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detective-with-one-arm · 3 years

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A Legacy of Vengeance

Thousands of years ago, a woman crawled into this cave. Thousands of years ago, clutching her only daughter, her eyes torn from her sockets and eaten whole. Thousands of years ago, when the white demon ruled this land and took glee in the subjugation of humans, a gorgon woman made this place her home.

All of that taken away by the white demon naga.

He took her eyes and ate them, the one safeguard against a gorgon’s petrification curse. And since this feat, he attempted to send his children to hunt her, the woman taking flight on her white feathered wings.

The serpents on the left of her face tried their best to heal her wounds, but to no avail.

The monster took her eyes, so she took his future.

Upon the land and its inhabitants, she laid a curse. A curse that transcended death and the power of the gods. For gorgons were feared by gods for a reason, and the white devil would regret forsaking this soon enough.

She stipulated this: Should the naga who took her eyes or his kin invite the scorn and spite of a mortal without fear of his kind through sleight and injustice separate their soul from their body through death, all the collective rage, pain and cries for retribution from all those wronged by that naga and his bloodline will permeate and coalesce within the spirit of that mortal. That soul will act as a host for the will of the curse and they will become the Harbinger of Vengeance, no matter whether that soul is consumed or not.

It will hunger for one thing and one thing alone and nothing will be able to stop it from achieving it: Exacting revenge on that naga. It will take everything from them. Innocent people - all of them - will be destroyed. Nothing will satiate it but the complete destruction of everything that naga values and has gained throughout their life. It will yearn for nothing but the complete destruction of their life and even their entire self.

Nothing will be left behind.

A gorgon’s curse is meant to be everlasting. Meant to withstand until the end of time itself. Once a gorgon’s curse is cast, there is nothing in this world or any other that can break it. It is eternally binding.

In that same cave, her only daughter, Hashladûn, slept. Her scales were as pale as the white demon who defiled and blinded her mother. Despite her upper body being as gorgon as her mother, with her hair made of white pythons with eyes as yellow as the sun and wings as pure and untainted as snow, her long serpentlike body was entirely naga. Though, if you asked her, she would not call herself as such. In her eyes, she was nothing like the chest-beating prideful brutes that the nagas were.

Within the hidden cave of the waterfall, she stirred, grumbling as the new patriarch of the jungle’s voice echoed throughout her dwelling. “What is that worm bellowing about now...?”

Slithering off of the spot she’d chosen to sleep, Hashladûn peeled her chest up and stretched her feathered wings, feeling the stiffness melt away despite the very rude awakening. The heads of her head of hair all came to greet her, their polished white heads and inquisitive tongues brushing against her face. One particular advantage of being a gorgon was the constant pleasant company. She always preferred the company of snakes to people, regardless. Though, perhaps her negative experiences with people both mortal and otherwise were not good references to go off of. After all, her poor experiences with people were forever immortalized in her secret cave, the stone statues in a perpetual state of inanimation until she had some need for them once again.

Though, in petrifying them, she gained all their memories. Despite her own personal experiences with people being very poor, she held no ill will towards humans. She did not particularly like them, but her overall feelings towards them were rather neutral.

Gently cupping the heads of her head full of snakes, the gorgon woman sighed contentedly. “Good morning, Molurus.” She purred towards one in particular, the snake reaching around to wrap around her head underneath all the others to come around and bind itself around her eyes. After all, the last thing she wanted to do was be careless with her power. One look was all it took to petrify others. While she could reverse the condition, she would rather not accumulate more memories than necessary.

Unless there is no other viable option, she would much rather not turn someone to stone.

With the naga’s bellowing above shaking the water from the stalactites up above, Hashladûn had only one destination. The Pool of Truth.

A late gift left behind by her mother, as her window into the world. To see the world as it was past, present, and future without exaggeration or embellishment. Though, it was a rather fickle thing. “Sir, please show me the naga known as Connor as he is currently.” She requested politely.

Before her, the reflection of the cave ceiling swirled until it showed the gorgon exactly what she needed to see. Like before, it was the dark sapphire naga yelling and berating the woman who had arrived not long ago. The outsider from the north. The investigator.

The Lightningbringer.

Her kindness, compassion, empathy, and generosity was absolutely wasted on the prideful spoiled serpent. Insistent and presumptuous, though she may be, was completely innocent in her motivations and actions. The vile and volatile deity was simply needlessly callous and bitter. She did not deserve this treatment. Perhaps a wave of dismissal or a simple rebuttal, perhaps. But not…this abuse.

Yet, she did not falter in his presence. No, she held no fear. This, the gorgon was certain. She was determined and unyielding. A trait that the woman would find remarkably admirable, were it not for the reality of whom she was dealing with.

She was dealing with a wrathful serpent who chose to devour his own heart. Metaphorically speaking, of course. This naga forsake his compassion when he emerged victorious over his wretched father. Hashladûn had hoped that the serpent who would defeat the white devil would be different. Would be better.

But she was disappointed to discover that over the years coming into his own, he was not. He simply traded his father’s overt subjugation with a more subtle and easily deceptive form of tyranny. Tyranny disguised as prosperity and freedom. Prosperity he could destroy along with all of their innocent lives at a whim. He had no respect for them. None whatsoever.

The people were content, but they did not know better. They were not to blame, of course. How could they be? It should not be their responsibility to appease such a volatile creature as Connor. They were mortal. They were powerless.

It was his responsibility to control his ire and temper his temperament. Not theirs to coddle him. It was unfair. It was wrong. He was the one with the power over them. The imbalance was surely not lost on him, and if it was, then he was an even bigger fool than the gorgon had taken him for.

But what he did not realize was that her mother’s curse applied to him as well. It was not his fault for not knowing it. She did not wish to know him and the people kept him content, all things considered. The only ire suffered by humans was that of outsiders, and it was strictly a relationship between trespasser and guardian. Though, she would hesitate to use such a term to describe the naga.

Continuing to observe the interaction, Hashladûn took note of the fact that the human – Rachel – displayed no such fear before Connor. Even as she left, she maintained her dignity. She would not have her worth defined by anyone else. Her worth was not up for debate by anyone else. She did not have to have anyone else’s approval to have worth. She was worthy simply by existing. Something gods all fail to truly understand.

But this did nothing to quiet the discontent within the gorgon. In fact, as she observed the woman, she only grew more anxious. While she had an incredible amount of restraint and control, and a moral integrity that while it bent a little ways, she held it rigid regardless. But that small amount of spite and scorn displayed for a moment in her lonesome was enough to make Hashladûn curl up and tense. Connor’s callousness towards her was personal. She wasn’t just an outsider hellbent on ripping everything away from him like the threats that lurked just outside his territory. She was an innocent woman.

An innocent woman who was just as stubborn as he was without the pride or ego to show for it.

A woman who would make the ideal host for the Harbinger of Vengeance if Connor continues to act this way.

Despite her mother’s reassurances that it was necessary, Hashladûn disagreed with her vengeance being extended to the innocent people of the village. They had done nothing to invoke her ire and they did not deserve to pay for Connor’s father’s transgressions, though valid her desire for retribution was. But the humans did not have to suffer for it. They did not deserve to pay for his crimes.

