#the woman they could not silence

[carriagelamp]

My internet died for about half a week this month, so I had a really peaceful few days where I had an enforced excuse to do nothing but relax and read when I got home from work. It was incredibly zen and I really sank into my books that week.

The Call of the Wild

A classic novel that I’ve always meant to read. I was sick and headachy this month and decided that this was the perfect sort of relaxing, narratively rich book to listen to. I really enjoyed it, would recommend. It follows a dog named Buck who’s snatched from his home in southern California and is shipped off to work as a sled dog in the Yukon, where a need for strong dogs to help transport goods over the snow and ice makes them very valuable. Buck has to learn how to survive in this harsh environment as everything from the weather, his fellows dogs, and his human masters seem to fight against him.

A Complicated Love Story Set In Space // How To Bite Your Neighbour and Win A Wager

Putting these two together because my experience with them was pretty similar. For both I was intrigued by the title, got them from the library on a whim, and didn’t really mesh with either. I didn’t really get far enough in either to give much of a review, they just didn’t vibe. A Complicated Love Story Set In Space set up a scenario that didn’t really interest me — not surprising, I’m picky about my scifi — and How To Bite Your Neighbour and Win A Wager just had an… odd writing style to it. It very much feels like it’s main goal is to be a kinda horny about vampires which, if that’s what you want, all the power to you, but it’s wasn't doing it for me. I had to suspend way too much disbelief for the scenario to function.

Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire // Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island

A pair of choose your own adventure books I found at a used book sale. I picked them up out of sheer amusement, and they were basically what I expected and paid for: cheesy 1980s adventure stories with Indiana Jones as a nominal protagonist. They were both varying degrees of improbable, ridiculous, and racist so YMMV but they were fun to play with while I was down and out on the internet front.

The Kootenay Kidnapper

Eric Wilson is a classic Canadian author who writes children’s mystery/thriller novels. I’ve never read him before and decided to remedy that. At this point I choose to withhold judgement until I read another… I’m not sure how I felt about The Kootenay Kidnapper. It had some nice descriptive language, successfully raised the tension from time to time and made me really try to piece together who the villain was, but then also had some strange dead zones as well. The whole thing read a bit like a 1990s stranger danger PSA which was also… weirdly nostalgic? But also just weird. Would try another.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation comic v3

I continue to be a MDZS simp, this is not news. 

The Radium Girls

I don’t read much nonfiction, but this book was so narrative in its writing that I seriously couldn’t put it down. Kate Moore took a historical event (the girls that were paid to paint watch dials with radium paint in the early 1900s) that had been written about in scientific and legal styles, and instead retells it with a primary focus on the girls themselves. You follow a variety of real life women over the decades and learn about the all the machinations that went into them being horrifically poisoned by radium, and how that changed the very foundation of American workplace safety. Super engaging, unspeakably appalling.

Scott Pilgrim v1/2

My brother and I started watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off on Netflix and… wow, it is not what either of us was expecting but we are loving it. We’ve both been big Scott Pilgrim fans since the naughts. Since I haven’t reread the series in years I decided I should pick it up to help notice the differences between the original series and this new show — I have the big, coloured omnibus version, so I reread the first collection of stories which amounts to volume 1 and 2 of the original. 

Scott Pilgrim is one of those comics that if you’ve somehow never read then you really need to, it’s one of my all-time favourites. It’s a story about Scott Pilgrim, a young adult who’s awkwardly trying to figure himself out, combining a coming-of-age slice-of-life with magical realism. The mysterious girl he meets, Ramona Flowers, can travel a subspace highway through Scott’s dreams — of course, don’t they teach Canadians how to do that? Huh, maybe it’s an American thing. Scott is known to be the best fighter in the province and when he defeats an enemy they explode into a pile of coins. One of the Evil Exes has Vegan Powers, and another can summon demonic back up dancers. This story just does whatever the fuck it likes and I adore it for that.

Heaven Official's Blessing v3/4

I continue to be TGCF simp, this is not— seriously, the series continues to be excellent and I only get more and more invested in not just Xie Lian and Hua Cheng, but also in the side characters that are introduced. I was thrilled to have Shi Qingxuan become a bigger player in book 4, and really liked the whole plot with the Venerable of Empty Words and Black Water. Please, someone, help this guy…

The Wind in the Willows

Another classic I had never read that I decided to pick up. It was excellent, I can see why it’s stayed so beloved over the years. Though I love a good cute-animals-in-lil-clothes-living-cute-lil-lives story, so I was an easy sell. It was much more tame than the likes of Redwall, but had a bit more going on than the likes of Brambly Hedge — it keeps you very engaged, but never raises the stakes so high that it stops feeling light and comforting. It is essentially a collection of stories that follow Mole and Rat, a pair of friends that live together on the river, through the seasons and the various misadventures they and their friends go on.

