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Chris Fitzgerald @cofitzgerald.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

If I weren’t already exhausted, I’d be tired.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

How much coffee does it take to time warp back to a *previous* morning? That is how much I’d like.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

The Unbearable Lightness of Forever Re-Litigating Every Democratic Primary From 1980 Onward

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Checking my list of Noteworthy Events Since the Last Ice Age, it looks to have survived the “Dean Scream” and the “Release of the Snyder Cut” as well. …Truly the wonders it has seen.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Hey, y’all—assuming we GET another election after this one, what say we maybe just once try nominating someone who ISN’T just the lesser of two evils? I only bring it up because a lot of today’s horror could’ve been avoided if we’d, you know, picked better candidates in any election this century.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:49 UTC

It should instead motivate the shit out of anyone who wants to stave off the worst, for at least a while longer.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

Yep. Biden made the same mistake in standing for reelection. I say “standing” because it doesn’t feel like an energetic enough campaign to call it “running”. So, once again, all we can do is hope there’s juuust enough juice left to stagger across the finish line before finally giving up the ghost.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

Best case for an automated strike zone I’ve ever seen.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

Just add water.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

Good luck, SCOTUS… See also: ➔ “Box, Pandora’s” ➔ “Bottle, Genie Back in the” ➔ “Paradise, Expulsion from” ➔ or even “1933, Germany”

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

This is giving real “Aryan Physics” energy.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

To lose our capacity to be shocked (and motivated) by horrors is another step on the road to giving up hope they can be changed.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

Quick—ask him to walk on his hind legs and we’ll see who’s so tough.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

Yeah, this sort of shit falls into the category of “shocked but not surprised”. Like, yes, I’m not caught totally unawares but it’s still fucking awful and a blow to the remaining good in the world.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

Yes. It’s like Hellblazer in this way.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

Yep. That was lockdown. Didn’t help.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

…Fungible or not so much?

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

It’s what happens when the right hand is firmly on the wheel and the left is arguing with itself about ideological purity.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

This is just the foreplay.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Ah, yes. “Waiting mode”.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

The answer is garlic, correct?

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:38 UTC

The worst one so far. These are early days yet.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:21 UTC

It’s pretty good bad hair, though. Shades of Romney. If I can still remember your bad hair more than a decade later, it’s doing something. …I fixated on the wrong part of this.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

Definitely fun! Can imagine someone who believes in or even loves the Fae, but learns too too much and loses access to them, and then becomes desperate to get it back—and “unlearn” the destroying truth. Or what if one of the Fae learns the secret of their own mysteries? Do they die? Become mortal?

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

It feels like Snyder only later realized how badly he’d misjudged the character, the effects of which then rippled through the rest of the DCU films. From that one character choice, the entire “saga” was thrown onto a wildly different, darker, course.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

It’s been a while since I’ve revisited those later books—does he look the same in his Walter guide as he does as Randall Flagg?

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

I wonder if part of the problem is that we treat “literary” as a genre (or lack of genre, too often) rather than an axis. Both “Realistic” and “Genre” stories exist on a continuum of less to more thematic/narrative complexity—but SFF criticism tends to differentiate less well along that spectrum.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 03:50 UTC

I’d have argued with this more strenuously a few years ago, but I’ve just come off a real run of mediocre-but-well-loved genre fiction. I’d counter that a lot of literary fiction is equally tropey and—while often more structurally more sophisticated—not necessarily more thematically complex.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:32 UTC

The look of the ship, in particular, in that era is so delightful. I appreciate an extra glimpse at that time.

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SithOfAvignon @brennanx.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

This is wonderful. Love the TMP vibes.

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