whynot | my hands are your red carpet and your smile the flashing lights

dollsome | Morgana, Arthur. How this went from boring ship to one of my favorite ships, I'm still not sure.

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lettersandliars | Amy, Eleven, and Vincent Van Gogh. If I can't have the three of them time-traveling together, I can at least have this fic.

Tweet by Oyl Miller | "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams."

The Thousand Little Gods by

zanzekiel | Dean/Cas, Gabe/Dean. Dreams, disorder, and dangerous hobbies.

Naming the Walls by

shantirosa | Hindu Desichesters and Muslim Desi Harvelles written for Revenge Racebending.

Time I Was On My Way (See How They Run Remix) by

essenceofmeanin | Dean, John, Sam. Five times Dean does drugs.

Days Without Feathers by

pyrebi | Jess's mom POV, and all the horror and heartbreak that entails.

O Drom si Baro (The Road is Long) by

keerawa | Romachesters written for Revenge Racebending.

Vid: Out of My Mind | THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE DEAN AWAY HA HA HO HO HEE HEE

Impossible to Tell by

candle_beck | Dean/John-ish, Dean/Sam. Hello there, heretofore unknown daddycest kink.

Okay, I don't write a lot of porn, but I feel like trying my hand it again. Dear readers, if you would kindly comment with a Supernatural ship any Supernatural ship, including crossover ones, I will strive to reply with a pornlet.

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I didn't so much get that impression from the author as I did from the source material? But yeah, by pointing out how the strip limits them to "magic watches" or a special connection with the land, they kind of invalidate any other option other than wanting what the colonizer wants them to. Which oddly enough lands us back with the same problem of prescribing things to them... I do like this question you have! It's like... the author realizes there's something wrong with ascribing the natives a disadvantaged position, but can't help doing it himself?

I mostly skimmed it, tbh, so I don't remember too much in too much detail. One thing was the stuff about Latin America and setting stereotypes against each other - it seemed close but not quite to me. Like, yeah Latin American countries have stereotypes of each other and are kinda pretty divided, but that's more historical than contemporary-media-driven, and I don't think national stereotypes had much to do with the bloody wars of the 1800s and the fractiousness of Bolivar and San Martin's shortlived united dream republics.

the author realizes there's something wrong with ascribing the natives a disadvantaged position, but can't help doing it himself?
Yes! Like, "oh it is unfair that we always show the natives preferring, like, trees over gold" or whatever. But then this is also imposing a value system on the natives. It is implied that the natives should value what the colonists value, because the natives' own value system is dumb. I dunno, maybe the article will get deeper into this later. I guess what the article is saying is not that the natives' values should change, but that they should be more... aware, or know how to avoid the colonists' tricks. But the two are related; I wonder how to go about deconstructing the issue.

The Latin American stereotypes of Latin America is really fascinating. Most articulations of the arguments against racism and cultural bigotry that I've seen are white vs. brown, but totally yes, there are yellow vs. brown, yellow vs. black, black vs. brown, but I don't see those discussed as often as white vs. everyone else. Indonesians vs. Malaysians, Malays vs. Chinese, Malays vs. West Papuans, etc.

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