#James Hendricks III

[ukatoyaki]

Character portraits for Spiderweb. Some of these require revisions due to being traced over actual sprites.

[fullsaw]

Diversity Win! The fucked up bisexual great great great great grandfather was irish!

[cyberxilophone]

September Patreon Catalog

From brutification with animatronics, to weight gain in a horror setting, or even just plain ol' weight gain fluff, there's so much to see on my Patreon during this first September week! Not just that, but an oingoing poll to see which one of these baddies is gonna get invovled with some kinky shenanigans is currently happening! Just click here to check it out!

[leoalvarez-clowncarcommittee]

duo character ask / James and Cordelia Hendricks

Oooh how interesting.

Besides the Grimes/Elon Musk memes i think they're a great pair. Opposites but James seems genuinely devoted to Cordelia. Which makes me pause and take a moment to think about her actual motivations/perceived friendliness. It just seems hard for someone as dark as James III to actually and genuinely care about someone as good as her, making me think something more is up. But I do love chaos bisexual power couple in charge of ice cream AND the mines either way (also Cordelia being a High Priestess type to both Carl's Magician/Trisha's High Priestess is interesting in my own little head)

[thebunnylord]

List of names dowager Hatt Called the Engines

Thomas: Theodore, Timmy, thibault, Tabitha, Tyler, Tyus, tucker, Thaddeus, Tobias, Tony, Tommy.

Edward: Edwin, Erwin, Ezekiel, Ethan, Egbert, Everett, Emmett, Eric, Elliot, that train that once pushed that other train up a hill.

Gordon: Gregory, Geoffrey, George, Grayson, Godfrey, Gustav, Giuseppe, Graig, big train. Flying Scott’s brother cousin or something.

Henry: Harry, Hudson, Hitler, Hunter, green fat engine, hector, Hendricks, Hayden, Hyde, Hans, Hansel, Holmes.

James: Jon, Joe, Amos, Alma, Jesus, Jacob, bee sting train, Jerry, Judas. Jeff.

Percy: Paul, pasta, pea, Pedro, Perry, Pete, Pablo, diablo.

Toby: Troy, tony, Tobias, Tyler, Otis

Duck: Montgomery, Mona, Monty, Mussolini, bird train, Duke, Drake, (refused to call Duck as Duck because she thought it was too degrading)

Donald: Douglas

Douglas: Donald

Oliver: …. Which one are you again? Who are you again? Ozzy, Oscar, Otto, Octavius. Olivia,

Emily: Eleanore, Esmeralda, Esme, Erica, Emma, Evangelina, emerald, Ellen, Eva, Eve,

Diesel: Doris, Dennis, Daniel, Dan, David, you, who named you? The Deisel with no name.

Bill: Prince Buddy bear Xxavier Dijonny Nevah cash cash III (Bill told Dowager Hatt that was his full name when they met)

Ben: Sir Jermastesty Brexicalishrika Llallañalamopolisistyck Billy Bob Robert jones brother son XXVIII (also told Dowager hatt that was his name.)

[coimbrabertone]

Star Wars and Motorsports - A Surprisingly Intertwined History.

I actually had this blogpost planned out for a rainy day - I thought about maybe doing it for May 4th, 2025 as a Star Wars Day thingie - however, today, James Earl Jones passed away at the age of 93. I knew him as Darth Vader and Mufasa, but he played a lot of roles and provided a lot of iconic voices, others may know him from the Sandlot, Coming to America, or dozens of other roles over the years.

Rest in peace.

In his honor, I'd like to do my little part, so...a discussion of the long and intertwined history of Star Wars and motorsports.

The first relates to Darth Vader himself, as a dark and imposing figure, was associated with Dale Earnhardt in NASCAR. Yup, known as the Intimidator and as the Man in Black already for his iconic black and gray GM Goodwrench #3 Chevy, Dale Earnhardt was also nicknamed the Darth Vader of motorsports a few times in the 1980s and 1990s.

The black helmet and sunglasses played into that.

Somewhat more substantively, there is also the world of Star Wars sponsorships in racing, with Pepsi and Lucasfilm teaming up to sponsor Jeff Gordon at the 1999 CarQuest Auto Parts 400 Busch Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, promoting Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Gordon would suffer a mechanical failure...which is probably for the best because it had Jar-Jar on the left rear quarter panel.

Fast forward to the 2002 Coke 600, also at Charlotte, and Lucasfilm tried again, this time teaming up with Cheerios to sponsor John Andretti in the #43 car in the Cup series. This was the big leagues, and with them backing a midpack car, fifteenth was actually a respectable finish.

