Had a great time with @sammycatnipnik at HorrorHound Weekend.
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@sammycatnipnik
Had a great time with @sammycatnipnik at HorrorHound Weekend.
Just before Halloween, and after viewing the very disappointing version of The Haunted Mask in Disney+'s new Goosebumps series, I felt that I had to make up for what it lacked. Thankfully @sammycatnipnik was willing to indulge me with a little photoshoot. Was fun running around in the drizzling rain taking pics.
Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!
Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row
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Sometimes the Imp can be TOO accommodating. (Featuring @sammycatnipnik and HoodedJustice)
Fear - a poem by Khalil Gibran.
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
The Hard Hat Riot: A Forgotten Flashpoint in America’s Culture Wars
Missing from most history books is a key moment leading to the culture wars now ripping through American politics.
In 1970, hundreds of construction workers pummeled around 1,000 student demonstrators in New York City — including two of my friends. The “Hard Hat Riot,” as it came to be known, ushered in an era of cynical fear-mongering aimed at dividing the nation.
The student demonstrators were protesting the Vietnam War and the deadly shooting of four student activists at Kent State University that occurred just days before.
The workers who attacked them carried American flags and chanted, “USA, All the way,” and “America, love it or leave it.” They chased the students through the streets — attacking those who looked like hippies with their hard hats and steel-toed boots.
When my friends in the anti-war movement called to tell me about the riot later that day, I was stunned. Student activists and union workers duking it out in the streets over the war? I mean for goodness’ sake, weren’t we on the same side?
According to reports, the police did little to stop the mayhem. Some even egged on the thuggery. When a group of hardhats moved menacingly toward the action, a patrolman apparently shouted: “Give ’em hell, boys. Give ’em one for me!”
The construction workers then marched toward a barely-protected City Hall. Why? Because the mayor’s staff had lowered the American flag in honor of the Kent State dead. In a scene eerily foreshadowing the January 6th Capitol Riots, they pushed their way towards the building.
Fearing the mob would break in, city officials raised the flag.
The hard hats also ripped down the Red Cross banner that was hanging at nearby Trinity Church. They stormed a Pace University building, smashing lobby windows with their tools and beating students and professors.
Around 100 people were wounded that day, many of whom were college students. Several police officers were also hurt. Six people were reportedly arrested, but only one construction worker.
My friends escaped injury but they were traumatized.
The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences. It was, in my opinion, a seminal moment in America’s culture wars.
Then President Richard Nixon exploited the riot for political advantage. His administration had been working on a “blue collar strategy” to shift white working-class voters to the Republican Party.
“Thank God for the hard hats,” Nixon exclaimed when he heard about the riot.
But rather than passing pro-labor policies to court workers, which would go against the values of the pro-business Republican Party, Nixon sought to use cultural issues like patriotism and support for the troops to drive a wedge between factions of the Democratic Party.
Nixon invited union leaders, some of whom were involved in the riot, to the White House. They presented Nixon with a hard hat inscribed with “Commander in Chief”and an American flag pin. Nixon praised the union workers as, “people from Middle America who still have character, and guts, and a bit of patriotism.”
Nixon’s strategy to use the Hard Hat Riot to appeal to blue collar voters paid off. In his 1972 re-election campaign against the anti-war Democrat George McGovern, he secured a victory with ease and gained the majority of votes from organized labor – the only time in modern history a Republican presidential candidate accomplished such a feat.
The Hard Hat Riot revealed a deep fracture in the coalition of workers and progressives that FDR had knitted together in the 1930s, and the later alliance of Black Americans, liberals, and blue-collar whites that led to Lyndon Johnson’s landslide re-election in 1964.
The mostly white construction workers who attacked the demonstrators had felt abandoned — and forgotten – as the Civil Rights movement rightfully took hold. They felt stiffed by the clever college kids with draft deferments, and burdened by an economy no longer guaranteeing upward mobility.
