Ah Yes All Of Those Oppressed People Who Actively Choose To Live Under A Dictatorship And Are Not Trapped

I actually despise poetry like this because it relies purely on its gimmick rather than any actual technical skill. because if you actually write it out in paragraphs it’s only a middling poem. it doesn’t really say anything interesting or advance the genre. the language is not very interesting. the sentences are mostly prosaic. there’s no musicality. in short it has very little actual artistic quality.

A poem should stand on its own as just the words on the page - not be defined by the goofy way you arrange them. I could, if I wanted, rearrange Thomas’ masterpiece Fern Hill or Keats’ On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

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but they don’t NEED to be and in fact it would probably take away from the actual lyricism of the work.

did you guys see the poem from a couple of days ago in poetry dot org’s daily poem it was so good and a treat to read 

it’s crazy that people make fun of the right for engaging in conspiracy theories, then turn around and write shit like “the government is EVIL and trying to hurt YOU PERSONALLY with EVERYTHING THEY DO”

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

sworn by oath, Indoril endures, despise everyone hating us apparently…

thank you to anonymous for the suggestion! please note hlaalu, mora, dagoth, sotha, and dwemer were not included due to no longer holding the position.

“Your ship is bad and evil and you’re illiterate and my ship is perfect and good.”

I swear this shit is so goofy. actual five year old “my dad could beat up your dad” behaviour

can we talk about how lottienats disregard travnat/ mistynat/travis/misty as characters for their ship? they're insanely important to nat. and disregarding them means disregarding nat's development, drives, and ideals. they literally changed nat's perspective and character. like do you even care about lottienat as characters? and the whole 'i hate men so i'll ignore him and misty's a freak so i'll ignore her' like way to strip natalie of possibly the narratively two most important people to her

and i fear lottienats have a super surface level understanding be another thing is like. whether you like travnat/travis or not he's important for her characters development and drive for her entire life. there's a reason why travis haunts her story, whether you like him or not you gotta understand why he's fundamental for her character

how did jackie feel about zayn leaving one direction

Jackie would LOVE 1D: they're like...the ideal. Boys who EVERYONE agrees are Attractive (so its not weird for her to like them! It's in face a mark of how Normal she is!) and who lots of very cool, normal people are obsessed by! So it's not weird if she talks about them- it's not like when she's telling people about SF storylines or womens soccer, it's not boring or lame, it's Cool! And their songs are happy and bouncy and cheerful and she just Does Not Get why Van and Shauna make faces when she plays their songs over and over in the car. (Gen and Lottie also quite like 1D. Mel and Tai don't really have any strong opinions on them. Mari LOVES them too but doesnt want people to know how much because caring that much about a boyband is both not Cool and also she knows Shauna will tease her a LOT. Nat doesn't think boybands should be allowed- they are literally A Product that was created from a tv show ffs. They just perform whats written for them, dress as theyre told, make money off kids too young to know better. That goes against everything that music stands for. Like if they were an independent group that made the same music- meh not her taste but fine. But they're literally a PRODUCT, even THEY dont care about the music they make! *sees Jackie come into the room and shuts up immediately bc she knows jackie loves them and the only thing worse than corporate bullshit bands is spoiling something that someone loves so wholeheartedly. And no she absolutely wasn't absent mindedly humming/bobbing along to Story of my life when she was in the kitchen making dinner, stfu Van, stop laughing-)

All that to say, Jackie gets really upset when Zayn leaves because that's a Change. What if the band isnt cool anymore and people dont want to let her talk about them? What will she listen to now there wont be new songs? What if she forgets he's not a member and people laugh? What if- She basically gets kind of sad and mildly panicky over it but Nat knows its more about the change and the sadness that one of her safe socially accepted interests is now Different. It's ok, she gets over it- the other YJs treat Jackie, Gen and Mari to a night eating snacks and watching all their videos and stuff together and even Van and Shauna are sweet about it and that helps.

