#wotr requires thoughts

[herequeerexitentialfear]

got lots of work done this week, and i feel like treating myself to doing some writing, leaning towards something to continue it makes you hurt the ones who love you at least in spirit but im split between

A- sad ish fic giving context for Conficcares character and specifically why hes such an asshole in hurt the ones who love you [centered around how joining passione was meant to be an opportunity to grow beyond the roles they were forced into but they all failed to make it stick & all ended up going back to old habits & masks]

B- Celia getting her spotlight as a massive cunt, dealing with her giving up Rametto [multi pov of everyone realizing just how far shes willing to go to protect them and reacting badly. no celia pov you just get other peoples perceptions of her and she tears their family apart for 'their own good' and the grief and rage when they realize she was right but it still hurts]

[C- Secret option: work on my numerous wips. lol no]

#gold & silver #thebirdspeaks #i may do some writing as a treat<333 #also sorry about the lack of wotr i am slowly playing cecios run #i just don't have the time/enerjy to think to hard about it or talk about it #and i barely and the time & enerjy to play n think about what he would chose #let alone the mind games to write more dear sister #jojos Celia n co are blorbo in my head i am rotating them 24/7 #wotr requires thoughts #i have very few atm

[wotr]

How Wotr is Working Towards Women Empowerment in Rural Areas

To add on to this, rural India faces a problem of a rigid mindset and pre-defined gender roles. Traditionally women were required to do household chores, raise children, etc but with modernization the role of women is shifting from a primary caregiver to someone who can contribute towards the economy and be financially independent. While there is a shift towards this thought process in urban parts of the country, rural India still views women as primary caregivers. Almost all households have entrusted women with the responsibility of domestic work like cooking, cleaning, raising children, and taking care of the elderly.  Roughly 48% of the population of rural India is female. The pre-defined gender roles have rendered so many women who can potentially contribute economically, useless both to their family needs and themselves. Herein, enters NGO for women empowerment, some of them have been working tirelessly in the rural areas to educate people about this fact.

Source:  https://www.usmails.co/how-wotr-is-working-towards-women-empowerment-in-rural-areas/

#Wotr ngo #Wotr #Women Empowerment #Rural area

[beardofkamenev]

TIL I’M AN ANTISEMITE?

Imagine wildly accusing an entire group of people of being “unrepentant antisemites” and “laughing about bullying Jewish people in group chats.” And imagine your entire basis for your unsubstantiated accusations about our group chat is that one member we are loosely associated with didn’t reply to a random anon from your ‘Jewish friend’ accusing this callout post of being antisemitic, despite it referring specifically to YOUR words and actions and despite none of you people ever pointing out the ‘obvious offensiveness’ of the tweet you were mocking until after you were called out for your petty and completely unprovoked behaviour. By the way, I’ve been warned by multiple others that dealing with you lot requires receipts. I submit it to the good faith and honesty of anyone reading this post to judge for themselves whether failing to answer this anon in this context is an act of antisemitism that warrants these accusations.

Seeing as you’ve basically confirmed what we’ve all suspected all along — that you and your friends read our WOTR group chat for the purpose of using our words and discussions against us (like co-opting our discussion of 15th century catholic antisemitism to use in the anon above) — I’m surprised you didn’t pick up at some point that one of the users you just blanket accused of being an “unrepentant antisemite” is an openly ASHKENAZI JEWISH PERSON, as well as users you know for a fact to be black and brown POC, some of whom have openly criticised your petty and tone deaf behaviour in the past.

As a POC from a literal ‘third world’ country who has dealt first hand with your brand of ‘white performative wokeness’ before, I will not allow anyone — let alone some white American girl — try to guilt trip me into policing my content and interactions on this site, and I sure as fuck won’t let anyone try to make me personally accountable for the behaviour of other users here. If another user not answering an anon from your ‘Jewish friend’ who NO ONE even knew existed makes them and everyone they ever associated with an antisemitic bully, what the fuck does your behaviour now make YOU? Do you have any sense of self-awareness or irony? Or are you just going to keep trying to gaslight everyone when called out for your questionable actions? Don’t blame me for using your own logic against you; these are the standards of ‘discourse’ you have set for this never-ending Tumblr drama you insist on perpetuating. This is the hill you are choosing do die on. Perhaps you’ll finally learn from this whole experience, but somehow I doubt you will.

Feel free to ‘vague’ about me on your blog. Seeing as you’ve already blocked me (despite the fact that I have NEVER interacted with you in all my years here) when I tried to tag you so you can at least respond directly, I thought I’d give you the courtesy of showing your url.

#sorry to get 'sjw' on main #but i will NOT be lectured on bigotry and racism in 'my' own community by some petty white american girl with an axe to grind #the AUDACITY of the caucasity #also? another jewish mutual who saw the original 'drama' go down doesn't think that the callout post was in any way antisemitic #so who to believe when two jewish people come to totally different conclusions? #don't waste any more time trying to twist your narrative constantly to make you look like the real victim here #multiple people here have witness your shitty and frankly bitchy behaviour first hand #long post because that is the last i intend to say on the issue #disk horse for ts

[heartofstanding]

I managed to grab a copy of Brenda Honeyman’s novel Good Duke Humphrey. I’ve read two of her novels before, Brother Bedford (about John and the minority of Henry VI, which Good Duke Humphrey is the sequel to) and At The King’s Court, about the first half of Richard II’s reign. I’ve not been a huge fan of them but this is one of two  or three novels that focus on Humphrey so, well, I had to get it and read it. I’m about two-thirds through it.