The class and race based tensions that Nixon exploited would worsen over the next half century.
I witnessed this when I was secretary of labor during the Clinton Administration. I spent much of my time in the Midwest and other parts of the country where blue-collar workers felt abandoned in an economy dominated by Wall Street. I saw their anger and resentment. I heard their frustrations.
Many Democrats, whether they will admit it or not, have not done enough to respond as Republicans have destroyed unions, exacerbated economic inequality through trickle-down nonsense, tried to gut just about every social safety net we have – and stood in the way of practically every effort to use the power of government to help working people.
Today, the right is trying to channel that same anger and violence against the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ+ community, particularly drag queens and transgender people, and whatever they consider “woke.”
It is the same cynical ploy to instill a fear of “the other” as a means to distract from the oppression and looting being done by the oligarchs who dominate so much of our economy and our politics.
As such, today we face the same questions we faced in 1970:
Will we finally recognize that we have more in common with each other than those who seek to divide us for political and economic gain?
Can we unite in solidarity, and build a future in which prosperity is widely shared by all?
I truly believe that we still can.
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Clown in the dark
As yet unnamed clown character lurking about. Was trying out voices and mannerisms to figure out how to act as him. Definitely a morally dubious sort, I imagine he is a shapeshifter who causes mischief (and worse) wherever he goes.
Buster half mask from Immortal Masks
Insects are literally just an easily replenishable and healthy source for protein additives but the move to incorporate them into the modern human diet has been politicized by both sides in the most ridiculous fucking ways??? The right wing frames it as Treehugging Wokists who want you to suffer by eating cockroaches as part of the Global Warming Lie while I’ve seen people on the left characterizing it as a “let them eat cake” dystopian capitalism thing. It is neither. It is literally just a great way to make protein. It can help feed more people with less land use and less water use and less waste. We aren’t talking about forcing you to eat a cold bowl of smelly worms instead of pizza or burgers or ice cream. We’re talking about a protein-packed alternative to the shitty empty corn filler already poured into like half of your food anyway.
Brand new pack of Valentine’s memes to send your beloved this season <3
(Featuring @callmedoc and Chocolate Chip the leech)
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Christmas Eve was spent being a friendly monster while watching Murder, She Wrote. What else would I do?
Being monstrous at MFF!
Fun mask times were had a couple weeks ago. Becoming a rat was my only foray into public costuming but it was plenty for me.
ŚŪNYATĀ: EMPTINESS
Hi Dhamma friends. Today I would like to speak about a concept most often associated with the Mahayana although it its found in the earliest of the Pali Canon suttas.
Emptiness. So simple yet so complex. What could be more simple than nothing? It turns out, everything. The idea of emptiness, of nothingness in Buddhism is called Śūnyatā. In the Suñña Sutta we find this dialog between the monk Ānanda and the Buddha: "'It is said that the world is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respect is it said that the world is empty?' The Buddha replied, "Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ānanda, that the world is empty."
In my understanding nothingness has two meanings, and herein lies the difficulty for many of my fellow western students. The first is "emptiness of essence," which means that the phenomena which we perceive with our senses and our minds have no inherent nature by themselves. Next, we have "emptiness in the context of Buddha Nature". Here we have emptiness given the qualities of an awakened mind. Such qualities might be compassion or wisdom. Our ultimate reality is the union of both emptinesses.
You see it seems that the Buddha is teaching us that suffering comes because we cling to things imagining that they are real, fixed, and can be possessed by ego. Buddhist teacher, Ari Goldfield said it well when he said "to the reality of flux and fluidity that is ultimately ungraspable and inconceivable that we can relax into clarity, compassion, and courage. That lofty goal is what makes the effort to understand emptiness so worthwhile."
If you come to feel that everything is useless because it is empty, you are mistaking emptiness for nihilism.
-- His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Rocket Mike
Good drinking buddy and horror movie companion!
Pezel savors the blade!