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johannesviii · 2 years

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History 101

Some highlights of the last EDA I’ve read (The Crooked World).

I took these screens while reading, along with my reactions. As usual, this is full of spoilers.

I really like the ideas in this book, and any kind of summary I could make of it would sound incredibly creative and exciting. Except it took me eight months to read it. I’m still not entirely sure why. The regulars were either a bit muted (Eight) or pretty good (Fitz and Anji), but the plot dragged a bit in the middle, and the ending is kind of underwhelming, even if it’s okay.

Maybe the book is too dry for my taste? 6/10

Oh, so this book features Miles' self-insert character uh I mean Sabbath

Well that’s just rude

There’s so much to unpack here

Loving the description

Ohhhhh they are in Paris!

But also in 1937! Please leave soon! You’re welcome!

Yeaaaah admittedly you didn't pick the best era to relax

And now for something completely different

Yeah this is all very something

That's what a good musical cover is

Are Absolutes just as deluded as Time Lords about non-interference or-

How boring of you

Eternal reminder that I love Fitz

Now you see me now you don’t

So you're visiting all the least interesting things in Paris got it

Are you gonna kill the guy like Griffin from Unnatural History probably would

Are

Are you an equivalent of Griffin but with the concept of subjective experience

Eight, accidental art collector

Glad this is finally addressed

Also:

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[disappointed Fitz noises]

I shouldn’t laugh

Meanwhile this poor guy is being uploaded by the Absolute

RIP him I guess but I love the imagery

Stop it

Shit. You know... I hadn't even considered the fact that Fitz was technically already alive in 1937

BAD IDEA BAD IDEA BAD IDEA

Anji is concerned Eight is going to forget Fitz again

Don’t we all

Damn right

Meanwhile the Absolute is looking at humans like humans look at deep sea fish exploding when pulled out of the water

Hang on is this going to be another 'I love Anji' book

Are you running a program to debug space & time now

I like the 'history is subjective' angle of this book but it's starting to drag a bit

Has Fitz found a friend?

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UNPROVOKED ATTACK

Everything turned out better than expected

Real talk, none of this should be this boring

Also real talk, this shouldn't be that surprising to you, Anji

So far I'm only invested in the tension between Fitz and that Sasha guy

HAHAHA is he wrong though

I knew this book was being suspiciously nice to Eight so far

“UNNERVING” IS THE WORD

Well, thank you for this disturbing thought I guess

Why is this cute. Why is any of this cute

YOU ARE FRIENDS NOW I DON’T MAKE THE RULES

FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS

Jueves stop flirting with Anji please

How rude of them

We often think of historical events as big noisy things but depending on the observer they can either be terrifying or strangely mundane, really

TIME FOR SOME WAR CRIMES

You had one job, Eleana

You had one job

This is all very Fires of Pompeii

Anji fumbling with a rifle is weirdly endearing

I mean, Eleana isn't wrong, that *is* dangerous

This is getting confusing

“brothers” yeah sure

I’m not gonna lie I’m way too invested in these two idiots on a roadtrip through war-torn Spain

Why am I getting emotional

Kinda cool, but to be honest I’m still staring at the pages numbers as if I was looking at my watch

Yeah Fitz is like a bad penny

I love them your honor I don’t want them to ever be separated

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is giving me bad flashbacks from back when I occasionally slept outside

Why am I so emotional about this

YESSSSSSSSSS SASHA IS BACK

Meanwhile the TARDIS is still feeling sick

Yes we've known that for about 90 pages now can you please pick up the pace

I mean-

Of course I’m glad he’s back but I’ll miss his dynamic with Sasha

We know please hurry up with that plot

Why is this cute

Oh ok the dude is working for Sabbath

Still like him though

Hi what does any of that mean

Oh no

WAIT WAIT WAIT

STOP STOP HANG ON

FITZ AND JUEVES?

WAIT ARE JUEVES AND SASHA THE SAME GUY

Things are finally happening, at least

NO THEY ARE NOT

Usually I would be alarmed but I'm just happy something's happening

Hi hello what the fuck just happened

At least that was interesting?

Well here's proof I'm still not over Interference 2

For once it's Anji who's in a cell

Has

Has Fitz just admitted he slept in the Doctor's room at least one time while the guy wasn't there

Not gonna lie I feel sorry for this guy

Aw Fitz is concerned he'll never play the guitar again

Must be a Tuesday

How very Picasso of you, Absolute

Yeah they’re definitely the same guy holy shit

I wouldn't do that if I were you

Stop making me emotional for the guy who's working for Sabbath

YESSSSSSSS THEY’RE REUNITED AND HE’S GONNA GET HIM OUT OF DANGER

They tug on all my very specific heartstrings, like “falling asleep in a dumb place because you trust the other person to keep you safe” previously or “gently inspecting wounds” like here

I’m feeling emotions

Stop being cute

So it IS very Fires of Pompeii actually

WHY AM I LOW-KEY SHIPPING IT

Great nightmare fuel, thank you for that

Come on, don't make me think of better books

Now Eight is having a casual chat with Cubist Nightmare Man

A very cool visual

Again, very cool!

