FractalPaladin

You might have seen my posts around and wondered where they came from and where they were going. Turns out they were just a small part of my 150 page comic dissertation that now you can own yourself! Prairies, history, restoration, pawpaws and foraging, it's got all the sorts of things you see posted on my blog!

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there's a story here i know it

(this is a secondary upload, the first had a spelling error)

text: Great, advice from Mr. "It's Not Cuckoldry If You Fuck Both Of Them"

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

We still see this language in the modern world where it's full-scale bullshit. In a period or pseudo-period context it's doing some of that but typically reflects the (deliberately disenfranchising) legal norm that he owns the farm or the inn or whatever it is, and she doesn't and can't because property rights are gendered; maybe as a widow she could own it or maybe she couldn't, but she's a wife, and that's her actual legal status.

if you avoid that language without altering that underlying structure of the scenario, you aren't necessarily doing anything but sanitizing and erasing it. applied carelessly, labeling this kind of language as 'bad' and solving it by 'getting rid of it' is worse than useless; you just get worse art and vaguer history.

so ideally we check in with ourselves like, in this specific sentence, is it useful or desirable to perpetuate and/or invoke that paradigm by using this language, or not?

my grandma listed her vocation as "pastor's wife" because that was/is a goddamn full time job. and also distinct from the job of pastor. shit's complicated.

All three of these takes are subtly different and true.

ACTUALLY Laerryn's actions in episode 2 are not at all condemnable because they're the high fantasy equivalent of like. You've finished your super cool piece of code and it's actually passed all its unit tests this time, but when you try to run your first integration tests then it all works perfectly except it slows your system to a crawl. So you (a non-habitual Windows user) grudgingly open up task manager and see that some unrelated system file with all numbers in the name and a file extension you don't recognise is taking up a huge amount of your CPU and memory. You Google it and get no clear documentation, and so you check Stack Exchange and there's like 2 answers saying "don't uninstall this" with no good explanation. So you're like "well how bad can it be" and you kill the process, and your code starts running perfectly! You tell your friends about it! It's great! Then you find an ancient forum post that's like "hey don't do this it will brick your computer, here's why" and you find out the file you stopped running was actually a crucial, load-bearing component of your antivirus software

Anyway, the moral of Calamity is that you should be running your flying cities on Linux. What was I saying

anyway laerryn would've released predathos by now

Remember the part where the Lord of Hells cosplayed as her bestie to fool his grief-stricken widower into helping him?

Laerryn would have popped that lock so quickly and been like: "Hey bb, do you take requests? If so, I'd love to see you start with that Red Bastard, then the class-traitor Matron of Ravens. After that it's all jazz. Good luck and here's some orange slices if you need a little pick-me-up, thankyew."

Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently

story time 

they used to give us 15 minutes to do the mile, which meant you could walk it and still qualify if you watched your pacing

one time we were doing the mile and my buddy (a japanese-american goth music nerd guy who wore fishnets and stuff to school) ran by me, huffing and puffing, which was weird because he usually did it in a half hour walk

i was on pace to finish in 14 minutes 30 seconds, walking in solidarity with my friends even tho i grew up playing all the sports and could have easily run it, because fuck school and fuck gym class in particular

Anyway i see my buddy (we didn’t hang out much in school but we grew up playing together because we lived on the same block) i see him go by hauling ass, high-key unusual, so i cranked up to a run, caught up to him, and asked him what the hell

So he tells me (in a gasping sort of way) that the gym teacher, a terrible bully who was always riding me and my friends, was once again giving him shit about never qualifying on the mile and my friend reminds him that he’s excused by a doctor, and the gym teacher basically called him a faker and threatened to fail him if he didn’t run

“so i got a couple of us witnessed that…. and now i’m gonna give myself a fucking asthma attack… because i’m fucking sick of this shit all the time… fuck that motherfucker… i hope i goddamn die on him”

the school wound up having to call an ambulance, he coughed up actual blood and passed out

the gym teacher got suspended over it, when he came back he stopped fucking with the un-athletic students. And my buddy didn’t even have to show up at all for gym class for the rest of the year. School legend

I absolutely despise gym “teachers”, never in my life ehave I met or heard of a gym “teacher” that wasn’t an absolute piece of shit, woman or man. It’s like if you go study to be a gym teacher you get some mandatory “turn you into a piece of shit person” mutagen injection. In my country literally every year there’s a scandal about a kid dying in some school during a gym “class” because a piece of shit gym “teacher” told them to quit faking and keep running. Literally every year something like this happens, a gym “teacher” gets fired and sent to prison, and the rest of them just keep doing the same shit. And these people went to a fucking university to be a gym teacher. Absolutely wretched profession up there with cops in terms of what kind of people it seems to attract. Worse actually, atleast there are decent individual people in police, while the system is inherently rotten. There’s nothing inherently bad about a gym teacher profession, yet all the individuals are pieces of shit.

get ready for an exuberant summer

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Unions work, Unionize.

This. Encourage self advocation, don't glamorize 'the grind'. Unions really are there to help you and keep the overlords in check :)

just found the most fascinating anti-ai person who is only anti-ai because they make and sell the software that spambots USED to use to flood the internet with low quality SEO-bait garbage and chatgpt is putting them out of business. what a fascinating category of human to be. i had never even considered that someone had to be actually making the spambots and that they have feelings too.

The problem with airports is that they are controlled by the totalitarian Air Traffic Control, which concentrates power over take off and landing into its own hands. We need to abolish ATC and horizontalize airports, such that every plane must call every other plane in the world to announce that it is landing. If two planes try to land on the same runway at the same time then they'll just have to land around each other, as making one of them wait would create an unjust hierarchy

when you think about it it's pretty revealing that the USSR and China never abolished air traffic control. really pretty clear a sign of revisionism. sad! another revolution betrayed, and for what?

Untowered airports exist all over and kid you not they are 100% just like this

Could be on a final landing approach in a slow clapped out 1970s Cessna 150 only to get cut off by the local Dr's Bonanza pilot, a dentist just nearly t-boned you in their Cirrus at 200 mph, and the Citation private jet pilot is on their final directly behind going 400 mph. Amidst everyone trying to land at the same time, the Boomer who had his license revoked multiple times just taxied his Mooney that hasnt seen maintenance since 2002 onto the same runway. None of these guys use their radios to inform of their motives, they just throttle and pretend no one else exists. 🥲

God Bless people who dress wild and go out in public. I love seeing a woman in all pink with pink hair and pink nails, with a tiny dog in a pink outfit in her bag. Or a massively goth dude covered in piercings sporting a giant green mohawk. Cosplayers. SCA reenactors. Ren Faire people. There’s nothing I love more than a pair of handsome young men walking around in Revolutionary War outfits. Just please keep dressing wild and freaky. You bring color to life, and it never fails to put a big smile on my face.

Sorry for being incapable of answering a question without like 900 "It dependssss" prefaces. Unfortunately too many things depend on too many things