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Okay somehow I managed to get out early.

… also judging by my reaction to fucking Snohomish, I’m gonna wind up as one of these ancient leftists who has a concealed carry permit and thinks fascists and Jew-haters are *everywhere*, aren’t I? Ugh.

Ugh

Bleah

Shit

Just want to go home or get coffee and read

2) an elf going racist empire builder or territorial makes a great adversary as is.

I actually like shadar-kai a lot more. They’re a lot more Unseelie and weird, with that little bit of masochism fitting nicely into both aesthetics and motivation.

My weird D&D take isn’t that I don’t like drow but why.

The opposite of “what a cool monster I want to play it” is wanting to fight “good guys.” And while dwarves have a lot of traits that could turn nasty really quickly, their skill and love for metalwork mean “evil dwarf” looks different and cool. Elvish xenophobia, individuality and sensuality can become open racism, selfishness and sadism easily, but

1) what’re you gonna do with the aesthetics, make ‘em purple and slap spiders on ‘em and

"In rode the King of the Burger. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a great menace of despair. In rode the King of the Burger, under the archways that no enemy had ever passed, and all fled before his face." #Tolkienposting #Fanfic

... now I'm imagining the Burger-King of Angband with an iron crown set upon his plasticky head. This is when he confronts Gandalf at the gates of the White Castle, of course.

Huzzah! The power's fully back. I am more than the usual amount of relieved that power's back completely during potentially subzero weather, because *that* means the electrical system in this particular apartment is okay.

For fuck’s sake. I’ve had so much FFS this week that my brow ridge oughta be about gone by now.

THE NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPT OF COERCION!
DON’T LOOK AT ME!
DON’T TALK TO ME!
I KNOW ITS AN ILLUSION I CAN’T SEE THROUGH IT!
#ThrowSomethingHeavy #GoToTheBeach

And this is not a defense of Putin in any form; I feel like 20 years ago I protested basically this war, and I hope this time the fucking war criminal doesn’t get to retire to paint and play golf and be spoken of as thought his regime wasn’t murderous.

Get it through your heads right now please; THERE IS NO MORAL WAR. There’s a necessary war, but necessary does not mean good. And part of that immorality is that always, ALWAYS, civilians get killed. No matter how much the media tells you our heroic troops are careful; no matter how careful they actually are. The rich old men who decided this was great are monsters sure, but no more monstrous than our own rich old war profiteers.

(This for reference is my great grandmother’s family. My great grandfather’s name is the last name I use for art, since both my grandparents were amateur artists and my mother/father/father’s family weren’t.)

uuuuugh I'm awake, couldn't I have woken up as someone nicer? Like someone with a pretty good job and a great weekend ahead, or me but with 8 hours of actual sleep somehow?

anxiety's apparently crap this morning. If I felt like I could take a day off, I would. But then if I felt like I could take a day off, I wouldn't be up with anxiety.

Huh. My family insisted their name was "Arono" despite the Russian spelling "Aronov," and I'd thought that might be a Ukranian thing since they were from there (how many Jewish families in NYC aren't?). I was thinking about any ties I have to the region, but apparently the Ukranian suffix is -ko, and -o is uh, Spanish. I'm apparently very diluted Sephardic, on top of everything else?

The anxiety sucks ass. It's probably also recursive. Honestly, despite all the terrible shit going on and all the terrible people out there, the prospect of more snow on the ground or another day of overwork is what really gets it all spiking.

https://www.videodoubler.com/combo/saved/3044

you'll need to play with the sound for The Hobbit, but you get the idea

These people are all the same - Trump, Biden, Johnson, Putin, Netanyahu, there's a host of others. I'm not quite an anarchist enough to suggest no government, instead I feel part of what's necessary to government is enough transparency and accountability to limit the harm these people do when they're in power. And I am anarchist enough to suggest that communities are our insurance for when governments led by folks like this are busy chasing fat stacks instead of their constituents' well being.

If I get a chance to play D&D or Pathfinder I think I will go for paladin/champion. It'd be very satisfying to respond to evil with the only argument it fucking understands.

I am so sick of how one party in this country assumes whiteness but the other one mandates it.