Nettle Briar @Ulfra_Wolfe@awoo.space

You are real. You are valid. You are valuable. The world is better because you are in it.

I believe in you. I'm proud of you.

Yes, you.

FROM THE PATREON: kicking off Punk Rock month. clothes aren't really yours unless you fuck them up with someone you care about, right?

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The library is so good. All the books you want at no charge and you can request them online and they’ll get send to whatever library you prefer! Meeting rooms, you can go there and read or just chill... and people don’t want socialism?

@Angle The more I read, the more I identify Green-White.

Alright, I'm gonna start writing that piece on the MTG color pie I talked about last week. This is going to be very nerdy, and possible a little discoursy at times, so be warned.

To start with, lets talk about what, exactly, the color pie is, and how it came about. The color pie is a division in MtG. It serves, most basically, to impose restrictions on deckbuilding such that decks must be different. That is to say, they can't all just use the same best cards. There are five different alignments, or colors, and they all have different strengths and weaknesses. You can stick all five colors in your deck, if you wish, but this will greatly complicate your resource base, enough so that it's usually not worth the trouble. It also serves to add flavor and backstory to the game.

Why is this interesting enough to go and write a huge post about? Because of the intricate philosophical underpinnings. I wouldn't say they perfectly reflect reality, or anything, but I think they can give you a lot of insight. Let's take a look at the basic five colors and their philosophies, and I'll show you what I mean.

"We’re the orphans of a time when the world was falsely divided into agents and enemies of the capitalist bloc. With the collapse of the Soviet illusion, every simple grid of geopolitical interpretation was lost. No ideology enables us from afar to separate friends from enemies—notwithstanding the desperate attempt to instate a newly reassuring reading grid where Iran, China, Venezuela or Bashar al-Assad look like heroes of the struggle against imperialism."

- To Our Friends

YES, I AM A LOSER.

LUMINOUS
OUTSPOKEN
SATANIC
EMPATHETIC
RESPECTFUL

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*awoos with the force of a thousand trans folx*

Also, someone recommended the following articles to me and I love them. They're about the D&D alignment chart, and how it's fundamentally a chart written from whites perspective. It uses this to elaborate further on the colors and their conflicts, including four more charts showing what the other colors version of said chart might look like. If you want to read more, check them out:

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/112879602469/color-pie-friday-aligning-the-colors

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/117252176688/color-pie-friday-aligning-blue

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/119026650005/color-pie-friday-aligning-black

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/120186450289/color-pie-friday-aligning-red

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/121350149837/color-pie-friday-aligning-green

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/121350149837/color-pie-friday-aligning-green

I was gonna write a big whole thing about the different colors, but fuck it, other people have done that quite well already. So heres a couple links:

https://medium.com/s/story/the-mtg-color-wheel-c9700a7cf36d

https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Color

Now I'm gonna go and write some little vignettes showing the conflicts at work. Hopefully you'll find them interesting. XD

"Law enforcement officers did not respond to requests as to why the neo-Nazis were allowed shields and poles, but protesters were not."

https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/23/newnan-love-neo-nazis-vastly-outnumbered-rally-georgia/