Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2021

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  • For real for real. Im forever bitter that the release of HP overshadowed His Dark Materials since HDM subverted the genre before YA even got established. Though I suppose “A coming of age story thats meant to be Narnia but militantly atheist; containing child death, concentration camps, feminist subtext that extends beyond ‘girl power’ and talking polar bears brutally murdering eachother for sport” is a hard sell to a general audience.

    Infinite admiration for the love Dresden Files people give to the Dresden Files. Do you have a recommendation for someone who may be interested but doesn’t know where to start?






  • I can only speak to the US perspective on this but over here there’s this obnoxious and everpresent culture of lionization around former/current military personnel and some of the western left’s fixation has to be a reaction to it. A Pair of "hometown heroes" banners like the ones found on the main streets of small towns. One of them features a picture of a man in a USMC uniform and its an awful shot that makes him look kinda evil

    I mean like, every small town has a street lined with banners similar to those in pic related and its like… Theres some guys who lived here who took a job with the government? And how much money did this town get scammed out of to do this? Between that and the “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” shit that’s everywhere I’m sick of it.