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One Does Not Simply Beg Their Way into Mordor

Posting this here, because I really don't know where it should go!

Is this fantasy for

deadbrowalking?

Live action roleplay for

gamers_of_color?

Hilarity of the day for

blackfolk?

The possibilities are endless!

Paul Hersey's Organic Armor...for dogs

( More Doggies )

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All Aboard

"The amazing voyage of the of the Failboat Armada."

Only two things have heartened me this past week: Willow’s composure and those allies that finally, painfully get it. My own hand was missing, hesitant, and cowardly in this confrontation. My indignation burned but not enough for me to take on this issue again so soon in the face of some much deliberate ignorance.

How many times must we PoC steel ourselves and wade into arguments that were made over one hundred years ago by the likes of Sojourner Truth. How many times must we be asked to coddle, comfort, and be compassionate to ears that refuse to hear, mouths that speak a racist lie, and eyes which see best only in blindness?

It’s an issue that wears a great stone to mere pebbles that lie in a multitude like gains of sand on the beach. The waves will not stop their assault until everything is ground to dust.

Every single time we speak up there is someone to tell us to shut the hell up. Every time we burn with indignation against the same old shit there is someone there with a fire hose, deranged in their attempt to shut us down. To smolder our passion and erase our justified anger with empty words and rhetoric.

The tools of academia are futile. They are the tools that once argued that folk of justice and honor were one step up from apes. An academia that displayed their body parts in museums next to beasts. An academia that downplays and dismisses the work, the art, and yes, the criticism of cultures from around the world.

PoC still fight for just the right to speak; we haven’t even come close to having a simple discussion.

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This is why I only listen to NPR now.

I'm not big on radio talk shows, but sometimes I'll listen if I'm really bored at work. On the radio the other day they're having a discussion on girls being raped. I knew where this was going already. In one instance they talk about a girl being raped by a man with no legs. And though this man has no legs she still gets blamed for not "wriggling away." The laughing got to me more than anything else. "How can you not get way from a man with no legs? Run girl!" No talk of the man other than "how do you thrust if you have no legs?" It was the girl's fault for not getting away from the, and they were skirting dangerously close to this word, cripple. Nevermind if the guy had a weapon or had his hands around her neck. No, it was clearly all her fault for not getting away.

Now males I can withstand going down that route, that bullshit isn't new. But the woman laughing with them? That idiocy was intolerable. But hey a legless man raping a girl too stupid to get away, that's funny to these idiots.

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And for tonight's bit of WTF:

[23:21] BloodiedSalmon: IT'S COMCASTIC!
[23:21] *** Auto-response sent to BloodiedSalmon: I'm away right now.
[23:21] Kia Slumber: ?
[23:22] BloodiedSalmon: do I know you?!
[23:22] Kia Slumber: you just messaged me
[23:22] BloodiedSalmon: why do you send me TeamworkSalmon (11:20:46 PM): IT'S COMCASTIC!
[23:22] Kia Slumber: [23:21] BloodiedSalmon: IT'S COMCASTIC!
[23:22] BloodiedSalmon: i got that from you
[23:22] Kia Slumber: I got the same from you
[23:22] BloodiedSalmon: i'm not bloodiesalmon
[23:23] Kia Slumber: okay