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miriam adeney

I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.

the thing about the black sails finale is that dead/alive is a false dichotomy, which is why there lingers this need to vote for a secret third thing. it has roots in the same false dichotomy of victim/perpetrator that silver cannot get himself out of, that eleanor cannot get herself out of, that silver tries to put madi into, that max understands and weaponizes, that vane crawls out of at his very end. the answer is that james escapes the narrative, or rather the narrative can no longer contain him. the question of james flint or james mcgraw is a false dichotomy that can no longer contain him. he becomes the secret third thing, or is becoming it, in season four. he is unmade because he is removed. as far as the story is concerned, he is dead, because the storyteller can no longer conceive of what he has become.

the thing about schrodinger's flint is that if the storyteller could look at him, he'd be dead or alive. silver refuses to look. silver, who refuses to allow himself to be seen. whereas the other characters were drawn to the empire's first tool, violence, silver chose its second, erasure. he has erased his past so that empire could not touch him, is it any surprise that his instinct is to erase his present/future in madi/flint as well?

— Federico Fellini

Moon Cycle 2 - a redraw of this piece.

singular meaning without stopping for any reason

feel free to add what the flight was!

Imagine going to the theater and seeing this fucking legend posing by the concessions stand.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs but it’s all labeled people laughing at my jokes

now i am become jug, the bringer of head

Dragon friend!

this slaps honestly

Me, calling in to my shift supervisor: Gooooooood morning! Are we ready for another super splendiferous day with the public?! 😀

Her: That is too much energy

Me: It iiiiiis fake!! 😀

Her: Still too much energy

Did you just know this

I don't have to agree with everyone I build coalitions with on every issue. The point is that I share space or community with them, and they share with me, and we agree to build solidarity with one another despite our disagreements.

This is why I often argue with people I like and respect--and why I take care to note that I like and respect them as human beings even when we conflict. I have done some of my best organizing with people I disagree with, sometimes vehemently, on a number of political points. The organizing works nevertheless because the bonds of respect, and affirmation of the many points upon which we do agree, keeps our working relationship strong.

(I also often ally or advocate with people I don't necessarily like on a personal level. That's fine. I don't need to like someone personally to do good work with them. I just need them to respect me and for their work to be worthy of respect.)

Fav line from the movie

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this guy can’t even read what is he doing

Teaching him to read. How else will he learn?