. Have you read Elizabeth Alder's The King's Shadow?
I don't read much, Ali. You know that.
It's really great, and even thought you don't read much, it's one of my favorite nooks.
I believe you, I just don't know where I'd pick it up. There really aren't any bookstores around here and our library is quite small and mostly geared toward young adults.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
That word is used throughout FIW, honestly...it should probably bother me more than it does.
Father shall be swallowed by the son, and brother shall be swallowed by brother.
It seems to be one of those words people don't realize can be offensive due to how ubiquitous it's become as far as describing the Roma is concerned, like how 'nigger' became commonplace for describing black folks before people smartened up. Even then, some Roma folk have no problem with people using it, and that's understandable, I guess, but just to be safe I try to avoid using it personally.
If any other race knows the terrible connotations an exonym can earn over time, it'd be my own.
Speaking of race issues... is it bad that it strikes me as unreasonable for someone who isn't English to come over here and complain about the immigrants?
It seems hypocritical.
Just got out of a conversation with a guy who was saying that stuff.
Speaking of race issues... is it bad that it strikes me as unreasonable for someone who isn't English to come over here and complain about the immigrants?
It seems hypocritical.
Just got out of a conversation with a guy who was saying that stuff.
It is. Unless he is being outright harassed by said immigrants, I do not think that he has room to complain.
Extremely talented composer active primarily in the early to mid-twentieth century, originally for Aldeburgh, England. Probably best known for the operas Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice. Struggled with an attraction to teenage boys that he never acted upon (which informs much of his work), although he did fall in love with and end up spending half of his life with the tenor Peter Pears, for whom he composed several very striking song cycles. He was also an openly gay socialist and pacifist at the height of the Cold War.
Extremely talented composer active primarily in the early to mid-twentieth century, originally for Aldeburgh, England. Probably best known for the operas Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice. Struggled with an attraction to teenage boys that he never acted upon (which informs much of his work), although he did fall in love with and end up spending half of his life with the tenor Peter Pears, for whom he composed several very striking song cycles. He was also an openly gay socialist and pacifist at the height of the Cold War.
(Also, by saying that Britten's issues informed his work, I mean that there is a mournful preoccupation with the corruption of innocence and a definite twinge of internal conflict and self-loathing in a lot of his work, although it is most obvious in, say, Death in Venice. Of course, that had just as much to do with his own emotional immaturity as anything else...)
Yeah, he's one of those people that you wouldn't immediately expect to be fascinating but actually really is. A lot of composers are like that, actually; I guess it's like being any sort of artist in that way.
What's particularly interesting about him from a music history perspective is how contrary he was to prevailing compositional idiom: While most prominent composers were deep into total serialism and other forms of hard atonality and avant-garde confrontation, Britten's work was mostly tonal, highly impressionistic and just plain beautiful--something which certainly did not please Boulez and his ilk.
That's the one nice thing about living in the twenty-first century: Chamber music is no longer the domain of the Drama Llama.
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It's really great, and even thought you don't read much, it's one of my favorite nooks.
because I didn't mean YOOOOOOOUUUUU, that's different
the more correct term is the rarely-used "Roma", I believe. I believe you, I just don't know where I'd pick it up. There really aren't any bookstores around here and our library is quite small and mostly geared toward young adults.
enough people consider it a slur that hearing it used casually is uncomfortable
but other than that I do quite enjoy it, it strikes me as what would happen if Inception and Rayman 3 had a baby
I didn't know her all that well mind you, she was someone I went to grade school with.
I wrote dorky poems about her because I was stupid back then.
Myself, I just tend to stick with Roma/Romani...
I feel so ignorant whenever I talk about this cuz it's one of the few areas of "peoples of the world" that I have almost no knowledge on at all.
If any other race knows the terrible connotations an exonym can earn over time, it'd be my own.
Bluh.
Hellaaaaaaa
not all Romani identify as Roma; 'roma' is the Romani word for 'men' but is also an ethnic identifier in Eastern Europe
i kind of want to let Psychonauts off since most Americans don't even know 'gypsy' is a slur, but i guess that's not an excuse
It seems hypocritical.
Just got out of a conversation with a guy who was saying that stuff.
#reasonswhyyoushouldreadDialHForHero
i should go
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
mass effect
in all seriousness he actually sounds really interesting
Though I think "gypsy" is falling out of favor too.