#thinking about. how the actual omelas story is the frame story of the narrator irritably putting a tortured child in the story cuz

[lepertamar]

something something, feels always apologetic (for what ???) and embarrassing of me when i go thru dozens of posts of someone’s very real and harrowing trauma tag and still come out going ‘……unfortunately trauma is still mostly bullshit as a lens and set of information’ (bullshit = the info trauma tells you about its position as the center or framework of the universe, is bullshit. not bullshit as in ‘didn’t happen’ or ‘not actually that impactful on you’. to be clear lol.)

#thinking about. how the actual omelas story is the frame story of the narrator irritably putting a tortured child in the story cuz #the listeners wouldn’t believe the internal story or care about figuring it out and just wanted to relax into a thought-termination of #’ah tortured child got it. no notes. vindication.’ #and how everyone irl also. takes the internal story at face value and forgets the actual story is about the frame story. unironically. #90% sure leguin forgot too tbh seems like the kind of bullshit intellectual dishonesty she lived by #she triggers me as a person a bit too hard for me to look it up though don’t take my word for it #anyway my parents had this sort of….salivating waiting for the other shoe to drop and triumphantly prove that there was A Catch #which was…..really awful! most deeply/invisibly awful though i only recently realized was like……you know how when you #take a video on ur phone and if you want to edit it to be shorter the selected clip shows as a long rectangle #with the desired amount of discarded beginning/end outside the rectangle? #like……imagine them taking every sequence where the ‘catch’ came in the middle or even near the beginning #and shortening a clip that way so that it ends immediately after the catch #does that….make sense………. #coal sings