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The requisite angry homeless dude. I mean why not I’m pissed off myself, about the usual. I’d be a Kahanist if that weren’t completely vile.

Gonna see if I can get some fried livers and gizzards and stuff.

Downtown Seattle is as bleak and grimy as I remember. I went here willingly?

Bad case of the “I’m a terrible person and have quite literally nothing to live for” this morning. Trying to get moving despite that.

Thinking while driving yesterday.

A lot of conservative morality distinguishes good people by their ability and willingness to punish bad people. (The other thing conservatives fixate on is deservedness - you don't deserve things just because you're around, you have to earn that by being good, which includes by punishing. The idea that someone might get a safe space, like universal health care or UBI, infuriates them. If you mandated work programs or enlistment in return for UBI they'd be all over that shit. This is part of why they're all about Jesus *redeeming* people by dying, and by threatening Hell - Jesus can't simply show up, say something enlightened like most of the sermon on the mount, heal some people, and be reborn as an example of divine love, that alone wouldn't make him officially good to them.)

This is really obvious in the worship of police and military, or Reagan and the Bushes, who were good because they created an enemy and punished them (while the domestic disasters of all three didn't count because it was officially happening to Someone Else).

But I was also thinking of the groomer/pedophile/etc rhetoric now; people transitioning or simply having Queer relationships is pretty inwardly directed, and in order to make the average conservative truly willing to do something about that, someone needs to be phrased as the bad guy whom you (or your proxy) can be good for punishing.

More upsetting; by definition, raising awareness of inequalities from largely socially unaware, in order to enact change, is an active process, there's *literally no way* to do it without "wokeness" becoming a way to get rightwingers all hopped up about how they've been grievously wronged, and therefore need to punish (or get someone else to punish) to protect their desperate need to be the good people.

The personal end here was thinking about my response to bullies in high school. I started out frustrated, not trying to use social dynamics to be left alone, even if I eventually went that way. Now I realize that I was victimized for being a Bad Person - therefore the victimizer was Good for punishing me. So oddly being very much the bad guy (I escalated to violence first) meant moral ambivalence (it's good to pound the hell out of someone who attacks you, it's bad to pound the hell out of someone smaller and weaker than you).

If that makes any sense?

Anyway here’s photos from today’s adventure. Was nice and the company was fantastic.

I've finally decided that Frank Frazetta's pen and ink illustrations for LotR really aren't at all Tolkien but all of them have such masterful blending shapes together through shadows that they're gorgeous anyway.

do I really want to sit through 2.5 hours of 1985 movie about the Battle of Courtrai, and it's in Nederlands but subtitled?

oh shit, it's the part of the Willow soundtrack where Mad Mardigan's pursued by the Teutonic Knights from "Alexander Nevsky!" Shouldn't have tried to steal the USS Enterprise from drydock. Fortunately for our hero he happens to have a prototype jetpack designed by Howard Hughes.

the traditional dilemma when cooking greens like yu-choy, "is this an excuse to dump red oil all over it or is this an excuse to dump hoisin sauce all over it?"

and a little male chorus leitmotif lets you know Something Slavic is happening. Like losing your temper at other drivers. Or being profoundly unhappy. Or having tea.

Perhaps I need some tea.

#drawings today, tightened a barbarian attacking a giant or ogre; a trio of ghouls, about 1944; and a triton ranger tries to scare off, or fight off, a human kayaker who shouldn’t intrude on this part of the ocean.

Update; I didn't read about Mycenaeans. Instead I read through this old Role Aids module, "Lich Lords," which is equivalent to a pretty decent 1-12th level 3e-5e D&D campaign jammed into a railroady module. I think I might try scribbling down ideas about adapting it.

Pallas's cat kitten is hurrying to meet a keeper who brought her juicy a... https://youtube.com/shorts/J6xguyuzJrw?feature=share via @YouTube

omg pudj 💙💙💙

Can I read about Mycenaeans or will I be unable to focus cause someone nearby is tuning their tuba? I’m NOT making this up.

Another park with awesome trees is Tolmie, but that’s heading south rather than north.

Even more Camano

Since I’m kinda in an ehh mood here’s even more recent weekend photos - this time Camano Park with lots of awesome trees.