tomdoyle.bsky.social
science fiction and fantasy writer, author of the American Craftsmen trilogy, Border Crosser, and the Agent of Exiles audio adventure series.
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Why photoshop when it clearly requires someone to "Eodraw"?
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Would it be like this novel? www.amazon.com/Love-at-350%...
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It’s only called cheating if the devil does it.
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Yeah, I believe in a just umpire more than a just god.
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I think of them as more death metal fans than jazz guys.
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But please spare the Little Kings.
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Love this thread--"Pick Poor Robin Clean" in particular was disturbing, as if expressing what the vampires were going to do to everyone. "Rocky Road to Dublin" moved closer to musically right (as if the African-Am knowledge now in the vampire pool was helping), but only to create a danse macabre.
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No Kings and related in DC are only doing stuff in the outskirts/'burbs, so relatively low risk.
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"Right foot blue" was always at most one degree of separation from the "Time Warp."
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Joke? Order-Out-Of. Chaos. Eris about.
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All hail the new flesh!
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Shame no one reads theory anymore--they could've learned that from Marx's 18th Brumaire and other late writings.
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Stalin's question about how many divisions does the pope have seems relevant (without necessarily the same absolute answer).
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I enjoyed Cantor's Inventing the Middle Ages, and your title seems a nod to it, but what do you think of it?
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Indeed. When I was in high school, I saw the old Last Days of Man on Earth cut of this late night on Cinemax, and I had trouble convincing people I hadn't dreamed it for years afterwards (this was long before the internet, etc.).
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(I know it's not Who, but I feel compelled to share the existence of this very odd film.)
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We saw you near our Lapland secret base and we really dig your vibe.
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Cool--this is something that's been itching at the back of my head for years but I've only found expression for due to your prompt.
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Something I saw elsewhere that seemed a good framing--societal tolerance isn't a right but a social contract, and intolerance breaks it.
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It's weird from perspective of Terran mysticism how power of Force is so accessible w/o doing much inner work. The danger of dark side gaining access to mystic power is part of Terran religious lore, but it's generally consider anomalous because of necessary prep, whereas in SW it seems a coin flip.
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Also, the dying monologue about the wife is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
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Excellent--it was such a pleasant surprise when I saw it, and a harbinger of the return of a certain kind of weird film making that I thought was nearly gone.
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Yeah, good trouble toward the Emperor is kind of the point of the whole main SW plot. Not letting the hate rule you is more the non-attachment that a mystic warrior like Arjuna or a Jedi needs--the end goal doesn't change.
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You probably know all this, but for others reading along: A Field in England is wonderful if you like the '70s midnight movie stuff. People overuse "cult film" these days--this is the real cult deal. But don't expect too much coherence, etc. And definitely strong on the folk horror element.
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The Coen Bros. know this in their bones.
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The Coen Bros. know this in their bones.
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Old movies about old stuff are my faves.
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The relevant dialogue from Spartacus always springs to mind in this context: Crassus: Are you not aware of Rome's most ancient law? That no General may enter the city at the head of his armed legions?
Glabrus: Sulla did.
Crassus: Sulla? To the infamy of his name! To the utter damnation of his line.
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Musk's mere super-wealthy existence means eventual serious consequences to him from the regime. Wolsey and Fouquet stuff.
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Wolsey and Fouquet enter the chat.
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I just remember as a kid hearing Patrick McGoohan deliver Fouquet's lines and being impressed with his usual assured cool.
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Agreed. That's why Catholics are what sells for horror and weird conspiracies.
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Then we'll have some peace and quiet in this town.
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Hasn't gotten to a Wolsey or Fouquet point yet, but EM's calling for impeachment and 47 is calling for end to EM's gov contracts.
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Waving one's wealth around in front of an autocrat always works out so well.
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In my mulch hell, I am Sisyphus with my industrial strength grocery cart, going back and forth endlessly to the local hardware store, where I pay too much.
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Ditto--some terrifying moments while running. Way too quiet and being driven way too recklessly.
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As bad+stupid as he is, he and the like have been inevitable for a while. As power becomes increasingly separated from the number of individuals controlled, the powerful will look for various ways to justify having lots of people die--even if they're being premature by decades re: capabilities.