(Side note: Lottie likes the music but is, as with lots of things, not that bothered about little details like band lore or like knowing the band members names. When Jackie tells her Zayn is leaving, she asks who Zayn is and then shrugs and says maybe they'll just get a new guy who looks a bit like him to be Zayn, right? Like when your goldfish dies and your nanny gets you a new one that looks just like it so you don't cry because there's a Very Important Dinner Party and if you;re throwing a fit, it'll get ruined? Nat is like dying laughing inside as she patiently explains that like no, boyband members arent the same as goldfish. Why not? Well theyre not scaly, they dont swim.... No Lot, I dont know if the band members can swim. I guess they can. Anyway- (I love the idea that Lottie is just very much totally on her own plane of thought and reasoning. And she can keep going with her questions and theories for AGES and sometimes she genuionly believes it, sometimes shes messing with you a bit but only she ever knows which....)

this is like when Jack Horner dedicated his entire life to arguing that Tyrannosaurus is actually not a super cool predator but in reality a cringe gay scavenger because his favourite dinosaur was often portrayed as tyrannosaurs’ prey

(elite paleontology reference)

can we talk about how lottienats disregard travnat/ mistynat/travis/misty as characters for their ship? they're insanely important to nat. and disregarding them means disregarding nat's development, drives, and ideals. they literally changed nat's perspective and character. like do you even care about lottienat as characters? and the whole 'i hate men so i'll ignore him and misty's a freak so i'll ignore her' like way to strip natalie of possibly the narratively two most important people to her

and i fear lottienats have a super surface level understanding be another thing is like. whether you like travnat/travis or not he's important for her characters development and drive for her entire life. there's a reason why travis haunts her story, whether you like him or not you gotta understand why he's fundamental for her character

i never draw animals but this is actually super cute (this was for and courtesy to my bestie @culpeppercheckers721)

behold. nick carraway as a pigeon.

I don’t know how much Furher Putin is paying you to act like an idiot online, but I hope it’s a lot.

woke up to a lot of anon hate today (which, by the way, is a fundamentally cowardly way to argue online. if you want to spit in my face at least have the decency to show yours.) I assume most of it was spurred by my rather uncharitable response to a Russia simp.

let me make one thing absolutely clear. if you have any positive feeling at all towards modern Russia, you are not welcome here. The Russian state is fundamentally and unimpeachably evil. It is a reactionary and autocratic nation ruled by the union of fascists, oligarchs, and the Church. Nothing of it is good. Nothing is redeemable. If a just god existed, Russia would burn forever in hellfire.

beware the ides of March

this was the “proof” they claimed to have btw. like. you keep using that word I do not think it means what you think it means.

It's hilarious how you didn't respond to my ask, showing literal PROOF South Korea was a fascist dictatorship in its inception. Instead you claim the DPRK was somehow the fascist one

Look up Ilminism and Syngman Rhee :)

babe I went to bed I was going to respond in the morning. are you so obsessed with me that you can’t wait eight hours. (also you did not provide proof bbygirl. you just said it was true. that’s not proof. (although it doesn’t really matter because you weren’t making a super outlandish claim. Rhee’s dictatorship is established historical fact))

Trust me. I know about Rhee. I will be the first to point out that there was little to no difference between the South and the North during the Korean War. The difference is that the South reformed into a free Republic. The North did not. Had we not defended the South, it would have been absorbed and the whole peninsula would have stayed under dictatorial rule to this day.

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at another divided Cold War country where the UN was not quite as successful - Vietnam. Both sides of the Vietnam War were pretty brutal dictatorships (I would even argue that the South was worse.) And Vietnam remains under a one-party dictatorship to this day. Had the South remained free, I have no doubt that it would have reformed eventually, just as South Korea did, and by defending them we gave them that chance.

There is also such a thing as duty and right action. North Korea was the unlawful aggressor. Should we have simply sat back and appeased Kim Il-Sung as we did Hitler? I’m sure that no one would object to the West coming to Austria’s defence in 1938, even though Kurt von Schuschnigg’s government was effectively fascist. Or Poland - the Sanation Government of the Second Polish Republic was extremely autocratic. But when it was invaded by Germany and Russia, it was only right that we defended it.

Fascism cannot be defeated by sitting around twiddling our thumbs and waiting for the right nation to defend. Optics are and should be a non-consideration. The war is out there and we must fight it.