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[February 11, 2011 @ 8:26pm] |
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[PRIVATE]
I used to complain about Valentine's Day that it was ridiculous to tell people what day they were supposed to show their affection. But David used to love it though and every February 14th there would be a bouquet of orchids magically waiting for me when I woke up, no matter how early it was. It was like David's own magic trick.
There won't be any more orchids.
[PRIVATE]
( Cut for lots of talk of abortion and rape )
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[January 03, 2011 @ 1:50am] |
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[Blocked from the Egyptians]
I agreed to go to Tulsa to shoot something for a company there and it's the first work I've taken out of state since what happened in Las Vegas.
I'm not to proud to say that I'm actually terrified that he's going to just suddenly show up there. I don't care how irrational that is, because he took everything from me and I still have the most horrible dreams about him. The fact that he's still just walking around somewhere, sometimes in the same city as me, almost gives me a panic attack. I am so not okay still.
Deep breathes, Briseis. Watch me keep it all together.
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[December 16, 2010 @ 9:34pm] |
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[Hector]
Thank you again for carrying things today for me.
I'm sorry if I came off a little awkward. I have a bad history with immortals who don't like Achilles and the scars to show for it, so I wasn't so sure that you weren't going to try and murder me for the simple connection.
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[December 01, 2010 @ 7:37pm] |
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[Briseis sees Achilles' apology but has no idea what to say in reply.
'Forgive me.'
Briseis isn't sure if she can. All she can think about is their friend Patroclus with his jaw wired shut and how Achilles allowed his own hubris infect him so badly.
She will forgive, but not yet. She can't.]
[Filtered to Thetis]
Thank you for taking me into your home. I know it can't have been easy to think you were having to hide me from your own son. Your kindness is appreciated.
[The second note is harder, as Briseis has spent her entire time on American soil avoiding the Olympians, knowing that they are far too capable of cruelty for their own pleasure. But Briseis hasn't forgotten her manners.]
[Filtered to Hephaestus... and (OH IF SHE MUST) Apollo.]
My Lord Olympians, thank you for the protection you have offered me in recent days. I am grateful to you both for taking the time to do it, even if it was a favor to Thetis.
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[November 28, 2010 @ 6:57pm] |
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[It had taken a lot of arguments before Briseis would leave Patroclus' hospital room, despite his fears that Achilles would come to hurt her. She needed to be there to protect him, even though it was stupid. Achilles wouldn't exactly find much of a threat against his skills with her.
But now she's at Thetis' home and under the protection of her and Hephaestus as she watches all the carnage unfold around them. She may have snapped at the gods as well, she at least she's smart enough to know when to shut her mouth.]
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| Street harassment, Yale students and misogyny, victim blaming and slut shaming |
[October 17, 2010 @ 4:30pm] |
iHollaback is a project focused on facing street harassment head-on and confronting the men who feel they have the god-given right to make their catcalls at women on the street. It's a place for women to share their stories with others who are sick of the same treatment.
( still public, but cutting because it's long and talks of rape )
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[September 24, 2010 @ 11:35pm] |
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[Hector]
Helen is with you? What happened to her?
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[September 14, 2010 @ 7:02pm] |
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As a rule I avoid watching Greek epics. A few years ago I couldn't stop myself from watching Troy. I really should have though. I don't think I've ever hated any movie more. However, Sabine was marvelous. A job well done, Achilles, although saying it kind of scares me because it's not as though you need the ego boost.
[Patroclus]
He's going to be intolerable after this, isn't he?
[Hector]
How's that city of yours treating you?
[Private]
Writing to your best friend and then directly after that to his slayer? Poor taste perhaps, Bri.
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[August 27, 2010 @ 7:52am] |
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Up until now I had no idea that I was supposed to find a scrolling list of slurs against race and sexuality to be hilarious.
I've got so much work to be catching up on, and then I have to fly out to Miami for a project as well. Wish me luck.
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| 'Ground Zero Mosque' and Pakistan aid |
[August 25, 2010 @ 3:54am] |
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Yes, I saw the video of the NYC mosque protesters singling out a man who happened to be walking while black. (Really, shouldn't he have known better than to do such a thing? If we have to stop singling out people on their skin color and making assumptions based on that won't it just lead to the degradation of our complete society as a whole?) I really don't have anything I can possibly say about it other than the fact that it disgusted me. I'm equally disgusted at the the media's complete refusal to mention (most of the time) that this isn't a mosque in the truest sense, but a cultural center with a prayer room, something no different or more sinister than any of the large number of Christian-based community centers around the nation. Also rarely mentioned in the flurry of 'Enemy religion on Ground Zero!' is that it won't be built on Ground Zero. In fact, as an article on Huffington Post pointed out, this is the actual distance - two blocks away and halfway down the street around the corner.