The Woman They Could Not Silence

Since I liked The Radium Girls I decided to pick up another one of Kate Moore’s books. This one follows a woman who was intentionally committed to an insane asylum by her husband, purely because she was intelligent and outspoken, refusing to be cowed to his opinions or beliefs. This story details her time in the insane asylum, the abuses that the patients suffered, and how she came to fight the laws that allowed for such abuses to be perpetuated in the first place. A fascinating read about a historical figure I had never heard about before.

#book review #book reviews #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #kate moore #radium girls #the woman they could not silence #indiana jones #choose your own adventure #cyoa #wind in the willows #kenneth grahame #scott pilgrim #bryan lee o'malley #call of the wild #jack london #eric wilson #kootenay kidnapper #manga #graphic novel #chatter

[readbythestarlight]

37 pages into The Woman They Could Not Silence and, much like when I read The Radium Girls, I’m already seething with rage. And I know it’s only going to get worse wayyy before it gets better (assuming it does get better at all). Kate Moore’s books about women’s history are so excellent but so bad for my blood pressure.

#Emi reads nonfiction #the woman they could not silence #kate moore #history #women’s history

[beyondthedustjacket]

The more freedom I have, the more I want.

Elizabeth Packard

#quotes #elizabeth packard #the woman they could not silence #kate moore

[cyarskj52]

#nicki is a weird tired evil ass bitch #like omg i could really go on a rant fuck her fuck the barbs #them miserble bitches have no life harassing ppl over nicki minaj youre a goner hoe! #and my girl meg sitting pretty ik thats right miss stallion she that girl <3 #nicki has been online for over 48 hours straight meanwhile megan has been out minding her own business #it’s crazy how badly nicki has WILLINGLY tarnished her own legacy #this is the same woman who wrote the verse in monster???? #🫢 #didn’t Nicki help silence the woman who was SA by her now husband? #megan thee stallion #Tina Snow #it girl #worrying about the wrong foot Nicki #pack it up #prev tags #I mean… #Nicki it’s not funny anymore that man should be still serving time #I’m so happy Megan didn’t fold and I hope she gets all the happiness in the world #that girl went through enough #A HOMELESS MAN SHE PICKED UP AT A TURKEY RAFFLE #PLEASE!!!! #now Nicki hyping up a new release called ‘Bigfoot’ and claiming it’s not a diss track #the barbs are out in force I’m tired #the Megan’s law line was a slay tho honestly who can deny

[ryo-sukuna]

So, what do you think about those who simp for you?

It’s an honorable act, I’ll allow it

Except for those who see it as a mutual ground or even see themselves above me,

No one owns me, no one could ever hope to own me, I own all of them

They should know their place is to honor me, albeit they’re not those underage freaks that defile statues of their gods

Let me find a single soul committing such atrocities to my image, I’ll eliminate their entire lineage

#jjk sukuna ask #jjk ryomen sukuna #sukuna x y/n #sukuna x you #jjk sukuna #jujutsu sukuna #sukuna ryomen #ryomen sukuna #sukuna x reader #sukuna #jjk ryomen #ask sukuna #ask ryomen sukuna #jjk asks #send asks #through the eyes of Itadori I once saw the image of Satoru Gojo swing defiled by a woman’s menstruation #odds are it was period blood manipulators doing #not many things in this world could stun me into silence

[orionsgirdle]

just read the tags on that "vote for b*den" post and scrolled OP's blog and lol I don't know why I bothered. too many people on this hellsite seem to have drunk the anti-zionism = anti-semitism koolaid.

i mean it's understandable because before oct. 7th i relegated all israel-palestine rhetoric to "too complicated" category. that's definitely an idea that is routinely promoted by zionists.

i keep thinking about this talk that michael brooks gave:

ultimately the way that zionists use anti-semitism as a weapon to shut down any criticism of their racist, colonial project in palestine minimizes and trivializes actual anti-semitism. something else they have in common with nazis.

