Matilda
junklight.bsky.social
Matilda
@junklight.bsky.social
she/her - Queer - Trans

music & pictures & other nonsense.

ultimately disappointing

born at 322.18ppm

https://linktr.ee/junklight
On a positive note - re-reading Wizard of Earthsea (book club is reading LeGuin & these were my introduction)

Tombs of Atuan hit hard at the time & now I realise why. Lonely girl with a weird upbringing! I related but couldn't have told you how at the time. I understand now ;-)
February 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I enjoyed Pern as a teen - I _think_ they are ok - haven't re-read

& good lord - Eddings and his wife - eek!
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I fortunately avoided Hubbard but yeah xanth - hmm. I mean in your teens you are exploring and certainly you end up in a lot of places you shouldn't (Gor!!!) - Stranger in a Strange land too
February 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I mean - having just looked "the colour of her panties" !! ugh
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
ha ha - yes. I read a number of his books as a teen but got increasingly uneasy - I'm pretty sure I've seen essays on this topic as well
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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He'd ban second jobs and directorships for MPs, and make so much as accepting a curly-wurly whist in or recently having been in public office a criminal offence.

That's obviously not going to happen, but it's the only thing that'll fix this.
February 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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He's no doubt a powerful man. But power has its limits, and even powerful men rely for success in abusing others on projecting a degree of strength they don't actually have on call.

If we become scared and hopeless for change, we become willing to defeat ourselves so the powerful don't have to.
February 4, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Sorry for being pissy about this but it literally does not have to be this hard all you have to do is listen to people who shit is actually happening to because all of this was documented and happened relatively publicly.
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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It boils my blood to see how one sided the 'debate' is. These people are allowed to frame things in a way that both ignores the facts and makes it impossible to counter
December 23, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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Tony Blair's name is not being mentioned anywhere near enough in regards to the Epstein files
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM