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Archivio J.M. Ribot S/S25 via InkClothing

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It's really just.... idk the right word to encapsulate the emotion, but I guess bone tired will do, to see a lot of right wing dog whistles be used by the left, especially by the same "leftists" who will go "why are people becoming more radicalized by the right????"

Like bestie you are also being radicalized!!!!!!

Phrases like "well x was promised to be 3,000 years ago" and "well there must be a reason jews were kicked out of so many countries" have all historically been considered right wing dog whistles. They have been literally documented as being mainly used by neo nazis and white supremists.

Those phrases don't become more left wing because you use them. You become more right wing by literally falling for right wing propaganda

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i love having the hubris to go 'sure i'll try that, how hard can it be' about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.

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High quality version of a folk song, The Water Is Wide (Oh Waly Waly), Gerard recorded for the film Tusk, released in theaters earlier this year.

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the people in the tags that say all those drinks sounds good are either lying or have never had alcohol

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They Colonized Mars

> His name is Atlas, and he is dying.

A Martian warehouse worker takes his surveillance bot out for drinks

> sci-fi/horror original fiction, 4.8k words

> an exploration of space colonialism, capitalistic exploitation, disability and gender. Or: my strongly worded love letter to the genre

Directory:

> content warnings

> part 1 & 2

> part 3

> part 4

> part 5

> part 6

Name-your-price PDF download on itch.io

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until dawn movie bad but bad in a way i'm delighted by

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just encountered a corner of pinterest with some of the craziest cocktail recipes ive ever seen. i dont drink so idk how these would taste but the names and graphics alone are really getting to me

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i love my switch its like an animal to me. shhhh sweet pink and green creature download my software

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hello my fellow Horror And Houses fans.... i have come to recommend the book "horror in architecture" and its sequel "horror in architecture; the reanimated edition" by joshua comaroff and ong ker-shing to you all. ive been reading horror in architecture for the past couple days and it is excellent

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so how did DnD get the race science bs in it? was that just a norm when it was made or was one of the devs racist or something?

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

In the "A" column, it's important to understand that Dungeons & Dragons isn't anything close to being a generic fantasy game: it's very specifically inspired by American literary sword and sorcery fantasy in the period roughly spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, with a particular emphasis on the late 1960s and early 1970s strand of the genre. Other inspirations have crept in over time, but that core has remained largely unchanged.

Like most Western pulp fiction, sword and sorcery fantasy frequently featured scenes of lantern-jawed heroes manfully slaughtering their way through nameless hordes of jabbering, spear-chucking, dark-skinned savages. Even at this early date, however, the explicitly racist dimension of this trope wasn't necessarily playing well with contemporary audiences, so over time, depictions of these groups tended to drift away from direct stand-ins for real-world "races" and toward fictional ethnic groups, eventually culminating in the tribes of swarthy hobgoblins and degenerate lizard-men and such populating the pages of the Monster Manual. Such literature freely invoked the assertions of race science to explain why these creatures were morally okay to kill, and that carried over into Dungeons & Dragons.

In the "B" column, Gary Gygax was the kind of person you might invent as a cartoon parody of a racist game designer if he didn't already exist. Like, this is a guy who was quoting John Chivington's infamous "nits make lice" remarks in order to explain why it was okay for paladins to kill orc babies in forum threads as recently as 2005; one might think "not citing the Sand Creek Massacre as an example of morally praiseworthy conduct" would be a very low bar to clear, but he managed to tunnel right under it. Certainly, he didn't originate the race science that's present in D&D's worldbuilding, which is also amply present in its core inspirational media, but he also had no interest in pushing back against it!

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

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Thank god for Russian dash cams to bring us wonders like this