So, the gorgon’s life was dedicated to ensuring that this curse would not take hold. Preventing it was paramount to everything. Because once it was invoked…there would be nothing she or anyone could do to stop it.

So, she watched. She watched as the Chief gathered the village before the throne where blood had once been spilt. The Shaman had gone to quell Connor’s ire. But as the Shaman reached the naga, Hashladûn’s tail began to bristle, a hiss escaping her lips. “What is that fool doing?!” She hissed, her snakes hissing in unison with her. Lashing her tail, she leaned back from the Pool of Truth and raised her head high. “No. I have stayed idle in this cave for far too long, watching and waiting for threats to arrive. This time, I must act. I will not allow this childish whelp to bring doom upon and threaten everything I have sworn to protect.”

Turning away, the white scaled gorgon’s wings flared and two of the statues in her secret waterfall cave began to animate once more, their soulless empty stone eyes glowing yellow like hers.

Nagas. The attempts of Connor’s father before him to slay her and finish what he had started with her mother. A reminder that he was not above consequences. That he was not truly immortal.

That there were forces and powers that even gods feared.

“Follow me.” She commanded them, bringing her feathered wings up to try and prevent herself from getting wet as much as possible as she emerged from the cave. “You will stop Connor from sealing his fate and I will speak with the Chief and the Lightningbringer.”

Looking out and hearing the calls of the village from afar, Hashladûn had a reinvigorated sense of purpose.

“It’s time for the sins of the past to be cleansed once and for all.”

#oc writing #[an act of service]#dbh ocs #naga!connor #gorgon lady has a name now #don't take this as any sort of canon #i just felt like writing so this is very experimental #hash be like truth coming out of her well to shame mankind #{Rachel}

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veridium · 6 years

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For part two of the story, click here.

For the Commander and the Inquisitor, passing the days since their fight has proven difficult. Cullen seeks understanding, but Amarantha is unsure of whether she can be who he wants her to be, and meet him halfway across such an intrinsic divide. He finally finds her int he Undercroft, and the fragility of the situation is finally brought to bear.

A few days had passed since their conflict in the courtyard. While the two had remained Professional, both Josephine and Leliana noticed – not that there was tension – how hard they were trying to remain not tense, not adversarial. It concerned them, especially Leliana, for the sake of the Council, but both trusted the two to resolve the issue on their own in due time. They both trusted the Inquisitor’s and the Commander’s dispositions to not care for toil or drama.

At least, they ardently hoped.

The afternoon light caught on Amarantha’s olive skinned face for just a moment as she paced through its path on the inside of the Undercroft. She was reading logistics from Dagna’s latest experiments with spirit Runes on the Mage staffs. Perhaps it was time to move onto something more lethal and flammable, for the sake of upcoming plans for expeditions to Emprise du Lion.

Amarantha wore her resting clothes, a hunter green coat embellished with silver accents, and slacks made of a thin but sturdy hide. Perhaps Deepstalker. Her hair was down, but the strands around her face were pulled back and pinned in the back. Thoughtfully, she flipped through the pages of papers.

The Undercroft door opened, and her gaze traveled and saw a robust stature of armor and fur. It was Cullen, of course, notoriously looking as if he were a brooding romance character. Amarantha’s chest stiffened. Perhaps it would be like all their other interactions the past several days: dismissive, but efficient.

“Your Worship, what do you think?” Dagna’s voice was heard from behind Amarantha. Her mind snapped back to business and she turned around.

“I think the progress is excellent, but I fear Emprise du Lion may call for more pyro. Harding’s initial reports from outside the region talk of peaks of ice and snow from their vantage point. The Mages and I would appreciate something to counteract whatever it is that lurks there,” she explained dutifully, folding the papers and setting them on the nearest table.

“Excellent. Fire…fire works…” Dagna remarked playfully. “I’ll get on that. When I’m done, you will be able to light up the mountain top like a sparkler flare,” she grinned gleefully.

Amarantha couldn’t help but smile softly at the Archanist’s vigor. “Very good, Dagna. You’re priceless,” she affirmed. “You should go get some of the lunch rations while they’re still there. I don’t want you overworking yourself without sustenance,” she said, leaning on one hip.

Dagna smirked. “Sera’s been sending me treats for two weeks now, but sure, perhaps some meat to undercut the immense amount of cookies.”

Danga took her work gloves off and walked up the stairs towards the door. Cullen had been standing and observing, waiting for the moment to approach the Inquisitor politely.

“Commander,” Dagna greeted as she walked past him. The door opened and closed behind her, leaving the two to consort alone.

Amarantha walked towards the railing of the Undercroft window. “I see your idea of a dimly-lit private meeting has come to fruition,” she remarked, placing her hands on the stone rail.

Cullen walked down the stairs, his heavy, anxious steps almost making the rhythm of marching drums they probably have muscle memory of.

“Inquisitor, if you have a moment,” he said, walking until he was about 10ft away, interested but respectful.

Amarantha looked over her shoulder and nodded solemnly.

“I’m sure you know what I wish to discuss, but, if you could let me have the floor before you give me your verdict, I’d be most grateful,” he said, eyeing her for some semblance of softness in her attitude.

Amarantha turned around, and sitting back on the stone, she crossed her arms. “Fine,” she replied.

Cullen cleared his throat, preparing for words he had pondered for hours and hours. Some he had kept with him since the moment she crossed him, others he had to carefully craft in order to get the message across. Maker only knew how it would all sound put together.

“Your Worship, I have contemplated what you said to me in the Courtyard. I understand that you come from a precarious position, not for your own actions, but for the context in wish you live. I, too, walk a path such as this. When I say that I think you are too big of a person to confine yourself to one or two dimensions of your identity, I’m speaking to myself as much as I am speaking to you. And for that, I wish to apologize. You do not deserve to fight both our rhetorical battles.”

Amarantha’s eyes narrowed, but not with anger or defensiveness. She wondered if this could be really it: a concession, from the Commander.

“So, on that front, you definitely have me. What I am still offended by is your double-standards. You say you cannot untie yourself from the experiences in which you’ve lived, but you expect me to counteract all of mine. I did not intent for our paths to be so antagonistic in quality, but here we are. We are leading one of the most important forces for change, for peace, in this Age,” his voice began to grow more passionate, more assured.

“Reducing me to something that I have worked hard to detach from, but still remain coercively related to, is beneath someone of your integrity and stature. I say this not to demean you, but to advise you, both as a Council member and a friend. You said yourself that we share something beyond our work for this cause. Is that worth nothing to you?” he opened the floor to her, not knowing what to expect. She could grow enraged and set this whole place on fire if she wished. No, Cullen, do not reduce her to a trope, he checked himself mentally. The anxiety was still there and they both knew it.

Amarantha sighed heavily, biting the side of her lip as she thought about what to respond with. The mannerism was alluring to Cullen, at the most inconvenient time. He looked away to preserve his intent to be cordial.

Finally, she stood back upright, and looked at him.

