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Well, congrats! You’ve found your way to the SPN “speed” watch masterpost, which is written by someone who hadn’t seen a single episode of this show until 2018. This is important, because it means I’ve watched this whole show in very recent memory, and also don’t have any baggage left over from the 2012-13 SPN heyday, because somehow I managed to remain blissfully unaware of the peak cringe fandom days while they were happening.
i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return
as many have noted, this 11-hour-old post is an incomplete list. the situation on the ground continues to rapidly evolve: harvard set up an encampment despite the ban; UT austin students are getting brutally assaulted by the police, prompting faculty to declare the first university-wide strike
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they had an issue last week with itch.io so they had to postpone opening for a few days but for those who wanted to d/ona/te it's here!
stole this from natalie but i can NOT stop staring at this screencap like......
sam: rip cassiel 🙏 sucks to be you i guess 😔
dean: i literally wish i was dead
jack: this is NOT mcdonalds
Update Harvard students are walking out in solidarity with Columbia’s students
These are billion dollar for profit institutions that directly impact financial backing of Israel’s apartheid regime
MIT is walking out! Do you not understand how huge this is? Do you understand what holds Israel afloat?
In solidarity with Columbia Yale students have just constructed an encampment. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.
I see a child run out in front of this car and I throw a black lace shawl over their shoulders, saving their life
I've seen several sites mention this, it's real.
Do not make the MISTAKE of thinking you need to put your side forward. The Guardian is transphobic as fuck, and will twist your words. DO NOT ENGAGE.
By the way, this is in the aftermath of the Cass Report, and the goal will be to make Trans DIY something that needs to be regulated or stamped out. DO NOT ENGAGE.
[Image Description: A 4chan post titled, in all caps: "Urgent - UK anons - Important". The rest reads: The Guardian are prepping a story on DIY HRT and are looking to interview trans people for it. They are particularly snooping around for under-18s on DIY to lure into interviewing. Needless to say, DO NOT ENGAGE. You all know that here but we need to spread this warning (and why) to every social circle, support group, org etc. in the country. This news needs to be endemic across the UK trans community. We cannot let this become a thing, coming straight after Cass DIY entering the national conversation will become something they won't let go of like they have done previous times. If they get even one trans person to take part, especially a teen, it becomes a big enough story to hit the headlines and be taken the requisite notice of. Drop what you're doing and spread this warning to every trans person or organiser you know, no matter how libshit or cringe, NOW. We can't have some gullible patsy spill the details on e.g. homebrew to the press. Also, order raws NOW. End ID]
the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible
despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)
thank you so much alexa @shivsblunt for mentioning it…..anyone who wants to contribute to their jail support fund can do so @ bcabolitioncollective on v*nmo. also, if anyone is in the area and available to join (via cssw4palestine on ig):
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Info for if you aren't in the area: Image 4 from this post on Instagram,
Text from the image: [We demand full amnesty for all students disciplined for their involvement in the encampment or the movement for palestinian liberation.
v_nmo @/bcabolitioncollective, call columbia public safety at 2128542797 and the president's office at 2128549970, and demand they drop all charged against peaceful protestors.
contact: cuapartheidivest@gmail.com]
shit like this should be radicalizing people
I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...
...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)
This really ought to top every, “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.
The fact that almost no one alive has read Sayers’ Gaudy Night is a tragedy.
It’s so relevant to today. The social discomfort with women seeking advancement. The genial, “we need more of that sort of thing!” attitude towards Actual Hitler. It was published in ‘38, so you get these peeks into the attitudes of the commons at the time and it’s just astonishing how truly modern this book feels.
Dorothy L Sayers was a phenomenal author, but also an incisive critic of her society.
Come for the murder and witticisms. Stay for the romance. Be haunted by a contemporary author’s insight into Britain on the cusp of joining in or fighting the rising fascist threat.
Almost no one alive??
Dozens!
Fr there’s a moment in Gaudy Night when Harriet returns to the (women’s) college and passes by a couple night porters and one of them says something about how useless it is that all the wimmen are wasting their time and money getting educated and then the other fellow says something to the effect of “What we need here is a chap like those German’s Hitler. He’d straighten out these gels.”
And that haunts me.
Did Sayers hear that line IRL? Probably not, but she likely heard the sentiment repeated both in conversation and in print. Facism was *cool*. They had neat clothes, and fit young men, and summer camps! They had optimized trains! They were scientifically advancing society for the betterment of all!
The first book in the Wimsey series has Lord Peter encountering not just bald-faced anti-semitism, so common as to be wholly unremarkable by the entirety of the cast (if not the narrative), but also entire charitable societies based on eugenically cleansing the populace to create a Better Britain. They’re handing out pamphlets and hosting fundraisers in Polite Society!
We have so romanticized the Good vs Evil narrative of WWII that we have largely forgotten that the distance between Us and Them was a matter of millimeters, not miles. The portions of the populace of both the UK and the States that favored the Germans was, like, REALLY HIGH, you guys. There’s a reason why Chamberlain tried appeasement, why FDR chose isolationism. Because everyone thought that well, you know. Those guys over there? They’ve got A Point.
The Lord Peter Wimsey novels are hilarious. They’re charming. The mysteries are delightful and something I, at least, was genuinely caught wrong-footed on multiple times. The romance between Peter and Harriet is swoon-worthy. Bunter is my gold standard for the valet/assistant. The insight into the way she’ll shock aka PTSD was viewed at the time is frankly fascinating and nuanced.
But these books’ real staying power, for me, is how deftly Sayers captures and critiques her society and her world in these mysteries. I didn’t walk away from a single one without feeling like I’d just been transported into a specific period of time and been exposed to sentiments that are are once familiar and foreign.
I devoured these books during the dark ages (aka ‘20-‘21) and I am still thinking about them weekly three years on. Everyone knows Christie and Doyle, Higgins Clark and Grisham, but almost no one (except @amarguerite) knows Sayers. No one told me about Sayers, even my avid mystery reading people. And that makes me sad. I have yet been able to convince any of my IRL people to pick up Whose Body?, the first book in the series.
Anyway. Read Dorothy L Sayers, everyone. Reread it. Listen to the audiobooks. Tell Your Friends.
(Also, read Connie Willis but especially The Doomsday Book if you want to see some fascinating predictions as to the way a modern pandemic would affect society, only written decades before COVID was a twinkle in SARS’ eye. Another dark ages read that had me repeatedly referencing the title page to verify its publication date.)
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the homoerotic girlbestfriend situationship CAN and WILL kill you
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