#borglike

[gingerbredman1989]

A hyper-muscular super-heavyweight male bodybuilder with short ginger hair, depicted in a futuristic sci-fi setting, inspired by a Borg-like aesthetic.

[alchemisland]

SHOOT THE CUNT

As if we weren’t already hurtling towards war

Sense of things having been this way before

Recording déjà vu on Fortean Forums

Discovering others too are suffering strange dreams

Parsing apocryphal books for prophetic anecdote, however scant.

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Gladelord Pan

Flexed span mansome

Face handsome

Chest sunlight-flecked, lying in the glade

At sun’s coming nesting birds alight him

Playing raucous rebel reels, jingoistic jigs

Upon a Y-ed, two-laned pipe hewn from white hart bone

Amidst flaxen hair horns twisting

Like Fibonacci spirals.

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Missiles report from Porton Down

Toxic sedge is falling now

Clagging slag mounding, clinging dangerously

Fission-bellied wyverns boring clouds

Wire-veined, foreign port bound.

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Someone tried bumping off Trump

No sooner Judges’ gavel pronounced him rapist

Lunatic aping Gavrilo Princip, piece in fist

Undertakes the hit but shits the bed

If ever we needed proof of generational degradation

Oswald 3 shots 3 hits

2024 rifle’s bullet barely skims mark’s ear

How could you miss him:

Peel-skinned, flaxen, golden sheep reposed on head in comedic wave

Like Greyfriar’s Bobby embracing wet slated owner’s grave.

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Unwashed hordes, all devils’ sick of sin, rapping to get in

Rapine crowd wisdom, fear mind many scattered and Borglike

Abhorring justice, foglike movement of mindlessness 

Orblike egregores abort minds heretofore cavorted in

Forth unto great sin

Skin the lamb and hold him peeled, peon to skies beyond

Peeing on church steps, drunkards encouraging

Yet greater acts of depravity and vandalism.

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Civil war that’s what they’ve all been waiting for

Johnny got his gun then Johnny got fucked up

Last I saw he wasn’t able to see anymore

Shot across the bough

Wish it hit the mouth.

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What I said I done

Shot Donald Trump

Disgruntled with a gun

Took his shot, look what he’s done

Look what he’s wrought

Guess he wasn’t fronting

Queuing for booze we accused him pub talking

Admit no talk of stopping him or informing authorities

No sense of intercession’s urgent need

This was a session, we thought he was messing

If every man who said I’ll shoot the president shot the president

Secret service, tired of dying, wouldn’t let them go outside.

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He lay in hiding, biding his time

Training in his garden, in hopes of civil war

Remaining ready for opportunity’s arousal

Online carousing with fringe lunatics.

[fierceawakening]

This right here is why I remain confused that people didn’t get the appeal.

Yes, the evil of Phyrexia is that it changes you against your will. But a lot of people have “I wish someone would force me to do $thing I really want to do anyway” fantasies, sexual or otherwise. If the praetor made you do it, then it can’t have been your fault.

(If this sounds like a critique of purity culture and heteronormativity, congratulations! You understand why Phyrexia fandom is overwhelmingly queer and trans!)

That and… some of us thought that New Phyrexia was becoming less Borglike than the original Phyrexia ANYWAY. There was emphasis on the way different color alignments led to different understandings of “perfection.”

Canon didn’t bother to take this to its logical conclusion, but many people in the fandom did: “if they have THIS idea of perfection, and I have THAT idea of perfection, what if… what if I’M the one who’s wrong? Can we both be right at the same time? What would it mean if we were?”

And that up there? ^^^?

That’s cult deprogramming in a nutshell.

A goodly number of us expected to see a small but plot relevant minority of Phyrexians leave the cult and just be cool cyborgs hanging around the Multiverse being weird looking but basically just some dudes.