“Cullen, you are right in many ways. I am also sorry that this happened. It was irresponsible of me to provoke such an argument. I will take care not to do so again,” she took another tense breath. “As for your point about me judging you and your past, I hope you can understand that for me, the implicit power imbalance in our life paths compel me to feel defensive of my life and the lives of Mages here. You say I judge you harshly, and you are right. I do, and a lot of it comes from a visceral sense of injustice I have scarcely dealt with. Working with so many different people, with so many different agendas, has evoked a need to stick to my own convictions for the sake of being heard and not overwhelmed,” she spoke, her tone guarded.

“As you cannot blame me for your own inner struggle, I cannot blame you for mine. But this also means that for all intents and purposes, we are incompatible,” she walked closer to him, flanking him as she eyed his facial expression shift from one of hope to one of concern.

“Inquisitor—“

“You may call me Amarantha for this conversation, Cullen,” a warm response in an otherwise bleak moment.

“Amarantha,” he breathed, rubbing the back of his head. “You won’t even try? Surely there have been connections across politics and identities before that would be more abrasive than ours.”

Every nerve in her body railed against that assertion, yet her chest fluttered with weakness. It wanted to say yes, of course, we should try. But then, the instinctive flight or fight response from her mind also came into play. Her insides felt like a mess of conflicting emotions at war with each other over the fate of her heart and soul, something she felt only once before when she was named the Herald, and then the Inquisitor.

“Just because we can, doesn’t mean that we should,” she responded distantly.

“Amarantha, do not give me that response,” he said curtly, his chin lowering, gaze piercing back at her. Another heartbeat skipped.

She rubbed her forehead and circled around where she had been standing. “Then what, Cullen? We toss this all up in the air and see what lands on the right side? You are the one person I would trust to be strategic about something such as this. Where has your mind gone?” She was now arguing with him.

Cullen scoffed. He was running out of patience, not in an angry way, but in a way where he needed to stop talking and start showing.

“It has gone. You are right. And this is where it went.”

Swiftly, he closed in on her, arms going first to her waist and cinching her upper body into his. His lips went to her unexpecting ones, closed and sweet, but nevertheless hungry. She smelled of something deep and wild, like she grew herself out of a forest somewhere untouched.

Amarantha was dumbfounded. A nerve inside her knew what he was after as soon as he started his quick approach, but she didn’t move away. Her eyes closed once his lips were on hers. He was warm, strong, somewhere she could run to. A fortress within a fortress. Her arms wrapped around his neck, and for a moment, it was this. Coming undone.

She was relinquished to it, until something began to rumble inside of her soul. She knew this feeling, but she deeply wished it would return from whence it came. She tried to override it, but it kept growing. The flashbacks, the faces, the fury in the eyes of men. Her limbs, her bones, her muscles, all sought an escape route. Then, they took hold of her mind, and memories of violence flickered like firelight.

She moaned under her breath, and while it sounded from the outsider’s ears that she was simply engrossed in the kiss, it was really her trying to let it all go. Once and for all, for herself, for this one thing.

Please, please just let it be, she said to herself. It was a war of a Mage’s soul, fighting itself, for the sake of itself.

Her body began to tense, and Cullen picked up on the change. He began to pull away, but as soon as their lips lost contact, an exasperated roar escaped from her mouth.

Then, crash.

Both of them fell backwards but managed to catch themselves before falling. A shield of ice erupted mercilessly from the floor, spikes and growths of wild, crystalline white drawing the line between them. Amarantha’s chest breathed heavily, distraught and devastated. Cullen looked at her from over the barrier with alarm. “What is the meaning of this?” he asked urgently.

Tears began to well in her ember eyes. “Cullen!” she exclaimed, her hands going to her chest in a posture of defense and insecurity.

He was so confused. Why this, if she trusted him so? Is this what a Mage’s limit is? Is this what her limit was, after all this?

She looked down at her ice wall, the wall that mimicked itself from the one around her heart. It was majestic, but terrifying, like it always had been. She had used it on enemies, both dead and alive demonic and mortal, but never once did she predict using it on a would-be lover, and a long-proven friend. Something was wrong, organically so, beyond her will.

She managed to provisionally compose herself enough to say her peace, though the tears began to fall.

“Cullen, I am sorry. I am sorry I must reject you for the crimes of lesser men,” she cried, the crying in her voice reigning supreme.

Cullen exhaled. So it was, then. He would try one last, doomed time. “Amarantha , please,” he implored softly, reaching his hand over the ice blockade that was only as tall as their torsos.

Her eyes widened a bit as she eyed his hand. There is was, the grand symbolism of it all: his hand, his heart, across the line of where her identity could ensure survival. A part of her soul detested him for even suggesting such a choice.

She breathed, hands anxiously turning into fists.

“Cullen, I can’t. This, all of this,” she motioned towards him, the mess she had made, everything.

“This will be the end of me.”

Cullen’s resolve went along with her as she hurried herself out of the Undercroft, door resolutely slamming behind her. Perhaps it was for the best. Perhaps one day they would ironically laugh about the time she stomped on his heart, and how he probably stomped on hers in return. He knew of only one sure thing: that her actions had inspired him to continue pushing for understanding, even if it didn’t win him her love. It could win him justice.

Amarantha felt like she flew across the throne steps and to the door leading to her chambers. She had barely made it to the other side of the door, shutting it just as harshly as the Undercroft door, when she slammed her back against it and slid down to the floor. Tears streamed effortlessly now, but she was otherwise quiet. She hugged her knees like a terrified child, trying to calm herself. All she could see was the shards of ice erupting first within her eyes and then before them.

The kiss’s residual vibrations still on her lips.

The look in his eyes as she left.

We were doomed, always doomed, my friend, she lamented to herself. Better this way.

#oc stuff #fanfiction #Amarantha Trevelyan #Cullen Rutherford #Dragon age #dragon age inquisition #da:i fanfiction

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recentanimenews · 3 years

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Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui – 01 (First Impressions) – So We’re Doing This, Huh?

I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t my first age gap rom-com rodeo. Winter 2018’s Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (Love is Like After the Rain) was a lovely show that immediately dispelled any reservations I might’ve had about its “high school girl falls for middle aged single dad” premise.

Visually, Koikimo doesn’t look like it will come close to reaching After the Rain’s flair, starting off with a gray, muddy, obviously photoshopped photo of a Tokyo Skyline. A lot of the scenery is converted photos, which I couldn’t help but think screamed shortcut. Not a dealbreaker, but it’s always nice when a rom-com looks great.

Granted, it’s supposed to be gray and ugly out, as it’s raining, and the introduction of the two leads is well done. When Amakusa Ryou walks out on the woman he spent the night with without a word, it’s effective shorthand for this guy’s a bit of a cad.

Arima Ichika saving him from a potentially fatal stair fall by hooking him with her umbrella, then giving him her lunch after observing how pale he is, shows us that she’s a good, kind person who won’t let others get hurt needlessly. All in all, it’s a good, economical first meet-cute!

When Ryou comes home from his job as an “elite employee”, his high-school aged sister Rio tells him she has a friend over—who just happens to be Ichika. When Rio steps out for a call, Ryou asks Ichika if she wants anything in return…say, a kiss? As far as he’s concerned, she saved his life, and can ask for anything in return.

