We cling to these last remaining islands of what we know as our world disappears around us
oh god the rug is gone
They are coming for Max next, I just know it
(I shouldn’t mock him; he’s literally lived here half his life and probably doesn’t even remember the old place because he’s still a kitten in Maine Coon terms and his whole world is getting torn down as he watches)
He’s just perpetually making this face now 😟
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weirdly, learning about the spiritualist attitude toward manifest destiny turned me around on spiritualism, from seeing it as silly to seeing it as sort of Sweet Pure Cinnamon Roll innocent and idealistic
like when almost every white American was like YES MANIFEST DESTINY, OBVIOUSLY
the spiritualists were like fuck no and joined Indian Rights movements
Also never forget that we could have had Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass as a president-VP combo if America hadn't been like "what, this woman thinks marriage is a trap for women? she must be a devil-slut!" and tanked her chances
if you ever wondered why this country is as white supremacist as it is, stop complaining about the South and start looking at institutions like Harvard and Yale.
This is a Yale graduate student saying walking around Berkeley as a conservative is the same as Holocaust trauma.
The institutions that half our politicians come from aren't usually obvious, frothing at the mouth white supremacy like Liberty University and its ilk.
They're quiet, old money white supremacy.
But like West Coast Tech Dude white supremacy, it's a lot harder to fight, and most people don't believe it's there, because they want to see racism and white supremacy as something that's about ignorance and economic anxiety or whatever.
so I was lukewarm on the "Lore" podcast, but I decided to listen to "Unobscured" (which does a season-long deep dive on a single subject) by the same guy, and it is surprisingly great
When I looked at the subjects for the first three seasons, I was like "meh,"
because they are
1. Salem witch trials 2. Spiritualism 3. Jack the Ripper
and, like, yawn, could you pick more overdone subjects (other than, maybe, spiritualism)
but I have been painting a
FUCKING INFINITE
number of cabinets
so I decided to binge it and start with Jack the Ripper, the season that I assumed would bore me the most, and work up to spiritualism