I only owned this on MP3, when it was released, and I wanted a solid copy. I am mired in a tv show document that I have to pitch on Thursday, so managing music has been my therapy. I’m behind on photos, so this might get boring for everybody.
The Miner’s Hymns is incredible and I really want to hear live performance but I feel like I’ve missed the boat on this one.
“If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide €300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child. The failure to do so is a matter of will, and a matter of system. The next time someone tries to pretend like you need to choose between homelessness or immigration, nurses’ pay or a tax cut, a children’s hospital or a motorway, remember this moment. The money is there at a click of a finger. It just isn’t in our hands.”
This is what I mean when I say that working in the nonprofit world radicalizes you. I’ve been saying for years that it’s a fucked up system when billionaires can destroy countless lives to make their fortunes and then get asspats and buildings named after them for doing exactly what they want with money they got exploiting people they now claim to want to help.
Between the big criminals and little thieves It’s the big thieves rule the land With one hand they put a penny in the pot for the poor But with their other take another and a thousand more
The power to fix our society should not be in the hands of people who got rich exploiting that society. PAY YOUR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE AND STOP DODGING YOUR TAXES AND WE WOULDN’T NEED YOUR BILLIONS TO SUBSIDIZE SCHOOLS AND FEED THE HUNGRY.
^ this.
Have just googled one of the place I work for’s donors that has been in the news lately and yeah, billionaire.
i like the “due to personal reasons” meme because its just “for reasons that do not require exploring at this juncture” all over again everything really is due south huh
trying to explain due South to people is weird because they’re always like “hmm, haven’t heard of it, must be a niche little fandom” and like. Yes but also Very Much No.
all I know about the canon of Due South is that it expected me to believe that a series of red and white purebred huskies were a) the same dog and b) an actual, legitimate, no-fucking-around Canadian wolf living in Chicago, and also there were two guys who were both named Ray for some reason and one of them was pretending to be the other one for a while??
but like… yeah, between this and The Sentinel, these are just pure fossilized 90s megafandom.
(It’s especially interesting reading the back archives because the takes on sexuality and sex and how it works and how affection works and how characters respond to homophobia and what people expect characters to encounter and familiarity with queer culture is just–
in some ways it’s like peering back in time in a way I find really, really interesting, with a very different lens than you’ll find in traditionally published mainstream fiction outside of the queer presses. Like, don’t get me wrong, there’s stuff in there that’s just a damn Mess, but imagine the perspectives of the best writing you can find in modern fandom, from writers who are using slash fic to tell stories that incorporate a queer experience and point of view…
…and now think about the best of that, and pull it back twenty years in the past, and think about how you can use that to learn things about how people thought and acted and expected other people to think and act thirty or forty years ago.
The past is another country. They do things differently there. And you can get a surprisingly good sense for that from old Due South and Sentinel fics.
y’all if we’re fossils then I call dibs on being stegosaurus
I call dibs on the Caudipteryx!
I’m a Kowalskisaurus.
*unfossilizes long enough to point out that Diefenbaker is a half-wolf at best*
*refossilizes, laughing about the DS Anon Troll being added to the second graphic*
I call Loch Ness Monster, somehow still surviving as a dinosaur even now!
