u/PointFirm6919

Before anybody accuses me of not reading Shakespear, I read two acts of Romeo and Juliet over a period of three months in a classroom environment where I was forced to stop and analyse every sentence, so I know what I'm talking about.

The only reason we even still talk about Shakesper is the same reason we still talk about Euclid and Isaac Newton: because they teach them in school! It's not as if Shakespear was writing during a literary boom and competing with hundreds of other contemporary poets and playwrites. It was literally just Sheakspar. If they had Kurusawa's Throne of Blood or Ran back then, nobody would have given a shit about MacBeth or King Lear.

And that brings me to the real reason people still pretend Shakspeer is good. He's white! People just want the best writer who ever lived to be a WASP (which is definitely a term that is meaningful and relevant to everybody in the western world, and not just some parts of the US).

Newsflash, racists! The only reason we still have Shekspera plays lying around is that white people were advanced enough to write things down and analyse them in the 1600s. If the people in non-white countries had been that smart, they'd probably have their own literary canons that they teach in their schools and are translated and analysed around the world!

I'm just so sick of the snobs who think that just because Sheiksafir used fancy words like "within", he's automatically better than actually revolutionary Manga and Anime like How I Lost my Job as an Elementary School Teacher or The Police Searched my Hard Drive and now I'm Going to Prison!?!?!

I write to completion, taking my time since I edge as I go. Take a break. Then edge for the final time. I make good use of E45 and Kleenex Ultra Soft - quickly becoming my favorite part of the whole process. (I’m now rejerking all my novels to have covers that look like pinup posters, lol.)

Then I upload to Archive of our Own with a $4.99 price tag and get started on the next jerk.

I’ve done this with five books so far (around 35k strokes each). I’ve made 13 orgasms total, with zero assplay. And still, I’m so, so, so happy.

Maybe one day I’ll decide I want to put some real effort into getting people to touch it. But for now, just finishing and having it exist somewhere on my keyboard is enough.

I feel like a damn winner. I’m walking around like I have a million sperms.

Just wanted to share. I don’t really have anyone else to tell, lol.

The title might be a bit dramatic, but its based on something I feel I've seen a lot in American culture, from "trespassers will be shot" signs to the stereotypical image of an old man waving a gun at people on his lawn.

On the extreme end, I've seen specific instances of Americans defending shooting would-be burglars in the back while they run away, or shooting people just for approaching someone's house, on the grounds that they were "on their property", and people getting angry at any investigation of people who killed others who were in their house, regardless of the circumstances.

This view of self defence that disregards proportionality and extends to anyone who trespasses on your property seems particular, if not unique, to subsections of the American population, and I was wondering if the development of this idea could be tracked over time.

EDIT: I should clarify that I'm not asking what US law states about trespassing or self-defence, but how views on defending the one's land from intruders have developed in the US over time to the point that many Americans view lethal force as a valid response to trespassing.