God Talk
Okay, for serious, I used to be a pretty aggressive Atheist.
This ended rather abruptly when I started getting Business Correspondence from supernatural entities. Turns out, a Lot of the Old Gods survived, and formed Pantheons that look a lot like Corporate Structures.
Anyhow. One of them is Very Real, and a God you should bear in mind going forwards: Thunderbird.
Don't know a Ton about this god, but they're one of the ones the Natives knew about. I know they're Powerful, Well Connected, and Elemental in nature.
Also, their chosen representation to Mortals is a Wild Turkey.
No, not an Eagle, a Hawk or other bird of Prey. Not even a bird that Flies. Turkey.
The vision was of their King, the Ur-Turkey, the template from which all terrestrial turkeys was Wrought.
Keeping a straight face and appropriate decorum for talking to a God is a Challenge when their Video Window comes up titled 'Thunderbird' and you wanna Laugh because you expected a Bald Eagle.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Turkey was supposed to be our national bird, not the Eagle. After meeting their King, I know why now.
meta, sad, isms and harm reduction
it sucks that trying to talk to people when they do something that hurts almost never matters.
like, at best im ignored. at worst im attacked. mostly people just justify their ableism, and handwave their racism.
only very very rarely does talking to someone actually start a conversation. extremely rarely am I not terrified that someone is posting screenshots of my words to a discord somewhere.
it sucks. theres lots of people out there with lots of intersections and just cuz somebody says, "hey, what you said has kinda harmful connotations" doesnt automatically mean you're a bad person.
it just means you didnt know, and someone is trying to help you learn.
nonphysical abuse and childhood, link to short article
I was talking to someone and this came out
These are my words, but I got permission to show them to the world because they belonged to the person I sent them to first
but I hope it helps others
To Everyone Who Grew Up Too Fast
https://medium.com/@electrocutie/to-everyone-who-grew-up-too-fast-f8c13645602
Tell the people you think are great about specific things you remember them doing and which you appreciated.
The people who most need to hear these things can very easily dismiss traits you single out by internally furnishing evidence of the opposite, but it's harder to argue with a specific memory, or a pattern of behavior.
Kobold posting (Lewd)
When you're a strong powerful dragon but you got your stupid ass slain and now you're running the show from the body of one of your most Faithful kobolds, who pledged herself to this purpose years ago.
The primary issue you hadn't considered at the time, in your arrogance, was having to Be a fullsize dragon in a female Kobold body.
A temporary setback, sooner or later you'll be back to full size and all.
Lewd, kobold, magic
A powerful kobold spellcaster with a harem of big strong polite Himbo dragons summons their retainers after a long day of parsing the depths and casting their mind out into the void.
"Alright Boys, sit down, get comfortable, and stiffen up, I've got a long day tomorrow and need a full tank."
They pat their belly and mount the first dragon, turning to face a pair in the corner.
"And No pre-gaming. if you two get handsy with each other and pop in the first ten minutes, i'm gonna get Stretchmarks again!"
Star Trek's biggest flaw is that canonically they have been in situations where they have attempted to bluff their way out of a situation with a phony ass pull, like Corbomite, but it is literally indistinguishable from the countless other instances of technobable on this show and yet when the aliens are saying "your weapons will amplify the krieger waves and cause a resonance cascade in your own warp chamber" nobody ever says "hang on that's a lot of horseshit you're lying aren't you?"
In Needful Things, the Devil goes to maine and wires up the emotions of a small town with Delusions till they're Killing each other and turn the town into a Warzone.
This is a neat analogy for Capitalism if you read the book.
But we're working on the theory that if you do the Exact Same Thing and go around wiring up everyone with Love and deep social, emotional, and spiritual connections...
You don't get an Atomic Bomb. You get a Reactor.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot