#anti norma

[probablyaseamonster]

Rewatching DE:PP has reenflamed my belief in the conspiracy theory that the common trope in children's media of evil alternate versions of characters being goth/emo/punk/other alt styles is essentially a psychological smear campaign; an attempt to imprint upon their viewers the message that alt people are mean or morally bankrupt so that children learn to look upon these people with disdain and suspicion and perhaps even a hero vs villain complex, all to prevent the new generations from banding together and joining the rebellion against the consumerist dystopia that the people who lord over the creators of those media want to enforce.

... I blame Netflix. DE:PP is too progressive for this shit.

#dead end paranormal park #de:pp #once more #fuck netflix #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #by association #anti consumerism #punk #alt style #not so friendly reminder that buying things from Hot Topic and doing nothing else doesn't make you a goth #you need to feel it #to act it #yes i'm gatekeeping #performative rebels need to step over the line if they want to keep walking it #evil clone norma khan #evil clone barney gutman #if there's one thing i'll give dead end #actually i can give them a lot of things #but the thing i'll give them that's relevant is that #they had the line “emo logs was a icon” from barney #which shows that they don't entirely intend for the viewers to dismiss goth people #the mixed signals are confusing me #I KNOW THE CLONES AREN'T ACTUALLY EVIL #but the fact that they're framed that way from the start and like kinda do try to take over their og's lives #contributes to the stereotype #i would've much rather preferred if the clones had like inverted colour palletes #norma in red and yellow #barney in... I guess just his coat and shirt colours in reverse #i was going to say orange hair but like that's his natural hair colour and i'm not sure if i want that for his “evil” clone

[respectfornormajeane]

Someone tell Andrew Dominik (and men in general) that just because a movie is repulsive and uncomfortable to watch, it doesn't mean it's good (or deep, or artistic, or sophisticated).

#Blonde 2022 #blonde netflix #Blonde movie #Blonde #Andrew dominik #Anti andrew dominik #Anti blonde #marilyn monroe #norma jeane

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«La imaginación no es una facultad, es decir, algo situable entre otras facultades. Se diría que se la ha querido someter y para ello se le ha dado su parcela. No, la imaginación es un campo de libertad en la conciencia que, como el electromagnético, es un todo abierto que no tiene límites. Éste es el rasgo definitivo. Si fuera una facultad tendría sus normas, su manera de comportarse, su conducta típica: una anti-imaginación.»

Luis Martín Santos: Diez lecciones de epistemología. Ediciones Akal, pág. 20.  Madrid, 1991

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

#luis martín santos #diez lecciones de epistemología #imaginación #anti-imaginación #libertad #conciencia #campo #normas #reglas #conducta típica #creatividad #epistemología #filosofía española #teo gómez otero #juego lúgubre #salvador dalí #dalí

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

The theme tune for both the film and streaming series "What We Do in the Shadows." 🦇🧛‍♀️🧛‍♂️🧛‍♂️👨‍🏫🙎‍♂️🩸🦇

#you're dead #norma tanega #wwdits #wwdits opening theme tune #folk music #folk and pop #singer songwriter #painter #experimental musician #latin jazz #what we do in the shadows #film theme tune #show theme tune #dusty springfield #lesbian #lgbtqia+ #theme tune #anti-vietnam activist #american #panamanian #filipino #Spotify #walkin' my cat named dog #forgot I had posted this before #a song worth reblogging

[darawringtwenties]