For Revenge of the Sith in 2005, the marketing campaign was back in force. First things first, there were four NASCARs that year, starting with both Yates Racing cars at the 2005 Subway Fresh 500 at Phoenix. Elliott Sadler drove the M&Ms #38 with a Dark Chocolate themed Dark Side paint scheme, while his teammate Dale Jarrett had a UPS/Milk Chocolate M&Ms Light Side car. The Dark Side car had Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a Stormtrooper on it. The Light Side car had Anakin Skywalker, the green M&M with Princess Leia hair, and a C3PO M&M.

Pretty odd character choices for Revenge of the Sith but eh, it's all for fun. Anyway, Sadler finished 11th and Jarrett finished 23rd, so I guess the Dark Side won...which I suppose is appropriate, given the movie they're tying into.

So, at the very next race, Star Wars tried again. Teaming up with Jeff Gordon and Pepsi again, this time it was in the Cup Series, sponsoring the Hendrick Motorsports #24 at the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. This car, with Yoda on the hood, would go on to win the race in dominant fashion, leading 139 laps.

Jeff Gordon would also pose with Darth Vader and some stormtroopers ahead of the race, which seems like a conflict of interest given the Yoda car.

Fallen to the Dark Side, Jeff Gordon has.

Finally, Hendrick Motorsports got another Star Wars car, with Episode III sponsoring Kyle Busch's #5 at the amazingly named Chevy American Revolution 400 at Richmond. This Kellogg's car was Mustafar themed with a lava theme on a black base. It has Darth Vader and Mace Windu on it, which...neither is exactly a great fit for Mustafar, what with Windu being dead and Vader only gaining the iconic armor and red lightsaber because of the events of Mustafar.

Kyle finished fourth, another good result for Star Wars.

This wasn't all though, because at the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix in Formula One, Star Wars teamed up with Red Bull Racing to sponsor a car. Much like the Kyle Busch car, it was their regular livery with some orange-yellow Star Wars lettering and a lava/fire theme along the bottom.

Drivers David Coulthard and Vitantonio Liuzzi also got a Star Wars photo op to go with it, this time taking pictures with Darth Vader, two stormtroopers, Chewbacca, C3PO, and also George Lucas himself.

A few years later, at the 2008 Peak Antifreeze Indy Grand Prix at Sonoma, the third to last round of the 2008 Indycar Series, Lucasfilm and Blockbuster (lol) teamed up to sponsor Marco Andretti's #26 car. He would finish fourteenth on that occasion.

This was actually the second collaboration between Marco Andretti, Blockbuster, and Lucasfilm that year, as he actually drove an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull car at the 2008 Indianapolis 500, finishing third.

More recently, at the 2023 NASCAR Championship Race at Phoenix, Star Wars and Columbia Sportswear teamed up to sponsor the 23XI cars. Bubba Wallace in the #23 ran an X-Wing car and even had Mark Hamill appear in the unveiling commercial, while Tyler Reddick in the #45 ran a TIE Fighter car.

Bubba Wallace finished 10th, and Tyler Reddick finished 22nd.

Two Light Side versus Dark Side races at Phoenix, the Dark Side drew first blood but then the Light Side won most recently. We're gonna need a tiebreaker.

So, that's what I got in terms of Star Wars sponsorships, but that's always been Star Wars going into motorsports. How about motorsports going into Star Wars?

Well, believe it or not, there is an example.

Podracing.

Yup, and not just in the "hey look, it's racing!" way, nope. At the 1998 Miller Lite 200 at Mid-Ohio, George Lucas and his crew recorded the sounds of the CART race to use as part of the sound mix for the podracing scenes in Episode I.

In fact - and unfortunately, I haven't seen the film so I can't confirm - I've seen the claim that the podracing sequence in Episode I mirrors the Monza race from the classic Formula One movie Grand Prix, which George Lucas is actually credited on as an assistant camera operator - which would lend some credence to the theory.

So yeah, I know I've kept this blog motorsports focused but I am a big Star Wars fan and have been for most of my life. To hear about James Earl Jones passing it's...it's just like...wow. It's unthinkable in a way. Obviously, he was getting older and all that, and there was that story a few years ago about him selling his voice rights to Disney, but like...to think that Darth Vader's voice actor is dead? That's crazy to me.

It's one of the biggest losses in recent media history, I think.

There will never be another voice quite that famous.

