You curse my name, but these things aren't the same
It has been an exhausted and exhausting week. Yesterday I socialized with a friend who made chicken soup from scratch and we talked about music and folklore. That was nice. Today I did very little of practical value and it did not result in anything except the desperate feeling that if I did not have commitments tomorrow that obliged me to leave the house, I wouldn't.
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selkie: Casimir Nonbinary Pulaski.
2. Austin Smith's "Cat Moving Kittens" made me cry, which is not usually a reaction I have to poetry, but here we are.
3. Joseph Coelho's "The Watchers" feels like a lost episode of Sapphire & Steel.
4. Whenrushthatspeaks reviewed Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy (2014), they talked about its subversion of the trope of all-female societies as insectile, hive-like. Katie Bickham's "The Blades" does something of the same, very differently.
5. I like everything about Emma Porsbjerg's "Starbucks mermaid stole ur gf but she don't mind," which is not a poem.
I am having a difficult time dealing with things I can't even metaphorically subtweet about; the things I can say all feel repetitious and tiresome. I would like to sleep. I would like to be in much less physical pain. I am not looking for medical advice. I want the world to be different. I don't think I believe any longer that I can make it so, which does not exempt me from having to try, but it makes it hurt more.
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selkie: Casimir Nonbinary Pulaski.2. Austin Smith's "Cat Moving Kittens" made me cry, which is not usually a reaction I have to poetry, but here we are.
3. Joseph Coelho's "The Watchers" feels like a lost episode of Sapphire & Steel.
4. When
rushthatspeaks reviewed Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy (2014), they talked about its subversion of the trope of all-female societies as insectile, hive-like. Katie Bickham's "The Blades" does something of the same, very differently.5. I like everything about Emma Porsbjerg's "Starbucks mermaid stole ur gf but she don't mind," which is not a poem.
I am having a difficult time dealing with things I can't even metaphorically subtweet about; the things I can say all feel repetitious and tiresome. I would like to sleep. I would like to be in much less physical pain. I am not looking for medical advice. I want the world to be different. I don't think I believe any longer that I can make it so, which does not exempt me from having to try, but it makes it hurt more.
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Well, that broke my heart.
I want things to be better for you.
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*hugs*
I want things to be better for you.
Thank you.
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Or possibly a crossover involving the Weeping Angels.
I am having a difficult time dealing with things I can't even metaphorically subtweet about; the things I can say all feel repetitious and tiresome. I would like to sleep. I would like to be in much less physical pain. I am not looking for medical advice. I want the world to be different. I don't think I believe any longer that I can make it so, which does not exempt me from having to try, but it makes it hurt more.
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They are certainly a disruption in ordinary space-time.
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*hugs*
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Thank you.
*hugs*
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(Although with 2. and 4. it isn't really so much exclamation-mark-with-a-bounce kind of liking. They'll be in my head a while).
I hope things spiral into more energy and less pain.
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I'm glad!
(Although with 2. and 4. it isn't really so much exclamation-mark-with-a-bounce kind of liking. They'll be in my head a while).
"The Blades" did that for me. I read it a few nights ago; then it kept coming back to me.
I hope things spiral into more energy and less pain.
Thank you.
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I DO get that reaction to poetry which is perhaps why I write it!
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I believe it's a lot of people's reaction to poetry! Just not usually mine, so I note it here. It hit a heartstring, or a nerve.
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I'm glad you enjoyed them!
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Thank you. I mean it.
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Your remark about all-female societies makes me wonder about stories of all-male societies. Are there any stories of such? I mean, there are stories about armies and stories about religious communities that are all male--but those are institutions within society or deliberately set apart from them; they're not attempting to "do" all of society.... well, I guess some monastic communities sort of are, come to think of it. But monastic communities have all-female counterparts. What I wonder is, are there stories of "races of all men" the way Amazons were supposed to be a race of all women. I'm thinking not, the reason being that for much of history, **humanity** was basically considered, by many men, to be a race of all men, with women simply the vector of propagation.
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I'm glad I found them!
What I wonder is, are there stories of "races of all men" the way Amazons were supposed to be a race of all women. I'm thinking not, the reason being that for much of history, **humanity** was basically considered, by many men, to be a race of all men, with women simply the vector of propagation.
Mythologically I can't think of any, and I think for the reason you name: a world without men is something unnatural and fantastical—a thought experiment, an aspiration, or a cautionary tale—whereas a world without women is only so many domains of daily life already. I can think of a couple of science-fictional examples of all-male worlds (Cordwainer Smith's Arachosia, Lois McMaster Bujold's Athos) and some borderline examples in contemporary fantasy, like the all-male Brotherhood of vampires in Neil Jordan and Moira Buffini's Byzantium (2012), although that's a subversion so it's seen as one more example of men withholding from women that to which access should be equal.
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Thank you.
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*hugs*
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I was just reading my way through the issue and wham.