Norma Jean - Redeemer Record Label: Solid State Release Date: September 12 2006 When I reviewed Every Time I Die’s masterpiece, 2007′s The Big Dirty, I talked about the 2007 Alternative Press Play compilation that I picked up before the start of my freshman year of high school. That record featured a bunch of unreleased songs, demos, rarities, or just a few songs that had just come out, including from bands like Every Time I Die, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and a few others, but I bring that up because that’s how I discovered a lot of bands. Back in the day, you couldn’t go on Spotify or Apple Music and go down the rabbit hole of a playlist, you had word of mouth, random album covers in stores, reading about bands in magazines, or these compilation albums to discover new music. I picked up a handful of them back in the day, thinking that I’d discover new music from them, and that’s exactly what I did. I didn’t discover metalcore / mathcore band Norma Jean through that specific one, but I did find them through another compilation album I picked up, which is the 2008 Warped Tour compilation. I remember picking it up at Target, because Warped Tour was just starting up again, and a lot of bands I never heard of were on there. I forgot to mention in my review of the Atlanta band’s debut LP, 2002′s Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child, that the 2008 Warped Tour compilation was the first time I actually listened to the band, because a song from 2006′s Redeemer was on there. That song was “Blueprints For Future Homes,” and I recall loving that song when I first heard it. I hadn’t heard anything like it before, as their brand of metalcore was heavy, chaotic, and intense. With that said, the first album I listened to from them was still 2008′s The Anti-Mother. I ended up listening to Redeemer a little bit later, but I did end up going to Hot Topic and picking up The Anti-Mother first. I don’t remember if I mentioned how I feel about both of these albums in the review of Bless The Martyr, but I’ll make it clear here: Redeemer and The Anti-Mother are two my favorite Norma Jean albums, but we’re going to talk about the former album here. Redeemer is my personal favorite Norma Jean album for a variety of reasons, whether it’s because it’s their shortest album, or their most focused and concise album. To understand what I mean by that, you have to understand where the band was at the time, hence a bit of a history lesson. Norma Jean ditched their first vocalist, Josh Scogin (that would later form The Chariot), and in 2005, they released their second album with new (and current vocalist) Cory Brandan, entitled O God, The Aftermath. I talked about that a bit towards the end of my review of Bless The Martyr, but I won’t be reviewing that one, simply because it’s not that great. I mean, it’s not a bad album, and I enjoy it, but that album was more or less a transitional album. They were messing with their sound on that one; it wasn’t as bloated as the debut was, even though it still kind of was in spots, and it was a very chaotic and unfocused album that didn’t have any sense of direction. Sure, they’re a mathcore band, and they started off that way, but there needs to be some kind of cohesion and flow to the album, versus just playing whatever you want as loud as you want. Redeemer, Brandan’s second album, is a huge step up in the best way, shape, and form; it’s only 42 minutes, versus the hour that their first two albums were, and it’s got a somewhat catchy sound to it. A lot of the songs are very short, sweet, and to the point, but there’s this sense of heaviness and brutality to them. The mathcore riffs and vocals are still there, but it’s more of a more “mainstream” style of metalcore, I guess. They married the two biggest styles at the time, because this is when bands like As I Lay Dying, Unearth, Killswitch Engage, and a lot of others were getting popular, all of which who had a more melodic and accessible sound (but still heavy as all hell), but at the same time, mathcore was getting really big, too. Redeemer almost became the crossover between the two styles. There are a lot of chaotic riffs on this record, but the songs have a formula and a structure to them, as well as featuring more standard breakdowns, but this album never comes off as generic or bland. It’s still an incredibly unique album that stands on its own. No other band sounded like this at the time, with the exception of The Bled putting out Pass The Flask just a few years before that sort of did something similar to this, only added more of a post-hardcore flair to their sound, versus metalcore. If anything, Redeemer took that chaotic and insane mathcore sound that they had on their first two albums, and it made it more accessible to people, which might have led people to discover other mathcore bands. I really love this album, and I still love it today, because it has that unique and timeless sound. A lot of bands still try to sound like this today, more than sixteen years later, and that’s not something a lot of bands can say about their material, especially when they’re still putting out albums today. As I said in my review of their debut, they just put out an album a few weeks ago prior to writing this, and it’s a solid little record, but it’s impressive that a band of their quality and caliber is still going strong. A lot of people would say they hit their prime early in their career, but some of their best albums are their most recent ones, such as 2019′s All Hail. I absolutely love that album, even if Deathrattle Sing For Me isn’t quite up to par with that one, it’s still a damn good album, nonetheless. Either wya, Redeemer will always my favorite Norma Jean record, even if it’s not the first album I listened to from them (The Anti-Mother is still a great album, though, and I may review that one, even though there’s not as much to talk about with that one; I’m wanting to keep the albums I talk about more in the vein of “iconic albums” from certain bands, but if I love an album from a band, I’ll still talk about it if I have enough to say). It’s still my favorite, nonetheless, because it’s the most focused, most concise, and the most interesting of their work. If you’re looking to get into this band, I’d easily tell someone to start off with this record, you really can’t go wrong with it.

#norma jean #redeemer #bless the martyr and kiss the child #o god the aftermath #the anti-mother #metalcore #metal #heavy metal #mathcore #every time i die #the bled #the dillinger escape plan #converge #botch

[operacomments]

screenshot of an angry amazon review (no commenter information is shown): “take part in this travesty. Do not waste your money. My fury began as soon as the curtain opened. Norma is a normal woman who is in love and jealous regardless of her position and the opera has nothing to do with modern European problems such as those they have in Catalonia, who continue being Spaniards regardless of their so called catalonian culture and what appears to be a dialect of pure Spanish.”

#mods do not condone the anti catalonian sentiments expressed in this opera comment #image description in read more #norma is a normal woman

[presidentstalkeyes]

I already posted this, but it was in a reblog to another post so I felt that could be confusing, so for good measure here's a more 'traditional' post. Yes I know how to Tumblr. :V

#Psychonauts #Psychonauts 2 #Psychonauts fanfiction #Lizzie Natividad #Norma Natividad #Sasha Nein #Prequel #Younger characters #Anti-psychic prejudice #tw: bullying

[thekidchemicals]

why did i forget how much of a good album this is?

#Norma Jean #vs the anti mother #music

[oldmannapping]

HC: Everyone in Crime Alley knows who Red Hood is.

