Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

One very specific generational thing for me has been, early in adult my life the sheer glut of material meant acknowledging naw, I don't love everything X-Men. But I've been slow to acknowledge I don't love everything Star Wars - even with all the books and comics, only now does it feel like there's a ton of canon material where any fan needs to pick and choose.

The Imperial March also known as the Repeatedly Saying DESSSSTINY Theme or the Standing In Front of Windows at Parade Rest Theme.

Also thinking about how John Williams has composed The Ultimate Definitely Last in the Series Conclusive Star Wars End Title *three* times now.

Also; look at this precious fuzzy! What a good boy!

#subtweet said it before; non-violent protest works when the average voter sees police and military handing out tear gas, bodily harm, arrests, deaths and goes, I don’t like that. It stops working once the media blocks, downplays and enthusiastically lies about what’s happening. (There’s the churches, but they were always lying shit.) Without the eager collaboration of the folks proclaiming they’re wonderful watchdogs, progress at great cost IS possible.

Playing Boss Monster, and using “Annihilation” (the Great Green Devil Face!) to bolster a room and narrowly killed an attacking wizard. Ha ha, take THAT Elminkainen!

I deny playing “Guillotine” just to cheer LE ROI EST MORT! or LIBERTE FRATERNITE EGALITE!

I admit playing “Guillotine” in hopes The Scarlet Pimpernel will show up and I can stand on a chair, preferably flourishing a fencing foil if one’s available, and recite the little poem.

Wait so you mean Star Fox was a piloting game and not as e621 implies, some sort of dating sim?

We got somehow on the topic of fake butter and various local alternatives seem very… National character somehow. Germany has BIO PLUS 3 and ALSAN BIO and Britain has stuff like VITALITE and I shit you not MOUSE’S FAVORITE.

“Never underestimate a goat; it’s not as stupid as it looks” pal, I have no clue which goats you’ve been around that either look or are stupid.

Probably borrowing trouble but I've already called all congresspeople to ask them to protect the EPA's ability to define wetlands, and I can't DO anything better about environmental fallout from how the rich fundy brownshirts in SCOTUS will inevitably decide, so I may as well get some coffee.

yep, it's gonna be Ragetober. You don't have to do Ragetober daily, but every few days you get to be outraged at some new shitty regressive thing the SCOTUS we have to pay for has pushed into place.

I swear I liked this month more when it was just Halloween and inking artwork.

so you're telling me the robot uprising which wipes out humanity is actually gonna be robots blowing up, suddenly bursting into flames, or rolling over people *unintentionally*?

got salads from Trader Joe's and impulse bought asparagus, pears, bacon, goat brie, and fennel. Then I went home and roasted fennel, cooked up spiced potatoes and cooked bacon/sliced and cored pears to go with the brie.

The Cramps - Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk https://youtu.be/nFYv7ly-7EM via @YouTube

man, I miss Santa Cruz sometimes

I’m starting to feel like most of trans identity is determined from within, on a personal level, it’s not a tidy neat marketing gimmick. Aside from trans flags, the only thing that’s a sure fire sale to trans people is uh… Actual trans actors and actresses playing trans characters, or Queer stories which aren’t tragedies but someone’s trans cause it happens sometimes, and that might lose nice cis dollars so we can’t have that of course.

A rule of cool TTRPG. You gain 1-3 Awesome points for doing cool stuff, and use them like Karma in Shadowrun, as experience or burn immediately to *survive* doing cool stuff. I figure like WEG Star Wars you split actions but spend Awesome to double your dice pool. Mere success isn’t enough; this is a game about one liners right before explosions and backflips in pleather while firing twin mini Uzis. And, if you want to appeal the GM award of Awesome, ask your group “was that cool or what?”

Also today I hit the point of Gideon the Ninth where suddenly from being an Agatha Christie and Alexandre Dumas Write a Mystery Set in WH40K, instead Ianthe is Testsuo from “Akira.” The style change was notably jarring.

What got me here was thinking also that how I’m introduced to really uncomfortable inevitable stuff makes a difference, once familiar or if presented in a non judgmental fashion some though not all of the sting goes away.

Then I thought; all sorts of negative stuff is pretty much inevitable. I am going to die; I am going to live while people I love die; I am going to lose friends, get sick, get stuck in traffic, etc etc. None of these are comfortable and they really shouldn’t be comfortable.

Accepting this would be a way past hypervigilance. But hypervigilance is looking for ways to dodge or parry instead of remise; that requires longer term thinking, something PTSD physically makes me bad at.

#drawing heavily armored troll standard bearer. Very handy for an evil army on the move.