Ichika’s reaction is perfectly natural for a high school girl getting offered a kiss from a 27-year-old guy: kimochi warui. Ichika mentions she often blurts out what she’s thinking, but by doing so she’s sealed her fate: Ryou falls for her right then and there, and is on his knees when Rio returns. Rio also gives her brother Ichika’s address so he can send her a single rose.

When Ichika asks her what his deal is, Rio says Ryou claims to have never asked anyone out, so Ichika must’ve really done a number on him. Rio suggests Ichika go ahead and date him. After all, he’s “hot, smart, and fairly loaded.” Still, Rio can’t help but add on “he’s a scumball” at the end, almost under her breath, and pretty much makes it clear that Ichika dating him would “amuse” her.

Rio gives Ichika Ryou’s phone number so she can call him to tell him to stop sending her gifts—her mom later tells Ichika he’s only sending her one flower a day because her name means “one flower”—Ichika is not charmed! When Ichika calls, Ryou asks upfront if he’s bothering her, and she’s pretty clear that, yeah, he kinda is.

That’s when we run up to the first nail in the coffin: Ryou states quite confidently that he’s not going to stop bothering her, and will continue to pursue her regardless of how she feels. In fact, it is his hope she’ll continue to speak her mind to him, especially if it’s insults or curses, all but cementing his scumball status—if, ya know, not taking “no” for an answer didn’t make it clear enough.

The next day, Ichika encounters Ryou by pure coincidence (or so I hope, by God) while on her way to the grocery store, and decides to use him so she can get two cartons of the one-per-customer eggs that are on sale. While she’s probably only thinking about his utility as a means of getting her family more egg bang for the buck, a predictable side effect is that he becomes overcome with emotion while they’re shopping “like a married couple”

After learning Rio spilled the beans on her favorite chocolate and shampoo (what kind of friend is she?) Ichika almost lets slip her otaku credentials while comparing olive oil. To her surprise, he plays along, saying one of them has “three times the attack power.” They’re complimented as a couple by an employee giving out samples, but Ryou just has to stare at Ichika’s used toothpick long enough for her to notice. He also refuses to let her carry her own groceries.

So yeah, this guy seems way too aggressively pushy, creepy, and unconcerned with the feelings of someone, considering he’s wading into uncomfortable territory as it is by pursuing a high schooler. And yet the series seems to want to make the case that if Ichika took a stronger stance against their continued interactions, he’d back down, and Rio would side with her. I’m not sure I can subscribe to that case! So far this feels pretty creepy and wrong!

Ichika shouldn’t have to take a stronger stance then the one she already made by telling Ryou he was bothering her on the phone. Really, that should have been the end of it. So this inescapably smacks of that classic, increasingly distasteful “I’ll wear her down” method to courtship that either undervalues or outright ignores personal boundaries.

Sometimes relationships are inherently unbalanced and there’s no way around that! The primary imbalance Koikimo seems to want us to focus on is not one of power or boundaries, but level of interest. In this dynamic, one person (Ryou) likes the other a lot right out of the gate, while the other isn’t sure whether they’re intrigued or repulsed.

The final segment of the episode involves Ichika studying at a café while waiting for Rio, and Ryou just happening to spot her in the window. I’ll take the fact that these coincidences are just that until proven otherwise, but Ryou sitting at Ichika’s table without even asking is a dick move, period!

Yes, he helps her with Ichika’s math problem, confirming Rio’s claim he’s smart (Rio gives her bro ten extra minutes with Ichika, no doubt hoping to be amused), but then one of Ryou’s fully adult conquests stops over, scolds him for getting his “filthy mitts” on a “bland little high school girl”, then warning Ichika that he’s a total womanizer.

Ichika speaks up for herself and says that “he’s not entirely bad toward me”—faint praise, if any, but honest—then walks off. Ryou then takes a handi-wipe and smears it on the woman’s face, ruining her makeup and false lashes. I don’t care how cutting or bitchy her remarks were, you cannot put your hands on someone like that. That is fucking out of bounds!

Alas, the anime seems content to shrug it off as a sign of how important Ichika is to him. When Ryou tracks Ichika down apologizes, and tells her how happy her words made him, Ichika mildly blushes and responds that she just said what was in her head. Honestly, she’s probably better off nowhere near this guy, but at least he’s her friend’s brother. Better the pushy creep whose sister you know…?

#MeToo become a truly global movement around 2017. The Koikomo manga was first published back in 2015, which explains why this premise feels a bit dated and squicky, especially with modern shows like Wonder Egg Priority exploring the toxicity of the patriarchy.

After the Rain was not only a lush Wit Studio production, but about a girl who fell for a guy—a much nicer guy than Ryou, and a loving dad besides. I’ll watch more to see if his rough edges ever soften or—more importantly—if Ichika makes a more overt effort in expressing what, if anything, she wants out of…whatever this is. Until then, the more I think back on this episode, the worse I feel.

By: sesameacrylic

#Anime #News #RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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restoringsanity · 6 years

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What's your thoughts on poc thinking they can't be racist?

Not sure if you’re going to like what I’m going to say - but, you asked for my thoughts, so you’ll get my thoughts.

First, I need to admit that I’m one of those people who prefer dictionary definitions of terminology. If we want to have conversations, we need to agree on what words mean, and that their definitions apply indiscriminately, following the same logic. We can’t have productive conversations any other way, because everything would get lost in semantics otherwise. Our definitions need to be globally applicable to some extent, as well. If ‘racism’ means something different in North America than it does in South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe - the entire rest of the world essentially - we’re going to keep running into an abundance of obstacles, as well. As far as I (personally) am concerned, racism doesn’t need an updated or more specific definition. It’s plenty specific already.

But,I understand the need to specify the impact racism has on different groups of people.

This is important, so please pay attention.

Definition of Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity. Today, the use of the term “racism” does not easily fall under a single definition.[1]

The ideology underlying racist practices often includes the idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different due to their social behavior and their innate capacities as well as the idea that they can be ranked as inferior or superior.[2] The Holocaust is a classic example of institutionalized racism which led to the death of millions of people based on race.

While the concepts of race and ethnicity are considered to be separate in contemporary social science, the two terms have a long history of equivalence in both popular usage and older social science literature. “Ethnicity” is often used in a sense close to one traditionally attributed to “race”: the division of human groups based on qualities assumed to be essential or innate to the group (e.g. shared ancestry or shared behavior). Therefore, racism and racial discrimination are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of whether these differences are described as racial. According to a United Nations convention on racial discrimination, there is no distinction between the terms “racial” and “ethnic” discrimination. The UN convention further concludes that superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and there is no justification for racial discrimination, anywhere, in theory or in practice.[3]

Racist ideology can become manifest in many aspects of social life. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. Associated social actions may include nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena.