They don’t know he’s Jason Todd but

-Norma Marshall knows that the young man who sporadically stays in the apartment across the hall from her, who fixed the building’s heating for free, is the Red Hood. She’s heard him coming back at all hours. She leaves him care packages with homemade chutney and Bandaids because she doesn’t have much but she knows his work is dangerous. Some loud angry men were banging on his door one day and she hid behind her door throwing eggs at them until they left.

-Brent Taylor knows that the guy who installed the security system for the youth LGBTQIA+ safe space centre is the Red Hood. He just showed up one day after they’d had their fifth vandalised window in three weeks, and set it up for nothing. Called it a civic duty. That same night, known Red Hood crew members started loitering purposefully in the area, escorting kids to the centre if they were too shy or scared to come alone.

Brent saw the guy about a month later, leaving a grocery store and ducking into an apartment building nearby. He’s pretty sure he knows where the Red Hood lives, but he’s not saying a fucking word.

-Angela Walters knows that the man who donates to the homeless shelter twice a month is the Red Hood. She knows that the Hood has a connection to the streets and his donations are always thoughtful and practical - not the generic canned corn most people throw into a box. His donations started at the same time as the anti-homeless bus shelters were dismantled by the Red Hood gang and replaced with traditional long benches.

She’s had police sniffing around asking questions before. She sent them on a wild goose chase on the other side of the city and actually got a little bit of a thrill out of it.

-Carla Moreno (street name Liza) knows that Red Hood is a guy with a hard jaw and white streak in his hair. Hood had been running off a John who’d been rough with Miley and the guy had gotten a lucky shot at the helmet with a brick. The girls pulled a dazed Hood into a nearby alley while the John ran off, and he’d taken off the broken helmet.

It was dark and he was wearing a domino mask, but pair the hair with his build and it was a pretty distinctive look. Carla knows that if she tried, she could find him. She doesn’t; she just compliments him on his upgraded helmet when she sees him a few weeks later.

-Ernesto Reyes knows that he’s the Red Hood’s mechanic. The guy calls himself Jay, is chill, and chats to Ernesto in easy Spanish when he comes to pick up his bike, but come on. Everyone in Crime Alley knows that bike. Ernesto’s had to fix bullet holes. Jay’s bike helmet is fucking red. The guy’s either dumb as fuck, cocky as fuck, or a dramatic shithead but either way he pays well and Ernesto’s had worse customers. He’s not telling anybody anything.

Meanwhile Jason’s just like “DOOP DI DOO sure is good to be a super sneaky crime lord ha Ha I’m so much better than Batman”

#headcannons #batman #jason todd #red hood #gotham #crime alley #batfamily headcanons #Jason Todd is Latino headcanon #I’m gonna end up writing this as a fic aren’t I #I mean unless someone else wants to do it #latino jason todd #bat family

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TORONTO on Mar 22, then with LAURA POITRAS in NYC on Mar 24, then Anaheim, and more!

"National conversation" sounds like one of those meaningless buzzphrases – until you live through one. The first one I really participated in actively was the national conversation – the global conversation – about privacy following the Snowden revelations.

This all went down when my daughter was five, and as my wife and I talked about the news, our kid naturally grew curious about it. I had to literally "explain like I'm five" global mass surveillance:

https://locusmag.com/2014/05/cory-doctorow-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-mass-surveillance/

But parenting is a two-way street, so even as I was explaining surveillance to my kid, my own experiences raising a child changed how I thought about surveillance. Obviously I knew about many of the harms that surveillance brings, but parenting helped me viscerally appreciate one of the least-discussed, most important aspects of being watched: how it compromises being your authentic self:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

As I wrote then:

There are times when she is working right at the limits of her abilities – drawing or dancing or writing or singing or building – and she catches me watching her and gets this look of mingled embarrassment and exasperation, and then she changes back to some task where she has more mastery. No one – not even a small child – likes to look foolish in front of other people.

Learning, growth, and fulfillment all require a zone of privacy, a time and place where we are not observed. Far from making us accountable, continuous, fine-grained surveillance by authority figures just scares us into living a cramped, inauthentic version of ourselves, where growth is all but impossible. Others have observed the role this plays in right-wing culture war bullshit: "an armed society is a polite society" is code for "people who make me feel uncomfortable just by existing should be terrorized into hiding their authentic selves from me." The point of Don't Say Gay laws and anti-trans bills isn't to eliminate gender nonconformity – it's to drive it into hiding.

