Actry

@actry.bsky.social

I am a god fearing American raccoon🇺🇸

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 3d ago

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

Is religious trauma is an acceptable subject for an author to write about? Simple: yes. Religion has a massive social and psychological influence on marginalized people, and to say otherwise is to deny reality. Trauma is complex, nuanced—be patient. Real people experience this. Don’t silence them.

american Redwall that still does the regional dialects for the different woodlands critters but like the moles have thick as hell pittsburgh yinzer accents instead of cornish or whatever, etc