#personal #anyway #free palestine #from the river to the sea #it has been an illuminating few months on tumblr.com #to see radio silence from so many people i follow #and yesterday i unfollowed someone i've been following for like a decade #i get not wanting to rb pictures of dead children completely decimated families children's bodies in pieces #children getting amputations without anaesthesia #this father holding his dead 3 yr old daughter in his arms and opening her eyes so he could look at them one last time #a woman walking with her child holding a white flag in her hand getting shot by an israeli sniper right in front of her son #it is soul destroying stuff and i get wanting a space away from that #but then to rb a pro-biden post from a blog that's both-sidezing this genocide #nah #goodbye

[von-karmas-a-bitch]

cell block tango but it's the ace attorney women who killed men (who deserved it to varying degrees and in some cases not at all)

#like mimi could have an EXCELLENT solo about dr turner #and you really feel for her #dahlia is the same but at some point along the way she starts to sound a little insane but it's unclear where that point is #bc one thing led to another for her and the more people she silenced the more other people she had to silence bc they knew something #and she can't seem to decide if and when she started to enjoy it but she wants you to think she enjoys it bc she wants you to be scared #bc actually SHE'S scared she is very prey animal rage #you're left unsure how to feel abt her by the end of her solo but you can't say you don't sympathise #cammy meele is there but behind the mask of haha funny sleepy girl who gets away with slacking off bc she's hot #is a woman who just wanted some quick and easy cash and planned to just do one crime one time to get rich quick #and then quit this stupid job and live comfortably for the rest of her life #thinking it wasn't THAT big a deal and it was very unlikely for her to get caught #but then it turned out this smuggling ring went way deeper than she thought #and now it's either her or the interpol agent. so she does it. she just wanted to live deliciously was it too much to ask #dee vasquez is there too of course #april may is there bc she didn't get to kill a man but boy did she want to #and then there's calisto. who fucking knows what her motivation was. does she even know? all i know is her solo is gonna be INSANE #idk what to tag this as im just gonna not im so burned out rn lmao

[shawtyalilbaddieshemylilbo]

doodle page from class!!! i was very bored!

#anyway i think its interesting to thibk ab what jake would think ab vriska. like thats everything u could be but. arent #like. cuz vriska would be the epitome of blue woman and super awesome fearless adventurer #both those thigns combined his shit is rekt #i dont think hed conflate love with wanting to be her like how he did for aranea tho. i think he wohld suffer in silence #dont get me wrong i would rather kms and end up in the slop layer of hell than ship them #anyway heres to more psychoanalysis that oh so barely teeters from the line of complete insanity. #hs #homestuck #vriska serket #jake english #art #zusart

[shadowphoenixrider]

I am *trying* to romance Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3, but Gale is Right There being a sweet guy with Sad Wet Beast vibes, and my need to adopt him is overwhelming.

#spr rambles #my types are big strong woman who could throw me like a javelin #and also a sweet nerdy man who may or may not be able to call down the wrath of the gods if he's pissed #they're both in my party #can you imagine the hell i am facing #gale standing in the corner like: 'please can i have a magic sock to eat it hurts so 🥺' #and i'm like: 'your honour i can't not fuck him' #NO I WILL RESIST #i'll roll him a paladin #'but shadow you aren't even out of act 1-' SILENCE MINION

[leatherbookmark]

According to Ellis, women are fascinated by male strength, but they have no opinions about male beauty. Insensitive almost to the point of being blind, they have a discerning eye for male beauty not greatly different from that of the normal male. (Forbidden Colours, trans. Alfred H. Marks, Penguin edition p. 94)

oh mr mishima you would be pleasantly surprised by kpop stans. perhaps even disgusted

#shrimp thoughts #my mother yesterday: is this all we are as women? to fawn over and get stupidly excited over men's bodies and what they have in their pants #because some kpop girlies were thirsting over jk on twt apparently. lady you are in kpop guy thirsting corner of the website #augh no but seriously while i loved confessions of a mask forbidden colours is... A Journey certainly #50 shades of misogyny in which all men are convinced women are the oppressing class except every time a female character appears #even if the narration is going out of its way to tell you the reader about how stupid and limited and suffering in its misery she is... #it's like. yknow if not for the stupid ass men and the misogynistic society this girl would've been happy. #eeeeevery single time i see female characters casually wondering if their partners have someone on the side -- which should be a deal #breaker but isn't -- and just bear it in silence instead of cutting the bitch off once and for all i am mentally looking into the camera. #shunsuke fucking. 'is amazed that 'and old person with kidney disease could do him so unwitting a bodily injury just because she was a #woman' and then the bodily injury is that she gives him her dead husband's necktie pin which he puts in his pocket and forgets about #and then later he puts his hand in his pocket and pricks his fingertip on it. this is what kinda person shunsuke is lmao #'i don't want to read the classics! they're all just old misogynistic white men!' diversity win! this classic has old misogynistic #JAPANESE men instead!

