I will make more of a fuss tomorrow but I published a nice distracting short story/piece which really isn't about anything very much apart from ritual sex murder
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Like I keep being surprised by things! Although internet has been sorted out, so I can possibly not spend a weekend totally unaware of executive orders and massive protest movements.
Clearly we need to work on your cynicism because my surprise at the executive orders is becoming minimal very fast (Trump just fired Sally Yates for doing her job & upholding the constitution, and apparently none of the Republican party find this bothersome?)
Yeah, I'm not good at cynicism. I get all "It's just so beautiful!" weepy in movies during protest march scenes. (And not just good movies, like Pride. I got sniffly during Legally Blonde 2, because they were marching, and they had a cause, and signs, and democracy, and free speech, and it's just so beautiful!)
The first protest I was in I was 6 weeks old; I have been involved in resistance/protest literally my whole life and I have never been in one that worked, so I am fairly cynical about it (also my expectation in movies is of, at best, Glorious Failure - see Pride). I mean, it doesn't stop me, because it is heavily ingrained in me that protest is just What You Do When People Are Doing Wrong Things, but I don't... expect much beyond disappointment and bitterness.
See, when I was twelve, we had a school walkout that got the administration to lift the penalties for the kids who'd skipped to go to the anti-war protest, and it was fun, and exciting, and lets someone with my levels of Good Girl tendencies break rules and feel good about it, and it worked!
Also, I got old enough to notice and pay attention to and develop some understanding of world affairs just as the Berlin Wall fell and communism ended in Eastern Europe. That may have set unreasonably high expectations.
Yeah nah I remember the wall coming down too, but it was presented to me as "something that happened because there was no other alternative in terms of how unworkable the situation had become" not "human beings were involved in making this happen".
Sounds like a cool day!
All the things are happening in America, yes. And i'm overseas with no TV and glitchy internet.
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Also, I got old enough to notice and pay attention to and develop some understanding of world affairs just as the Berlin Wall fell and communism ended in Eastern Europe. That may have set unreasonably high expectations.
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