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Other doodles I've been meaning to upload. The mole rat lookin' fella at the bottom is based off this fetal seal: https://www.tumblr.com/crazysodomite/764507857509056512 @kageki-kokoro sent me.

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Being disconnected from popular youtube is wild because every week you wake up and it’s like “Gandofarb’s apology video was such bullshit” “People you shouldn’t buy boats from starterpack: Bobbogab, QSteak, TyreFyre” “Oh my god so it turns out that Twizzlecock was actually AT Pransomlord’s beach house with Marthabakes when J6 went down”

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I have purged myself of nearly all of my once prolific territorial hipster nerdery. By all means, wear the T-Shirt for the band you’ve never heard. Play only the remake of the game. Yes, person born in 2003, tell me all about what Y2K fashion was like. I will listen with a smile.

There’s only one mote of snobby nerd rage left. I keep it the way a museum keeps propaganda pieces from a fallen dictatorship. Delicately preserved but unmistakably framed as backwards and ancient. Something we dare not part with for fear it will, by virtue of being forgotten, be allowed to arise anew with no natural defenses to control it

That final granule of hipsterism is this:

If you claim to like so-bad-it’s-good movies, movies like Troll 2 and The Room, then you need to see Plan 9. Now. Until then, your initiation into the trash heap is incomplete.

You don’t need to like it! You just need to see it.

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You think model train enthusiasts are getting freaky at the Double Tree in San Diego? Noop.

Maybe people hate furries so much because we run counter to the narrative that the embarrassing hobby can’t inexplicably lead to having more sex

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Maybe people hate furries so much because we run counter to the narrative that the embarrassing hobby can’t inexplicably lead to having more sex

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I'm going to try and 3D print this, and it is not going to go well but I'm going to have fun

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Biden has six weeks left to make a real-life version of one of the giant sandwiches Shaggy makes on every episode of Scooby Doo

He could literally make a double chocolate swiss cheese liverwurst surprise on rye with the stroke of a pen

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There is nothing wrong with your algorithm

Do not attempt to adjust the feed

We are controlling the content

We will control the clustering

We will control your topics of interest

We can change your outlook to a listless malaise

Or sharpen it to reactionary fervor

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The Algorithms

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This post is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This bluesky account is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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90% of “I want more stories where…” posts are like, yeah you would read at MOST one book where the villain died on the first page or whatever. People are really good at coming up with these high concepts for stories that sound compelling but movies and novels are just made from different stuff.

It’s a bit like if I said, “we need more dinners where the dessert course comes before the entree!”

Like yeah, fun idea, but what actually is the entree? Is that as far as you’ve got? Oh you just are kind of hoping that that idea will magically enter the public consciousness and other professionals will just do it for you? Oh.

I guess that’s my other problem with those posts. Like maybe you’re right, maybe society should just be doing that thing for you where the Vampires are actually the victims or whatever. But it just isn’t going to happen by itself. You gotta write the stories you want to exist, but I suspect that people tend to discover that writing those high concept stories is harder than they thought because the concept is only able to sustain interest for the length of a tumblr post about what a great story it would make.

The thing that keeps us reading a story is (in 99% of cases) is a main character who’s motivation we can comprehend and who’s fate, good or bad, we are sufficiently invested in. And making that happen is unglamorous because it requires paying attention to story structure and other things that are not as cool as “more stories where the protag is NOT the chosen one”

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I’m considering doing a kickstarter to sell a dozen or so of my Waldos and if anyone who’s been following the project could just click one of these buttons to help me gauge interest it would mean a lot!

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I’m considering doing a kickstarter to sell a dozen or so of my Waldos and if anyone who’s been following the project could just click one of these buttons to help me gauge interest it would mean a lot!