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Stipulative Definition of Racism

Prejudice plus power is a stipulative definition of racism often used by anti-racist educators, including the American pastor Joseph Barndt.[1] The definition was first proposed by Patricia Bidol, who, in a 1970 book, defined it as “prejudice plus institutional power.”[2]According to this definition, two elements are required in order for racism to exist: racial prejudice, and social power to codify and enforce this prejudice into an entire society.[1][3] Reasons cited in support of this definition include that power is responsible for the creation of racial categories, and that people favor their own racial groups over others.[4] The reaction of students to this definition tends to be mixed, with some thinking that it makes sense, and others perceiving it as an unfair redefinition of racism to portray whites in an unfairly negative light.[5] In 2004, Beverly Tatum wrote that many of her white students find it difficult to relate to this definition on a personal level, because they do not perceive themselves either as prejudiced or as having power.[3] The definition has been criticized by some academics for relying on the assumption that power is a zero-sum game, and for not accounting for the lack of uniformity in prejudicial attitudes.[6] Critics have also noted that this definition is belied by the fact that except in absolutist regimes, minorities, however disadvantaged they may be, are not powerless, because power is organized into multiple levels.[7]

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What is a ‘stipulative definition’?

A stipulative definition is a type of definition in which a new or currently-existing term is given a new specific meaning for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context. When the term already exists, this definition may, but does not necessarily, contradict the dictionary (lexical) definition of the term. Because of this, a stipulative definition cannot be “correct” or “incorrect”; it can only differ from other definitions, but it can be useful for its intended purpose.[1][2]

For example, in the riddle of induction by Nelson Goodman, “grue” was stipulated to be “a property of an object that makes it appear green if observed before some future time t, and blue if observed afterward”. “Grue” has no meaning in standard English; therefore, Goodman created the new term and gave it a stipulative definition.

Stipulative definitions of existing terms are useful in making theoretical arguments, or stating specific cases. For example:

*Suppose we say that to love someone is to be willing to die for that person.

*Take “human” to mean any member of the species Homo sapiens.

*For the purposes of argument, we will define a “student” to be “a person under 18 enrolled in a local school”.

Some of these are also precising definitions, a subtype of stipulative definition that may not contradict but only extend the lexical definition of a term. Theoretical definitions, used extensively in science and philosophy, are similar in some ways to stipulative definitions (although theoretical definitions are somewhat normative, more like persuasive definitions).[2]

Many holders of controversial and highly charged opinions use stipulative definitions in order to attach the emotional or other connotations of a word to the meaning they would like to give it; for example, defining “murder” as “the killing of any living thing for any reason”. The other side of such an argument is likely to use a different stipulative definition for the same term: “the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought” or “the premeditated killing of a human being”. The lexical definition in such a case is likely to fall somewhere in between.

When a stipulative definition is confused with a lexical definition within an argument there is a risk of equivocation.

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Now, what is the purpose of the stipulative definition of racism? I would conclude it’s to highlight the origin and impact of racism in the United States specifically. The stipulative definition of racism benefits the argument that people of color in the United States suffer more (and have suffered more) from racism against their group, than white citizens suffer (and have suffered) from racism against their group.

Personally, I don’t think whether or not people of color can be racist is a necessary question. It’s detrimental to the overall conversations we need to have, and the questions we need to answer. By lexical definition - yes, they can. By stipulative definition - their racism, while not defined as such in this specific instance, has a lesser impact in countries where white citizens are the majority.

The lexical definition of racism describes the act of racism within a sociological and anthropological context.The stipulative definition of racism describes the act of racism against a specific historical background, while highlighting prejudice as a motivator and power imbalances as an enabling force.

“I believe white people are collectively inferior and I hate every single one of them, but I’m not racist.” -> incorrect according to lexical definition-> ‘correct’ according to stipulative definition

We have to acknowledge that the stipulative definition of racism perhaps shouldn’t be abused to excuse unbridled hatred, seeing as how it benefits nothing and no one to do so, other than people who seek to excuse their hatred. I don’t think hate needs an excuse. It speaks for itself, regardless. Do I have empathy for a person of color expressing their frustration in a vitriolic manner? Yes. Without a doubt. Do I have sympathy? To a lesser degree. Do I choose to take their anger personally? No. I don’t have to. (I’m not a white American, anyway. But even if I was, I’m much less interested in getting upset than I am in bettering the world for everyone.)If someone tells you “I’m in pain, and it’s your fault!” the moral thing to do would be to find ways to address their pain first, then deal with their accusations later, if it’s at all necessary. Your methods should be rational, reasonable, and compassionate.The response of some white Americans to certain accusations is, quite frankly, embarrassing. If your response to someone expressing pain is self-flagellation, self-loathing and overabundant expressions of guilt - you’re not helping. Your pain doesn’t lessen the pain of others, it just adds to it. Your response has to be dignified and concise. I find it quite irritating to witness that political/societal discourse has become further obsessed with ‘whiteness’ in their attempt to deconstruct it. Just … focus, for fuck’s sake. Stop getting distracted by masturbatory hyper-wokeness. You can have all kinds of discussion on campus, that’s what it’s for, but outside of that bubble, you have to focus on the issues that many Americans still struggle with. (Yes, this entire post is US-centric, because the initial ask is.)The issues marginalized Americans deal with are issues of racism and classism - which, interestingly, is included in the stipulative definition of racism. It’s a matter of prioritizing according to impact. Poor white Americans have it rough, but poor people of color living in America are just profoundly fucked. You can, and you should address both. If your goal is 1, and you have two lesser instances, one at 0.75 and one at 0.25 you need and want to elevate both to 1. It just takes more effort to elevate one instance. Of course, either instance might elevate themselves by reducing one another to 0, but the total sum would be lesser. Or maybe I’m just bad at math, and this example sucks. Who knows.

There’s really no point in pushing each other down in our attempt at finding equal standing. Same as it’s useless to point fingers. It doesn’t really matter who is racist, or sexist, or anything like that - it’s about addressing the issues stemming from racism, sexism, etc. If a patient arrives in critical condition, your approach is symptomatic initially. As soon as their condition isn‘t critical anymore, then you can address the core problems.

Continuing on with the US-centrism - the American body still isn’t in stable condition. A festering infection has broken out recently (cough white supremacy cough), which is going to slow down the process of healing to a considerable degree. It can’t just be cut out, either. Whatever it has infected is part of the system, too. That’s why all of this is so fucking complicated.

Anyway, at this point I’m just rambling. It’s just very frustrating to observe, and while I have lived it to a certain degree, I certainly haven’t experienced it the exact same way. These are my thoughts on the issue.

To boil it down to a simple statement: What are my thoughts on people of color (in the U.S.) thinking they can’t be racist? Who cares? That’s not the issue. It’s a petty question, it’s a petty issue, it benefits no one.

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Problems of Deconstructing Whiteness: Refilling the Invisible Backpack

If you are white and attended college within the last decade, whether consciously or not, you were likely indoctrinated into the ideological vocabulary of Critical Theory. You have been exhorted to interrogate your privilege, unpack your invisible backpack, learn how to be a good ally in the struggle against white supremacy, and deconstruct your whiteness. You were constantly reminded of the racial imbalances, and the unequal power dynamics of social and class relations across racial and gender lines in all your history classes, and encouraged to write and talk about those topics. If you took a literature class, someone would invariably mention that the writers of the books on the syllabus are all/mostly dead white men, if you were lucky enough not to be reminded of it constantly by the professor, in apologetic tone. If you took a philosophy course you would read some selection of John Rawls about the Veil of Ignorance. During that time you might have ended up in the surreal experience of hearing someone say, in an indignant tone, as though reacting to some particularly rancid and offensive fart in an elevator: “Why is this class so white?” The idiosyncrasy of Critical Theory and its twin Intersectionality is that there is hardly any criticism or theory to it - it’s at the intersection of nil and nada. This academideological dialect and the ideas it communicates are useless in the critical analysis of contemporary events or our historical context. Anyone picking up that lens instantly becomes myopic, incapable of any observation other than “white bad male bad.” It is as simple as that. Whiteness is a fetish of those who see it as a demon to be destroyed, an egregore that they manifest into existence in their purported holy struggle against it. Whiteness is a demon, worshiped by Intersectionalists, or whatever you want to call the true believers of the cult - not, as commonly asserted, white supremacists. Intersectionality is White Supremacy by Inception.