This is more or less a direct sequel to Brother Bedford and that’s why it sucks that I read that one in January 2020 and can’t remember everything about it. Despite being centred around Humphrey, the first two parts (1: Husband, 1435-1441, 2: Uncle, 1441-1447) close out his life. The third part (Ghost) seems to end at the beginning of the First Battle of St Albans - where Honeyman’s next book opens.

Maybe I’m drunk or something but I actually haven’t minded this that much. My main issue with it is that it’s really short (under 190 pages total) but also really broad so everything happens at break-neck speed.

At least the York/WOTR foreshadowing in this novel actually makes some sense, time-line wise?

First page, second paragraph: Jacquetta is awful and nasty. She’s triumphant over John’s dead body because now she can fuck Richard Woodville.

Humphrey??? had been for peace with France??? when. He turns pro-war because he feels guilty for John’s death. Cardinal Beaufort was pro-war until Humphrey turned pro-war and gets the blame for the Treaty of Arras failing. WUT.

ANTIGONE OF GLOUCESTER, MY BELOVED. She has a fairly big role in this, nice.

Humphrey was half-frightened and half-defiant of Henry V [citation required]. Honeyman doesn’t like H5 at all. I still have her H5 novel to read, oh crap.

Owen Tudor gets a scene in prison where he has this lovely thought. “It was odd, and in some ways strangely gratifying to Owen, that his Tudor blood had proven a more potent antidote to the de Valois taint than that of a Plantagenet king” and I need to go wash in the river for three thousand years. The ableism. The blood purity. The Welshaboo-ness of it all.

Eleanor wishes she was as beautiful as Cecily Neville 🙄 

Edward IV is a bastard (or maybe not), the son of Blackburn/Blaybourne

Eleanor... isn’t in this much. She’s on the periphery of the first three chapters, turns up at the start of the fourth chapter only to be written out almost immediately.

As much as Honeyman does present Eleanor as guilty, this is also probably one of the best of these takes. Eleanor is motivated by fear - she thinks that Humphrey becoming king is the only way to protect him from Cardinal Beaufort’s machinations and inadvertently plays into his hands. Her penance walk scene is also one of the better ones where she’s not sexualised or had human waste thrown on top of her, and she and Humphrey have a short but lovely farewell scene.

The Londoners decide, after yelling “death to the sorceress” at Eleanor, they actually really hate Cardinal Beaufort and so yell abuse and threats at him during Eleanor’s penance walk.

Archbishop Chichele wants Eleanor to be burnt alive. wUT. Henry VI is the only reason she’s not. WUT.

Suffolk is in love with Margaret, Henry VI is in love with Margaret, Margaret declares she “shall not even consider” the English when she rules. UM. She also makes off with the bulk of Humphrey’s estates.

Humphrey’s arrest and death are also very quickly dealt with.

Margaret meets kid!Edward IV and feels like someone is walking over her grave.

#lisa reads brenda honeyman #historical fiction venting #long post

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

Reading the War of the Realms event. Once again, I didn’t plan to comment, since I’m more interested/focused on Spider-Man, but I’ve gotta say, WotR Strikeforce: The Land of Giants is... not bad. It’s a bit weird (but also a relief) to see someone who’s not Peter be assigned the “comedic relief” role, although I have to wonder what Iron Fist fans thought of it, whether it was in character for him - not just in character for the character himself, but also tonally. 

I feel required to say, though - my personal headcanon about the berserk rage scene is that the reason Peter didn’t name any of the numerous times he went into one is because he recognizes his anger issues as one of, if not his greatest (worst) character flaw, and didn’t feel comfortable talking about it in that aptly named “sausage fest”. Not that I feel that everyone was bragging about it, but how do you follow Captain America’s “yeah, Hitler just rubbed me the wrong way” and Iron Fist’s nonchalant “Spider-Man?”, like, “so what’s your story of berserk rage?” with “there was that one time I almost killed the guy who killed my girlfriend, the Sin Eater and the Daredevil when he tried to stop me from killing the Sin Eater, my clone, arguably that one time with Charlemagne...” I don’t know, it would feel a bit to me like people sharing drunk stories all “yeah, I texted all of my exes that night. Climbed up on the table and danced naked. Completely blank on most of the night” and asking “Anyway, how about you?” to a guy who was a recovering alcoholic. Even if they felt it was a safe place to talk about it, or the other people knew about their addiction, even if they’d kicked it, they might not feel like talking about it in that context.

#Peter Parker #Spider-Man #Spider Man #comics #liveblogging #War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Land of Giants #like do I think that's what Taylor was going for? nah #but as far as I'm concerned it's the truth #tw alchoholism #tw alchohol mention