Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
My favourite part of this entire post is the final pic listing the human casualties and losses in the Emu war as “10 000 rounds of ammo.” and “Dignity.”
I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.
White people use the majority of drugs but black people go to jail longer. This talks more about why our jails and prison are full of black and poor people
Since this is much longer than the others if you scroll down to figure 5 and read the information about it that’s where this is detailed but the whole thing is a good read.
Reblogging this to here because I can never find examples of white privilege and systematic oppression when I go searching for it in our blog or my personal one.
This is the original version of “I am Not Alone”. Some of you might own the “old” version of Steam Powered Giraffe’s Album One, and you might know how Erin “Upgrade” sang this song on the album… I wrote the song for Upgrade. She gave me one line of lyric that she wanted me to incorporate when I was creating the song, and I used it.
Believe it or not, I recorded the entire song, playing all the parts except for bass and sang the lead vocals. Michael Reed then added harmonies and he had me add more harmonies on top of those. We then had Upgrade sing along to my vocal track and recorded her. My lead vocals were removed and that was that. When we kicked her out of the group, we re-did Album One, taking out all of her harmonies and putting in whatever “follow-along tracks” we had recorded for her to sing along to if any existed. We were actually going to keep I Am Not Alone in and just use the “original” recording that didn’t yet have Upgrade’s voice on it… That didn’t happen obviously…and we went with “Ice Cream Parade” instead.
So here it is. The original “I am Not Alone” before we replaced my lead vocals with Erin’s “Upgrades”. No one outside of the band has ever heard this before. Enjoy. Also, you’ll have to excuse the weird cutoffs on some parts…as it was a placeholder track.
P.S. - Just imagine The Spine and Michael Reed doing a duet together :3 Ahaha!
Yes, this song is totally gay without Upgrade singing The Spine’s part. Imagine The Spine and Michael in a boat singing to each other. That’s…why we took it off the album, because it was just a little too much love. <3
No Bunny there’s no such thing as too much love.
I think its sweet. :D
@moku-chan018 I found a rare one. And it’s beautiful
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms)was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.
The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
On the day when I stop reminding geekboys who shame the female geek contingent that WE STARTED THIS SHIT, you’ll all be getting a visit from my cackling ghost. Who will then proceed to reblog this FOR ALL ETERNITY.
He says that KKK members have many misconceptions about black people, which stem mostly from intense
brainwashing in the home. When the Klansmen get to know him, he says, it
becomes impossible for them to hold on to their prejudices. He
explains:
This Klansman and I were riding around in my car and the
topic of crime came up. He made the remark that all black people had a
gene that makes us violent. I said ‘Gary, what are you talking about?’
He said ‘Who’s doing all the shootings?’ I said ‘let me tell you
something, I am as black as anyone you’ve ever seen and I’ve never done a
drive by or a shooting.’ After a time I said ‘you know, it’s a fact
that all white people have within them a gene that makes them serial
killers. Name me three black serial killers.’ He could not do it. I said
‘you have the gene. It’s just latent.’ He said ‘well that’s stupid’ I
said ‘it’s just as stupid as what you said to me.’ He was very quiet
after that and I know it was sinking in.
The thing that’s interesting about this is, if you read up on how he does it… The big thing is that he listens to them and lets them say their stupid shit. He sometimes argues with them, but he also lets them talk about stuff and ask questions, and guess what, it works.
Guy’s got >20 sets of klan robes in his closet that people have sent him when they decided to quit the Klan.
This guy is a great example of why I think being polite to people you think are wrong is an effective strategy.
!!!!!!! THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT IT’S GOING ON MY MAIN BLOG
This feels important again. I’d rather spread this amazing guy’s words than add my own.
(the full article looks clickbaity but it’s super worth a read!!)
Evening Post: August 12, 1899. “She immediately alighted, caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him a sound thrashing, using her fists in a scientific fashion…”
I would love to know what this means.
I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.
it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”
As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.
“to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL
I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS
It’s really hard to choose a favorite part of this story.