[idonthaveanyurlideas]

25 animatics 2 and a half years 1 hour, 20 minutes and 39 seconds Approximately 5852 frames 349 unique characters appearing a total of 982 times

have what will most likely be my final blaseball animatic, a self-indulgent goodbye to all my beloved beams and a whole bunch of other players

Music is Celebrate the Reckless by Magic Giant - design credits below the cut

Credits: Randall Marijuana by alienmandy_ - Pangolin Ruiz by Mortimer_Mekhane - Dunn Keyes, Ramirez Winters and Pedro Davids by glassgoblin - Cory Ross and Grollis Zephyr by saltbuzzard - Lucas Petty by Dorito - Logan Rodriguez by Monthenor - Zephyr McCloud by dreambaot - Steals Mondegreen by 510five - Spears Taylor by Bells - Jessica Telephone by telekeys - Randy Dennis and Niq Nyong'o by tiny_revel - Kelvin Drumsolo by Australia-Hungary#9082 - Haruta Byrd and Erin Jesaulenko by miasmajesties - Justice Spoon and Edric Tosser by necromngo - Isaac Johnson, Gita Sparrow, Dunlap Figueroa and Mullen Peterson by _waalkr - Rivers Javier by toadparty and sidoopa - Baby Sliders by samiratu - Alvie Kesh by quilyn - Alexander Horne and Wyatt Mason VI by Fancymancer - Forrest Bookbaby by bugsbenedict - Helga Burton and Helga Moreno by electricgaunt using picrew by r4tist - Andrew Solis by rabbittraps_ - Rhys Trombone by Ephesos - Esme Ramsey by HetreaSky and grr - Mickey Woods by sol - Bright Zimmerman by staradavid - Iggy Delacruz by Karagna_ - Rey Wooten by dipppitydoop - Ziwa Mueller and Richmond Harrison by avery_helm - Workman Gloom and Beasley Gloom by shenaniglenn - Snyder Briggs by mensisritual - Jasmine Washington, Donia Bailey, Jasper Blather and Hops Chen by desmodusrotunds - Avila Guzman by jaungeedraws - Richardson Games and Hiroto Wilcox by CurseOfScots - Cornelius Games by kyl_armstrong - Nicholas Vincent by Hazel Cooper - Eugenia Bickle by awhekate - Fran Beans by thr33h3addrag - Valentine Games by deerstained - Magi Ruiz by Nofacenerd - Tiana Takahashi by VHS_DREAMER - Tillman Henderson by cryptmilk - Mcdowell Karim by ferretrix - Sebastian Woodman by Starfauna - Yosh Carptener by gfclass - Aldon Cashmoney by occultclassic - Donia Bailey and Hiroto Wilcox by crickadelic - Jasper Blather by nel using picrew from astrolava

Wiki Pages: Eugenia Garbage - Rivers Rosa - Stevenson Heat - Qais Dogwalker - Margarito Nava - Lou Roseheart - Beck Whitney - Nic Winkler - Neerie McCloud - Blood Hamburger - Kennedy Rodgers - Nagomi Meng - Lachlan Shelton - Kichiro Guerra - Fletcher Yamamoto

Other: Emmett Internet - Priya Fox - London Simmons - Cravel Gesundheit - Willow Dice - Xanthe - Jorge Owens - Carter Grimsley - Kajjala Aliyev - Guozhi Ong - Grizz El Sayed - Thomas Marsh - Amos Parveen - Kaj Statter Jr. - Anastasia Isarobot - Zack Sanders - Özlem Suttner - Malik Romayne - Sigmund Castillo - Son Jensen - Jayden Wright - Paula Reddick - Sandoval Crossing - Velasquez Meadows - Hahn Fox - Howell Franklin - Miguel James - Passenger - Nagomi Nava - Wyatt Mason VII - Wyatt Mason III - Wyatt Mason V - Dudley Mueller - Joe Voorhees - Harriet Gildehaus - Phineas Wormthrice - Elvis Figueroa - Borg Ruiz - Tot Best - Lars Taylor - Nerd Pacheco - Hendricks Richardson - Kaz Fiasco - Hank Marshallow - Beans McBlase - Sutton Bishop - Quack Enjoyable - Guy Gulp - Siobhan Chark - Alaynabella Hollywood

Unsure: Mooney Doctor - Wyatt Mason IV

[twinkpoll]

TWINK POLL OFFICIAL BRACKET FINALISTS

Drum roll, please!

AUTOMATICALLY ADVANCE TO THE SHOWDOWN:

LINK (LEGEND OF ZELDA)

Final nomination count: 31

TINTIN (THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN)

Final nomination count: 12

THE REST UNDER THE CUT

ADVANCE VIA VOTES:

LIO FOTIA (PROMARE)

Final nomination count: 23

2. MERLIN (BBC MERLIN)

Final nomination count: 17

3. THE ONCE-LER (THE LORAX)

Final nomination count: 16

4. JULIAN BASHIR (STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9)

Final nomination count: 15

5. KUZCO (THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE)

Final nomination count: 13

6. KURAPIKA (HUNTER X HUNTER)

Final nomination count: 12

7. JAMES (POKÉMON)

Final nomination count: 12

8. HOWL JENKINS PENDRAGON (HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE)

Final nomination count: 12

9. VASH THE STAMPEDE (TRIGUN/TRIGUN STAMPEDE)

Final nomination count: 11

10. JASKIER (THE WITCHER)

Final nomination count: 11

11. TAAKO (THE ADVENTURE ZONE)

Final nomation count: 10

12. BILLY "WICCAN" KAPLAN (MARVEL)

Final nomination count: 10

13. VIKTOR (ARCANE)

Final nomination count: 9

14. OBI-WAN KENOBI (STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE)

Final nomination count: 9 and I hate every one of you

15. HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK III (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON)