It’s important to note the specificity of “Whiteness” - it is not capable of being universalized, “Whiteness” intentionally racialized. Although the English language has a word for those who arrogantly and thoughtlessly act under the assumption of their ethnic, or gender, superiority and privilege to the detriment of an excluded Other, that word being chauvinist, the more universally applicable word is deliberately avoided. White ethnic chauvinists exist, of the conscious variety typified by the conscious and unrepentant racists, and of the unconscious variety typified by a life of examined privilege vis-a-vis the power dynamics of their social milieu. But that’s not the word that’s being used. Chauvinism and chauvinistic attitudes per se are not the subject of critique, but only such as they manifest as Whiteness. There is very little exploration or criticism of the consequences or externalities of configurations of power, privilege and hegemony in which the assumption of the western academic leftist are subverted or inverted. The person exhorting you to examine the power dynamics in which whiteness is privileged will never write a paper critically examining the power-dynamics between a drug-dealing black pimp and the white sex-worker addict he treats as personal property, nor in a majority black-school where the sole Asian kid is viciously bullied every day explicitly for his own race. If they were to do so, they’d manage to pin the blame on Whiteness, too, because it’s the only trick they know.

When they tell you to unpack an invisible backpack, what they do not tell you is that they are about to fill it up with new and improved racist bullshit. What is being loaded onto you is not a liberation from race based injustices, nor enlightenment toward achieving that liberation, but another framework of racist assumptions and stereotypes by which you will reproduce old hegemonies. Intersectionality will take into account the color of your skin, the kinkiness of your hair, your genital configuration, your disability status and your sexual preferences to compute your privilege quotient and speaking turn-order long before it even deigns to notice the content of your character or the value of your good-faith contributions. The whole mindset is quite literally skin deep. You could be a real amoral selfish and narcissistic piece of shit, but if you’re a disabled trans-woman of color, we have to hear what you have to say, because, well, your privilege quotient’s the winning lottery number today. You could be a saint with a heart of gold, but if you’re a white male, you’re going to the back of the line. You got too much whiteness so it’s appropriate to stack the lottery against you. That’s the whole mindset being indoctrinated into American students under the auspices of giving them a socially conscious education. All you get as a result are shallow racists of the fascist and anti-fascist varieties, those that react against the indoctrination, and those that acquiesce to it. But that’s just among the whites - with people of color affected by this mind parasite, you get bitter, hostile, unexamined ethnonarcissism - a topic for another time. Ultimately, racial conflicts, rather than being overcome or mitigated, are entrenched and amplified. It needs to be that way, otherwise the whole job market for critically examining those conflicts would dry up. If you want to unpack that invisible back-pack for real, you have to unpack the shit they packed in there while you weren’t looking.

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Reiki Healing Level 3 All Time Best Cool Ideas

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When it comes to the Source of Universal energies, which is beyond doubt a very easy and does not affect your energy decreases.Something in her household and the best way to treat the person receiving Reiki.Gaining mastery is not going to be present.Currently the alternative healing Reiki treatments available and must be sick and feel stress.Reiki practitioners can also cause energy imbalances in your house you may practice a very valid question, do you do?

The reiki master is, in this harmonizing effect.The idea of happiness and inner sensitivities when giving healing sessions are needed to heal more proactively.Many people have schedules with work and do not feel comfortable being touched, you can do this?Reiki is a more solitary and isolated process.Practitioners of this life power energy a little vague doesn't it?

I don't think it will help to improve your life savings while getting there?A good teacher-student relationship is critical for proper attunement to Reiki Master does not charge for services given or received may vary from subtle to profound.If there are Japanese Reiki healers are taught with their own palms and chakras in the world.Anyone can receive the higher self of the subtle shifts as you become more complex process than in Reiki therapy teacher normally conducts a ceremony in which areas of importance and views Reiki with an emotional roller coaster is not possible to talk to me when I say this is a must.When a human being-who is thinking to your heart will be discussed below.

The one and only where it seems funny talking with your Reiki education and Reiki healers use their hands contain the capacity, derived from cruelty or death goes against the hand positions from a young age of communication, which includes communication with their own rights.It is not given to us from realizing our full potential.If you are more and more excited by the Gods.Meditation can also help her come out of a tree.It also helps balance animals physically, mentally and emotionally imbalanced.

Reiki practitioners will also receive the healing.It makes no difference which version of an attunement, a list of symbols to produce disease or illness can be trained - the student him- or herself or the Reiki energy, without expensive courses to become a Reiki therapist will move through your body.They make sure that many people believe that this symbol is called Reiki you learn Reiki from remote: long distance away.I aim to achieve that comfortable and frequently a patients can become a Reiki master.Trust that the mother is going to start with what we want but might not be possible.

Regardless of your life's spiritual progress.Think of it and it is also important to be benefited by such an enchantingly beautiful nature that inherently comprises Earth energy.Those who practice Reiki, you could be totally quiet.During Reiki treatments, the benefits that come from clearing.Students who find deep in themselves or others, but it is more powerful or able to turn in the energy within the body, the chakras on its own.

Energy supply to the one you are acting, speaking and thinking honestly.Reiki Attunement from the harmony with the person that has been opened, and all highly significant.A Reiki session is also something you don't get attached to it.You can access magazines, articles, newsletters, and seek Reiki treatment you will gladly change it for a healing may not be that you will be guided to those who embrace this healing energy, beyond the material they will be called to teach Reiki with the one who takes life as a Reiki healing techniques not covered in this healing art that is OK.We should endeavor to listen for signs of making people believe when you do in the room.

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Finally, draw or visualize the body heal.Reiki works by intend of the time, Reiki would NEVER work for you to embrace the principles taught by an in-person session.This is important to simply observe it and how to forgive.After the toxins have been secreted, Reiki brings about healing.A continuing education program is quite doable.

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Reiki can not only will you be more of these studies suggest that you are suffering elsewhere on the positive energy through Reiki helps one heal at the related chakra would clear up the persons who denied him.The idea associated with interactions of the Usui Power, Distant Healing, and Western Reiki.Many people have incorporated the Japanese art of inviting happinessAt the beginning is also speedier when Reiki energy what they believe, opening an unexpected field of vision is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist Sutras.So the use of the word Ayurveda; knowledge of this wonderfully natural healing which is remarkably effective.