Of course. Where else

Interesting how the Doctor is technically perceived like a monster by this entity

But again this is kinda reminiscent of Griffin

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Okay that was incredibly weird and cool

No idea how it worked though

Hi hello yes if he really is a double agent I'm gonna murder this guy

Ok no that’s a bit cheap

Eight, historical anarchist

GOOD

It's not like the other option is much better Anji

Ok this situation is pretty fun

Fitz is getting rather genre savvy now

Anji is mostly shrugging off all this weirdness

Great, now you can make terrible plans together

Hi Sabbath, fancy seeing you here, can you please give him back his second heart

Your 'chap' was my favorite thing in this story. Get out of here

Great but. Like. Can we leave now

Wait, here’s that motif of the eye in the sky from Henrietta Street again?

Please don’t do that

Godspeed Mags L Halliday

#history 101 #doctor who #eighth doctor #fitz kreiner #anji kapoor #edas #eighth doctor adventures #An EDA liveblog full of useless comments #long post

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linesinyourpalm · 2 years

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i was looking through my annotations of Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and found this snippet of a one of my messy lil annotations inside ! “Believe me, I still think that living a new year every year is still a poetic thing worth celebrating, but the medias glamorization of specific ages and periods has totally created heightened multi generational unrealistic expectations and desires”

i wrote that annotation maybe a year ago and i was using a lot of unnecessary big words just to say:

“people throughout time will always have unrealistic expectations for what others will or should experience, and i guess that’s just a part of living”

#i always feel so annoying when i try to think of a lil concept or critique in my head but i can’t seem to simplify it down in the moment #because then it still is hard to make sense of AND i wrote it?? huffing and puffing #like yea no shit babe people create illusions with time #history 101 #but maybe i’m just too hard on myself #i don’t really know #m

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eightdoctor · 6 months

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i remember seeing something about mags l halliday’s annotations for history 101 (on here? maybe???)… does anyone have a copy of that xoxo

#oh please !#eightdoctors eighth doctor adventure adventures #edas #history 101 #eighth doctor

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racefortheironthrone · 1 year

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Hi- er, this is my first-ever writer's strike, how does one not cross a picket line in this context? I know how not to do it with things like Amazon and IRL strikes, but how does it apply to media/streaming?

Hi, this is a great question, because it allows me to write about the difference between honoring a picket line and a boycott. (This is reminding me of the labor history podcast project that's lain fallow in my drafts folder for some time now...) In its simplest formulation, the difference between a picket line and a boycott is that a picket line targets an employer at the point of production (which involves us as workers), whereas a boycott targets an employer at the point of consumption (which involves us as consumers).

So in the case of the WGA strike, this means that at any company that is being struck by the WGA - I've seen Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Warner Brothers Discovery, NBC, Paramount, and Sony mentioned, but there may be more (check the WGA website and social media for a comprehensive list) - you do not cross a picket line, whether physical or virtual. This means you do not take a meeting with them, even if its a pre-existing project, you do not take phone calls or texts or emails or Slacks from their executives, you do not pitch them on a spec script you've written, and most of all you do not answer any job application.

Because if this strike is like any strike since the dawn of time, you will see the employers put out ads for short-term contracts that will be very lucrative, generally above union scale - because what they're paying for in addition to your labor is you breaking the picket line and damaging the strike - to anyone willing to scab against their fellow workers. GIven that one of the main issues of the WGA are the proliferation of short-term "mini rooms" whereby employers are hiring teams of writers to work overtime for a very short period, to the point where they can only really do the basics (a series outline, some "broken stories," and some scripts) and then have the showrunner redo everything on their lonesome, while not paying writers long-term pay and benefits, I would imagine we're going to see a lot of scab contracts being offered for these mini rooms.

But for most of us, unless we're actively working as writers in Hollywood, most of that isn't going to be particularly relevant to our day-to-day working lives. If you're not a professional or aspiring Hollywood writer, the important thing to remember honoring the picket line doesn't mean the same thing as a boycott. WGA West hasn't called on anyone to stop going to the movies or watching tv/streaming or to cancel their streaming subscriptions or anything like that. If and when that happens, WGA will go to some lengths to publicize that ask - and you should absolutely honor it if you can - so there will be little in the way of ambiguity as to what's going on.

