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Some kind of mutant writing raccoon. Resistant to most damage types. Intersex Latina. ✡️《she/hers》 Most blocks are via chain; you may tap a friend to appeal.

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    Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

    It's funny how I hate Ray Bradbury a whole lot more than I hate George Orwell and FAHRENHEIT 451 is probably one one of the most poorly-written books I've ever had to read but as a whole, it's been a lot less harmful to political discourse than 1984, a book I actually enjoyed

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      2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like what the fuck is 451 even about really? I don't know. I'm not even sure Bradbury knows. Supposedly it's about "book-burning" but like Bradbury has next to no actual literacy in groups whose voices typically get targeted by book-burning. He doesn't care about Helen Keller.

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      3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Also like. The book is probably one of the most misogynist things I ever had to read. Women are materialistic wretches without any interiorities beyond what they want to watch on television and men are sensible bookish people trying to elevate the conversation. okay.

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      4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        It's not even like the book has really had any impact. Like back when Jack Thompson was the end-all, be-all censorship boogeyman of the gamer community, nobody self-importantly quoted Bradbury because the tone of that book is actually, Ray Bradbury fucking hates your vidya games.

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      5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Nobody is ever actually going to burn Ray Bradbury's books because they're just incompetently written and totally irrelevant, I don't really know what he was scared of, the guy didn't have a transgressive bone in his body

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      6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like it's really kind of offensive when you think about it I mean he writes about all these great Classical philosophers having their books burned and shit, while Classical and Enlightenment aesthetics are typically celebrated by actual fascists who want to burn books

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      7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like the people who have avatars of Plato and Thomas Hobbes now are precisely the kinds of people who would have burned down the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in the thirties, meanwhile I don't know any trans person who really wants to come after REPUBLIC or LEVIATHAN

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      8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Vapor Weyve Retweeted Defund the Police  🏳️‍🌈

        Oh yeah!!! Ray Bradbury has a real normal one about C-sections in this book I guess because suffering during childbirth builds character or somethinghttps://twitter.com/Pullingaclaudia/status/1292221398346338306 …

        Vapor Weyve added,

        Defund the Police  🏳️‍🌈 @Pullingaclaudia
        Replying to @Nymphomachy
        Literally the only thing I remember about this book is when the narrator is talking about his wife's friend with such disdain - she's apparently a vapid, selfish airhead and this is supposed to be evidenced by the fact that she...had her children via c-section
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      9. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Vapor Weyve Retweeted David Hansen, American Playwright

        I mean I don't know how much I can say about it that @arthur_affect hasn't said much more eloquently, though I do, emphatically, co-sign everything he's said I actually think the much more obscure HOUSE OF STAIRS, by William Sleator, is more interestinghttps://twitter.com/dhansenx/status/1292222970614685698 …

        Vapor Weyve added,

        David Hansen, American Playwright @dhansenx
        Replying to @Nymphomachy
        Now do 1984!
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      10. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Though it's been so long since I read that that I'm not even sure its themes are even remotely comparable I think my thing with Orwell is that he's just kind of a sad nerd, like I feel like rather than Rage Against the Machine quoting him in songs it should have been Linkin Park

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      11. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        There's that whole thing in THE L WORD where insufferable writer Jenny Schecter decides to name her freshman manuscript "Thus Spoke Sara Schuster" and then has to repeatedly fend off objections that that's real fuckin pretentious George Orwell has a lot of that kind of energy

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      12. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        I mean it's ironic in some ways that Orwell had such a beef against CS Lewis because they equally relished in condescending paternalistic allegories And while I'm no fan of JRR Tolkien, his own distaste for allegory has really kind of been vindicated by history in a big way

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      13. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like if I tried to write about my beef with somebody—truscum, let's say, since they're probably busy copulating with peat bog or something—in the form of a Brothers Grimm-esque parable about farm animals, you'd burst into laughter about how hopped up I was on my own flatulence

