Deanery was the sword in the mother fucking darkness tonight!!!!
THE UNSULLIED FOR YOU DEANER’YS TARGARYEN YOU GO DEANERY’S TARGARYEN.
and ashes for asatapor slaver dude k bye.
Jen: I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male. Are we headed down some wrong road in the way we’re reading the novel now? Are we somehow using a lens where women lose their definition? You have to ask yourself…
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Obscure Color Words
| albicant: | whitish; becoming white |
| amaranthine: | immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour |
| aubergine: | eggplant; a dark purple colour |
| azure: | light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue |
| celadon: | pale green; pale green glazed pottery |
| cerulean: | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green |
| chartreuse: | yellow-green colour |
| cinnabar: | red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour |
| citrine: | dark greenish-yellow |
| eburnean: | of or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
| erythraean: | reddish colour |
| flavescent: | yellowish or turning yellow |
| greige: | of a grey-beige colour |
| haematic: | blood coloured |
| heliotrope: | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror |
| hoary: | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age |
| isabelline: | greyish yellow |
| jacinthe: | orange colour |
| kermes: | brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects |
| lovat: | grey-green; blue-green |
| madder: | red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour |
| mauve: | light bluish purple |
| mazarine: | rich blue or reddish-blue colour |
| russet: | reddish brown |
| sable: | black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry |
| saffron: | orange-yellow |
| sarcoline: | flesh-coloured |
| smaragdine: | emerald green |
| tilleul: | pale yellowish-green |
| titian: | red-gold, reddish brown |
| vermilion: | bright red |
| violescent: | tending toward violent |
| virid: | green |
| viridian: | chrome green |
| xanthic: | yellow |
| zinnober: | chrome green |
5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think
To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the…
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How the Chinese and the Greeks viewed (pretty much) the same sky.
It’s pretty remarkable how differently two cultures can connect the same dots, don’t you think?
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So here you see two photos of Emma and Rupert displaying elegance and serenity—and then there’s Dan.
“I HAVE A FUCKING BRANCH ON FIRE! I’m not Daniel! I AM HARRY POTTER!”
i don’t know what makes me laugh more the comment or the photo.
I AM THE GOBLET OF FIRE!!
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Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are often countered in fandom by sociological or scientific analyses attempting to explain why the inequality happens according to the internal logic of the fictional world. As though there is any real reason that anything happens in a story except that someone chose to write it that way.
Fiction is not Darwinian: It contains no impartial process of evolution that dispassionately produces the events of a fictional universe. Fiction is miraculously, fundamentally Creationist. When we make worlds, we become gods. And gods are responsible for the things they create, particularly when they create them in their own image.
"Laura Hudson writes about the shortage of women characters in Star Wars fore Wired.com in her article “Leia is not enough: Star Wars and the woman problem in Hollywood.”
“Science fiction in particular has always offered a vision of the world not myopically limited by the world as it exists, but liberated by the power of imagination. Perhaps more than any genre of storytelling, it has no excuse to exclude women for so-called practical reasons — especially when it has every reason to imagine a world where they are just as heroic, exceptional, and well-represented as men.”
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THIS IS A CORRECT THING
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I saw a quote by Laura Hudson earlier about the general bullshittery of, in particular, science fiction authors’ attempts to justify the absence of women in their books/films/etc. I write science fiction, and Laura Hudson is cool news, so I read the whole thing and lo, it was good.
At eighteen I
this!
To Laura Murphy, the mother fighting to allow parents to opt their children out of reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved, due to its graphic content:
I’m glad Beloved gave your son nightmares.
You’re waging a campaign against Beloved’s “scenes of bestiality, gang rape and an infant’s gruesome murder”, content you believe is too intense for teenagers, after your son Blake reported having night terrors after reading the book. You wrote into theWashington Post todayto defend your efforts. You’re not a crazy book-burner, you say. You just want parents to have choices over whether their children are exposed to graphic content at school. Your son Blake is now a 19-year-old college freshman and he’s still disturbed about reading Beloved.
“It was disgusting and gross,” he says. “It was hard for me to handle. I gave up on it.”
Here’s the problem, Laura and Blake. Beloved is not disgusting and gross—it’s a beautifully-written novel. The content in Beloved is disgusting and gross, because slavery is disgusting and gross. Slavery is horrific, and Blake, I’m glad that having to spend a few hours in a book and imagining the horrors of slavery was such a visceral experience, it gave you nightmares.
That’s exactly why you should be reading this book.
I hope all the little white children of America have nightmares after reading Beloved. I hope they’re sickened when they imagine the treatment of slaves. I hope they’re disgusted when they think about the legacy of slavery in this country, how people are still suffering from it, how they benefit from all the bloodshed. I hope Blake Murphy remembers those nightmares when someone puts a gun in his hand and calls him officer, when someone puts a briefcase in his hand and calls him boss, when someone puts a gavel in his hand and calls him judge. I hope Blake Murphy will always be disturbed byBeloved. He should be.
The least your child can do, before growing up into his privileged white manhood, is spend a few hours between the covers of a book, imagining himself in the shoes of people struggling to recover from one of the most traumatic, violent, disturbing, and horrific eras of human history.
Because Laura, all the little black children of America have to learn to live with the legacy of slavery and its effects on their lives. We understand that slavery is disgusting and gross, hard for us to handle. But it’s not a book that we can put down and walk away from.
Happy birthday author Toni Morrison (February 18)
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“One male poet approached me after a performance and said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but do you ever write about anything other than the struggles of women?” I replied, “I don’t mean to be rude, but take your finger off the trigger and I’ll stop.” After all, who among us ever wanted to speak about these things? What little girl dreams of growing up to write ‘rape poems?’ About violence? About the muffled voices of women worldwide?” -Andrea Gibson
No one ever asks men why they write books, movies, games, TV shows, laws, text books, entire genres of media (games) without any female input or any females at all. It’s only a problem when women do it.
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