That being said, one of the things that has happened in the past in other strikes is that well-intentioned people get it into their heads to essentially declare wildcat (i.e, unofficial and unsanctioned) boycotts. This kind of stuff comes from a good place, someone wanting to do more to support the cause and wanting to avoid morally contaminating themselves by associating with a struck company, but it can have negative effects on the workers and their unions. Wildcat boycotts can harm workers by reducing back-end pay and benefits they get from shows if that stuff is tied to the show's performance, and wildcat boycotts can hurt unions by damaging negotiations with employers that may or may not be going on.

The important thing to remember with all of this is that the strike is about them, not us. Part of being a good ally is remembering to let the workers' voices be heard first and prioritizing being a good listener and following their lead, rather than prioritizing our feelings.

#labor #unions #wga strike #labor history #labor 101 #boycotts

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cy-cyborg · 2 months

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The Jaws Effect and what it means for media representation

The Jaws Effect is the name of a phenomenon that described the panic and fear that sprang up around sharks, fuelled by Steven Spielberg's movie, Jaws. While the fear of sharks and other marine predators had always been a thing, Jaws launched the fear of sharks, and Great White Sharks in particular, to new (and mostly unfounded) heights. Most people will never encounter a real-life shark and so their only knowledge about the creatures come from movies and other forms of entertainment. Entertainment that largely portrayed them as mindless, unfeeling killing machines. After Jaws, sharks became a staple in the creature-feature genre of movies, which only perpetuated the idea of sharks as dangerous monsters even further, reigniting and reconfirming the beliefs the public held about them in the process. These ideas about sharks are, of course, not true, but the misconception and fear has had a real, observable impacts on shark populations, shark conservation efforts and even laws and legislations surrounding sharks and shark conservation around the world.

Ok but Cy, this is a blog about disability and disabled representation, what do sharks have to do with anything you talk about? Well, Because The Jaws Effect is just one of many examples that shows how massive of an impact representation in the media can have, for better or for worse, especially when talking about subjects the public generally knows very little about.

This conversation is not unique to disability representation, nearly every person I've seen who's talked about how to write and design characters from any minority brings it up eventually, but the media we consume, the movies we watch, the books we read can all have big impacts on people's perceptions on those topics. When talking about disability specifically, it's an unfortunate reality that not many people know all that much about us, and so, much like sharks, for many, their only real exposure to disabled people is through the media they consume.

If you don't know anyone in a wheelchair, and your only knowledge of life as a wheelchair user comes from books and movies like Me Before You, of course you're going to (spoiler) come away thinking that life in a wheelchair is horrible and death is better than living like that. If you don't know any DID Systems and your only exposure to a condition like that is through movies like Split (and honestly, a number of other horror movies and crime shows) of course you'll think people with DID are unstable monsters who could become violent any moment. If your only exposure to autistic people is Music, then it's not shocking that you might think Autistic people are "trapped in their own minds," completely unaware of the world around them and lacking any kind of agency. As much as I'd like to be able to say these are "just movies" or "just books," and that if we don't like them, we can just not watch them, they all had an impact on the real world and real people's perceptions of the disabilities they depicted, as do the many, many smaller examples of bad representation.

This is why I personally spend so much time focused on the portrayal of disability in the media, why so much of my content is focused on creating resources for creators to represent us better, and why I think writers, artists and other types of creators should care about the representation they include.

Unfortunately, people believing misinformation and stereotypes, while annoying, isn't the worst of the impacts bad rep can have. If a stereotype is prevalent enough, and enough people believe it, it can both put us in harms way and cause us to loose access to things we desperately need and things designed to help us. One really common example of this is when movies and TV shows show a character getting up out of their wheelchair, and use this as proof that the person is faking being disabled. However, in reality, there are many disabilities that might mean someone has to use a wheelchair, even if they can still walk a little bit or stand up. The stereotype of someone standing up from their chair being a fake, especially when it's reinforced over and over again in the media, leads non-disabled people to believe that anyone who stands up from their wheelchair is faking, and results in a lot of real disabled people being harassed and denied things like access to disabled parking, toilets and other accessible spaces. There were even a few cases of people reporting those they see get out of their wheelchairs to Centrelink (The Australian "welfare" department, for those not familiar) as frauds, and while these investigations don't usually go far before someone realises what's happened, it has, on occasion, resulted in people loosing the income they depend on to survive, even temporarily.

But the impact of representation, of course, can go both ways.

I was in high school when the first How To Train Your Dragon movie came out, and at the time, I didn't really like people being able to see that I was a leg amputee because I was sick of kids in particular staring, pointing at me, asking their parents "what's wrong with them?" or asking me directly, "what's wrong with your legs?". I wore long skirts and big, bulky tracksuit pants to keep my legs covered, something that became dangerous in the hot Australian summer, but I didn't care.