Final nomination count: 9

16. TIM "RED ROBIN/ROBIN" DRAKE (DC COMICS)

Final nomination count: 8

17. STILES STILINSKI (TEEN WOLF)

Final nomination count: 8

18. NAGITO KOMAEDA (DANGANRONPA)

Final nomination count: 8

19. LUCIUS SPRIGGS (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH)

Final nomination count: 8

20. SAURON (TOLKIEN)

Final nomination count: 7 (art by Elena Kukanova)

21. KURT HUMMEL (GLEE)

Final nomination count: 7

22. GUILLERMO DE LA CRUZ (WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS)

Final nomination count: 7

23. CLOUD STRIFE (FINAL FANTASY)

Final nomination count: 7

24. WYLAN VAN EYCK/HENDRICKS (THE GRISHAVERSE)

Final nomination count: 6 (sorry, I had to use a show screenshot, but if you want to share some fanart, including artist credit, I could use, feel free!)

25. TAMAKI SUOH (OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB)

Final nomination count: 6

SURPRISE BACK ALLEY DEAL CHARACTER

Nominated by @girlfailure-bracket, absolute legend

HARUHI FUJIOKA (OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB)

[randomtable]

1d100 NPC Names

1. Billificent Strong 2. Jay Destiny 3. Grewenys Sawand 4. Nora Bandalie 5. Joray Lovelace 6. Cadwell Gaines 7. Benny Odnett Jr. 8. Aude Mayteer 9. Eric Neptune 10. January Bronzeheart 11. Rutherford Lassinger 12. Dalton Qualtree 13. Jasper Woodcoat 14. Bobby LeMyrtille 15. Osbert O’Quill 16. Eejack Davenn 17. Lyngla Hunzer 18. Hibiscus Daybreak 19. Gesmina Kay 20. Pim Tuler 21. Shell Delacroix 22. Peter Phosphor 23. Nathaniel Harveston-James 24. Vee Morenzovich 25. Barson Jolietti 26. Mil Warmson 27. Dana Pontillius 28. Jefferson Cosmo 29. Blanche Fairday 30. Payne Devesche 31. Dennis Hurviston 32. Aldrich Amberlyle 33. Fluke Eloise 34. Ipheria Illusica 35. Kendall Quionite 36. Molly Newshire 37. Questly Ruwe 38. Coulren Pardize 39. Briar Valentine 40. Sy Teliplopolus 41. Corthaline Xar 42. Terry the Unshakable 43. Zeo Lewis 44. Ulvira Vaniteé 45. Kelpie Jenevere 46. Welson Xen 47. Horus Gall 48. Xandra Youngfaith 49. Priscilla Keeper 50. Dirge Sylph-Lightly 51. Pepper White 52. Fel Dowathalish 53. Yulvendor Zentoph 54. Spring Appleton 55. Zephyr Ells 56. Porter Orviston 57. Krillia Pappescu 58. Ivy Yumar 59. Lion Ingleton 60. Sabelle Quasar 61. Larold Brewer 62. Prior Thistletree III 63. Hyacinth Potter 64. Silvius Silvermire 65. Benson Durgog 66. Davis Burner 67. Day Fourthshire 68. Prime Stimson 69. Xavier Purpurpolus 70. Cynthia Traveller 71. Delevonius Surf 72. Orson Thorn 73. Jeremy Storch 74. Inder Borsola 75. Mack Grayton-Savee 76. Heron Papers 77. Lorelei Feldspar 78. Hen Brightsky 79. Umber Landestrayd 80. Ryllitha Andwail 81. Tam Capricorn 82. Dorothea Pralis 83. Trel Spire-Guinevere 84. Maxin Stitcher 85. Hendrick DuSuois 86. Palm Allivar 87. Luxen Stone 88. Chip Shuttle 89. Thomas Beans 90. Lesh Sylwir 91. Minerva Norsly 92. Harold Spiff 93. Mexly L’orange 94. Ion Sycamore 95. Ursula Omberville 96. Key Alistair 97. Fora Jemsonia 98. Esmerelda Grommet 99. Glag Kem 100. Tayvis Pandora

[echoproject]

james hendricks iii is so punchable

[wanderingmind867]

My US Voting Record:

I made this with the help of wikipedia, google and posts like voting guides which I found online.

