luciferian_chick

Came across this video about a post claiming there were no female authors before J. K. Rowling, and the resulting thread providing SO many examples of how wrong that claim is. Like to the point that science fiction, fantasy, and novels in general wouldn't exist without female authors. Also, a female author started the trend of letting children have books that are more than stories to convey morals.

My contribution to the comments:

Rowling wasn't even the first female author to write a series about a young child going to a school of witchcraft with an eccentric headmaster and a stern and irascible potions teacher, featuring a horrible, blond, wealthy, stuck-up antagonist student as the protagonist's foil.

She basically plagiarized "The Worst Witch" series by Jill Murphy, gender-bent a bunch of the most prominent characters (Miss Cackle into Dumbledore, Miss Hardbroom into Severus Snape, Ethel Hallow into Draco Malfoy, and Mildred Hubble into Neville Longbottom), turned the original protagonist Mildred Hubble (gender-bent) into a side character, and spliced in a plot about wizard Nazis while replacing the much more interesting Mildred Hubble with a British children's fiction cliche character of "the poor unlucky orphan." All while being racist, transphobic, whatever you call being racist against the Irish, antisemitic, ultimately making the statement of "slavery is actually good mmkay," and being a bad writer with plot holes you could pilot a 747 through with plenty of room to spare.

"If you could permanently change the price of something to one dollar, what would it be?"

Food. All food. Food in general. Every single thing on the grocery store shelves is just $1 now and will never go up. You're welcome.

Concerning the continuing government shutdown, I am glad to see that the Democrats are finally growing a fucking spine about something for once, but at the same time I'm still pissed because where was this fucking spine when the tea party assholes started making shit difficult for Obama? We are in the fascist uprising that we are in currently because the Republicans started going well and truly insane at that time and blocked at least one of Obama's choices for Supreme Court justices. I don't remember if there were more than that, but that should have been the point at which the Democrats grew a spine and said, "No! He is getting this person for a Supreme Court justice because that is how this shit works, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourselves!"

Why is it, almost a year into this fascist uprising, that the Democrats are only just now growing a spine?

( Long rant under cut )

Went canboxing again. Didn't do very well for most of it because I didn't realize until about half an hour in that today was Monday, so all the can boxes likely got emptied earlier in the day. I think most of my finds were found just on the ground, despite it being night, with returnables in garbage containers at a second and yellow glass recycling boxes being in third (I don't know if you're supposed to put returnables in those or not, but people do anyway. Not just glass, either. In fact, some people put garbage in those which is for sure not allowed.) Meaning the actual can boxes placed fourth.

Anyway, I got 39, and now I have two full green bags of returnables, and half of a third, in the house. With the other two I turned in last week or so, I might have five bags credited to my account by the end of the month.

The biggest haul of today was when I found a massive pile of glass bottles in someone's yard, just there on the grass like someone had decided to dump it all there as a "prank." I don't know how many were there, but at least a third of my total haul was that pile. It was a mix of soda pop, root beer, fancy bottled water brands, and some beer bottles. One of the water bottle ones was broken in half, so I used the grabber to move that to the side so I could get the others, then left it. I dunno who put them there, but I sure as fuck wasn't gonna touch a broken bottle to try to find somewhere to dispose of it. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Because the last two trips have yielded mostly glass bottles, and that shit is heavy, I moved some of the lighter things from the first complete bag to the second, half-full bag, then put a bunch of the new glass ones in the first bag, rather than have one entire bag full of just glass bottles. Even doing it that way, both full bags are so fucking heavy that I'm gonna have trouble getting them out when I take them in. My plan is to take one of the full bags in to New Season's Market tomorrow before the food boxes trip, and if I have enough time, come back and take the half bag full of glass bottles in to the Milwaukie recycling place and have those be counted manually so I don't have to deal with trying to deal with filling a third heavy bag all the way. Then the second bag I can take in tomorrow.

Anyway, 39 is $3.90.