Vaguely Aloof

Writer, Illustrator, Late Bloomer.

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Hello!  My comic updated, please read it!  Thank you!

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It’s a new page of Mottershead Isle!  Please read it if you like adventure, comedy, science fiction, grumpy people, and weird islands!  www.mottershead-isle.com

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The newest page of Mottershead Isle is up!  Please take a look!  www.mottershead-isle.com

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A new page of Mottershead Isle is up and you should go read it!  Thank you!

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It’s Free Comic Book Day!  Now is a great time to start reading Mottershead Isle!  It offers island adventure and it’s free all day every day!

www.mottershead-isle.com

One more time, that’s www.mottershead-isle.com

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Mottershead Isle

HEY MY COMIC UPDATED.  The long-ass prologue is finished and this is the first page of chapter one!  Let’s do this!  GET TO IT AND READ THIS SHIT.

www.mottershead-isle.com

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A new page is up for my comic!  Go read it, and apologies for the delay of the current page!

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Go ready my comic!  It updated today!  Thank you!

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My webcomic has updated!  Please give a look!  Thanks! 

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My comic Motterhead Isle updated!  Please take a look if you like science fiction, adventure, and a some comedic slice-of-life.  Thanks!

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[angelwalking]

#get with the program the new humor is benevolent surrealism (x)

[agentsnark]

I always wanted to know what to call it.

[froborr]

This is something I’ve been meaning to talk about, and I may do a full blog post at some point, but here’s a capsule version:

The Benign Violation Theory of humor, which is probably the best one out there, suggests that something is perceived as funny when it is simultaneously perceived as violating how the world “should” work and as benign. Something like the “gun” meme, for example, is funny because it violates our sense of how a joke should progress, and at the same time it’s harmless. 

Racist/sexist/etc shock humor violates our sense of how the world work–in either a “that’s not true!” or “you’re not allowed to say that!” way–and therefore whether you find it funny is based on whether you find it benign, which is to say either you think it’s harmless or you don’t care about the people it harms. (This is the root of the punch up/kick down distinction–jokes that punch up are funnier than jokes that kick down because the people they target are less vulnerable and therefore less likely to experience harm.)

So yes, science agrees that if you think racist jokes are funny, the reason is that you don’t care about the feelings of the people the joke is about. There’s a word for that.

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this is it. the happiest video

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wholesome

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MBMBAM | justin absolutely losing his shit

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Mottershead Isle is back!  After a delay due to cross-country moving, my webcomic is back to its regular Monday update schedule.  Please take a look!  Thank you!

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i’ve heard a lot of stories about writers that i love but i think my favorite one is that the dragon age writers called the game world “thedas” because it was originally short for “the dragon age setting” and then they just didn’t change it

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amazon wishlist

no more trees chopped down

monkeys screech as loud as they want

50,000 new species of insects discovered each day

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Ex-Hill Staffers Put A Spin On The Tea Party Playbook In Anti-Trump Guide

In an online guide made public Wednesday night, a number of those onetime Hill staffers say that the best way for individuals to derail the policy agenda of Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is to organize locally and badger their own congressional representatives to vote against individual pieces of legislation.

The guide argues that, like the “Tea Party patriots” who found common cause in their unified loathing of President Barack Obama, progressives who oppose Trump should stand against him before all else rather than try to articulate a policy agenda that has no hope of advancing while the GOP controls all three branches of government.

“We believe that the next four years depend on citizens across the country standing indivisible against the Trump agenda,” the authors write in the guide, which is formatted as a live Google document. “We believe that buying into false promises or accepting partial concessions will only further empower Trump to victimize our fellow citizens. We hope that this guide will provide those who share that belief useful tools to make Congress listen.”

One of the authors, Ezra Levin, wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post that the guide was compiled to correct the “misinformation” about how to influence Congress that he said has circulated since Election Day.

The guide contains tips on getting members of Congress to listen to their constituents’ voices, such as showing up in groups to town hall meetings and looking “friendly or neutral” to ensure staffers will call on them and allow them to ask pointed questions. The authors also recommend flooding lawmakers’ offices with calls on specific issues and targeting weak Republican candidates ahead of local elections.

The emphasis is on consistent, coordinated, grassroots action that focuses on nitty-gritty policy specifics and individual elected officials.

Here is the guide.