Some of the things trans girls want to fuck have me convinced you are seeing an entirely distinct visual spectrum than i am

[tudios]

The scifi planetoid is being constructed! #scifi #3dart #borglike #greeblecity https://www.instagram.com/p/B1xJ1wBlxiO/?igshid=1e3nytf84l43x

[kontextmaschine]

Like I had accepted that Facebook would just borglike reproduce other networks' functionality, but as like an option on top of the feed I've been used to since 2003, but the feed itself seems to have kind of become NextDoor recently

Which probably makes more sense for a general-use social network in 2021 than "by legacy analogy to all your college classmates trapped with you on campus", really

[nateaz]

#Saguaros and #powerlines seem to define the outskirts of #Phoenix and it’s #desert suburbs. The farm fields have been converted to borglike canned communities each with their own #HOA or #HomeOwnersAssociation. The Phoenix Metropolitan Area is the fastest growing metro system in the United States with roughly over 50 people moving to #TheValley daily. Yet, somehow I love this place even though I’ve spent most my life in rural Southern Utah. I’m most likely going to be choosing #Tempe for big city Basecamp and running al my operations from there! (at Santan, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0gNPycBst5/?igshid=1397sczqkfhey

[fierceawakening]

!’atan Mark. OP here.

Here’s a (very long) thread a lot of us participated in (in which I am considerably snippier than I am here because all I’d seen was some comments from freelancers about how wanting a few more sympathetic Phyrexians is silly, and I worried they might be speaking for Creative):

For me personally, I absolutely thought the planeswalker guide from Scars block was hinting that now that Phyrexia had become five color, it was beginning to lose some of its Borglike qualities. I was probably imagining too much in my head but I definitely thought that when next we returned we’d see a lot of internal turmoil between more traditionalist factions scared of freedom and curious newfangled ones beginning to embrace the idea (though maybe not fully understanding it quite yet).

For me and for friends of mine in the fandom, the halo subplot with Urabrask reinforced this idea. We made Rage Against The Other Machines memes with him as a rebel leader and speculated on how it would play out. We theorized about uneasy alliances with the Mirrans he’d left alone before, willing to trust him a little because he’d left them alone.

We embraced the idea of ourselves as members of the Phyrexian rebellion, identifying with Phyrexia because we were trans or disabled and had or wanted surgically altered bodies, in a political climate where it’s become a hot button issue whether surgical modifications are “mutilation” and certain political factions make a lot of the idea that trans youth are being pressured into surgeries or HRT when we should keep our “natural” bodies.

I mentioned this is personal to me because I had major surgery as a teen for a disabling condition I was born with. People gawk at my scars. I’ve been called a cyborg before by people who absolutely didn’t mean it as a compliment. So I’ve always loved Phyrexia, ever since Magic helped me survive all those surgeries.

When I thought that Urabrask would be a hero (I expected him to heroically sacrifice himself to off Norn and begin an era of a more free Phyrexia), I was excited. I too have an altered body. I too am a freak to some. I too will never have my original body back, which is a tragedy to some people but a Thursday for me.

Not only was the rebellion Mirran only on cards, but it was put down offscreen.

I wasn’t crushed, I’m old, but I was disappointed.

THEN compleation was curable.

THAT one got me. I am this. This is my body. The last time I talked to an orthopedist, “yeah that metal is just you now.”

I eagerly watched to see how favorite characters like Jace and Vraska and Nissa would get used to being compleat. How they’d get on with their lives after defeating Norn. If their identity struggles and self image would look anything like mine. They were like me now!

…and then they weren’t.

I need to get back to work but I want to thank you very much for responding. I feared no one at WOTC cared, or had seen us and were angry.

I am so glad that’s not the case.

We were sadly never given the Phyrexian for thank, so uh…

!Xe Mark [I-thank-you].

Hi Mark. I’m wondering if WOTC has heard some of the criticisms of the Phyrexia arc from trans and disabled fans. I honestly don’t know how prevalent the critique is but I’m surprised there hasn’t been at least a comment from WOTC staff about it. I have always loved how open WOTC seems to be to discussions of representation so I was very surprised when I felt two minority communities I am a part of never even got a “we weren’t thinking about it” or “we were aware but made these creative choices anyway.” Things as small as Kaya’s natural hairstyle rightly get while articles, but this gets nothing, and I’m wondering if you can tell us why.

Ableism is often treated as the odd one out of the oppressions, as an afterthought. Did that happen here, or is there a rationale I missed? As someone with a surgically modified body of my own I was looking forward to my Xantcha to see myself in.

