if you have a salary job making 70k or more a year then make friends with a couple of trans people online who are busting their asses to barely eat and send them 10 or so dollars here there please please please together we can make difference
Part of me assumes that if the draft comes back (it won't) that "no transes in the military" will turn into "all transes must be drafted, then forcibly detransitioned in the barracks"
Imagining Madalithea getting pushed out of a window and bouncing down the street but when it cuts to her perspective it's all in slow-motion and everything is sparkly because to her this is actually the purest form of bliss
Not a book that's good for reading while I'm kinda sick and feeling unaccomplished lol
You know I think this is a good place to stop, I'm going to go think about my life now
Ah, well, crying now
And so the circle of mommy issues continues unabated
I choose to interpret this as Mada having a snuff kink and tbh I'm not even sure that I'm wrong. Holy hell. Everything makes sense now.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OKAY
There's gonna be a subplot in book 3 where Adrastus finds out that Madalithea has sex with men and has to overcome his sudden revulsion towards the whole concept.
Ah yep okay there's the Mada I know
And then I skimmed a bunch of pages
The whole "lets be more accurate to ancient greek by mostly spelling things with a k" thing works fantastically right until someone drops the word "kannabis" and I feel like I've been punched in the vagina
Oh no Elysium really is a dystopia, it's got *cars* in it
I can't believe I wasn't given a CW for all this heterosexuality happening.
Whaaaaaaat the fuck is going on with the POV
Once again becoming extremely conscious of the fact that I can't write poetry for shit
Oh wait that's genuinely interesting, that that sense of immediate telepresence isn't something limited to Persephone and her ilk. I suppose it follows that anyone with an implant could be network connected
A SECOND MAN HAS STRUCK THE FRANCHISE, I REPEAT WE HAVE A SECOND MAN
You're telling me, having already experienced PE!Mada, Elysium's most pathetic creature, that this girl has asthma too???
Starting off with some lore, as we learn that slavery is a spectrum in Elysium...
Welp, I didn't fall asleep until 2 AM last night, I'm behind on basically every task... so let's start a Flower of the Underworld liveread thread! No I have not read it before, yes that is a massive failure on my part.
She’s been blue-green this whole time???
Fuuuuuuuck I need to go read Ulysses.
GIVE ME MONEY NOW PATREON IS IN THE PINNED
Fun fact, the class I'm TA-ing for is all about energy infrastructure. We had a homework question about a month ago that was "what is the price of a barrel of oil right now".
I was marking wrong anybody who responded above $70 a barrel without linking a specific source to back it up. Lmao.
...menstruating women be considered creatures preeminently of mind?"
Like... no, you fucking idiot! Your constant affiliating of womanhood with bodily functions is a product of the very misogynistic duality you proclaim to be against! Stop naturalizing these so-called gendered differences!
"The body--so bright and cared for and prized in Homer--was viewed by the followers of Plato and Pythagoras as a prison or tomb. The resulting body-soul or mind-body dualism readily lent itself, in the generations following, to misogyny, for how could eternally pregnant, lactating, and...
So many reversals of cause and effect. Mind-body dualism did not neutrally identify women as the "bodily" gender and then coincidentally dismiss us, women were assigned the role of being "bodily" because that was how patriarchy could dismiss us from the role of sapient beings!
Finished that book of feminist literary analysis. It was... good in some places, but so profoundly limited in others. Completely incapable of imagining womanhood outside of the bounds of motherhood and heterosexuality, just putting forward that these things should be more valued and egalitarian.
