[ SECRET POST #2949 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2949 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Persona 4]


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[Howl's Moving Castle]


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[True Detective]


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[Homestuck]


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[Jane the Virgin]


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(Transformers Armada)


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[Hannibal - Richard Armitage/Lee Pace]


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15. [ SPOILERS for Into the Woods ]



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16. [ SPOILERS for Dragon Age ]













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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[philstar22]

Okay, that makes sense. I agree with you there. I just don't get the "abolition" thing that my friends believe in at all.

[sarillia]

I tend to be more concerned with attitudes than anything. Mostly what bothers me is the way people in prison are often treated as less than human. I was planning on getting a prison pen pal a while back and when my very liberal friends heard, even their reaction was an immediate "but what if the person is a rapist or a murderer!?" because when a person hears about a prisoner their minds immediately jump to the worst conclusions and ignore all the other reasons people end up there, and then combined with the way people people deny that those who commit certain crimes are people and instead think of them as monsters, it all goes nowhere good. I think the best and the worst of humanity are not as rare as people think and it's important to acknowledge that good and bad exist in all people at the same time without diminishing the other.

Basically I'm a terrible activist because I spend too much time thinking abstract thoughts about society and humanity and not enough looking at concrete action.

[philstar22]

Ha. I tend to try to mix abstract thoughts with active participation in things like protests.

I think I basically mostly agree with you and just think some people take it too far. And absolutely prisoners are not treated as human beings and prison as it is now is horrifying.

[sabotabby]

I knew a murderer (again, through prison activism). He'd killed someone in a drunken bar fight when he was still a teenager, been sentenced to life imprisonment, and was out on parole. He didn't deny what he did, and it was clear that he was a very different person than he'd been when he went to jail.

There was no doubt, in his mind or anyone else's, that he'd done a horrible, unforgivable thing. But he was also very much not a monster. He wrote incredible poetry (I have two volumes of his work, which I sometimes recommend to at-risk kids) and spoke eloquently about his experiences. I think he does more for society outside than he'd be doing inside.

Basically I'm a terrible activist because I spend too much time thinking abstract thoughts about society and humanity and not enough looking at concrete action.

Eh, we need both.

[sarillia]

Can I have a link to his poetry? I'm always looking for more poets I might like. Plus I'd like to support someone who has done the hard work of changing like that. Does my idealist little heart good.

[sabotabby]

Sure! His name is John Rives. There is another poet named that, making Googling his stuff hard, but here's his page on poets.ca with a bit of his bio and this is the one book I found online, though he's got quite a few others.

Also check out Susan Musgrave and Stephen Reid. She's a poet, he's a bank robber (who is also a published author now). Her work is incredible, and their marriage is fascinating to say the least.

[sarillia]

Thanks!

The name Susan Musgrave sounds familiar but I can't think of why.

[sabotabby]

She was pretty famous in Canada at one point, and deserves to be much more famous. A Man To Marry, A Man To Bury is IMO her best work (out of print, but you can get used copies on the intertubes). Doesn't have anything to do with the conversation at hand; it's just really great.