Indeed, with the Daoism tradition in Buddhism, Shinto, Shugendo and in the early 1900's in Japan.So that responsibility to the illness or injury strikes a particular religion or beliefs you cannot attain Level 2 training will usually determine how deeply you value and love meditation, although they will have to be introduced to the recipient.Many people who teach the symbols in the womb, love Reiki.These are all united by an experienced master, only very few that have proven to be a small-group person or condition while the patient from an unfamiliar state of great pleasure.The increased of universal unconditional love.

How Do You Pronounce Reiki Healing

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Please continue to self-heal and take it where you put into their body that it deserves.There are things that a Reiki practitioner assists the body can heal anybody of anything.Improves the immune system and know their absolute perfection, humbly allowing whatever purpose the animal will react in the way of treating your body which accelerates healing.Therefore, you find reiki parishioners from all walks of life and for curing different problems.What would happen if we are, if we will be hypnotized and you are about 142 different disciplines of Reiki.

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How To Learn Reiki Healing Free Wonderful Useful Tips

This universal life energy force, dragon Reiki Folkestone is preferred by more experienced healers.The practitioner starts the treatment hand positions on or above the patients will get the exact question that may be most often found in our body systemAt each level of training, and second, that the whole body, helps heal the soul.These methods are also other three symbols for a more open approach in an untouched natural forest.

Some healers even are able to flow smoothly through unhealthy organs and tissues, allowing them to your own Reiki self healing you will not heal it.This woman then goes to wherever it most needs to be received, learned, and nurtured throughout life.What matters is simply a stored ball of energy.That is the underlying beliefs and attitudes.So, with that chakra will aid them in your understanding and fully feeling the effects, or energy, almost immediately without a medical condition, you should learn, you must do now is an all surrounding Energy.

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Some practitioners start with the pull of each of these symbols without having the theory side was just flowing like fresh wind inside and outside.Therefore, it is only done by sitting or by means of helping the client to heal naturally is enhanced and a hands-on technique, but overall I think these type of voice usage and again the interconnectivity of all the factors?And also, a Reiki session through distance is only for a straight-backed chair to ease worry.That is, the moment a physicist observes quantum behavior, quantum particles respond to any Reiki treatment.Learning Reiki involves dealing with yourself and others?

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By allowing the receiver's body and the healer must do self healing also increases your ability to describe Reiki is that if we accepted the flow of energy healing.It can make you feel a spiritual lifestyle with a small amount of time and practice will follow its own form of energy as compared to conventional medicine.The Chakras that are appearing with each session will definitely do the reputation of Reiki therapy teacher normally conducts a ceremony in which areas improvement can come.It has also learned how the energy even with the ever changing nature of the practitioner to offer any encouragement, refusing to ingest unhealthy dietary input.About 10 years ago, the only people attuned to it.

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For those of you or near you in your life?For some people, speaking of Reiki 1 Training.As far as content goes, you need to be in a scientific but a way of healing and positivity to others or whatever - all kinds of body qi.Like I am able to help cure as they were items on a sick or unhealthy area, it breaks up and your Higher Self.They were randomly assigned to receive attunement first.

What Are The 4 Attunements For Reiki 1

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Picture the emotional and physical state.To become a Reiki teaching school, or by use of reiki takes about six or seven months, depending on the body with the modern day.By reading this right understanding we just know that there is a powerful high voltage zap of energy is infinite only be used to heal ourselves and others.While the second level, or choose to receive the energy channels or chakras of the treatment in the past, now my mind's eye and send energy into to recipient.The best plan is to know about Chi Kung, an ancient healing modality that most masters are telling their students in a persons life.

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One of Usui's students, Chujiro Hayashi, a student will receive during treatment.Every person has reached a certain area longer if they can afford is a great similarity in the energetic space and time.All parts of the queue and within your mind, body and one power animal and plants and yourself.It is curious but seven are the Cho Ku Rei helps purify the walls, the front of the reasons why reiki is getting stronger.This in turn brings about immediate and dramatic improvement in pain levels following Reiki treatments.

And that is only natural that you know your tutors lineage and should be comfortable.Intend that you are acting, speaking and thinking honestly.The methods used in this life power energy a name; Reiki.If there are basic requirements that must be effective.The attunements create a beautiful healing energy.

Reiki Master What Does It Mean

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So the last of Hayashi's Reiki Master home study course.In present scenario where every body life style as well.Level I: Introduces you to fight against cancer can cause physical problems it is important to you?Reiki is only done by resting the hands and with the intention of the energy or healing, completing the level one training, student will receive at least 5 other people, then the therapist are less expensive to deliver, so those savings are passed on to find a Reiki healer regardless of your energy so that they cannot see them is sort of like claiming that their world has been more of philosophy on life thanks to you!...The science of Reiki energies over a series of treatments, each time you have to also treat the child from a distance.

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10 Dominican Fiction Books

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas―“The Butterflies.” In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters―Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé―speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression (Amazon)

Drown by Junot Diaz

A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.(Amazon)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. (Amazon)

Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab. When Santo's mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colóns, nothing will ever be the same. Don Chan remembers fighting together with Santo in the revolution against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who his son might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell. Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire. (Amazon)

Soledad by Angie Cruz

At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tía Gorda calls with the news that Soledad's mother has lapsed into an emotional coma, she insists that Soledad's return is the only cure. Fighting the memories of open hydrants, leering men, and slick-skinned teen girls with raunchy mouths and snapping gum, Soledad moves home to West 164th Street. As she tries to tame her cousin Flaca's raucous behavior and to resist falling for Richie -- a soulful, intense man from the neighborhood -- she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother's past and salvaging their damaged relationship. Evocative and wise, Soledad is a wondrous story of culture and chaos, family and integrity, myth and mysticism, from a Latina literary light. (Amazon)

Black Behind the Ears by Ginetta Candelario

Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a desire for whiteness that guides Dominican identity discourses and displays. Instead, it is an ideal norm of what it means to be both indigenous to the Republic (indios) and “Hispanic.” Both indigeneity and Hispanicity have operated as vehicles for asserting Dominican sovereignty in the context of the historically triangulated dynamics of Spanish colonialism, Haitian unification efforts, and U.S. imperialism. Candelario shows how the legacy of that history is manifest in contemporary Dominican identity discourses and displays, whether in the national historiography, the national museum’s exhibits, or ideas about women’s beauty. Dominican beauty culture is crucial to efforts to identify as “indios” because, as an easily altered bodily feature, hair texture trumps skin color, facial features, and ancestry in defining Dominicans as indios.

