Friday, March 20, 2009

Springfield Elementary Needs Substitutes. But Not Me.

Willow spend the day in the ER today. Her blood pressure was ridiculous and luck and more were the only things that caught it and sent her somewhere for monitoring. As said by the doctors - "Someone that young shouldn't have BP that high."

That said - Willow, (meaning me), is not going to risk her health over the failings and attempted learnings of white people.

In general I've been pretty good at that. Though sometimes, the sheer "WTBlueBlazes Was That Flying Ecru Cow Pattie!" has knocked the common sense right out of me. But this has become about some pretty, structurally important spoons in my life and those spoons are priceless when compared to 'White Learnings & Other Babblecock'.

When I hear about published writers in the White Tower of SF&F, talking about sending monetary support, or even taking the time to send snail mail in order to Save The World With Postage or things similar? - I'll reconsider reading the povs of white people I don't already know.

If I hear ambush, I'll blow the horn. And if I learn the Horde needs backup - I'll be there. But clearly even spot reading all the "Wow isn't it so wonderful to be having this conversation - it's so new" is disrupting my brain's chemical balance. I am probably not the only one. I'm sure there are First Nations and Indigenous Peoples who often go "Discovered what 'new' land, you willfully blind, appropriating, genociding, greedy, selfish` honkies."

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I've thought about it for a bit and I've decided I might feel differently on Monday. Maybe. Depending on how my BP fares through the weekend. For right now? The next post on here might have to do with kittens, or webcomics, or kitten webcomics to give myself somewhere else to turn my eyes.

Black kittens in a webcomic by an Asian Artist and with an NDN colourist and a Latin@ letterist - who also helps them translate the comic into Portuguese. The web is big. It's probably out there.

9 comments:

  1. Wow, that's...

    Yes. Educating clueless white people isn't worth a tenth of the pain this business has caused, and it DEFINITELY is not worth a risk to your health.

    I hope you get/feel better soon.

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  2. Yikes! Take care of yourself; reading more fail is definitely not worth it!

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  3. Cripes! Oh wow, I'm glad that got caught and you're being checked out for it. I want to continue reading your awesomeness, vim, and vinegar.

    And I sorta feel the same way whenever a new Judd Apatow movie comes out. I know I have to stay the heck away or else run the risk of popping a blood vessel in my brain from all the hatred said movies inspire in me.

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  4. Don't let other people's shortcomings wreck your health. A webcomic focused on kittens huh? Hmmm. Neko the Kitten stopped updating a while ago. And Eben & Snooch of Two Lumps aren't kittens. Have to think on that. But mostly stay healthy!

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  5. Eeek! Oh my god, no, not to be risking your health! Seriously. Wow. I'm sending all good healing thoughts your way - please take care of yourself!

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  6. !!!

    *Hugs carefully* I'm glad you caught it - and yes, taking care of yourself is hugely more important. You're important.

    kdorian

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  7. Well three strips with a black kitten. Ok, so its a displacer beast kitten. Still they're black...

    For non-D&D nerds a displacer beast is a panther with six legs, clawed tentacles coming out of its shoulders that appears to be 2' from where it actually is...

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  8. Holy crap!! 0.o

    The Not-Worth-It levels were already off the charts, but this is just scary. Sending good health thoughts your way!

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  9. Lurker:

    I saw those strips, but I thought the kitty was teleknetic. Now I know.

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