I’ve been liveblogging my family Christmas

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I’ve been liveblogging my family Christmas Experience on Twitter because the app is easier to use and it keeps me brief. Some of y’all have noticed. I’m having a great time, I don’t know if that’s coming across. 

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The threading tool keeps breaking, or I get lost and forget where I was and break the threads, or something, but. Anyway. I liveblogged the trip down, and am trying to do a thread during all the main events. Mostly because I’m not having the same depression problems as I did last year, but I am forgetful and brainfoggy as shit, and I want some record of what I’m doing. Also my family is hilarious and my attempts to describe it are never adequate. Maybe with some of the specifics recorded, I can explain it better.

If nothing else, I’m just having a good time and am so happy with these people in this place at this time, so. I genuinely don’t know if I’m conveying it but it’s just so nice to be with all of my sisters. I got to go to Wal-Mart (shudder) at 7:15 am with my oldest sister, and actually ask her how her life was going. I’ve spoken to her so rarely, I barely know her as an adult, but she and I are the closest in age of any of the siblings and I was so close to her as a child, and I just– I miss her, almost all the time, and it’s nice to get to catch up at least a little.

Tomorrow there’s a Christmas pageant and i get to wrap all my gifts last-minute, so. It oughta be good.

And like. 

We’re a good time.
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We’ve got dual-wield moms on the pancake range.

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We’ve got dual-wield moms on the pancake range. (at Baltimore County, Maryland)
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The thing about Persuasion that just kills me is that the central premise— “I hope the person who broke my heart has a miserable life and I get to watch them be humiliated while I get everything I ever wanted” is so universal.

But Wentworth is only able to fully enjoy it for like A DAY before he starts realizing how terrible it is. He watches Anne suffer in silence and he hates it. He watches her being treated like an inconvenience and a joke and a piece of furniture and he hates it. He hears sneering comments at her expense and he hates it. He spends evening after evening in her company, where he is celebrated as a handsome, dashing hero while she is shoved to the side and ignored and he hates it.

He probably spent a lot of heartbroken hours out on the sea wishing revenge on her (like ten years’ worth), but then he gets to see it happening and revenge turns out not to be that sweet after all. He probably thought “I hope she never gets married to anyone else and she has to spend the rest of her miserable life with her miserable family, listening to them talk about nothing and regretting ever letting me go.” But then he has to watch her live through it, and it is just excruciating. Watching her bite her tongue. Watching her keep her eyes down on her clasped hands. Watching her silently accept everything as if she deserves it.

He’s like, “YES, it’s all HAPPENING! She’s all ALONE and PALE and OLD and…sad. And her family treats her terribly, and she’s— no one is talking to her. No one even knows that she’s funny and smart, they just— they just make her sit in the corner. She’s hardly eating anything. And she really isn’t that old, but they are acting like she’s dead? Her family is even worse than they used to be, how is that even possible? Why isn’t anyone helping her? Why is she the only person taking care of anyone? Why isn’t anyone taking care of her?”

And his nasty “she’s so altered I should not have known her again” comment that he KNOWS got back to her starts ringing in his ears. And his cocky “yeah I’m just here to find a YOUNG, HOT girl to marry now that I’m SUCH A CATCH, whatevs” approach starts to make him feel queasy, because she’s HELPING, she’s trying to stay out of his way and help him pick a young wife, and she hardly ever smiles anymore, not really. He watches her slip out of rooms when he enters them and he hears her laughing with her nephew sometimes but then go quiet when anyone else approaches, and he doesn’t know what to do.Anyway, every fandom has a bunch of Pride and Prejudice AUs, but I WANT PERSUASION AUS. I NEED THEM. I NEED THEM. 

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am
too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself
to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke
it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner
than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but
you.

A Persuasion AU would work really well in Raksuran court, you guys. I’m just saying.

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Tiny Marilyn Monroe vs. heat vent (at Baltimore County,...

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Idk ultimately after a while I feel like treating star wars as a bastion of antifash w/e is pointless because you’re just depending on corporations to tell a story of resistance which like…that’s a fucking paradox man, they’re not going to do that. It’s just people projecting ideologies on to these corporatized entities - and sometimes there’s depth to it and sometimes there isn’t - and that’s not something that’s going to get you anything meaningful in the long run. Like, big corporations are not your friend. You want stories about resistance, delve into smaller scale publishing and media production. Delve into media produced outside of the US Hollywood system. Colonialism has had the one useful (sarcasm) benefit of making English a common enough lingua franca outside the anglo saxon world that there are non-anglo Saxon writers writing in English. And translations involve slippage but my god, read, I beg you, read outside the anglo-saxon sphere. As long as you remain inside that sphere of cultural consumption, you are going to get, one way or the other, stories that reinforce a certain ideology and hegemony unless you delve into genuinely alternate publishing/media production.
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