But the impact of How to Train Your Dragon came in two ways. The first, was that it was one of the first times I'd seen an amputee (or rather, multiple amputees) who didn't keep their prosthetics covered or hidden, and it gave me the little boost in confidence I needed to do that myself and wear clothing that was more comfortable and functional. And second, the comments from children changed, albeit slightly, but enough that it was noticeable. The questions and comments went from "what's wrong with you?" to "oh cool, your legs are like Hiccup's!" I even had one little girl ask me once if I had a pet night fury. They went from being scared of me and my legs, or at the very least concerned for me, to genuinely curious and impressed. While reactions like that did become less and less common over time, they didn't fully go away either. Even today, I occasionally get young kids asking me why I have legs like hiccup. A friend of mine who was born with one arm shorter than the other and without fingers on that side had a similar experience with the movie Finding Nemo. Her disability was a bit more complex than what I described here, and she always found it hard to explain "what happened" to small children, however, after Finding Nemo came out, she was able to simply tell kids "this is my lucky fin, like what nemo has!" and that was enough to take her from someone "scary" to these kids to someone like their favourite characters.

Of course, it's much easier to see the impact positive representation can have on people's perceptions when we're talking about kids media, but it's not exclusive to it either.

When it comes to a minority like the disabled community who are so thoroughly misunderstood by the wider public, misinformation can and does spread easily. What people see and read in the media they consume plays a big roll in how people perceive the real people attached to the stereotypes. We often hear people say "Fiction imitates life" but the reverse can and often is also true, life can imitate and be influenced by fiction, and those of us creating should be mindful of this, especially when we're talking about a group of vulnerable people.

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#Writing disability with Cy Cyborg #Disability 101 #Long Post #Disability #Disabled #Disability Representation #Writing Disability #Writing #Writeblr #Authors #Creators #Writing Advice #Disabled Characters #Disability History #On Writing #Disability in Media

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safety-pin-punk · 10 months

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Punk 101: A History of Battle Jackets

Battle Jackets have a long and interesting history in general, not limited only to punk. Today we see them as a reflection of the wearer, they are a form of self expression and affiliation.

Battle jackets can trace their origins back to WWII American pilots who would decorate their flight suits and bomber jackets with their squadron's insignia patches. They were jackets that allowed pilots to easily recognize each other and instilled a sense of pride and community in their owners. This is also where the term 'battle jacket' comes from.

After the war was over, pilots returned home and many found joy in the speed and excitement of motorcycles. Biker clubs were formed, and thus, biker culture as well. Pilots often used their bomber jackets while riding because of the protection they offered, though the sleeves were usually removed due to how they restricted movement. Jackets got decorated with club/gang logos to represent their wearer's affiliation, much like the insignia patches. As biker clubs grew, members without a pilot history often used leather or denim jackets to showcase their affiliations. There is a LOT more to biker jacket history, but this is what's really relevant to punk jackets.

In the 60s, two different cultures evolved in the UK. The first is The Mods, known for listening to modern jazz and riding scooters (supposedly their name comes from the modern jazz thing. I would not have been surprised if it was from 'modification' considering the seeming obsession to keep adding mirrors and lights to their scooters). The other group was The Rockers who were known for listening to 50s rock and riding motorcycles. While the groups strongly disliked each other, they both decorated their jackets in ways that influenced punk's jacket scene. The Mods often added pictures, paintings, and patches to theirs, while The Rockers were more likely to be seen sporting spikes and studs. (Not to say that those things were strictly limited to each side - just what was more common)

The following decade (the 70s), the two branches came together as various music subgenres collided and formed. Punk was among the genres formed, and the culture surrounding it was one of the first non-gang or club related groups to decorate their jackets. Taking influence from both The Mods and The Rockers, the characteristic punk look was formed, and intended to be a Fuck You to societal norms. In the earliest days, punk jackets were mostly covered in band patches, much like modern heavy metal jackets. As punk evolved into what we know it as today, with notes of anti-establishment and anarchy, it became more common to see political patches right along side the band ones.

Today's jackets are a personal statement. the bands you like, your interests, political statements. They are a symbol of individuality and rebellion against society. They are a physical representation of YOU and your history with punk culture. This is why it is so important within punk culture to make your own jacket or have someone help who can customize it to you. You are not a generic human off the rack, you have lived a life, had your own battles, have your own personality, and have your own history. A premade, mass produced jacket won't showcase any of that or really truly represent the individuality of 'you'.

#punk 101 #I honestly intended this to be more 'how to make' and 'things to know' but I got a little to into the history research #i'm sorry i'll do another one on that stuff #just not tonight I'm tired #battle jacket #patch jacket #punk jacket

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