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yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

This is even WORSE.

[EDIT!] I have issued a number of corrections on this here! The information below is no longer an accurate representation of my views!

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

some unfinished persephone thoughts for today

Vegans who insists EVERYONE must eat vegan are racist.

I just got into an argument with someone saying eating animals is morally wrong blah blah and I reminded them that myself as an Indigenous person (ojibwe) our traditions rely on hunting and living off the land, and demanding we stop that is literally.. COLONIALISM.

And they responded back,

"You're not the kind of Indigenous person who NEEDS to live off the land"

and . That was NOT THE POINT.

It's our teachings, our ways of life. No white vegan can take that away. Besides, living off the land and giving back to will ALWAYS damage the land less than people who wear pleather and put microplastics back into our environment and eat quinoa which puts producing countries in drought and poverty.

My young nieces live on a reservation here in Canada, TWO hours away from any store that sells anything besides pop, butter, milk, and bread.

They DO still rely on hunting to get food which would otherwise not be available to them because of active poverty which affects ALL of our First Nations communities.

But once every few months, you will also see them at a Walmart or wherever else.

Indigenous people living off the land doesn't look like people living in teepees and shooting arrows at animals.

It looks like survival, it looks like healing, it looks like FUCK YOU WHITE PEOPLE.

You're racist.

no matter what happened today, you:

are loved

deserve to eat

are needed & valued

should take care of yourself

have a future

will be okay

listen. listen. you know i love me a good orpheus and eurydice and that means obviously i love hadestown okay? like we've established that?? okay listen. i love love love the tragedy of it all and my god he looks back because he cannot bear to exist without her for a second longer and i could go on about this forever. but!! I have a different thing to say and it is specifically about hadestown in particular and not other versions of the myths

persephone is complicit!! in hadestown, persephone is complicit in all of it! she complains about how her husband has been changing things and she complains about how he makes others dependent on him for money when he is the one who chose to give money that value in the first place (why do we build the wall? to keep out the enemy, which is poverty. how do we keep out the enemy which is poverty? we build a wall and get paid for it) (actually do they get paid? anyway, another time), but!! she doesn't actually do anything to help the workers out of hadestown either. "well but plaudius that's not her job, she's doing what she can from her position" why yes! that's correct! i do not fault her for not being an underground railroad or something on this literal underground railroad! the thing is, though, when she's smuggling sunlight and rain water and all of that into hadestown and reintroducing herself to the workers (somebody ask me about that sometime, i have Thoughts), she explicitly sells it. she's not just distributing it, she's not a robin hood giving the wealth back to the people, she's a diamond company selling what is incredibly common and freely available. she's aloysius o'hare from o'hare air in the lorax (don't fucking come for me i watched that movie once and thought it diverged too much from the book) selling fucking AIR. "you want stars? i got a skyful. put a quarter in the slot, you'll get an eyeful. you want the moon? yeah i got her too, she's right here waiting in my pay-per-view"

persephone is explicitly profiting off of this! she claims she doesn't like how hades is running the underworld but she is too comfortable in her life to try to begin any real change in her society