Note: I would have been a Monarchist during the Revolutionary War, but I'd probably still vote if living in America (No matter how displeased the revolution made me, I'd probably still always be willing to vote). But to show my dissatisfaction, every vote until 1824 is a protest vote:

1788: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1792: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1796: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1800: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1804: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1808: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1812: Protest Vote for King George III (I can't vote for anyone after the War of 1812 got started)

1816: Protest Vote for King George III (again, I don't know if I'd be able to forgive anyone after the War of 1812)

1820: Protest Vote for King George IV (I can't support Monroe after he helped fight 1812 against Canada and the British).

1824: Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford

1824 Contingent: John Quincy Adams

1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush

1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant

1836: Daniel Webster/Francis Granger or William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger

1840: William Henry Harrison/John Tyler

1844: Henry Clay/Theodore Frelinghuysen

1848: Martin Van Buren/Charles F. Adams

1852: John P. Hale/George W. Julian

1856: John C. Frémont/William L. Dayton

1860: Abraham Lincoln/Hannibal Hamlin

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson

1868: Ulysses S. Grant/Schuyler Colfax

1872: Horace Greeley/Benjamin Gratz Brown

1876: Samuel Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks

1880: James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur

1884: Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks

1888: Benjamin Harrison/Levi P. Morton

1892: James B. Weaver/James G. Field

1896: William Jennings Bryan/Thomas E. Watson

1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai Stevenson I

1904: Eugene V. Debs/Benjamin Hanford

1908: William Jennings Bryan/John Kern

1912: Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel

1916: Allan L. Benson/George R. Kirkpatrick

1920: Eugene V. Debs/Seymour Stedman

1924: Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler

1928: Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson (although Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis aren't bad either. I might've been a prohibitionist then, considering I hate the taste of alcohol. But Smith opposed lynching. So he gets my vote).

1932: Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer

1936: Norman Thomas/George A. Nelson

1940: Norman Thomas/Maynard Krueger

1944: Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes

1948: Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor

1952: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman

1956: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver

1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Solely because I hate JFK)

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey

1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie

1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (although I still really like Thomas Eagleton as VP)

1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole

1980: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale

1984: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro

1988: Willa Kenoyer/Ron Ehrenreich (I hear Michael Dukakis went to high school with the guy who founded the Judge Rotenberg Centre, which is a terrible place. So I can't vote for Dukakis. Can't take a chance on him with that history).

1992: Ross Perot/James Stockdale

1996: Ross Perot/Pat Choate

2000: Ralph Nader/Winona Laduke

2004: Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo

2008: Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez

2012: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Beginning in 2012, I'd probably start voting for Democrats more often because I felt I had no choice. But I'm still a bit unhappy with them. Haven't been since 1988 or 1992).

2016: Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear

2020: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (My heart says Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, however).

[goalhofer]

Famous November 1, 2022 birthdays:

Cardinal Francis Arinze (Nigerian Catholic cardinal), 90

James Anderson III (American singer & songwriter), 85

Robert Foxworth (American actor), 81

Ted Hendricks (Guatemalan-American football player), 75

Phil Myre (Canadian hockey player & coach), 74

Lyle Lovett (American singer & guitarist), 65

Mark Austin (British journalist), 64

Robert Hart (British singer & songwriter), 64

Tim Cook (American businessman), 62

Fernando Valenzuela (Mexican baseball player & commentator), 62

Anthony Kiedis (American singer & songwriter)(pictured), 60

Sharron Davies (British swimmer), 60

Magne Furuholmen (Norwegian singer & keyboardist), 60

Tina Arena (Australian singer & pianist), 55

Gary Alexander (American basketball player), 53

Tahir Domi (Canadian hockey player & commentator), 53

Jenny Wahlberg (American actress & model)(pictured), 50

Bryan Harsin (American football coach), 46

Matt Moulson (Canadian hockey player), 39

Ogura Yūko (Japanese model), 39

Ileana D’Cruz (Indian-Portuguese actress & model), 35

Tanaka Masahiro (Japanese baseball player), 34

[crocutacanidae]

The War between light and darkness can get well underway, but the underlings would be made quite docile.

Sprites seem to be drawn to the battlefield to be crushed by a meteor, as we see with davesprite snd jadesprite, such that they cannot assist their players with the black king. I don't doubt that the reckoning would function as normal, but tge black king they fight would be incredibly low-damage.

And all the echo natives have ancestors besides chase: Todd Bronson, James Hendricks III, Cynthia Tsosie, Tsela Begay, Beckett and Porter Moore

Sam is obviously going to be the stand in for Chase, but we do have options

A homestuckie and a echo(fvn) enjoyer?! This means you are legally required to give all the echo cast classpects since you know everything ever about echo and homestuck, so, Please. tell -m-e- us what chunter's aspect is.

