Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

This isn’t coming out right but you get what I’m saying? Not only is Maus about a minority right wingers would like to vanish, but how it presents a story which isn’t a simple morality play with the “right” ending (parallel to how Jews ourselves don’t do the “right” thing) is truly upsetting, and *then* we get to the stuff they can say openly, about how nudity and cursing is baaad.

With Americans everything happy is supposed to be whiteness or commercialism. So a Jew isn’t just a problem by being neither black or white (like East Indians and Asians earlier in history), but by not converting, voting Republican and buying an F150 with a house in the suburbs, which should fix everything right? So Maus isn’t just a reminder of people we want assimilated and made invisible, it’s *artistically* opposed to what right wingers like.

As Americans we like simple morality in our stories and want to jam marginalized experience into that. MLK, lovable rounded preacher with a dream (no anger or womanizing) dies after making the US equal (Stokely who?), Love Wins when Gays are permitted marriage, and antisemitism ends everywhere forever after wholesome (non Jewish) GIs liberate the camps from atheist Germans. It’s a bad fit for reality, on a collision course with right wing money-making …

No matter what’s going on with me gender wise if I’m ever fabulously wealthy I’m getting my beard hairs lasered away. I really don’t like my beard, especially now that it’s a visual cue to my actual age, and I don’t like having to slow down in the morning to shave.

Runaway https://youtu.be/veRHPL9xFpY via @YouTube

oh YEAH! It's the war song of the kobold death commandos!

now what someone smarter than me could do is translate "Threw It On the Ground" into Anglo-Saxon and mix it with "The Wanderer."

"They cast fell lightnings 'pon my bunghole over and over
I wirt screaming and squirming, mine bunghole all aflame
That much passed; this will too."

"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the long hair flowing?
I threw them ON THE GROUND!"

(yes I know that's only inspired by The Wanderer, but it's funnier this way darnit)

SO MANY THINGS TO THROW ON THE GROUND!
LIKE THIS AND THIS AND THAT AND EVEN THIS!

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH IN THE LAND OF THE SHIRE
LIVES A BRAVE LITTLE HOBBIT WHOM WE ALL DESIRE
WITH HIS LONG WOODEN PIPE, FUZZY WOOLY TOES
HE LIVES IN A HOBBIT HOLE AND EVERYBODY'S HAD HIM
BILBO BILBO BAGGINS
HE'S ONLY THREE FEET TALL
BILBO BILBO BAGGINS
THE NASSSSSTIEST HOBBIT OF THEM ALL

https://imgur.com/gallery/Jtj7kFo

I'm not particularly a fan of Boba Fett. I am however a huge fan of people doing elaborate costume stuff and weathering stuff.

oh good, "Nakamura" is trending because there's a wrestler named Nakamura. A co-op in Ann Arbor hasn't suddenly become the subject of international interest.

artist's impression of a bottle of Advanced Clog Crusade™️​

So I’m drawing off old Liberty Meadows comics to see if I can pick up anything useful, and a non cartooning thing is the best strips are about Oscar the dachshund. They’re definitely stuff by someone who’s lived with dogs but likes them.

I feel like this booster is kicking my ass, a much more subdued version of the ass-kicking I was afraid of, but it's still kicking my ass. That is if I haven't come down with something or my allergies aren't acting up.

Any relationship will have places where it's not perfect and I think that applies to allyship. The closer you are to/pass as WASP and male, you *are* going to feel attacked (not everyone's a fantastic communicator, and our ability to communicate gets increasingly broken with the stress of living in a prejudicial society), and sometimes yeah, that's because some of the people you want to help straight up hate you (nobody's immune to getting bad baggage from bad experiences or convenient scapegoating).

This is on a bad collision course with actual privilege; you're already out of your comfort zone and suddenly you're in the middle of stuff which *is* uncomfortable while people are expecting you to be perfectly okay with it. This is the point where a lot of would be allies decide naw, they hate the idea completely.

But allyship is essentially a relationship with a more equitable society which has a lot of benefits for pretty much everyone, so it's worth sticking with.

I wish I could tell the person repeatedly angrily yelling FUCK YOU in the courtyard that they're making me anxious, but you see the obvious problem with doing so, right?

The Beige Lantern Corps with their mastery of office parks and strip malls!

That thing where you try to stat yourself out in D&D. I figure my stats are somewhere in the nebulous 8-14 range. I'm used to people who are more charming than I am, or *way* smarter. I'm not quite used to people who like, have 16-18 in CHA, like a friend I made relatively recently.

So here's tonight's attempt at "solyanka," it's pretty good and also the flavors strike me as food for being hung over. CW food photo.

Let's see if T-Mobile's wonderfully helpful system in fact allowed me to pay their bill. The good mood I was in thanks to cooking is now shot to shit thanks to paying bills or more accurately the difficulty in using systems provided to do so.

accidentally thinking that the composer of "Entry of the Gladiators" was Julius Cstotonyi, which uh

I can totally imagine dinosaur gladiators, let's roll with it