Tango: I need to see Etho die and then I’ll be happy, alright?
Etho: (laughing) ohhh, noo
Gem: I can murder him!
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Let me tell you a story.
Picture it: Sicily, 1883.
An attractive peasant girl is minding her own business, when a young man from her village starts courting her without warning. That young man, Turiddu, is a former soldier who recently returned from the army, so she’s of course impressed. It’s a well-known fact that he had been courting with Lola, the village beauty, before he set off into the army, but that by the time he returned, she was married to Alfio, the village carter.
Anyway, after that betrayal, Turiddu immediately sets his sights on the aforementioned peasant girl, who believes his ardent declarations and promises well enough to allow him to make passionate love to her. Of course, what is bound to happen happens, and soon enough, the entire village hears all about this affair. And because this was Sicily, 1883, the girl gets all the blame and is even excommunicated from the church, while Turiddu gets away with everything.
To make matters worse, it becomes very clear that he seduced her with the intention of making Lola jealous, which works flamboyantly well, because soon enough, the jilted peasant girl witnesses him hanging around Lola’s house every night while Alfio is away carting shit, blissfully unaware of all these happenings.
And then on Easter, she begs Turiddu one last time to come back to her, to no avail. Outraged, she curses his Easter, and later tells Alfio all about Lola’s affair, though she immediately comes to regret it. Alfio challenges Turiddu to a knife fight, which he accepts by biting his ear till it bleeds, which is a Sicilian custom meant to represent a fight to the death. Turiddu gets killed in the fight, but not before telling his mother to look after the girl in case he doesn’t come back.
That peasant girl was me. And this story was a summary of the plot of Cavalleria rusticana in the style of the “Picture it: Sicily” stories from The Golden Girls.
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Mother Stanley is currently clicking every single drawer, wondering if it'll open
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Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"
Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.
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learning that self deprecation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.
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Reminder that Palestinians in Gaza are being deliberately starved by Israel. Families in gaza are boiling plant leaves and eating them. They're also eating animals and birds food to stay alive. There are reported cases of kids and infants who died out of hunger and/ or cold. Starving people is part of genocide too. Remember how fast medicine was provided for the Israeli hostages, while Palestinians are starving for food and water and getting operations and amputations performed with no medication or anesthesia whatsoever.
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If you didn't hear, Substack is now officially a Nazi site. Officially as in "the CEO has said they wouldn't ban Nazis, and that they are welcome to monetize their content on Substack". I think this is the first time a major web platform has openly say they are ok with making money out of open Nazis and white nationalists.
Substack CEO reasoning is "we don't like nazis, but we defend their right to be nazis". But, of course, at the same time, substack bans sex workers from using their platform.
So yeah, if you have a Substack account, maybe it's time to move somewhere else. As they say, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.
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to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:
reading a fucking book. i beg of you.
in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.
read about americas occupations in the middle east.
read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.
read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.
and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.
dont look away from this.
you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.
if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.
you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.
wake the fuck up.
Edit: please check the reblogs there are readings and ways to help
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i know ryoko kui is a real one because she wrote 97+ chapters of a manga about fantasy ecosystems and food chains and not once did she write the phrase "survival of the fittest" (it's a bad phrase) (it's a social darwinist phrase even) (hated amongst biologists) (doesn't make sense) (darwin didn't use it) (coined by an business major) (one of the worst phrases in pop science) (no good)
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