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This one's particular poignant. Singing this on January 1 is a twelve year tradition at this point.
So fun facts
1) Did you know you don't have to be epileptic to have seizures?
2) and if you have a seizure lasting longer than five minutes you just straight out have a 20% chance of dying in the next thirty days, apparently
Here’s where I talk about this new story, 40,000 words long and written in just over a week. This is in no way to say it’s rushed, quite the opposite; It wouldn’t have been possible if I wasn’t so excited to put it out. I would consider A Complete Lack of Jealousy from All Involved a prologue more than a prequel, and suggested but not necessary reading.
Commission rates $20USD per 1,000 words. Story ideas expected between 4K-20K preferable. Just as a heads up, I’m trying to put as much of my focus as I can into original work for publication, so I might close slots quickly or be selective with the ideas I take. Does not have to be pony, but obviously I’m going to be better or more interested in either original fiction or franchises I’m familiar
My brain diagnosis ended up way funnier than "We'll name it after you". It turned out to be "We know this is theoretically possible because there was a recorded case of it happening once in 2003". It turns out that if you have bipolar disorder and ADHD and PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, you get sick in a way that should only be possible for people who have no
I planned on making it this year but then ran into an unfortunate case of the kill-me-deads. In the moment I needed to make a call whether to cancel or not, and I knew I was dying from something but didn't know if it was going to be an easy treatment or not.
Scarlet's done a great primer on leftist politics for those in my audience who don't understand the difference between 'left' and 'liberal'. I've thrown a comment at the bottom adding in a quick summary of the top-left of the political compass.
I'd also like to throw in this blog by Aragon, "Slurred Speech". Amazing title, he's brilliant for coming up with it.
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Yeah, while Aragon may not be traditionally sensible, he's fiendishly clever. That's a combination that makes for the best protagonists, and it's kind of a shame that we all have to be real people instead of just letting him solve every problem with lasers or whatever the show happens to be about.
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What do you mean by this?
+1 on Scarlet's primer; in the middle of reading Aragon's post.
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I mean that he gets into fistfights with lampposts, and other examples of what I would have called "flagrant idiocy" if I weren't in the process of complimenting him.
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(I've always assumed those were exaggerations of fact.)
Ah, right.
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Aragon's figured out the best way to lie about how dumb what he does is - just say the honest truth, but in a silly voice.
Well after reading it id have to say i'm proud to see people stating their political beliefs, even if i disagree. Jolly good show.
Thank you for pointing out Aragon’s blog post, it lead to me following him again.
Scarlet's primer is more or less decent, although they take a stance I've been frustrated with for decades now, which is completely ignoring that relative relationships are a real thing and when it comes to politics an absolute scale isn't at all useful in many contexts. They also don't have a great bead on contemporary US political alignments, I feel.
They also fail to take the obvious next step: that is, the conclusion the liberalism and leftism REQUIRE each other to cover the holes in their respective ideologies. Hardcore leftism doesn't concern itself with individual liberty; indeed, it regards individual liberty with suspicion, as a bourgeois value. The class is all; the individual is subordinate to it. (And if they're heterodox, they're a "class traitor.") Conversely, classical liberalism doesn't much concern itself with structural matters of class-based inequality. You've got free speech? You've got the vote? You can own property? Equality before the law? Then liberalism's work is DONE. Sure, you might effectively be the slave of a grotesque capitalist enterprise, and exercising any of your rights in a way your paymasters disapprove of will result in you being reduced to the foulest sort of immiseration, but hey, that's freedom. Nobody said it would be without consequence.
Liberalism without leftism is easily co-opted by, and turned into, capitalist nightmares. Leftism without liberalism is arguably worse; authoritarian leftist regimes have a track record that is basically "do a lot of genocides, smash your peoples culture into flinders, fail to actually provide many of the benefits to the working benefit this is ostensibly in aid of, destroy the environment, and then transition to an authoritarian rightist regime, if you don't collapse entirely."
5311937 Following Aragon is important for the same reason following Cold in Gardez is; these days, a lot of their stories are published as blog posts.
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I should clarify two things I think you've misunderstood from my piece. First, I'm using "liberal" in the North American colloquial "party that's the opposite of conservative" sense in order to highlight the fact that so-called "liberal" parties in the US aren't actual left parties. Second, while I describe left positions that prioritize class relations, you're assuming that every position described is one I directly identify with. I've been very careful to only attach my name to one position in that whole essay (my anarchism), and focused on providing a resource for understanding leftism, not following an entire political journey. The essay's informative, not necessarily persuasive.
If anything my final conclusion was a point directly meant to show that the absence of leftism in liberal politics is a constant force towards dragging the US rightwards so... great, I think we pretty much agree?
I also made clear in the piece that leftism and authoritarian governance should not be conflated. Left libertarian movements are older than right versions of the same. My goals were to display a larger political compass to folks who haven't had the occasion to get a primer on left thought before and probably have more than a few base assumptions about it based on American discourse.
As a final note, because I've seen a few people using neutral pronouns for me - which, if you don't know me, is fine - I prefer she/her pronouns, so if you're clicking through the blog or sharing it around, using those is good. Thanks!