@arakin I blame you for how the follow up to "Don't You Want Me" is of course Arthur Brown's "Fire"
@anthracite I know you probably meant this as more of a joke but the graceful human looking guys are always vaguely considered kin to all of these delicate insectile fey critters as well as gnomes etc and I'm now thinking about how maybe, in a fantasy set up where not everything needs to make babies in the same way as humans, differently matured/earlier instars of elves wind up being all of these weird little faeries.
re: Part of what came out of yesterday's realizations about curiosity vs goal based dopamine release;
@chimerror @Oneironott seconded, anything that might help someone else/alternatively might generate ideas that come back and help me is great imho
transphobes/terfs, anger
My experience and this might be wrong is;
* a lot of homophobes don't want Queers to go away; to shut up and be nice little straights who don't disturb them
* most anti-semites actually want Jews to exist at some level - as converts, as an existential threat looming elsewhere, just they don't want us to exist as real breathing people living nearby with our own identity.
* most anti-Black types don't want Black people to go away; they want a docile, profitable, exploitable underclass; they effectively want slavery back.
Transphobes aren't like the other haters, they don't want the subtler form of genocide where you lose your identity, shut up and behave in whatever ways convenience them. They don't want you detransitioned but theoretically comfortable. Transphobes WANT YOU DEAD.
Part of what came out of yesterday's realizations about curiosity vs goal based dopamine release;
dopamine or not, I think it'd be emotionally useful for me to see MORE things as goals even if their significance gets completely wiped out immediately in a larger hostile world. Example; yesterday I drove south, did an in person interview, drove back and in the middle of my job hunt found out I didn't get the job.
If I can phrase this as having accomplished a necessary step in this process I hate, one that wouldn't have had ANY chance of working out if I hadn't sunk effort into it, that makes it feel a lot better than just having it be part of an ongoing lifetime of never being good enough.
@wolfe I'd wonder if it's intended as a "weeder" thing, to convince some people to stop trying.
One complete vicious asshole who's plagued this country for decades, finally dying, doesn't achieve much sadly; like antisemitism and anti-Blackness, nobody loses money as an homophobe and there's a lot of other people out there causing harm, and all I can do is beat myself up for feeling even vaguely glad someone I learned to completely hate is no longer a source of harm.
I remember being a kid when AIDS was at its worst. At the time I had no clue I was Queer, I knew no openly Queer people, I wasn't permitted to know a relative was, I didn't know I was near vibrant enclaves in Little Five Points and Athens.
What I *did* know was that right wingers seemed to be ridiculously happy that folks (whose worst faults I was told were being girly and having ass sex) were dying in complete misery.
Even AT THAT TIME I got a real good idea of who the REAL bad guys were.
@porsupah 1) I’m lactose intolerant. I would explode. 2) Wait, aren’t most Chinese folks also lactose intolerant enough that they’d explode too?
Copying hands from this gorgeous book of “mythological women” I’m struck by how Japan’s monsters are really influenced by cold winters with thick clothing. “She opened her kimonos and underneath was a skeleton!””She finally got up from the floor far enough we could see her giant spider body!” “Beneath all those sleeves she had snakes!” Etc.
@porsupah white rabbit?
#subtweet The Punisher is what happens when your favorite thing about Batman is him interrogating folks by dangling them from tall buildings.
Similarly, Cable is when your favorite thing about the Punisher's guns isn't the actual firearm part but that they have all sorts of neat little technical gribblies.
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