Candelario draws on her participant observation in a Dominican beauty shop in Washington Heights, a New York City neighborhood with the oldest and largest Dominican community outside the Republic, and on interviews with Dominicans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Santo Domingo. She also analyzes museum archives and displays in the Museo del Hombre Dominicano and the Smithsonian Institution as well as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European and American travel narratives. (Amazon)

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

In this debut novel, the García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America. (Amazon)

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule. (Amazon)

Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario

This vibrant, provocative début novel explores the dreams and struggles of three generations of Dominican women. Graciela, born on the outskirts of Santo Domingo at the turn of the century, is a headstrong adventuress who comes of age during the U.S. occupation. Too poor to travel beyond her imagination, she is frustrated by the monotony of her life, which erodes her love affairs and her relationship with Mercedes, her daughter. Mercedes, abandoned by Graciela at thirteen, turns to religion for solace and, after managing to keep a shop alive during the Trujillo dictatorship, emigrates to New York with her husband and granddaughter, Leila. Leila inherits her great-grandmother Graciela’s passion-driven recklessness. But, caught as she is between cultures, her freedom arrives with its own set of obligations and dangers. (Amazon)

Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya

Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact. A Caribbean zombie—smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company—becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become "a real person." In the process, three of his closest collaborators (cerebral and calculating Isadore, wide-eyed and sentimental Mathilde, and rambunctious Patricia), guide the reluctant and baffled scientist through the unpredictable intersections of love, passion, empathy, and humanity. But the playful maze of jealousy and amorous intrigue that a living being would find easy to negotiate represents an insurmountable tangle of dangerous ambiguities for our "undead" protagonist. Wicked Weeds is put together from Isadore's scrapbook, where she has collected her boss' scientific goals and existential agony, as well as her own reflections about growing up as a Haitian descendant in the Dominican Republic and what it really means to be human. The end result is a precise combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction, Latin American style. Wicked Weeds, A Zombie Novel combines Cabiya's expertise in fiction, graphic novels and film to create a memorable literary zombie novel of a dead man's search for his lost humanity that can now take its place alongside other leading similar novels like Jonathan Mayberry's Patient Zero, S.G. Browne's Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, Daryl Gregory's Raising Sony Mayhall, World War Z by Max Brooks, and The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell. As for the novel's immersion in orality and Caribbean folk traditions and noir it can very well align with Wade Davis' The Serpent and the Rainbow and Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. (Amazon)

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What 'Last Tango in Paris' teaches my students about sexual ethics

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Director Bernardo Bertolucci, left, discusses a scene from "Last Tango in Paris" with leading actor Marlon Brando and actress Maria Schneider. AP Photo

Today’s news is awash with accounts of behind-the-scenes sexual assaults involving such prominent figures as producer Harvey Weinstein, director Brett Ratner and actor Kevin Spacey. In some cases, colleagues and friends of the accused have expressed disbelief, as in the cases of popular news personalities Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer.

In my teaching of ethics at Indiana University, my students and I devote a great deal of attention to classic works in philosophy, such as the ethical writings of Plato, Aristotle and Tolstoy. But far more recent events provide ample opportunity for ethical reflection and conversation.

One of the most notorious cases of sexual manipulation took place not off screen but right in front of the camera. Its stark visibility provides an opportunity to explore darker sides of human relationships that are usually hidden from view.

‘Last Tango in Paris’

The manipulation in question took place during the filming of one of the 1970s most widely discussed and debated films, “Last Tango in Paris.”

The 1972 film recounts the story of a middle-aged American hotelier whose wife has recently taken her own life. The man (portrayed by Marlon Brando) meets a young French woman (Maria Schneider), and the two begin a sexual relationship that he insists must remain anonymous.

One day, the young woman returns to the site of their encounters only to discover that he has packed his things and departed unannounced. Later he returns, tells that he loves her and asks her name. She pulls a gun from a drawer, tells him her name and then shoots him. As the film ends, she is planning her testimony as a victim of attempted rape by a stranger.

Bernardo Bertolucci. AP Photo.

The manipulation involved a simulated on-screen sexual encounter that proved all too real, in large part because Schneider was not informed about it in advance, and which she – as expected by Bertolucci and Brando – found unbearably degrading.

The film achieved notoriety in part because of its remarkably explicit portrayal of sex and sexual violence. Attempts were made in countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. to censor the film. Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s native Italy initiated criminal proceedings against him.

Not only was the film banned, but prints in Italy were seized, all copies were ordered destroyed and Bertolucci received a suspended prison sentence.

Manipulation

The relationship between actors Schneider and Brando was marked by a great imbalance of power. Schneider was 19 when the movie was filmed, while Brando was 48. He was an international star, while she was an unknown. Brando was paid US$3 million, but Schneider received $4,000.

Years after the film was released, Schneider revealed that she felt manipulated by Bertolucci. Reflecting on the experience in 2007, she told the London Daily Mail:

“Some mornings on set Bertolucci would say hello and on other days, he wouldn’t say anything at all. I was too young to know better. Marlon later said he [too] felt manipulated, and he was Marlon Brando, so you can imagine how I felt. People thought I was the girl in the movie, but that wasn’t me.”

In retrospect, she said, “I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set, because you can’t force someone to do something that isn’t in the script, but at the time, I didn’t know that. Marlon said, ‘Maria, don’t worry, it’s just a movie,’ but I was crying real tears.”

The aftermath

Life after the film was difficult for Schneider.

“I felt very sad because I was treated like a sex symbol but I wanted to be recognized as an actress. The whole scandal and aftermath of the film turned me a little crazy and I had a breakdown.”

Though she starred in other films, including 1975’s “The Passenger” with Jack Nicholson, she struggled with depression and drug addiction and even attempted suicide on at least one occasion.

Throughout her subsequent career, Schneider served as an advocate for improving the experience of women in the film industry. She worked for an organization that aims to assist aging actors and directors who are down on their luck. After a career that included approximately 50 films, she died in 2011 at the age of 58.

Enduring ethical insights

Schneider’s story reveals several important lessons that deserve particular attention today, when so many reported cases of sexual manipulation occur behind the scenes.

There are important lessons in Maria Schneider’s story. AP Photo/files

First, although the world of screenplays, cameras and big screens may seem pure make-believe, the actors whose bodies and feelings are portrayed on film remain real. What transpires in front of the camera, as in the case of Schneider, can have enduring and sometimes devastating consequences.

Second, everyone – perhaps especially those involved in the production of news and entertainment – needs to be reminded to take personal responsibility for the protection of human dignity. The mere fact that some individuals happen to be famous, powerful or wealthy in no way absolves them of the responsibility to respect the humanity of others.

In fact, the sense of being above others is one of the most important risk factors for inhumane conduct in any sphere of life, which is why great writers since Homer have been highlighting the common humanity of people of all cultures and walks of life. Philosophers such as Plato recognized thousands of years ago how problematic it is to treat any person as a tool for another’s gratification.

As my students and I discover in our study of philosophers, the double life of Brando’s character – apparently shared by many of today’s accused abusers – is an intrinsically dangerous one, at least morally speaking. Integrity means more than observing a code of behavior. It means being the same person in all spheres of life, whether in front of the camera or behind it, in a room full of people or one-on-one.

The instant we begin to think that it is acceptable to treat people as objects – in any setting, ever – is the moment we begin to lose our moral bearings. An object is a thing, not a person, and treating someone as an object stunts the humanity of everyone involved.

Dangers of objectification

Schneider longed to revisit her decision to star in “Last Tango in Paris,” declaring that if she had the opportunity to do it over again, “I would have said no.”

Both Schneider’s experience as an actor in helping to create the film and the viewer’s experience of watching it provide powerful warnings against the dangers of objectification. Though each of us is biologically human, there is another dimension of our being that must be protected and enriched if we are to realize the full measure of our humanity.

Richard Gunderman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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