kingcrackers.bsky.social
31-year-old cis bi anarchist Singaporean-Chinese Buddhist. DND abolitionist. He/Him. Call me J.Y. 'The biggest Superman fan I know.' ~Me.
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old hollywood movies had a lot of verbal sparring that I think is an ancestor of quipping, and I still do enjoy quipping when done well
but it's gotten a whole lot worse recently
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there are also people in my own "tribe" who I don't agree with foundationally but there is more common ground
this *is* what "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" looks like
sometimes the things people tell you are good, just. aren't.
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sometimes you're full of shit, as much as everyone is
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having high standards is all well and good but i fear sometimes you will take a position that makes no sense just because it serves a different position you also hold
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but you can't celebrate mediocrity, because nobody can, mediocrity is boring, it resists even being talked about
keep your idols, but don't pretend they aren't
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the conqueror doesn't have the rubicon crossed on them, *they* cross the rubicon *so they can conquer*
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the thing about ian miles cheong is that whenever he says shit like this, he wants to say that he and his kind are like julius caesar, but what he's *actually* saying is that he and his kind are like pompey and the senate, fleeing rome in fear
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and it's all well and good to be wary of people who want to "retvrn" to some golden age, but we should also be wary of people who want to *create* the golden age in the future
because they are all our enemies
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ultimately these terms are imperfect descriptions of our complex reality, terms that break down really quickly in deeper discourse (to say nothing of fitting it into a wider historical context)
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the shape of the planet is real (and a sphere) but ultimately irrelevant to most of us and what we do as a trade or calling
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when it's done
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I'm actually going to put the scrapped guys in the villain team
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i ended up going with 21 members and the rest are going to be the legion of supervillains
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my favorites so far are "what if wildfire was iron man, dawnstar was emma frost, and they were lesbian married?", "what if gamora was arm-fall-off lad", mirror-themed spirit of vengeance, and "what if xenomorph queen is matter-eater lad"
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like over two hundred
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i've grouped every single character into 78 discrete types and tried to boil them to a lean 12, but i ended up with 37 characters in total
now i'm doing "draft picks" where i choose one character from each story i like and then junk the rest
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you look like dante
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if the colonizer person is struggling to pay rent and makes money bombing the colonized country, that is by any metric a lesser worry than the colonized person being bombed
the only way you would disagree is if you don't see the colonized as people