[rotisseries]

hate when a song has ONE line that fits your blorbos but is otherwise unconnected to them. can't put it on the playlist so I just have to sit there and hear the line and think about them with a debilitating emotional pain for a whole 2 seconds

#me when ethel cain writes strangers #and the line “I tried to be good‚ am I no good? am I no good? am I no good? with my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence” #could be SO will byers coded if not for the fact the rest of the song is about a woman being killed and eaten by her lover #this also applies to fanfic btw #me when ethel cain writes western nights and the line “I'm never gonna leave you baby‚ even if you lose what's left of your mind” #is SO descent by andiwriteordie coded #but the rest of the song is about a woman's toxic boyfriend committing crimes and then getting killed by the cops #so you can't exactly send in an ask like “oh hey this song would be great for your fic playlist” #you just have to sit there and take it in silence #actually sounds like I just have miss ethel to blame for this phenomenon #I love the conceptual narrative album queen! but idk what to do with myself when listening to ur music!

[guideaus]

kirara + panda...

#personal #jjk spoilers #jjk isnt good. dont read it. literal only highlights from this ch #man wtf have they been doing the whole time. the gambling bf said they stay on comms or smth and then there was radio silence #is there even any more info abt kirara. are they a trans woman or nb 🤔 #but it is like hell's paradise. gege's got lgbtphobia in w the misogyny. its a shounen so ig water is wet #anyways when was higuruma last there. he's a man i dont think gege's kill him off huh #or he could also get the nanami treatment fdshfhsdj

[andthebeanstalk]

My sister-in-law frustrates me to no end even though we barely ever interact because she keeps inviting my partner to parties with her Christian Republican friends, even though my partner told her not to send an invite to us if those friends will be there. And even though my sister-in-law is bisexual!!

And then she turns around and complains about not knowing how to deal with her friends saying, like, horrible sexist stuff as though that is just some natural unavoidable quirk of having friends!

Like, these Christian Republicans she has befriended don't seem to be kind - they're not even nice a lot of the time! They don't make for good friends, and she doesn't seem happy or supported in relation to them. In fact, she basically only ever talks about how her friends and/or current boyfriend are making her unhappy!

Because here's the thing: The effect of prioritizing 'including your Trump-supporter friends at your parties' over 'being invested in creating a safe space for marginalized people in your home', is that people who DO care about creating those safe spaces... won't wanna hang out with you! Because if you invite both cats and mice to your table equally, only the cats will show!

She's so afraid of losing the shitty friends she has now that she allows them to act as barriers to accessing friends who are invested in her wellbeing in a capitalistic hellscape!

It makes me sad because she's basically trapped herself, and there's nothing I can do to offer help without either compromising my morals or making my partner's life way harder by starting shit with her family.

Like, I consider myself a good friend, yeah? I try really really hard to be one, and it matters to me immensely. I am ride-or-die for the folks I love, and I am invested in being open and vulnerable and radically safe to be around when it comes to building strong friendships that are mutually fulfilling. I have a unique talent for validating people that I have honed for years because I genuinely want to make sure people feel safe and loved and seen.

And if my sister-in-law and I were friends, I could give all of that to her. I would strive to be an example of what it looks like when someone decides to care about you and treat you right on purpose, without expecting anything in return but your mutual respect. She would be family. She would be [Queer] Family. I would see to it that she knew she could call on me when she needed a friend.

But like.

This asshole has invited me to hang out with Trump supporters on multiple occasions.

We ain't gonna be friends.

