100% what I was thinking as I wrote that. I'm still waiting for another installment of Ghost. That'd better be what Mallory does next now that (can't type it).
I shall haunt this place rereading everything until my dying day.
Toasts. I don't have anything to say that won't be more eloquently said by others, but I can't not say something. Toast hugs for you all in your mourning, and may we all always be much, much too witches.
I discovered the Toast via Rookie, which was my internet hangout at the time. I think that the piece 'Mother Of God' was linked in a link roundup. I had never and have never still read anything that so well described my feelings about my family and my religion- most religion exit narratives I have encountered seemed to be quite different and I could never recognise myself in them. I subsequently discovered 'Two Monks'. Thenceforth I read the Toast daily.
I am British, and I am trying so, so hard not to just give myself over to Schadenfreude, because I am young and English and totally screwed, and so many Leave votes came from a place of legitimate disillusionment (though this is not the way to deal with it!) but there is a very large part of me that still wants to sit back, watch the chaos hit the Leave voters hard and scream "you voted for this!" at them. This part of me really does not reflect my most mature self.
I am currently furious, having found out that a few people I know (including my brother-in-law!) were actually operating under a sort of Bernie-or-Bust mentality, thinking that a Leave vote would trigger other stuff that they want such as Scottish independence and therefore voting to throw young English people such as myself under the bus to achieve this. This result and its aftermath ought to show anyone with that mentality in the US that sacrificing people's welfare to get your own agenda is Not Ok.
My family were seriously discussing this as a plan this morning. My sister is already in Scotland, my parents think they'll join her as soon as they've packed their last two kids off to uni, and for me Scottish universities are looking even more attractive than they already were.
I am fresh out of the UK state school system- literally just finished my final exams last week- and I can confirm that aside from the teaching of WW2, which was a little better at my school, you are absolutely right. The horrors of British imperialism are largely not mentioned, and when they are they are taught badly with no real focus on what happened but instead all the focus on "inspirational" Gandhi. Thanks to Michael Gove, it'll only be getting worse, as well.....
I felt the same way, until I saw all the people being shitty about it, with one particuarly shitty example that my brother showed me, and now I have All The Anger. But I can definitely sympathise- my first reaction was just a sense of defeated tiredness at yet another shooting, and yet another hate crime against LGBTQ+ people.
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