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"It will now have free reign to protest, as long as it does not pretend to exist in any other way. Gesture without discourse on the one hand and discourse without gesture on the other—the State and Critique guarantee by the techniques specific to each (police and publicity, respectively) the neutralization of every ethical difference." -Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War, Thesis 41, The Modern State, The Modern Subject

[pumpkincentaur]

NANOWRIMO 2021 PROJECT INTRODUCTION || BLOOD SPORT FOR COWARDS

MORDA LUCAN-AVASTIER is damaged goods. You aren't the same after you overload, even if you're lucky enough to survive. Even if your mind survives, your magic changes. Most survivors can never use their magic again. But Morda is different. Morda has seen the light on the other side. The accident didn't ruin her potential. Instead it shattered her limits. And now, she's going to be the greatest goddamn Ignisite this world has ever fucking seen.

KAHALI, SON OF AHARA shouldn't even be here. How he got here doesn't matter. What matters is that he's here, now, and it's going to be worth it. All the scars, all the pain—it's all going to be worth it in the end. Kahali is strong. He's spent his whole life struggling to become strong, going against everything he's ever known, and now, it's finally going to start paying off.

STERLING SILVERBLADE is a waste of breath. Compared to his younger twin brother, Sterling is worse in just about every way. He's standoffish rather than charming, an average student rather than a natural genius, an average mage rather than a magical marvel... and in the prestigious and powerful Silverblade family, that just won't do. He's tried to go his own way, but he can't put down the aching desire to prove that he's just as good. So he's not going to be just as good. He's going to be better.

JAEHAN LEAR is a freak of nature. Born with a rare, troubling form of magic, he's been an outcast his whole life—a mage discouraged from using his magic for the comfort of others. He is used to it. It's hard to have lived for nineteen years like this without being used to it. Getting involved with the Ignis Games is only natural for him. In a world where anything goes, even monsters are welcome. But nobody loves a monster, not even in an Ignis ring... right?

Every year, mages from all of Taralon's arcane colleges form teams of four and compete in the IGNIS GAMES, a nine-month-long series of magical duelling tournaments fought to the death. But in Taralon, even death is not permanent, and for the sake of spectacle (and TV ratings), the players are resurrected at the end of every match.

The rules are simple. The first team to die loses. The other side wins. At the end of the season, each member of the winning four-man team gets granted a wish—a wish without any sort of restrictions. Jaehan, Sterling, Kahali, and Morda are going to WIN—and die a whole lot trying.

WIP INFORMATION

Genre: Urban Fantasy/Dark Comedy/Sports Drama (is that even a thing?)

Series or Standalone: Intended to eventually be a web serial, actually!

Expected Word Count: Who knows? I don’t.

WIP Page: here (also linked in the title above)

WIP Tag: #bsfc

Themes and Tropes: sports anime character development but make it wizards and also completely bonkers | university coming-of-age stories | wrestling influences in that the main cast is an all-heel team | insane sports rivalries | the drawbacks of intensely competitive environments | strict & disapproving parents | found family | soft magic systems | I mean EXTREMELY soft magic systems | everything is bullshit and the points don’t matter

Blood Sport for Cowards is an ongoing project. If you’d like to be added to the taglist, please let me know! More info under the cut.

Hoh boy. What do I say about Blood Sport for Cowards? Where do I even begin?

This one’s a bit of an oddball. I’ve actually had the concept for it in mind since 2016 (came up with it while I was in Japan, before this blog existed), but I haven’t actually done anything with it... until now, that is. I think it’s a really neat idea that deserves some attention, but...

...It’s weird. Obviously. It’s quite offbeat in a way that I feel is a little bit too funky to seek traditional publishing for. So, depending on how it develops, I intend on publishing it as a web serial. I should stress that this is a very exploratory draft zero, so the project may change enough to fit into a traditional novel format. Who knows! We’ll figure it out.

Anyways, it’s going to be very fun to write in a very different way from how UHT is fun to write, and I’m looking forward to it.

(Side note--UHT is NOT going away! I’m just taking a bit of a break from it for Nano, considering my personal life at the moment does not lend well to continuing work on UHT. I’ll get back on that bandwagon again soon.)

[futchgunk]

reminder to read "The Psychosis of Whiteness " by Kahinde Andrews as a follow up to How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by LMJ Bruce

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wanna read 'the theory of the leisure class' by thorstein veblen (1899) in hopes of offering an anti-capitalist critique 2 'free time' and hopefully through its definitions gain some additional nuance about the organization of "labor"

[futchgunk]

"Security is the primary condition of “individual freedom” (which means nothing, because such a freedom must end where that of others begins). The State that “wishes to govern just enough so that it can govern the least” must in fact know everything, and it must develop a set of practices and technologies to do it. The police and publicity are the two agencies through which the liberal State gives transparency to the fundamental opacity of the population." Intro. to Civil War, Tiqqun, Th. 46. The Modern State, The Modern Subject

[awardswatcherik]

2023 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC): 'The Holdovers' Wins Best Film, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay

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Sono stati annunciati i vincitori dei Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, i riconoscimenti con cui i critici di Boston scelgono i migliori film e le migliori interpretazioni della stagione cinematografica. Nella storia di questo premio su 41 edizioni il vincitore del #BSFC Award come miglior film ha vinto successivamente l’Oscar nella categoria Best Picture 11 volte (Il silenzio degli innocenti, Gli Spietati, Schindler’s List, The Departed, Non è un paese per vecchi, The Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, The Artist, 12 anni schiavo, Spotlight, Nomadland). Tra i vincitori di quest’anno spicca il riconoscimento per la Miglior Attrice assegnato a #MichelleYeoh per Everything Everywhere All At Once che ha vinto così il suo 7° premio di Stagione dopo aver conquistato l’Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Awards, il Kirk Douglas Award (Santa Barbara International Film Festival), il Saturn Award, l’International Star Award (Palm Springs International Film Award), il NBR Award, il New York Film Critics Online Award (dietro solo alla Blanchett che ne ha 8). Inoltre la Yeoh detiene al momento il record di nomination tra tutti i premi finora annunciati. Ecco la lista di tutti i vincitori dei Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: -Miglior colonna sonora: RRR (by M. M. Keeravani) -Miglior montaggio: Aftersun/La donna del mistero (dopo il 6 rounds di votazioni) -Miglior fotografia: Pearl -Miglior film d’animazione: Turning Red -Miglior documentario: All the Beauty and Bloodshed -Miglior debutto dietro la macchina da presa: Aftersun -Miglior script originale: Gli spiriti dell’isola -Miglior adattamento: After Yang -Miglior attrice non protagonista: Kerry Condon (Gli spiriti dell’isola) -Miglior attore non protagonista: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) -Miglior attrice: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) -Miglior attore: Colin Farrell (Gli Spiriti dell’isola/After Yang)-Miglior cast: Women Talking/ Jackass Forever -Miglior regia: Todd Field (TAR) -Miglior film internazionale: -Miglior film: Return to Seoul #AwardsSeason #Winners #FilmCriticsAwards #FilmCriticsAssociation#BFCS2022 #BostonSocietyofFilmCritics #BostonCritics #Awards #Movies https://www.instagram.com/p/CmC9vKKIvQQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=