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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
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an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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re: lrt--awwww, preening crows! I forgot to mention that a pair of crows that hang around my porch have been courting. the larger one brought the smaller one a bit of moss from a tree, which was ignored and then dropped, before the larger one tried to offer another bit of moss. there was also some preening and beak-rubbing. CUTENESS!
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the sandwich guy from yesterday, cw transphobia
@guerrillarain@witches.town oh *good*. *toothy grin*
@electricplatypus yeah, that took me a while to get used to! XD
today's to-do list
ah I remembered a thing:
? bleach hair in preparation for re-dyeing
* clean catboxen
* work on story
* prepare lunchfood for tomorrow
the sandwich guy from yesterday, cw transphobia
@guerrillarain@witches.town sounds like sandwich guy needs a kick right out the goddamn door. is your HR useful at all? because that's the kind of comment that can get an asshole fired... sometimes, if the corporation isn't also full of assholes. :|
today's to-do list
* clean catboxen
* work on story
* prepare lunchfood for tomorrow
+ call maintenance re: bathroom fan AGAIN
+ put vet appt. on calendar
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Post-Halloween Frankenstein discussion
So a brief summary of my reading: Adam isn't a monster, but a quasi-revolutionary figure, born of the Enlightenment dialectic, but possibly capable of destroying it.
The bloodshed that takes place in the novel can be read simply as class warfare, and the only people who should be terrified of Adam are the same people that withhold positive liberties from everyone else, who have every reason to take those things through force if necessary.
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Post-Halloween Frankenstein discussion
The specific freedom in question (the romance and love of two people born of similar circumstance) is one that the doctor attempts to enjoy, and is mirrored almost exactly. Adam wants a lover who is also in some respects, a sibling, just as the doctor is attempting to marry his adopted sister.
No one has lingering worries that Victor and Elizabeth's children could've been evil monsters that could destroy the world, even if they share that capacity with Adam
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Post-Halloween Frankenstein discussion
Adam here serves as a useful stand-in for contemporary fears of AI or robots or whatever, but I think Adam was intended as a metaphor for the average person that science empowers, and as a result, threatens the very power structures that created them.
Adam's conflict with Dr. Frankenstein is of the scientific subject, empowered by science, but not yet emancipated. Adam enacts violence on the world (particularly its upper class) for his own freedom.
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Post-Halloween Frankenstein discussion
It's after Halloween and so naturally I bump into critically misreadings of Frankenstein by incredible sums of people who frankly should know better.
Frankenstein's monster isn't ugly, he's -uncanny-. He was built to be beautiful, powerful, and man's equal if not his superior. As an allegory, the book describes that the central scientific fear is the creation of subjects more capable than their superiors. Those subjects aren't -necessarily- artificial.
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Looking for folks living in Japan who are on hormone replacement therapy. Need advice.
@electricplatypus /waves greetings! :D welcome to the Tootsphere!
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today's to-do list
@aldersprig@tootplanet.space I'm trying to get better about cleaning them every day, or at least every other day--it really helps conserve litter to scoop them more frequently, and also cuts down on the smell, and it's really not *that* terrible a chore. I just have to roust my butt to *do* it, y'know? XD
@Leucrotta ooh, I'll have to look that up--might be Relevant To My Interests, although I'd like to try to avoid any more "OH DAMN I NEED TO COMPLETELY REWRITE THIS IN LIGHT OF NEW INFORMATION" incidents at this point. >__< is it based on the mythology, or in the Marvel universe?
today's to-do list
I've already done a bunch of stuff just now, so I won't bother listing those...
* clean catboxen
* work on story
* prepare lunchfood for tomorrow
* call maintenance re: bathroom fan AGAIN
* put vet appt. on calendar
shower, then maybe decide what to do with day.
@Jacel *growls deeply*
@literorrery thank you very much for writing and sharing this, and thanks to @KoBunny for the seed. :]
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
...
aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~
Joined Jun 2017
