aaronradney.bsky.social
He/Him. Illustrator at www.aaronradney.com No AI or NFT. Patreon: http://patreon.com/aaronradney. Buy me a coffee: http://ko-fi.com/aradney. #Ha-Nahn
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The instructions we're given talk about making sure they're more than a thumbnail but less than a polished drawing but I'm getting weird and self-conscious. *sigh.*
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This legit feels like art school again. *sigh.* I'll look at them again in the morning and see if I want to refine or reconsider anything.
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Oh! And tonight's writing candle is "The Far Walker" from @packpizzles.bsky.social with notes of agave, pear, flowers, and moss. Love it!
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Also, the chapters are coming to all my readers starting at the end of the month! If you want to check it out, become a reader on my Patreon for only a $1 and see if you like it. www.patreon.com/c/DevenRueWr...
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More and more grateful everyday for the fact that I got to spend the first years of my educational life in an afrocentric school.
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Oh trust, he and I have actually been in discussion about this for awhile in the EDHrec discord! Been a big help but I can't seem to quite get the set up right. I got close with a Necrobloom enchantress build but it's still slightly not quite what I'm looking for. I'll keep looking though.
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As to the popularity question on building I think it does impact what I build as I'm a bit like @danaroach.bsky.social in tha if a commander is too popular it does tank my interest in building it a little bit. I'm still mad that I can't find a better Enchantress legend for what I want than Anikthea.
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I don't get to play often though so my numbers on playing wouldn't help much unfortunately.
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Most popular is Meren at 33.
My least popular by EDHrec metrics is my Gilanra + Ishai partner deck at only 23 decks in the database and rank 3525.
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Thank you.
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Do I even want to know what this "flag discourse" is?
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Very specifically I want to call attention to the fact that St Louis and Kansas city are the blue dots in the sea of red. The state legislature likes to punish these cities for having the temerity to vote for Democrats as much as they can.
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So I'll leave the post with this from @hellofutureme.bsky.social who I think does a solid job looking at these concepts through a lens that's familiar to many of us and help be a critical thinking bridge on the topic.
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disentangle the biases and the ideas of the author to understand and interrogate what their stories are saying.
And it takes critical thinking to understand which parts are applicable and worth incorporating and which parts may be less optimal and worth setting aside.
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All things require context. You'll also need to filter through the author's own biases and beliefs. Attack on Titan and 1984 both have things to say about authoritarianism, propaganda, manipulation and people's relationship to the state...
But it takes work, time, effort and understanding to...
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My mom introduced me to political intrigue fiction and whether intentional or not it showed me the ugly side of authority and politics and why resistance against tyranny and unjust authority was not only good, but necessary. Alone these stories don't provide an end all be all though.
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She got around this two ways generally. The first was sending me to an Afrocentric private school growing up where I learned very ugly history *incredibly early.* Pictures depicting horrors some of you didn't see until adulthood I was subjected to at five.
The second, was reading.
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For one thing my mom was a very fair authority figure. Frankly almost too fair. One of the dangerous things that teaches a child is that authority is more often than not fair and just. The fact my mom was a benevolent dictator wasn't great for raising a child that would question authority.
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If you've followed me for ages you've probably heard me say humans contextualize the world through stories and there are few stories that provide a better window for that contextualization than history.
And my mom in her own way believed that too. And it led to some interesting peculiarities...
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In related news this is why I actually kind of hate the drow as hated minority "it's not the color of your skin but the content of your character" type storytelling and why even though I don't use it personally I actually *get* why DnD uses Tieflings as a stand in for the oppressed.
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It's also why, funny enough I think even though Children of Blood and Bone *is* written by someone who probably understands racism very clearly its allegory falls a little flat.
The minute you give a fully rational reason for the racism you sort of remove the punch of the allegory.
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It still kind of flubs it because the creators don't really understand it as much as they'd like you to believe but the fact that it's the benders who harbor the prejudice in that setting actually reads much closer to reality.
Racism is about power and it's inherently irrational.
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It's the difference between why the trans athlete bans are absolutely bullshit and why it's kind of absurd to let Dash in the Incredibles go out for Track and Field.
Funny enough, this is a thing that Avatar the Last Airbender actually gets more right than a lot of series.
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She got those dogs trained on grace! Lord have mercy!
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Cat man is *lorge*!
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And last but not least, Hu my most recent character created for #Ha-Nahn is non-binary, uses They/Them and hasn't really given me any indication of their situation beyond that.