Given all this, it's no surprise that workers who face workplace surveillance in the name of "wellness" feel unwell as a result:

https://www.ifow.org/publications/what-impact-does-exposure-to-workplace-technologies-have-on-workers-quality-of-life-briefing-paper

As the Future of Work Institute found in its study, some technologies – systems that make it easier to collaborate and communicate with colleagues – increase workers' sense of wellbeing. But wearables and AI tools make workers feel significantly worse:

https://assets-global.website-files.com/64d5f73a7fc5e8a240310c4d/65eef23e188fb988d1f19e58_Tech%20Exposure%20and%20Worker%20Wellbeing%20-%20Full%20WP%20-%20Final.pdf

Workers who reported these negative feelings confirmed that these tools make them feel "monitored." I mean, of course they do. Even where these tools are nominally designed to help you do your job better, they're also explicitly designed to help your boss keep track of you from moment to moment. As Brandon Vigliarolo writes for The Register, these are the same bosses who have been boasting to their investors about their plans to fire their workers and replace them with AI:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/advanced_workplace_tech_study/

"Bossware" is a key example of the shitty rainbow of "disciplinary technology," tools that exist to take away human agency by making it easier to surveil and control its users:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware

Bossware is one of the stages of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve: the process by which abusive and immiserating technologies progress up the privilege gradient as their proponents refine and normalize dystopian technologies in order to impose them on wider and wider audiences:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The kinds of metrics that bossware gathers might be useful to workers, but only if the workers get to decide when, whether and how to share that data with other people. Microsoft Office helps you catch typos by underlining words its dictionary doesn't recognize; the cloud-based, "AI-powered" Office365 tells your boss that you're the 11th-worst speller in your division and uses "sentiment analysis" to predict whether you are likely to cause trouble:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

Two hundred years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines – they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood – correctly – that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/

A hundred years ago, the "Taylorites" picked up where those mill owners left off: choreographing workers' movements to the finest degree in a pseudoscientific effort to produce a kind of kabuki of boss-pleasing robotic efficiency. The new, AI-based Taylorism goes even further, allowing bosses to automatically blacklist gig workers who refuse to cross picket-lines, monitor "self-employed" call center operators in their own homes, and monitor the eyeballs of Amazon drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

AI-based monitoring technologies dock workers' wages, suspend them, and even fire them, and when workers object, they're stuck arguing with a chatbot that is the apotheosis of Computer Says No:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

There's plenty of research about AI successfully "augmenting" workers, making them more productive and I'm the last person to say that automation can't help you get more done:

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/augmented-workforce

But without understanding how AI augments class warfare – disciplining workers with a scale, speed and granularity beyond the sadistic fantasies of even the most micromanaging asshole boss – this research is meaningless.

The irony of bosses imposing monitoring to improve "wellness" and stave off "burnout" is that nothing is more exhausting, more immiserating, more infuriating than being continuously watched and judged.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying

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#pluralistic #surveillance #workplace surveillance #disciplinary technology #bossware #taylorism #ai #automation unemployment #wellness #health #labor #parenting #luddism

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ex-Wife, published anonymously in 1929, was a succès de scandale. The very title aggressively challenged American mores and morals; divorce was almost unheard of in the middle classes at the time. And Manhattan high life in the 1920s (the novel takes place between 1923 and 1927) gave the prurient everything they could wish: not just divorce, but promiscuity, abortion, smoking, and drinking.

And I had, for an instant, that feeling that New York was an altogether beautiful place to live, no matter what happened to me living in it—a comforting feeling that had come to me sometimes, of late, when I stopped looking to people for comfort.

Narrated by Patricia, it tells of her life after her husband walked out on her. She goes from grief and despair to acceptance to indifference while becoming increasingly successful as an advertising copywriter in fashion, and bedding numerous men. Her friend Lucia, a slightly older and more experienced divorcee, supports and mentors her.

Surprisingly, the book is vehemently anti-feminist. The 1920s were a time when women could vote and were free of Victorian behavioral constraints, but systemic sexism ran deep and went largely unnoticed—at least by Patricia and Lucia.

The book was filmed in 1930 as The Divorcée, starring Norma Shearer, who won her only Oscar for it.

Norma Shearer in The Divorcee

In the forward to the 2023 edition (whose cover is shown above), Alissa Bennett writes, "It's easy to get caught in the trap of Ex-Wife's nostalgic charm; there are phonographs and jazz clubs and dresses from Vionnet; there are verboten cocktails and towering new buildings that reach toward a New York skyline so young that it still reveals its stars."

The author's son, Marc Parrott, agreed. "The New York described here," he wrote in an afterward to the 1989 edition, reprinted in the current edition, "and this was true, I think, for 20 years or more—was much smaller, much more intimate, much safer and much cheaper than the city from the '50s on to the present. It was also cleaner. My mother called it 'shining.'"

This is how Patricia and Lucia react to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue:

"The tune matches New York," Lucia said. "The New York we know. It has gaiety and colour and irrelevancy and futility and glamour as beautifully blended as the ingredients in crêpes suzette." I said, "It makes me think of skyscrapers and Harlem and liners sailing and newsboys calling extras." "It makes me think I’m twenty years old and on the way to owning the city," Lucia said. "Start it over again, will you?"

