce itself that these horrors become transparent- transparent, because the brutality of forced labour and dispossession is in direct contradiction with those same ideals that capitalism boasts on its better days. The scaffold clashes with the drywall that conceals it.

But for liberals, whose ideology is a beatified form of bourgeois society taken one-sidedly, original accumulation is merely the exception to their inviolable rules.

When COVID rode in, original accumulation marched behind it. I remember when they conscripted UK soldiers to drive trucks on english roads- in China, they're locking workers in their factories in an effort to reconcile the production of capital with epidemic containment. In the US, some in the government seem to be threatening to keep rail workers on the tracks, by force of law and batons if necessary. Remember when sailors were trapped on their ships for over a year, at the height of quarantine? In a time of crisis, the capitalist system spontaneously becomes a crimp and a slaver, without a week's notice.

Ah, but that was in unusual times! Surely, normalcy will return, soon.

Fuck off.

A digression- De Soto said that private property was necessary to preserve Christian charity. For how can we give alms to the poor if there are neither alms to give nor poor to take them? I couldn't agree more.

So damn them! Damn those Mack-the-knife humanitarians whose gloves are always clean and pockets always full! Damn the philanthropists of the world, those handwringers and academics and samaritans of the world who haven't seen either end of a picket line or a gun, who bemoan slavery abroad and celebrate civilization at home. Damn those who condemn the flicker, and consecrate the flame!

[mo-rs]

Been ages

[isbergillustration]

Once more I come to you on the day of my being stressed about moving countries in two weeks or so and ask you if you have room in your heart and home to adopt a canvas painting so I don’t have to throw it out. £30-80 depending on size plus shipping. Can split up payments. Will include stickers, maybe a surprise paper original. Message me on here if you are interested. If you want something added to or removed feom the painting I will do it probably.

(All paper originals also for sale but they are easier to transport so less urgent)

[vimbry]

"likes don't do anything" they do

"there's no algorithm" there is

"well nobody uses the for you tab" I do

"reblog all art and fics you see" there's no thought put into that. if this does work on people, then it's just pity engagement borne out of guilt rather than genuine interest, which is arguably worse than having none, because it's totally hollow.

[just-beyond-ecoust]

[ask-casteliabounce]

My boy didn't need to study law, he'd be well off by just being a model-

[anacatalog]

she seems like she'd enjoy laufey

[cracklewink]

A random original character I drew to practice drawing more humanoid characters lol. if left to my own devices ill end up only drawing ponies and forget how to draw humanoid figures!!

[bread--quest]

the olympics are going great thank you for asking

[haichengtual]

do you ever miss someone that you now see as a stranger that you...paint what you wish would happen that would reconcile you two

[sparrrorow-art]

really on that wave of forcing Yall to look at my ocs lately - Zuza introduced Auri to black nail polish and cuddling Your homies goodnight

[aberration-abbey]

found out that Quigley, one of my first lore dragons, has an unexalted grandchild as of this week, and the person who had him was kind enough to let me buy him. welcome to Acuity Ridge Clan, Elogast!

[soyoursoulisgreen]

15 and 32

15. Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chapter fics?

I tend to prefer writing one-shots! I love to read multi-chapter fics, but I always get so worried that I'll lose motivation and just, never come back to it :') My first fic on AO3 is loosely a multi-chapter, in the sense that I've left it open to return to someday, but haven't had any interest to pick it back up in years lol. There's something very punchy about one-shots as well - I have a pretty solid split between short and long one-shots, but it's so satisfying when I Finally have a long one finished!

I also like making connected one-shots, or sequential one-shots, but letting them stand on their own so?

32. What’s a fic you’d love to write, but probably never will?

I think I had a Vargas fic idea at one point that I so badly wanted to read but didn't want to write, and made some concept sketches and an outline for and everything lol - something with the Jake/Edgar/Scriabin dynamic ♥ I do know that someone made a missing scene-fic about Scriabin and Jake's first interaction that I've been quietly making eyes at - next time I'm into Vargas for sure 👀

As for love to write, hm... Probably this overly-convoluted Osmosis Jones NTR fic that I've had in my back pocket for way too long honestly lol - ever since I learned about netorare they were my first and only choice but it's so all-hurt-no-comfort and kinda dark and sad and while it sounds really fun, the self-consciousness monster in the back of my head is like "Really? The White Blood Cell Movie? For that?" lol

[sprinklecipher]

Just had a random thought that it would've been so cool if there had been an Ace Attorney x Puzzle Agent crossover game in the same vein as PLvPW

The two series would mesh so well (vibe-wise, at least). Like, you can't tell me an exchange like this would be out of place in AA:

Screenshots from Ross’s Game Dungeon (strongly recommend the linked video btw)

[plushie-lovey]

Found an old pic of some plushies that are in storage currently!

[sleepy-stitches]

back on the room cleaning grind. why is there so much stuff in here. who did this (me)