Chunter's a prince of blood

mired in cyclical suffering, given to destroying everything he has, gods speaciealest little boy? It's so obvious to me

As for the others,

Leo- Knight of Hope

Carl- Heir of Space

Tj- Mage of Life

Jenna- Seer of Heart

Flynn- Thief of Rage

Leo's so entirely like me, he gets my exact classpect. i used to hate him for it but now I love him for it

Carl I used to think could be Mind or Life aspect-wise, and possibly a bard classwise. Hell, there's an argument to be made for Witch of Space. Carl's hard to get a grasp on when it comes to these things. He's so often a non-actor in the story, but his inaction comes across as self-serving sometimes. His route lends the most credibility to both the Mind and Life aspects, in relation to Carl's need to decide what he wants without input from others as well as the decisions which granted him his family fortune. Actually. Witch of Mind Carl. Final answer.

Tj is pretty defined by his knowing of the details of the tragedy which changed everyone's life. Mages are prophets whose words both harm and benefit them. Tj is damned if he says the truth and damned if he doesn't. Keeping it in burns him and yet keeps things the way they are. Saying it frees him and yet causes everything to collapse.

Jenna's Classpect I saw coming from the beginning. Biased as she is, her every word on the conduct of her friends is correct. She manages to see through to the heart of Echo but fails to see it as anything of worth. It's a place she hates with her whole being, I think. Her problem isn't if she can see, but whether she can judge it fairly

Flynn i also saw from the beginning. Rage concerns actual rage, but also arbitrations, tangents, and contrivances. Flynn seeks to cut through all the bullshit that rage represents, which is honestly a pretty Light thing to do, but i believe he shares more in common with Blood and worldly suffering than with Breath and detatched idealism. Thieves struggle to be good, but I don't think that's flynn's thing completely. He wishes to join the two versions of his persona that exist, but this doesnt map very cleanly onto any class. Thief it is

[madmenn]

Christina Hendricks on the set of Mad Men, Photographed by James Minchin III (2007-2015)   

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church

edited by Irving Louis Horowitz

MIT Press, 1978  •  290 pages  •  ISBN: 978-0262580427

SOCIOLOGY/RELIGION

With the exception of some potboiler propaganda and an “official” biography, there has been no objective literature on the Unification Church, Reverend Moon, or the rise of new sects and cults in the United States. Science, Sin, and Scholarship is the first basic overview of this extremely powerful and influential religious sect.

Essays and documents in the book cover the theory and theology of Sun Myung Moon; the metaphysics of Moon; the politics of Moon—including the activities of the Korean CIA in the United States, the Korea lobby, Moon’s pro-Seoul activities, and the civil liberties of sect members; and the psychology and sociology of Moon.

The editor, Irving Louis Horowitz, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers, Editor-in-Chief of transaction/Society, and author and editor of some twenty books.

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“A collection of essays documenting the persistence with which Moon has infiltrated powerful groups in America, from the federal government to the universities. It is carefully edited by Irving L. Horowitz… Excellent.” —The New York Review of Books

“Some of the essays are highly critical of Moon, including charges about his alleged connection with the Korean CIA, the anti-Jewish thrust of some of his writings, his extensive financial resources, and his controversial tactics in recruiting new members. Other essays—especially the one by Frederick Sontag—commend Moon. Editor Irving Horowitz, a well-respected professional sociologist, seeks to put the Unification Church into the perspective of American social history and includes his own chapter, which questions the appropriateness of Moon’s sponsorship of the 1976 International Conference on the Unity of Sciences. This book, the first of its kind on Moon, is a well-balanced, highly valuable, comprehensive survey of an unusually aggressive contemporary religious sect.” —Choice

“A valuable work of interdisciplinary scholarship and a useful demonstration that journalism and serious social science may peacefully cohabit the pages of the same book.” —Chronicle of Higher Education

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Sun Myung Moon: Missionary to Western Civilization – Irving Louis Horowitz

I Theory and Theology of Sun Myung Moon: Documents

1. God’s Hope for America Keynote speech at Yankee Stadium June 1, 1976 – Sun Myung Moon

2. The Search for Absolute Values: Harmony among the Sciences Founder’s address, Fifth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, November 26, 1976, Washington, D.C. – Sun Myung Moon

3. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church: Charges and Responses – Frederick Sontag

II The Metaphysics of Moon

4. The Last Civil Religion: Reverend Moon and the Unification Church – Thomas Robbins – Dick Anthony – Madeline Doucas – Thomas Curtis