Second & fourth photos: NYC Past Third photo: eBay

#vintage New York #1920s #Ursula Parrott #fiction #NYC fiction #novels #Ex-Wife #NYC in literature #Jazz Age #roaring '20s

[safely-in-vhagars-belly]

🐉𝔐𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰🐉 (WORK IN PROCESS)

Including warnings, wether they were one-shots or bigger stories and other useful things like when I wrote them and how dark Aemond is in the stories. The list is a work in process so please be patient as I try my best to get it together:)) The princess of Dragonstone is fully published her and on archive.

My one shots are here as well.

The list is devided into older more dark and less polished content and warnings should be headed before clicking on anything of it.

BIGISH STORIES

🐲The princess of dragonstone🐲 Completed.

THE PRINCESS OF DRAGONSTONE IS COMPLETED AND HAS HER OWN BEAUTIFUL MASTERLIST HERE. DO MIND HER WARNINGS BEFORE YOU READ. THANK YOU.

🐝FIRE AND BLOOD🐝An intense story about two rivial brothers, doomed to always wanting to outshine each other, a civil war, and a noble girl who loses everything caught between them. Aemond x oc, Aegon x oc. Smut, dark smut, sharing, non-con, dub-con, brat-taming, slavexmaster things dom/sub themes and sadism as well as major characters death (but not aemond nor aegon or mc)

Chapter one: Lessons and punishments

Chapter Two: Plans and plots

Chapter Three: First times

Chapter Four: Jealousy

Chapter five: Death and duty

CHAPTER SIX: Punishment

Chapter seven: Aftermath

Chapter eight: Drinking

Chapter Nine: Battubs and compensation

Chapter ten: Pain and pleasure

Chapter eleven: The death of duty

Chapter 12: The death of duty

Chapter 13: That still small voice

Chapter 14: Kinslayer

Chapter 15: Dragons and the bee

Chapter 16: Last fluttering of wings

Chapter 17: The new norma;

Chapter 18: Reunion

Chapter 19: Queen of the Hive

Chapter 20: Fire and blood

Chapter 21 :the dance of two dragons

Chapter 22: a unwilling queen

FUTURE CHAPTERS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS FIC!!

❄️Snow Falls❄️ (x Aemond only) deliciously dark!Aemond, some say the darkest out of them. Aemond Targaryen is looking for allies in the North, for his brother's cause. So, he goes to the second biggest house in the North: House WyldeWoods of WyldeCrest. He takes a interest in the daughter of Lord Wyldewoods, the coy and mysterious lady Willa. She was never mentioned in the books discussing her familiy, and he wonders as to why that is. After Lord WyldeWoods makes some rather anti-Valyrian comments, Aemond takes you prisoner and beheads your family, claiming you as his wife and spoils of war.

CHAPTER ONE: Winter is coming

CHAPTER TWO: FIRSTS

CHAPTER THREE: SNOW DRIFTS

CHAPTER 4: THE PRICE

CHAPTER 5: ESCAPE

CHAPTER 6: THE FOX AND THE DRAGON

CHAPTER 7: THE THING YOU LOVE MOST

CHAPTER 8: THE PRICE OF GOLD

CHAPTER 9: SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE

CHAPTER 10: THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK

CHAPTER 11: The North remembers

CHAPTER 12: NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS

CHAPTER 13: THE BURDEN

CHAPTER 14: REBELLION

CHAPTER 15: Fire and Blood

CHAPTER 16: AWAIT OUR TURN

CHAPTER 17: IF THE CARRIAGE IS ROCKING-

CHAPTER 18: READING

CHAPTER 19: KINGS AND QUEENS

CHAPTER 20: LESSONS IN THE BEDROOM

CHAPTER 21: The prince and the fox

Chapter 22:The bathroom

Chapter 23: The library

Chapter 24: The dining room

Chapter 25: Running around in circles

Chapter 26: Attonment

PILLARS OF SALT AND PILLARS OF SAND

Story about Harwins and Rhaenyra's daughter who bends the knee to Aegon to save Luc life. (Aegon central fanfic) Darkish (but aegon is not dark)

Chapter one: Storm's end

Chapter two: Alternatives

Chapter Three: Prisoner

Chapter four: A demented idea

Chapter five: The wrath of a mother

Chapter six: A shadow of a conquerer

Chapter seven: Two princesses, one dreamer

Chapter eight: Of wives and kings

Chapter nine: Those last moments of what we call ''freedom''

Chapter ten: The realms villian

Chapter eleven: One soul, one heart, one flesh

Chapter 12: The house that carried the dragon

Chapter 13: Gods, guts, gifts.

ONE SHOTS

Due to space issues, the one-shots wont be on my archive. You can find them here on tumblr:)

🦌Storm's ends fury 🦌

A short story about Maris Baratheon and her kiss with Aemond Targaryen at Storm's End. (Very short, barely 400)

🦌Fury's Storm, alternative version🦌

A short story very samilair to plot above might be a rewrite i did i cant recall how this ended up on my profile. Bratty Aemond though.

