fast and the furious franchise like
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“I like the new model of the reader I see online: the girl as ecstatic and promiscuous reader, both craving the radical thrust and the sentiment. And their authorship has as its dominating ethos homage and plagiarism (how Kathy Acker would have loved these Tumblrs).
And in this subsubcommunity of literary blogs I’ve come into contact with through [my own blog], many of us also read and write like girls. It is perhaps not ‘serious’ criticism, but intensely personal and emotional. A new sort of subjectivity is developing online - vulnerable, desirous, well-versed in both pop culture and contemporary writing and our literary ancestors. We write in public (our blogs, on our Tumblrs, in comments sections on other’s blogs, on Facebook) a new glib, casual, entirely feminine form of criticism that takes the form at times of heroine-worship. A fan fiction. We read, intensely and emotionally, like Emma Bovaries. We read like girls, often prone to passion and superlatives - passing around books like love letters in the mail. These spaces operate as safe havens to be all sorts of identities at once, to be excessive, to feel and desire deeply.“
- Kate Zambreno, Heroines, 2012
^ Harry Potter telling me how to make friends. Gonna sick trolls on some muthafuckers.
This is one of my all time favorite lines.
from Why We Shouldn’t Sugarcoat YA (via bookriot)
This is a great post.
I, too, know the science of building men Out of fragments in little light Where I’ll be damned if lightning don’t
Strike as I forget one May have a thief’s thumb,
Another, a murderer’s arm, And watch the men I’ve made leave Like an idea I meant to write down,
Like a vehicle stuck In reverse, like the monster
God came to know the moment Adam named animals and claimed Eve, turning from heaven to her
As if she was his To run. No word he said could be tamed.
No science. No design. Nothing taken Gently into his hand or your hand or mine, Nothing we erect is our own.
Jennifer Lawrence leaving the Dior office in New York City on March 21, 2015.
At first glance I thought this was young Hillary Clinton but in the present. Anyway I am here for that biopic.
Okay, I had this major realization reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last night. Harry, Voldemort and Snape represent the Three Brothers from The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
[ I ] Voldemort being the one who wanted the wand to defeat anyone that could bring death to him. [ I ]
[ O ] Snape being the one who wanted to rejoin his long lost love. [ O ]
[ ∆ ] And Harry being the one who greeted death as his friend. [ ∆ ]
So I’ve only read Deathly Hallows like three or four times now, but it’s been awhile. So my mind promptly exploded. There are of course numerous things that the three have in common as well.
Don’t we love literature? And don’t we love Harry Potter? And J. K. Rowling?
Love this. The Deathlt Hallows is the most amazing book.
harry potter au where dumbledore is replaced by ron swanson
“Son, did you or did you not place your name in this stupid fire cup?”
This is a great point--I see this phrase all the time and sometimes it's meant to sound progressive or inclusive when it is really the opposite.
hellooo, i saw your post where you said "historical accuracy = no creator accountability" and it was smthg you said you always referred to--can you please expand or point me to your other posts? i'd like to understand more about this! thanks :D
So, say someone makes a show set in Victorian London. There are no characters of color on the show.
Someone watches the show and says, “Hey, why is everyone on this show white?”
The creators of the show, rather than accepting responsibility for 1. choosing the setting of the show in the first place or 2. their own casting choices, say, “Hey! That’s just historically accurate, there WERE no PoC ‘back then’!!”
Basically, it’s about trying to pass the buck onto “history” for creative choices they made. Like: “OH, I didn’t WANT to exclude anyone, but I HAVE to be loyal and accurate to the true history!”
And everyone just accepts that as if it’s true, and as if that is a good reason to make a show that consists entirely of white people.
This is about dodging accountability in that they chose a setting they assumed would have only white people in it, and then made that true. And that has happened so many times that the myth just keeps perpetuating itself. Rather than consulting actual history or demographics, they base this idea on TV shows, books and movies that have already recreated some version of “Victorian London” that contains nothing but white citizens (in much the same way the citizens of supposed “New York City” in countless sitcoms are inexplicably white); media from ten years ago, 20 years, 50 years, and so on.
That establishes the context. Now, the facts.
A glimpse into the lives of the thousands of Africans living in eighteenth century London.
The UCL Equiano Centre has an Interactive Map with information about various Black Londoners 1800-1900.
Photograph of John Archer, Mayor of Battersea, South London. England, 1913
When he was elected Mayor of Battersea, John replied to press speculation about where he might have come from with the remark that he had been born - “in a little obscure village in England probably never heard of until now - the city of Liverpool”. He went on to declare - “I am a Lancastrian bred and born”.
Characteristically pugnacious, but he had been stung by reports which, guessing wildly, said that he had been born in Rangoon or somewhere in India. He was actually part of the already well-established black population in Liverpool.
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta, goddaughter to Queen Victoria herself.
London is and was a vastly multicultural and diverse city. Even before the 1800s and photography, surviving artworks depict a massively diverse populace:
Here’s a link to the British Library’s resources on people of Asian descent living in Britain. The history of the Chinese community in London goes back for centuries.
You also have:
Sailors of South Asian origin (known as Lascars) based out of London, for the most part:
I could keep going.
But the point I’m making here is that claiming your whitewashed media is somehow “historically accurate” is total bunk.
If someone creates something that has nothing but white characters, it is that way because they CHOSE to make it that way. There is every opportunity and every reason to create media with characters of color in it, and trying to blame history for whitewashing is about dodging accountability.
lots of links to chew on
Someone write me an epic fantasy about the Mayor of Battersea, please.
Linh Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
This is so beautiful and awesome
why is there not an enormous fandom on tumblr for the graceling books
i promise you tumblr they are everything you’ve ever wanted
engaging rad ya fantasy that is also the most feminist, progressive fantasy ever
they have girls who are physically bad-ass, girls who are mentally bad-ass, girls who are weak until other girls teach them to be bad-ass
girls can be respected soldiers, super-pretty queens, military leaders, whatever they fucking want
there are girls who never want to get married and girls who desperately want babies and everybody has access to birth control
boys who are rude and complain about the friend-zone get trampled upon
boys who are awesome and let girls be heroes become fabulous heroes alongside their ladies
there are canon queer people running around being canonically queer and no one gives a fuck
there are people having safe, realistic sex with other people and no one gives a fuck
a lot of thematic messages about being your own person and not letting your past or the legacy of your parents own your life
LITERALLY WHY ARE YOU NOT ALL CELEBRATING THIS
Books are reborn each time a new person reads it. Every reader opinion is equally valid. The writer does not get to tell them how to read.
doodling the girls from the lunar chronicles
I am no expert on decision-making. I balk and second-guess, and my brain is very good at making detailed maps of worst-case scenarios. Leaving the life I knew for something else was frightening and disorienting, which is exactly as it should be. But on the other side of those fears and confusions, once the dark clouds of question marks gave way, slowly but surely, I found fresh challenges and rich satisfaction in learning to use my hands to build. In making the leap, I learned to trust the voices inside that urge for change, to listen and respect the gut-sense. This summer, in the midst of building an 800-square-foot deck, working hard in the sun, chopping boards of Black Locust which had been milled only a few days before, I stepped back in disbelief. I never would’ve expected this to be my life, and I am so glad that it is.
- carpentrix in Cosmo!
Come meet Nina and hear stories and meet and eat and drink at housingworksbookstore on Thursday, March 26th!