America: Freedom for all, as long as they are white, Christian, rich and heteronormative.
Further abroad and far more important than this religious debate, Pakistan needs your help. The floods have killed almost two thousand people and displaced near to twenty million. That's twenty million human beings who have lost their homes and almost everything else. Twenty percent of Pakistan is underwater - that's an area larger than Italy. Something like eighty-five percent of the people who have been displaced are women and children, and a huge problem with this is that Pakistani society sees women receiving help directly from male aid workers as incredibly taboo. Add to that the fact that many of the more rural women now residing in the makeshift camps have never before been in contact with men they aren't related to and are now thrust in with hundreds of them.
It's all too easy, it seems, for people to suggest that it's all 'backwards' and that maybe they're not deserving of our help because of that, but at the end of the day these are people, real people enduring terrible suffering. They have feelings and fears and they've lost loved ones and homes. Put yourself in their shoes and share that suffering for just a moment. More donations means more aid workers and more help and that is what Pakistan desperately needs right now.
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[August 20, 2010 @ 12:08am] |
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August 18th marked the 90th anniversary of women being given the right to vote in America. (The United States was not the first country to do so, with that honor going to New Zealand in 1893, long before it ever happened here.)
It's now been over a month since it all happened with David. Doesn't seem that long, but my hands are healing well. There might be some permanent damage in them but hopefully nothing major. I can still use my camera, although I'm not really inspired at the moment.
I don't really have much to say right now. I suppose I'm just checking in to show people I'm not dead. Alive is how I'm planning to stay.
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[August 12, 2010 @ 11:03am] |
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Back in New York again. I decided this morning that I couldn't hide with my dead lover's family forever and just booked a flight. 'Strange' doesn't cover what it's like the be in the apartment without him. I miss him so much.
There are so many things that have happened that I'd usually want to talk about here - about Prop 8, about Maine prison policies for trans-people, about denials of a wage gap - but I just can't bring myself to focus on anything like that at the moment.
I'm just really tired and someone else can do the campaigning right now.
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[August 02, 2010 @ 5:27am] |
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[PRIVATE]
I am completely exhausted.
I was never allowed to be there to mourn Achilles as his men did, but this time I sat at the front of my lover's funeral and cried. I was hugged by his parents and told that I was loved, and I was allowed to know that my grief for David was the right thing to feel and that I deserved it just as much as they did. Last time I lost the man I loved I wasn't allowed any of that. I didn't wear a ring and to the world I was nothing. David's friends and family don't care that I wore no ring.
Tomorrow my brave Greek men go home but I know now that I can stand without them. This isn't like last time. This time I'm not property and there are so many people that love me. This time I'm Briseis even without a man by my side. I know as well that it's important I stay here and help his family. There is so much to be done and dealt with and I can't leave them alone. In a way it's a comfort to be with them. At least together we all understand the loss.
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| ooc; wallpaper |
[July 24, 2010 @ 5:42pm] |
Just messing around making pretties and made a wallpaper for Pat/Bri/Helen/Achilles. Because they're pretty. (And the lyric choice is clearly all Ella's fault.)
(Clicky to make big!)
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[July 15, 2010 @ 12:36am] |
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Briseis spends a long time staring at the screen and wondering the best way to word a post to Helen about Patroclus. It all boils down, after twenty minutes, to 'please don't hurt him' but even that she decides to not leave.
Tomorrow David and I are heading out of New York, just overnight - the excuse is he's going for work, but really we just want to get a room in one of the incredibly tacky themed hotels if we can find one. How can one resist?
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| OOC: Helen/Briseis manip |
[July 09, 2010 @ 3:14pm] |
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I made five of these but this was the only one I even remotely liked :/
( War prizes )
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[June 27, 2010 @ 7:57am] |
The Texas Republican party has endorsed a platform that bans sodomy and criminalizes gay marriage. Apparently homosexuality "tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases." You know what actually tears at the fabric of society? Hate, discrimination, and dehumanization.
An article from the New York Times about the ongoing situation in the Congo: No, Sexual Violence Is Not 'Cultural'. Be warned that parts of it could be quite triggering.
I never have anything of my own to say any more. I always feel like I'm too busy to actually live a life instead of campaigning and raging about things. So how about something good for the world instead of awful? Like, if I'd known about this earlier I probably would have signed up. Had you heard of it before, Achilles?
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[June 11, 2010 @ 12:11am] |
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( cut for news links )
As for the news of my own life? David and I are currently babysitting the neighbor's kitten, which is completely naughty of both us since the building is supposed to be pet-free. (Which is why Set sent me a plushie crocodile of looove and not a real one.) But as long as it's a secret cat then all should run smoothly. No one tell on me and I'll bake you cookies. (Please note: I won't really make you any cookies.)
The cat is named Snorkel. I actually have no idea why.
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