evieghj.bsky.social
Ottawa-dwelling, Québec-born and raised French-Canadian amateur creative (writing, painting, video game modding), occasional gamer, enjoyer of fiction, neurodivergent, trans woman (she/her)
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Note that I am addressing the argument, not the actual person named here regarding whom I have made very deliberate effort to remain as ignorant I’d add possible. They may or may not be horrible, but I certainly don’t care.
Attempts to educate me on this person will be met by summary blocking.
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And yes, the deep psychological meaningful darkness is part of my grudge here. It's *never* about lightening up the deep dark stuff; it's always about making the brighter stuff more cynically psychological because underlying the whole actIvity is the whole sad sack idea that true art must be angsty.
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And just to be clear, THIS wasn't some kind of book that was required reading with mandatory interpretation for standardized testing. That was just a power-tripping professor using his position of power to shove a "deep meaningful dark" interpretation down our throats.
They do exist.
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Sometime a raven is more than a raven. And sometime a little girl covered in bandage wiggling her finger is just a still-living burn victim who's still very alive, not a dead body who is only moving as a manifestation of the main character's guilt and denial about causing the fire.
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...and once we inevitably DID ask the author if the professor's interpretation was right, entirely ignored the "what the fuck no, it is certainly not the story I wrote" answer the author gave and generally continued insisting his was *the* correct interpretation.
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Fundamentally, anger is a tool, not a plan.
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Requires, no - some empathy-less people are really good at faking it, and can fake it in art too - but certainly is far more common from people who feel empathy.
Which used to be something found in various parts of the spectrum, but current mainstream conservatism has made empathy its antithesis.
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And yes, their skies were absolutely ash-awful - between Tambora-the-largest-eruption-in-recorded-history in 1815 leading to the "Year without Summer", and Krakatoa in 1883, not to mention a little thing called "industrialization without any clue about environmental protection", what do you expect?
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(Christ I can't believe you guys are making me say positive things about the nineteenth century, and yet here we are).
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Ace also, and agree. Sex-repulsed is separate from Ace; there is overlap (eg, some people are both) but they're entirely distinct things - ace is not a view on sex and sexual things, it's just not being interested in people that specific way.
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When we went to Florida in 1999, it was with a CAA road planner in my parents' hands.
(That trip amusingly resulted in delaying my first legal drink, since I turned 18 in Florida rather than in Quebec. But I didn't actually discover alcohol I actually like until years later anyway).
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Civ 2's immense ease of modding and consequent diversity of modding scene keep it even with 3.
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I know. It just get harder to put myself forward repeating the same things each year lol. You'd think it would go the other way but, no, absolutely not.
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Fiiiiiiiiiine lol
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But that firm advocacy rest on the belief that while it's possible lighting that one small candle will set off a blaze...that's not something the vast majority of us can control or expect. You can only light your own candle. And hope.
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Oh no! Fingers crossed for as much rest as possible, and a rapid recovery!
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Tasty looking!
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And before any Torontonians whine about 2021 not counting: there are 24 teams that get to whine about the Canadian division being too easy.
The anointed Canadian champions who had a 3-1 lead on Montreal in the first round and blew it are not one of them.
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Although I may scream a little if poutine fest on Sparks comes back on that very weekend this year XD
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Ahhhh, the oldest recorded counterfactual of them all.
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Only nine provinces, three territories and the federal government of Canada to be very specific.
Québec, as per usual, has feelings on the matter and insist on having its own quite anti-monarchic party instead.
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*hugs or other appropriate gesture of commisseration and support*
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(And just so we're clear, while Night's Whisper is the more obvious of the two, Stitch Together is the worst offender here.)