5. Jews and Judaism in Reverend Moon’s Divine Principle – A. James Rudin

Addendum – Marc H. Tanenbaum

6. Some Thoughts about the Unification Movement and the Churches – Barbara W. Hargrove

7. Critique of the Theology of the Unification Church as set forth in Divine Principle – Agnes Cunningham – J. Robert Nelson – William H. Hendricks – Jorge Lara-Braud

III The Politics of Moon

8. The Activities of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) in the United States – Jai Hyon Lee

9. Profits, Politics, Power: The Heart of the Controversy – Marion Lester

10. The Korea lobby – Frank Baldwin

11. Moon’s Sect Pushes pro-Seoul activities – Ann Crittenden

12. On the Civil Liberties of Sect Members Part 1 – Charles C. Marson – Margaret C. Crosby – Alan L. Scholosser

Part 2 – S. Lee Vavuris

Part 3 – John J. Leahy

IV

The Psychology and Sociology of Sun Myung Moon

13. Moon Madness: Greed or Creed – C. Daniel Batson

14. The Pull of Sun Moon – Berkeley Rice

15. The Eclipse of Sun Myung Moon – Chris Welles

16. Science, Sin, and Sponsorship – Irving Louis Horowitz

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Sun Myung Moon: Missionary to Western Civilization

by Irving Louis Horowitz

In attempting to develop a balanced perspective on the Reverend Moon and his Unification church, one comes upon a point raised by Thomas Robbins, and before him, Robert Bellah, on civil religion in America. The very fusion of a notion of civics and religion portends a breakdown of the classical Western dichotomy between Caesar and God, between the secular and the sacred, and between the empirical and the supernatural. This dualism has served Western society well. It has permitted the relationship of religion to society to coexist without victory or surrender for either party and has carved our realms of being with boundaries that are invisible but real.

The great ubiquity of the Unification church is that like other Eastern-origin cults, it renders helpless, if not entirely useless, this Western dualism. It is a movement without boundaries, expressing belief systems at once political and theological, outlining premises for political action and religious realignment. Western Christendom has endured and survived a variety and host of economic and political systems so that it is able to cope with the present moment in political time far easier than with a movement like the Unification church.

Here we come to the primary reason why the Unification Church has elicited such enormous concern and consternation: the movement articulates a classical anticommunist standpoint and at the same time reasserts the need for traditional, theological verities. The Reverend Moon is a fundamentalist with a vengeance: he has a belief system that admits of no boundaries or limits, an all-embracing truth. His writings exhibit a holistic concern for the person, society, nature, and all things embraced by the human vision. In this sense the concept underwriting the Unification church is apt, for its primary drive and appeal is unity, urging a paradigm of essence in an overly complicated world of existence. It is a ready-made doctrine for impatient young people and all those for whom the pursuit of the complex has become a tiresome and fruitless venture. If there is any message in Moon’s own statements and in those of his articulate interpreters, like Frederick Sontag, it is simply the need for a vision that somehow restores meaning to events. It is a rearguard attack on a positivist tradition of truth without meaning, existence without essence, and facts without interpretation.

The metaphysical appeal provides a direct assault upon the Judeo-Christian tradition; indeed that tradition accepted limits to the role of religion in society. For the purposes of its own survival it put some distance between the everyday events of the world and the transcendental meaning of life reserved for sabbath. The institutionalization of most Western religions depends heavily on this maintenance of boundaries between the sacred and profane, divine experience and daily activities.

In the past most conventional Western religions have been able to turn back without entirely suppressing mystical challenges. Indeed the fact that most challenges were mystic made them vulnerable to the rationalistic religions of the West. But because the Unification church and the Reverend Moon come forth as both a social movement and a civic movement, they are able to translate its theological mysticism into events, or at least participation in those events. And for that reason the Unification church enters world history as neither rationalistic nor mystic but rather as some strange conglomeration of the two fused by the sensuous events of world politics.

In some odd way, what was once said of postwar Germany has become true of a place like the two Koreas, where confrontation and schism exist within the bowels of the society itself: where East meets West, where communism takes on democracy, where all the visible symbols of modern conflict continue and exist in uneasy stasis. The peculiar genius of the Reverend Moon and his movement is that they have tapped this strange truth: that there are places in the world where geography meets symbolism and where confrontation is a matter of both land and ideology. In this sense the Korean source of the Moon movement should not be viewed as a simple accident of time and place but is the very essence of the movement and its efforts to inculcate new meaning into old struggles.

The Moon movement is also a social movement. The very momentum from East to West changes the conventional pattern of messianic and missionary activity. The entire history of Western Christendom, indeed the entire history of Christianity under capitalist aegis, has been to colonize the heathen, convert the barbarian. It has always been a movement of white people converting colored people, advanced nations instructing backward nations. And here comes the Reverend Moon and his movement, indisputably Oriental, unquestionably nonwhite, and beyond the pale of Christianity, representing a small state but making his biggest impact on the center of world civilization itself, the United States. That this irony has been lost on interpreters is of small wonder. It is, to begin with, inconceivable in theory and unacceptable in practice, for the conclusion must be that the heathens are Western and white and that the truly devout are Eastern and colored. Who is to educate the educators? Apparently the Reverend Moon has been sent by God to answer that question.