🐧The things we do for love 🐧(Dark!Aemond and Aegon capture daemons lover. Smut and other things) part 2 and now recently part 3

🧀Untiteld genderbend cheese assasin x aemond fanfic🧀 x aemond mostly

🌓The first night x aegon mostly🌓 A story about a girl marrying her love and Aegon and aemond getting upset with her breaking the laws.

🔫the devil made us sin criminal au story about criminal aegon and aemond 🔫

🌖For the night is dark and full of terrors: 🌖Priesteress mc who loves Aegon and her mother wants his throne

🔫The devil made us sin other version 🔫

🔫The devil made us sin gore aemond or aegon snippet🔫

🦌Storm born baratheon x aemond one shot. part 1 and 2 🦌

The maid of the red keep oneshot

Pirate mc one shot

The final devil made us sin and the best one at that part 2 is here

Lion brat part one

Spy queen x prince regent aemond

Aemond x Daemon one shot

GOTXHOTD One shot

ashes burn

The girl in the silver dress

Daddy dearest

Sandstorm

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Updated on October 22 2023

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[kimyoonmiauthor]

"You shouldn't put _this trigger_ in fiction *at all*" Censor before publishing discourse.

So, People of Color people aren't allowed to write about racism?

Women aren't allowed to talk about sexual assault, feminism?

Victims of r* aren't allowed to talk about it from their PoV and should leave it to people who've never, ever gone through it?

Men can't talk about how they too have gone through it and sort it in a social justice way and talk about the patriarchy is a way that goes deeper than the basic white feminism of Barbie?

People who know what *abuse actually feels like and would like to advocate against it* aren't allowed to talk about abuse?

When people talk about sex in YA, often the discourse isn't about writing safer sex and consent at all, but "should you write about sex with teens"

But this creates severe issues.

Look, I as one of the fundamentally token red shirts on this planet, queer, PoC, NB not a woman, but often have to fake it for the doctor's office because they won't let me check off NB and give me the form for that, with a history of abuse, history of institutionalization, want to fucking transform my shitty crap into diamonds by transforming my trauma into social justice awareness.

When you say, but you shouldn't write it into books at all, that means you silence the people who have gone through it, and need to talk about it, and wish to make the world a better place.

And sometimes the veneer of fiction is what people need in order to do that.

The reason, as many, many Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror authors have said their genre is one of the best ass places for talking about social issues is because of that ability to create distance from the issue and then dissect the hell out of it. This way it's not because I am left and live in this country... tory, whig, democrat, etc. It's these are the issues at stake, this is how it actually feels as this person going through this thing. This is why you exactly shouldn't do it, because it fucks with your head exactly this way long term.

But if you start labeling the issue in an exact way with the modern/contemporary terms from our world, people will start flipping out, but fiction gives the author super powers to say, this is what transformation of this AWFUL TERRIBLE thing looks like. And maybe this is why it's hard and this is how to do it.

Fiction can divide things into questions.

Instead of the discourse being, should teens have sex *in fiction*. I think the discourse should be, why aren't more writers writing like Norma Klein who was absolutely frank about birth control methods, what consent and safer sex was, and the results of (for her time period) a sexually abusive person that didn't get to go to jail, and marry his teen victim. And instead the reviews of her book are... OMG, she's soooo frank about sex I'm blushing.

Nyahh, you should read her because she's frank about sex, she's doing anti-body shaming initiatives, spends a fair amount of time comparing television to reality, talking about pubic hair as a natural thing, and combating TV images, and the "perfect" body through talking about sex. Maybe more romance could do that?

This guy doesn't have the 10 inch scholong all night long. But is kind, caring, knows what else to do in the interim during his refractory period? Did Norma Klein do that? Absolutely. She talked frankly about sex in order to push sex education. I got things in her 1960's written book that my sex education teachers failed to teach me, like anti-body shaming. Pubic hair is natural. (Romance is far, far from reality, I get that, but still... if you're going to blush at the word penis and think you can't possibly use it in a romance book in a frank discussion, then maybe you should reevaluate a bit. And I do wish Romance books went over consent too and made consent super sexy by having those frank consent discussion and making it oohhh I can't wait until we get through this discussion to *try* that, but we have to wait and oh my god, I didn't know that about you, I'm glad I get to *try* that. Make consent sexy. Make BDSM negotiations sexy. Make the how, "Would you like that?" OMG yes. sexy.).

The fact an ace is writing this about consent, safer sex and trying to ask people to not do body shaming isn't lost on me. But seriously. Also, I'm not sex repulsed, just on the indifferent scale. And aces can be sex positive.

Maybe in order to get queer joy, you need a bit of trauma up front so people know what the issues are. Maybe to get social justice in this area, you need to be able to talk about what people have to think about in order to go through transition and why people might opt out of it and how that too can be queer joy.

In order to transform the shit of the world, people should censor shit like happy slave gets with their master. YES. That probably should not be shared. Write it, keep it to yourself. OMG Nazis were good actually. Write it, don't share it with the general public.

