Me At Night: Tomorrow I'm Gonna Wake Up Early And Start With A Run And Then I'm Gonna Go Over My Notes

Tu viens d’entendre un nouveau mot ou une nouvelle expression créée par un groupe de personnes marginalisées, et tu as très envie de t’en moquer ou de pointer du doigt l’atroce danger que ces quelques syllabes font courir au monde-tel-que-nous-le-connaissons.

Tu cherches donc une façon simple et efficace de transmettre ton mépris et/ou ton angoisse.

Alors évidemment, tu utilises le mot “novlangue”.

Parce que même les gens qui n’ont pas lu 1984 savent que la “novlangue”, ça fout les jetons.

Peut-être que toi-même, tu as lu 1984, y a longtemps, et la novlangue, ça t’avait bien foutu les boules mais tu sais trop plus pourquoi. Apparemment tout ce dont tu te souviens, c’est que c’était une nouvelle forme de langue et ça permettait au gouvernement très vilain de faire du mal au cerveau des gens, donc le parallèle te semble évident - même si, dans la vraie vie, c’est pas forcément le gouvernement très vilain qui utilise ce ou ces mots qui te révulsent, mais bon c’est tout pareil parce que les féministes islamogauchistes du LGBT contrôlent déjà quasiment le monde alors on n’est pas à ça près.

Ce que tu as un peu oublié, c’est que, dans 1984, la novlangue n’était pas l’enrichissement du langage.

C’était un appauvrissement.

C’était ça qui foutait les jetons en fait. C’était une façon contrôlée de faire disparaître les nuances du langage. L’idée était qu’en privant les gens de mots décrivant la différence, on les empêchait de concevoir la différence, et par conséquence, de la vivre.

Donc en fait, quand tu te moques de personnes qui, pour lutter contre des structures oppressives, reprennent, détournent, créent et adaptent des mots, repensent la syntaxe et s’approprient leur propre langage, c’est toi qui défends une langue plus pauvre, une langue qui se conforme à ce que toi, tu trouves acceptable.

Alors dis-moi, c’est qui Big Brother dans ton histoire ?

apparently, evangelical cartoonist Jack Chick passed away last night

let us remember him by taking a moment to laugh once again at this classic

amen 🙏🙏🙏

Dare to date a GM 😊

I've accidentally misread it as "date a DM" and thought "oh my fuckin' god, YES!". Got slightly disappointed. And punched by my gf. Worth it.

“Date a DM” is pretty good advice that will lead to you usually having someone to run a game for you.

But “Dare to DM” is even better advice, because you’ll always be able to play an RPG if you’re the one willing to run it!

Anyway, I lolled.

INKTOBER Day 14!

The world of Airth. Literally torn apart by an ancient war between the gods who created it, Airth is divided into 4 sections: 1. the Stratos, a chain of islands high in the sky where the Sylph people live 2. The Rimland, a massive ring of continents and giant islands where Most of the inhabitants of Airth live. Wake lives here. 3. The Abyss, a stretch of atmosphere filled with incredible cloud formations and tiny floating islands. Limberg and Grimm are from here. 4. The Core, an ocean covered rocky sphere filled with colossal caves. The Tengru, monsters and beasts, and the Dark Lord live down here.

There is a prophecy that the Dark Lord will regain his power and destroy what’s left of Airth to start a new planet with him as ruler. The only thing that can stop him is the Star Seed. It is the key to making Airth whole again and destroying the darkness forever. But is the Star Seed only a myth?

#inktober #inktober2015 #SkyHeartComic

Alicia Archer fights for France - Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 (and yes, in the rain) Photo by Douglas Herring

I would've liked to see her fully dressed, but she's beautiful this way too!

dystopian novel premise:

A high flying Silicon Valley startup has invented Good Dollars, debit cards which can be restricted so that the money can only be spent “ethically” - that is, on products that have been whitelisted by the person who set up the card. Employers start paying their employees in Good Dollars instead of regular dollars so they can control how their workers spend their paychecks. 

Most employers blacklist alcohol and cigarettes, because they don’t feel it’s appropriate for you to spend your paycheck on those. Some employers, being especially socially conscious, blacklist movie theatres and swimming pools, while others make it impossible to spend your money on potato chips or soda. The CEO of Walmart really hates lobsters so Walmart paychecks are restricted so you can’t buy lobster. The CEO of Amazon has a beef with steak, so if you work for Amazon your Good Dollars won’t let you buy any.

Plot twist: like all great dystopian novels, this one is just “what if we treated everyone the way we treat poor people”. Kansas lawmakers have banned welfare recipients from spending their money on movies and swimming pools. Missouri tried to ban food stamps recipients from spending the food stamps on steak, seafood, and cookies. Wisconsin is debating a ban on buying “unhealthy” food with food stamps.

So if you’re in the mood to be a brave teenage protagonist, boy have I got a system for you to take on.