This is an excellent article. It talks about the psychology of tyranny, the history of resistance and the paths we have to take to rescue each other and recover.
All right, y’all. Instead of April Fools, tell me 3 things you are excited for this April! No joke. XD Here are mine!
1. Working on my novel this month as part of a novel-writing challenge with my writing discord server! ✏️ I am drafting a Neolithic-era love story… Let’s hope it’s not too rocky 😂 🤎
2. The new Trousdale album is coming out on April 11, and I will be seeing them in concert! So I’ve gotta memorize all their lyrics 💪
Thank you, @glorf1ndel ! I always like to see happy news and excitement among my friends! ❤️ Here are my 3 things:
My very best friend lost her job in the first wave of the ongoing federal purge (ugh) BUT she is very lucky because she just got a new job and IT’S HERE! So she is moving back to this area after many years living overseas. She’ll be here next week for a few days of apartment hunting, and I’m unbelievably excited.
My niece designed and sewed all the costumes for her high school musical (Mamma Mia), which is being performed this weekend. She’s been working really hard on it, and I’m pumped to see her creativity in the spotlight!
New books! I have a hold pending for The Mercies at my library — thanks for the rec, @lady-of-ithilien ! — and my book club is reading Remarkably Bright Creatures, which apparently has a giant octopus as one of the two main characters (???) so we’ll see what that’s all about.
Thank you for tagging me! I can answer this easily.
Three things coming up for Konartiste in April:
1. My birthday. I’ll not mention the exact day but I will celebrate a birthday week from the 7th until the 13th.
2. The ending of The Marriage Bed of the Brute and the Bookworm. Chapter 14 now has 11k. I’m thinking another 3k easy and I’m done. The epilogue will be short. I’m ready to move on!
3. A two-stopper spring vacation! After the previous 3 trips got canceled, I’m heeding the ancient belief of Nazar and I will tell people about it once I’m back, lol.
I guess I can admit that for a while I couldn’t think of anything I was looking forward to. But then I did.
We’re going on a little family vacation in April and I’m excited to get some sun (after liberally applying sunscreen of course).
I’ve been collecting poems for poetry month and I’m excited to reblog/share a few and maybe the things they remind me of, which include fics.
I’m looking forward to trying to carve out some occasional dedicated writing time out of the house so I can chip away at my medium fic, my long fic and the short fic idea I thought of this week.
there was no perfect path. you did not get punished. your life did not unravel when you made a left turn. the memory will always be there. you can visit whenever you want. there is no alternate timeline where you made a better choice and got a happier ending. you were a little girl chasing the ice cream truck, playing hopscotch, swinging and aiming for the never ending blue. yes, the grief was waiting up ahead. but so was the miracle of saturdays in a car headed wherever you wanted to go. enough sky to wrap around every wound. friends who, despite your perennial bouts of silence, kept an ear close at all times.
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it’s kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
Like
Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they’d be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There’s much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We’ve been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, “This was my world.” It was a profoundly moving experience.
Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They’d worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.
And have some additional nerdery about the song (includes pictures of the original manuscript—and where a scribe decided to change some notes, but the original notes were still obvious):
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