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      14. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Allegory is actually pretty dangerous HORTON HEARS A WHO! was Ted Geisel's way of expressing his newfound compassion for the Japanese during their period of postwar suffering But now it gets quoted by people trying to annihilate abortion rights Allegory has a short half-life

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      15. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like when you're reading ANIMAL FARM as a kid you have no fucking clue that Snowball is supposed to be Trotsky and moreover you have no clue who Trotsky was, you have no idea who the Mensheviks are and what they believed And the boomers feeding it to you don't know either

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      16. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        When you think about the whole idea of a "canon of 20th century literature" at least as it's characterized by the American public school curriculum, it's really clear how much it's designed to elevate anti-communist sentiment And it diminishes writers that are in favor of it

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      17. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like, you have to LEARN about Upton Sinclair and the reforms in the meatpacking industry, but you never have to actually read THE JUNGLE, because if you read it you might actually come away with some of the pro-labor, pro-communism ideas Sinclair was trying to get across

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      18. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Same thing with Helen Keller, like the American curriculum defiled her corpse so badly it'd make Pope Stephen VI wince She not only had her entire career obliterated but got twisted into an inspirational story about overcoming disability that ends the moment she learns to talk

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      19. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        So the fact that _this_ "canon" throws ANIMAL FARM and 1984 at children should raise some eyebrows The fact that they became _such_ a beatstick against any pro-labor, leftist sentiment, the fact that they get used to elevate the speech of Nazis over those who criticize them

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      20. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        And you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and get one of my takes from the furnace JENNIFER GOVERNMENT is a million times more relevant to the world as it currently is, and the needed discourse, than 1984 or THE HANDMAID'S TALE or 451 or BRAVE NEW WORLD But they don't assign that

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      21. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like, how convenient it is, that they only talk to children about the dystopias _dead_ people worried about Because anything that came out during our lifetimes surely isn't literature, it hasn't been "tested" by "history"

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      22. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Okay but what about books that have been tested by history Sure JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is ableist and pro-suicide and that's a whole thing but it's not any worse than the things schools make you read But I mean god forbid you get TOO anti-war, Lockheed Martin wouldn't like that

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      23. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Like honestly? I could pick 1984 apart, page by page, and I don't think I could make a condemnation of it more withering than the fact that conservative school boards have emphatically greenlit it as a part of public school curriculums. How do you top a drag that deep?

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      24. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        The people who like to do shit like rewrite textbooks to remove references to slavery and the civil rights movement, they want you to read 1984. I mean that's checkmate right there. I couldn't hoist that petard any higher in a billion years.

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      25. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Vapor Weyve Retweeted Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

        The fact that Bradbury gets shoehorned into curricula and Le Guin really doesn't is such a goddamn crime. I mean THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS is more thought-provoking in three thousand words than 1984 is in a hundred thousandhttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1292238943631613953 …

        Vapor Weyve added,

        Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof
        Replying to @Nymphomachy
        my experience with sff allegories is that you shouldn't do sff allegories just write about the damn thing you want to write about, like go write THE MATTER OF SEGGRI instead of reinventing some weird "gender-but-not-actually gender" allegory that doesn't actually make sense
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      26. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        But I mean that's the thing, right Conservatives don't want you to think about walking away from Omelas. They want you to warm your hands over a fire barrel and join them in gloating derisively about how bad they have it over there in Oceania

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      27. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 8 Aug 2020

        Vapor Weyve Retweeted Vapor Weyve

        Oh yeah I forgot that my classmate in high school found parts of 1984 so boring that he genuinely and sincerely believed it was an ARGhttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1226634566150037506 …

        Vapor Weyve added,

        Vapor Weyve @Nymphomachy
        me and this other kid were the only two people in our English class to read 1984 for a project in high school and he revealed afterwards that he'd skipped entirely through the Goldstein parts because he legitimately thought Orwell was pranking him by writing something unreadable https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1226604932389752832 …
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