Under the circumstances, it is little wonder that questions of civil liberties would become central, and that in a rage to prove the Reverend Moon wrong, there would be debriefing ceremonies, just as there are briefing rituals: that parents would seek the return of children even to the point of kidnapping them. One is forced to wonder if African parents of children converted to Christianity had similar feelings or accepted the white religion as a sanguine truth. Of course in a civilized nation, the question of rights becomes a judicial matter, and at this level, whatever the metaphysical standpoint of the Reverend Moon, rights to proselytize, to convert, to change take on their own transcendental meaning and throw into a state of disrepair the judicial mechanisms that work so well as long as there is a recognized separation of power between church and state.

In a sense the Reverend Moon and his church have only followed a classical model of institutionalization, the natural history of which is, first, to recruit acolytes in the alien world, second, to have such a following secure funds, third, by a division of labor based on the rights to disperse those funds, fourth, institutionalization of the faith through mass mobilization and membership drives, and fifth, rationalization of the faith through ideology and theology. This is really nothing more than the course of action Saint Paul outlined in the Second Letter to the Corinthians. But when it is done today it somehow shocks—as if the early followers of Christ did not proceed in precisely the same manner to secure an economically viable foundation for the Christian church. This is not to suggest that the Reverend Moon has a testament equal to those already revealed or that the staying power of his church will rival that of Western religions. Indeed the likelihood is the reverse: the very linkages of secular and civic problems to a living deity probably have done more to doom this church than theological shortcomings.

It is one thing for masses of alienated, disaffected students or young people to link up with such a movement, but it is quite another for such a movement to generate a response among a large portion of the Western intelligentsia. Of course at one level, the mandarin class, the intelligentsia itself, is without a focus. Under such circumstances, quasi-religious movements with a strong dose of social movement concerns are bound to generate a response. It is wrong to think that the intelligentsia is somehow different from those who presume to serve. They are cut from the same marrow and suffer the same pangs of uncertainty. The difference between intellectuals and young novices is not their value systems but their capacity, or lack thereof, to articulate that value system.

That the Reverend Moon and his Unification church have understood both the importance of articulation and the relationship of ideology to theology is a brilliant stroke, a recognition that vast, simplified concepts based on religious zealotry and anti-communism require a mass battering ram at one end and intellectual justifications at the other. The question of the linkages between the Reverend Moon and his Unification church and the Korean regime still exist, even though they have become increasingly muddled over time. Just as there is no doubt of the past connections and linkages, institutional and individual, so too there is no doubt that there has been a falling out among the various overseas activities of the Korea lobby. While it is extremely important to distinguish the politics of the Moon religion from the Korean regime, it is also important to understand that were this simply an extension of the Korean CIA, the Moon movement would have long since ceased to have any importance.

Reverend Moon and his church are a long, low cry from the past: a demand for a return to a simplified, unified world over and against what must appear to many to be a complicated and fragmented present-day world, growing more so daily. It is also a cry of the heart for a Western civilization that has no menaces and no communists: the last crusade, the final roundup, the assertion of anti-history, a demand that compromises yield to principle and that religion replace realpolitik.

There have been many evangelical movements in the past. In fact their value lies precisely in forcing each of us to reexamine premises of what we consider to be progressive and forward looking. That we cannot dismiss the Reverend Moon and his church is made amply plain by the final series of essays in this collection. We have yet to cope with a religion that turns political, although we have had less trouble with political movements that turn religious. We understand fanaticism when it progresses from politics to theology. We have less familiarity with absolutist theologies that drift into authoritarian politics.

I hope this volume will provide information rather than ammunition to those for whom social movements are always problematic and who appreciate the fact that irony and history is not a one-way trek. Whatever the fate of the Moon movement—whether it goes into rapid decline or slow eclipse—we have entered a period in human history where fragmentation is so thorough and alienation so deep that movements of this type have a compelling power for vast numbers, to the point where the foundations and premises of Western civilization must themselves be reexamined.

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Sun Myung Moon: “church and the state must become one”

Robert Parry’s investigations into Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon and the United Nations

FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Politics and religion interwoven

Gifts of Deceit – Robert Boettcher

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

Sun Myung Moon: The Emperor of the Universe

Sun Myung Moon organization activities in South America

A huge FFWPU scam in Japan is revealed

Allen Tate Wood on Sun Myung Moon and the UC

Moonwebs by Josh Freed (the book was made into a movie)

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