But for the gnarly, for the honestly tricky, for the things that could be made into social justice, let it be written. Own voices preferred, but don't make them write it. But don't censor them either.

If a person who has gone through rape wants to write about rape and how horrific it is, then yes, let them write it. (BTW, I'm saying this as a person who knows what it's like and NO it's not "that's why you are ace, then." I was ace long before then. I was having ace-like thoughts at 5. Some people do, and that's fine. But don't paint everyone with the same brush.) But keep their feet to the fire and make sure they write it in a way that doesn't glorify it, doesn't make it feel "right" and aims it towards social justice. Then trigger warning.

"Precious" does have sexual abuse, rape and all of that, but if you get through that story and the difficulty, she transforms her shit into something positive. And it's an argument against rape, no matter what the book challenger thought. (OMG sex scenes and it's sexy? WTF is wrong with you, dude. Go see a therapist.)

What better way to make the book banners win than to let people who went through horrible traumatic shit never to make it to the bookshelf by shaming them for talking about it and transform their stories of horror into social justice gold?

There's quite a difference, though, when you're glorifying racism as a good thing.

#trauma transformation #social justice issues in writing #trauma #triggers #consent is sexy #consent should be talked about in books #consent is required #story theory

[prettyvintageafternoon]

This is your daily reminder that Norma McCorvey (also known as Jane Roe from the Roe v Wade case) was paid over $400K by Operation Rescue - an anti-abortion organization, to lie and say that she was pro-life.

She admitted this before she passed away from heart failure in 2017.

#abortion #pro choice

[darawringtwenties]

Norma Jean - Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child Record Label: Solid State Release Date: August 13 2002 By the end of the 00s, metalcore went into a lot of places, including mathcore, moshcore, post-hardcore, At The Gates-core (which is just metalcore mixed with Swedish melo-death riffs), electronicore, crunkcore, and many more, but the one I want to focus on today is “Christcore.” There was a time where I considered myself religious, but not the type of person that devoutly read the Bible, went to church, and chastised anyone for the way they live their lives, but I still believed in God, went to a Christian youth group, and considered myself a Christian above all. I wouldn’t consider myself religious anymore, but I was a 15-year-old kid when I was into a lot of metalcore and post-hardcore. These types of bands really appealed to me, because they spoke about faith and positive topics, but they also appealed to parents. A lot of this type of music was considered “Satanic” and “evil” to many parents, whether it was at the time, or during the 80s and 90s when the Satanic Panic was in full swing. Kids could listen to these bands because they had that Christian message, as well as preached the gospel at their shows, so parents were more willing to accept these Christcore bands. There was a period from 2002 to 2010 when these bands dominated the metalcore scene. Bands such as Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, For Today, August Burns Red, and many more embodied that sound, but there’s one band that helped to pioneer it, and that’s Atlanta, GA act Norma Jean, and their debut LP, 2002′s Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child. Norma Jean is a very interesting bands when it comes to metalcore, because they’ve gone through quite a bit of lineup changes to the point where none of the original members are in the band anymore, although to be fair, a lot of the members now have been in the band for the last 20 years, such as vocalist Cory Brandan, but my first experience with this band was 2008′s The Anti-Mother. I remember picking it up at Hot Topic, of all places. The one near me sold a handful of CDs for a long time; they had a small CD wall, but only because the one near me was really tiny. There was another one I went to that had a bigger wall of CDs, because they were a bigger location. Anyway, I would buy CDs there a lot, especially if I couldn’t find the album at Target, Best Buy, or Walmart, for example, but I remember seeing it one day when I went to Hot Topic. I knew who they were, but I was only about a year into my journey with metalcore, post-hardcore, and all of that stuff. I really loved their blend of metalcore, sludge metal, post-metal, and alt-metal, so I wanted to dive back into their stuff. I didn’t eventually listen to this album for a few more years, especially after they released a few more albums, but I enjoy this record quite a bit, although I have a confession to make... It’s not my favorite of theirs. I also don’t think this album has held up as well as people want to believe that it has, but it’s still impressive that this album turned 20 years ago this year and people are still talking about it. There’s a reason why people back fondly at this album, but this is an album that I don’t have direct nostalgia for, despite having nostalgia for a couple of other albums, so I’m looking at this album in retrospect a bit. Bless The Martyr is a unique album in the sense that it helped to pioneer mathcore in the early to mid-00s. This record has a very chaotic and experimental sound, including elements of sludge metal, doom metal, and post-metal. It shows when this album clocks in at around an hour, and that’s already one of my biggest issues with this record and why I don’t think it’s held up as well as people want to believe it has. The one track people remember from this album is “Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste,” and to be fair, it’s a sick song, but this album has the issue of being very monotonous and loud for the sake of being loud. There are a lot of sick breakdowns and great riffs, but this album just drags a lot of time. There’s a song that’s about 15 minutes on here, and for the most part, it’s just one riff repeated over and over. Another song is around 10 minutes long, and it’s the same kind of thing, where the song just drags on for what feels like ever, but it doesn’t need to. In this album’s defense, these guys were just kids when they wrote this, so the songwriting isn’t really up to snuff with their later material. Even the follow-up, 2005′s O God, The Aftermath is better than this, but that album isn’t my favorite from them, either. I may talk about that one, too, but this album is really known for being the one album that former vocalist Josh Scogin performs on. You may know him from a little band called The Chariot that formed right after he left this band, and they were a big staple of mathcore from the early 00s to the early 2010s. These guys were one of the purveyors of Christcore, and there’s nothing wrong with the lyrics on this album, or any of their albums, really, but they’ve slowly strayed away from the label of being a Christian band. A lot of bands in this vein have done that, such as Underoath and The Devil Wears Prada being two major examples of bands that have denounced that label and are longer Christian. The only association they have with it nowadays is their record label, Solid State, but Solid State is an interesting label that started as an offshoot of the Christian rock label, Tooth & Nail, to serve as a hard-rock and metal version, but a lot of bands on there don’t outright say they’re Christian. These days, Norma Jean has released a lot of stuff since Bless The Martyr. In 2005, they released their first album with Cory Brandan, entitled O God, The Aftermath, but 2006 saw the release of my personal favorite Norma Jean record, Redeemer, and then you had 2008′s The Anti-Mother. They released more stuff in the 00s, but they just recently released Deathrattle Sing For Me, and it was a pretty solid album. Despite how I feel about Bless The Martyr, it’s worth hearing again for old time’s sake, even if some of their later albums are a lot better. This is an album that’s important for paving the way for mathcore bands to follow, as well as being a stepping stone for Josh Scogin to form The Chariot, who also released some important albums during the next decade. It hasn’t held up as well as their other material, but it’s still enjoyable, nonetheless.