I haven't heard the criticisms. Can you spell them out for me, as I do very much want to hear them?

[therosecrest]

Last night, I dreamt that I was in an episode of Doctor Who. I, for some reason an early 20th century looking bloke, was a companion of the 13th Doctor, although we were separated at the time. I had been picked up by this very small resistance group, only about five members. It seems they were fighting the Cybermen. I was taken to their base, where they told me about a broken engine. As an engineering student, I told them I could at least take a look at it. But the real problem was that they were losing planes on landing at a nearby airfield of some description. I speculated that the Cybermen had tampered with the tarmac to alter its properties in contact with planes’ wheels.

Around then, we detected a pair of intruders in this room. I don’t remember this bit very well, but I think they came one at a time. It seems the Cybermen now had Borglike abilities to upgrade their victims, as these two were partially converted in such a manner. I don’t remember the details, but we killed them both. The last one, his former comrade injected as he sat dying to euthanise him.

We ran out onto the street, which was the main road outside my home. I was so fast! Much quicker than the others, to my surprise. I slowed down approaching a family in the street. A father, a son, and a daughter. Small kids. They looked normal, but as I ran past, their eyes turned pitch black, ocasionally flickering back to their original colour. Cyberchildren! They began to chase me. “Black eyed children,” I shouted back, “Black eyed children!”

At some point, I met the 12th Doctor. I introduced myself, but confused the incarnations, thinking he was the 13th, and my Doctor the 14th. I also became aware that the 13th Doctor was on the same airfield in either the past or the future, I don’t recall. Unfortunately, I woke up before this story concluded.

[fierceawakening]

This is why when people talk about their religions including the concept of sacred land my ears prick up. Theres the benign version, “we protect our sacred sites from desecration,” and the not benign one, “we protect our sacred sites by murdering you.”

The one good thing about Christianity’s Borglike desire to assimilate everything and everybody is that we tend to be a little more willing to just go over there because it’s all the same. (Unfortunately, according to far too many of us, “all ours.” Sigh.)

Said some things the other day I regret now.

I was reading posts about Hamas destroying the border fences and that sounded like an act of war that likely killed many, but one that would make some sense if you believe (rightly or wrongly, not adjudicating that here) that you’re living in an apartheid state and should have freedom of movement.

Those posts did not mention the hostages, or the slaughter of children.

Destroying a border wall is something I can see as a symbolic act. Slaughtering kids and taking civilians hostage is not.

There is no one I see who is not being terrible here.

[rametarin]

Then there’s the little niggling facts that the communists were doing the same disgusting shit the Nazis were before they came to power, and in fact, one of the reasons the Nazis came into power was the communists promised to flatten all races and nations and cultures and leave behind just Year Zero of the Brand New Singular Society(tm) and absorb everybody into a borglike flavorless cultureless singular secular super society (which just so happened to be Russian flavored- something that the Mao Communists would find such an irriitance that it was inconsolable difference on why they couldn’t merge together. The Chinese refused to meet Russocentric standards)

They leave the terrorism and exploitation and guerilla tactics of the Marxists out of the equation of why the German people got behind the Nazis, entirely. If Hitler was just on the side of International Socialism instead of ethnosupremacist, ethnonationalism, the Marxists would’ve supported him and called him a good little revolutionary.

But they call anyone that is bad in history, “right wing,” as a means to distance themselves from bad people and imply their ideological opponents are closer to them.

People know what the holocaust is but very few people understand how it started and that is a failure of public school education and why we’re seeing a rise in leftist violence today

[anxiouslytrekking]

Fucks sake the Borg are everywhere

Also rather borglike of star fleet to have a fleetwide attack system

I'm watching ep 9 of Picard. I am on tenterhooks. I'm living for Troi ❤️

[anxiouslytrekking]

Fucks sake the Borg are everywhere

Also rather borglike of star fleet to have a fleetwide attack system

I'm watching ep 9 of Picard. I am on tenterhooks. I'm living for Troi ❤️

[anxiouslytrekking]

Fucks sake the Borg are everywhere

Also rather borglike of star fleet to have a fleetwide attack system

I'm watching ep 9 of Picard. I am on tenterhooks. I'm living for Troi ❤️