#original #diary #family shit #I'll just continue to act friendly at family events #my friends help make me a better person. i don't think she could say the same for hers. makes me mad and sad #reminds me of the time i had to end a friendship bc a woman i had been inviting to group events revealed to me that she was #literally friends with Kelly Ann Conway. yes the aid to the president. that Kelly Ann. and when i tell you this friend of mine did NOT #understand why her defending Kelly Ann Conway made me feel unsafe. it was WILD #that's how my sister-in-law reacted when my wife was like 'hey stop inviting my non-cis ass to parties with transphobes' #both made arguments similar to 'i already don't have many friends why do you want me to lose more??' #like girlies you can't invite me and a bunch of homophobic Christians to the same party what is fucking wrong with you?? #you can goddamn bet if you came to one of my parties there wouldn't be anyone there who'd try to defend the Trump administration #loneliness is frightening and painful and no joke but cowardice is no joke either #and this attitude meant that my wife and i could not safely rely on her when we went through several crisis situations #and this is something i find difficult to forgive bc shit was touch and go over here for a couple years #my wife isn't even as salty as i am about it but she never is when the primary person harmed is herself #maybe if sister-in-law recognized the flawed behavior and changed but she probably won't tbh and i have shit to do #have fun with your fascist friends girlie i wonder if sometimes it feels more lonely than if you were alone #have fun practicing the white silence our parents got so good at; you're really carrying on the family business your dad must be so proud < #i haven't had to deal with friends saying sexist shit for literal years sorry you've made yourself unsafe to trans people i guess #making friends is hard i know that all too well. but i also know that the more friends i make who make me feel sad and small #then the less time i have for friends that make me feel loved and motivate me to be a better person. time=limited. people=over 6 billion. #school was harder because the amount of folks was more limited. same with small towns. but we are all ADULTS LIVING IN CHICAGO #capitalism makes finding friends harder too but like it has GOT to matter to you that Trans people and POC feel safe #we each have control over whether oppressed people feel safe around us. don't fucking waste that.

[prans-micellar-water]

Had the most. Specific dream

#Late 1800s maybe early 1900s #two brothers. the older brother inherited a large company from their parents and is very wealthy #and he loves his younger brother very much. his younger brother is an absolute madlad though and LOVES model trains #and full size trains too ig. the younger brother somehow gets into some kind of train accident and loses function in one arm and #part of the function of one leg #years later and the health of the younger brother is further declining #so he and his brother go on a great train trip #while on the train (the older brother is struggling to properly care for the younger) they meet a woman #she is incredibly graceful and it turns out that she always wanted to be a ballerina #but she couldn’t make it in the big city #so instead she works as a sort of valet for older women who travel #taking the train from city to city and helping them load and unload off the train and navigate it safely #the younger brother asks to hire her help for the duration of their trip. she accepts and is so taken with the younger brother #that she offers to stay with the brothers full time to care for the younger brother #she is beautiful and refined and kind and the older brother immediately realizes that he could love her #but she shares more in common with the younger brother. they both have great passions in life and they can help each other achieve them #(she can help him travel and he can employ her while she trains to work in the ballet) #and they fall in love. and the older brother is too good of a man to interfere in his brother’s relationship and confess his feelings #so he lives on in silence #the end #I woke up crying. wow wtf #I have never had a dream both so coherent and so emotionally moving #I’m going to go chew glass about the blorbos that literally live in my mind ig #older brother ilysm #is this like. a sign? should I write a short story or smth about the brothers? #like. it literally came to me in a dream #wow y’all the older brother loved his younger brother so much 😭😭😭 he would give up anything just to give his brother a comfortable life #where he could buy model trains and ride real trains and fall in love with train valets. augh ahddgkdls

[sowhatnotcreative]

Imagine you're trying to talk about the horrors of the meat industry and some dofus goes "I actually know a farmer that got killed by a cow!"

#wouldn't that be funny #if that was basically your entire “argument” #aka silencing tactic #amazing how all men know a man that was abused by a woman? #and amazing that you can only find this out if you bring up patriarchy and abusive males in any way? #cause that man doesn't exist #and even if he did you don't actually care about male victims #you dont talk about them and you don't care about them #all you care about is noone talks about how men are or what men do #radfem #men be like #male violence? well my mate stu had a meany gf once #he wasnt scared or in danger or harmed physically or emotionally in any way and he could leave when ever #but its the saaaame #it goes both waaays #domestic violence does not go both ways #because men have power over women #they are two vastly different issues #also more like slightly pushed by a cow #cause women don't kill men like that

[spiritofjustice]

i still think it’s so stupid how Barnes and Noble decided to get rid of shelf labels to denote section in favor of shelf talkers (book recommendations) as if that’s clearer than just saying ??? that this section is this genre or whatever ???

#Psy's no punctuation posts #don't get me wrong i love writing shelf talkers but like. my directional shelf talkers don't make the section clear sometimes #like we tend to do it by the best selling book in a section so the one for fucking Civil War era is The Woman They Could Not Silence #WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CIVIL WAR!!!! #so it meant i had to write a shelf talker for a Lincoln book + face out books on him so people would know where to look for that era smh #it's less tedious if we just have a sign that says civil war yknow