#norma jean #bless the martyr and kiss the child #solid state #tooth & nail #o god the aftermath #redeemer #the anti-mother #deathrattle sing for me #metalcore #metal #heavy metal #mathcore #cory brandan #josh scogin #the chariot #the devil wears prada #underoath

[evil-doppelganger-duel]

Hey! I still have to put all the matchups together, but in the meantime here's a sneak peek of our line-up :]

List of characters under the cut:

•Alternate Barney (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

•Alternate Norma (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

•Anti-Pops (Regular Show)

•Bad End Pretty Cure (Smile Pretty Cure!)

•Bad Janet (The Good Place)

•Badeline (Celeste)

•Cesar's Alternate (The Mandela Catalogue)

•Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

•Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)

•Constantine (Muppets Most Wanted)

•Cure Unlovely (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!)

•Dark Link (Legend of Zelda)

•Dark Meta Knight (Kirby)

•Dark Pit (Kid Icarus)

•Dark Samus (Metroid)

•Dippy Fresh (Gravity Falls)

•Ditto (Pokémon)

•Doodlebob (Spongebob Squarepants)

•Doppelganger (Scribblenauts)

•Doppelganger Arle (Puyo Puyo~n)

•Evil Xisuma (Hermitcraft)

•FalseSymmetry (Empires SMP)

•Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)

•Fowen (Story Thieves)

•Fukua (Skullgirls)

•Félix Fathom (Miraculous Ladybug)

•Gruffnut Thorston (How to Train Your Dragon)

•Helsknight (Hermitcraft)

•Imposter (Going Under)

•Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries)

•Katrina Spellman (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)

•Kevin (Welcome to Night Vale)

•Kimura Koichi (Digimon Frontier)

•Le Purr (Fetch with Ruff Ruffman)

•Ledroptha Curtain (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

•Liquid Snake (Metal Gear)

•Lore (Star Trek)

•Mad Ducktor (Donald Duck)

•Madelyne Pryor (Marvel)

•Man in Red (Ghost Trick)

•Mark Vorkosigan (Vorkosigan Saga)

•Mean Rachel (Animorphs)

•Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)

•Millions Knives (Trigun)

•Mr. Edward Hyde (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

•Nale (Order of the Stick)

•Omori (Omori)

•Robo-Fortune (Skullgirls)

•Robo-Reagan (Inside Job)

•Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)

•Scourge (Sonic the Hedgehog)

•Scruff Ruffman (Fetch with Ruff Ruffman)

•Shadow Kirby (Kirby & the Amazing Mirror)

•Shadow Mario (Super Mario Sunshine)

•SheZap (SheZow)

•Sonozaki Shion (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni)

•Tac Nayn (Nyan Cat)

•The Rowdyruff Boys (The Powerpuff Girls)

•The Valeyard (Doctor Who)

•Tsukasa Yugi (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun)

•Tyrone (Gravity Falls)

•Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)

•Vergil (Devil May Cry)

•Yosuke's Shadow (Persona 4)

#really tried to include as many submissions as I could #honorable mention to the characters who didn't make it #doppelganger duel