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A beautiful bounty in an annoying bone container

@cryptovexillologist / cryptovexillologist.tumblr.com

I plucked these views from the Slurry of Moral Relativism and I'm quite fond of them

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I’m Alexi, she/they; beyond that, I don’t like centralizing my character sheet

I’m making a webnovel, Mission Critical, about 24th-century space exploration and Lunar sociology and the weird mixed feelings of being from what-was-once-North-Korea and sending out messages that can never be responded to and corporate mascots uplifted to sapience and interplanetary wire fraud and amazing human progress with plenty of petty dysfunction around the edges

(Beyond that, my Ao3 account also hosts a bunch of shorter stories in various stages of completion)

I have a semi-outdated art portfolio on Carbonmade, although I’m not open for commissions right now

From 2016 to 2019 I made a webcomic, Parhelion; it ended prematurely, since it no longer worked with my life’s schedule, but it has a lot that I’m proud of and is a neat fossil record of my artistic growth

From 2019 to 2020 I made a worldbuilding blog, The Solar Symposium, which I hope to return to someday, or at least expand its ideas into bigger stories

(Mission Critical is a distinct setting from the other two, which blur into each other a fair degree, but there are plenty of common themes and a fair number of Easter egg references among everything I make)

I also have a few things up on itch.io, and I’m on Mastodon here, here, and here.

those shirts that are like FEARLESS (girly font) or I DON’T GIVE A RAT’S @#! WHAT YOU THINK I LOVE AMERICA AND MY FAMILY highlight the difference between literal and communicated meaning. if you wanted to signal fearlessness you’d sport an ahegao hoodie

Broke: an infinite superstructure that personally hates you

Joke: an infinite superstructure that is crushingly indifferent to you

Woke: an infinite superstructure that loves you so suffocatingly much, and will grind itself to dust to give you what it imagines you want

Hey, so given how much people love this post and keep tagging their Blorbopolises in it, I thought I’d let you know that I’m making a comic about this:

Updates will come every Monday and Friday until it’s done, likely at some point in July or August.

I just had a dream that was largely about Wrigley Field's legacy of "Ernest Hemingway played naked here for one game as part of some elaborate rules-lawyering scheme to win a tied game," celebrated with multimedia dick-joke extravanganzas during games set to Ween's Waving My Dick in the Wind

As I was waking up I thought "I should fact check this, it sounds cool" and then "wait a minute, that's insane"

Broke: an infinite superstructure that personally hates you

Joke: an infinite superstructure that is crushingly indifferent to you

Woke: an infinite superstructure that loves you so suffocatingly much, and will grind itself to dust to give you what it imagines you want

Hey, so given how much people love this post and keep tagging their Blorbopolises in it, I thought I'd let you know that I'm making a comic about this:

Updates will come every Monday and Friday until it's done, likely at some point in July or August.

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not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislature in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

I've found it very helpful to read the original text of the Hays Code, with its view of audiences as blank-slate automatons who will gladly steal and kill if they see the wrong movies about it. (It also makes a lot of references to Divine Law as something self-evidently correct.)