#world war last

[cantsayidont]

Maybe the children in cages and the U.S.-funded genocide and the ongoing plague and the censorship campaign and propping Sen. Dianne Feinstein up like a reanimated corpse à la Spinrad's "World War Last" have made me more than usually cynical about the Democrats, but I can't help feeling that Kamala Harris inheriting Biden's place on the ticket is a clear indicator that they are expecting to lose (as their staffers have apparently been saying for weeks), and they've ordered her to take one for the team because they would never run her under any other circumstances.

As a Californian, I am as contemptuous as anyone of Harris and her awful record, but I suspect that's beside the point. I don't think the DNC regards her as a viable candidate — if they did, they would have put her forward much more prominently long before this — and I have a hard time picturing them running any Black woman in a presidential race they thought they could win.

[hmura-hmara]

“You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister…you were right.”

[tam--lin]

@beradan and I went to the Connecticut Renaissance Faire today as unnamed White Rat and Saint of Steel acolytes.

Emily's embroidery is from art by @magpiemalarkey, mine was designed by my partner based on art from various Kingfisher romance covers.

[hypewinter]

During a press conference for the newest Justice League member, Phantom, a reporter asks him "Do you have anything to say to all the children who aspire to be like you?"

Phantom looked at the reporter puzzled before saying, "Children wanna be like me? Why? I'm a bad influence."

[bajoop-sheeb]

Meditation by Yoong Bae

[demaparbat-hp]

No war au: first time meeting each other at a diplomatic event. zuko, crown prince of the fire nation kisses the hand of katara chief of the southern water tribe.

Beyond diplomacy.

[stealingpotatoes]

I really just see the Jedi group wanting anything but being the leader of their new coming together. None of them would feel well equipped. Luke for sure is like the most powerful but he’s also got baby brother energy and has the least training and needs a nap. Ezra at 16 would’ve loved it but now has matured and also needs a nap. Cal has a lot of history…a lot of history but he’s good thanks and would like a nap. Ahsoka is just DONE….and needs a nap.

Basically I see there being a game of “Tag You’re the Leader!!” And running away from each other. You just hear Ezra cackling in freedom as he runs away from Luke who very much does not want to be it.

omg this is so accurate LOL they probably draw straws when someone asks to talk to their leader. but abt that nap they all need:

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[furiosophie]

just thinking about how luke was only ever really taught to wield the force as a weapon, but never how to put up barriers in his mind, just wondering, really, what happens to you when you touch the fabric of the universe but don't know how to wash it off your hands again, if sometimes being one with every living thing feels like you are disintegrating, fraying at the seams

[andromeddog]

gas masking

[bellandeano]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO canon vampire minhkhoa khan. once again i experience what it is to win

[liyazaki]

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help fight book censorship

[cantsayidont]

Another politically relevant passage from "World War Last":

"The Central Committee, as you can well imagine, is frequently deadlocked,” [Ivan] told them. "In the old days, when you had a live Party Chairman and no one could muster a majority against him, that was that. Now they ask the Bulgorny to break deadlocks." "The Bulgorny!" exclaimed Grishka. "But Pyotr Ivanovich has been dead for four years!" "Eight." "Six." "Whatever. The Chairman is just an embalmed corpse wired for motion and sound; how can such a thing decide anything?" "Each member of the Central Committee has a weighted vote calculated by the computer according to his current rating in the power struggle as determined by secret polling of his rivals. These are tabulated statistically via an Australian ballot system until a mathematical consensus emerges. This is interfaced with the memory banks via an index program which selects and edits old Bulgorny speeches so that the Chairman can announce his decisions in his own familiar deadly prose." "Bulgorny can write his own speeches?" Grishka said. "Better than he did when he was alive," said Boris. "The computer that controls him remembers every boring word he ever uttered, and if he were alive to suffer that, it would surely kill him!"

– Norman Spinrad, "World War Last," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine No. 94 (Vol. 9, No. 8), August 1985: 116–180, reprinted in Other Americas (Bantam Spectra, 1988)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

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Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?

[evaceratops]

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[treasureplcnet]

inverness here they come!!!!

[zuzu-draws]

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