#wraithfriend

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insult me. do your worst

im sorry im so sorry im so sorry im so sorry im so sorry

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Send me a “🖊+an OC“ and I will talk about that OC! It can be a headcanon, a fun fact, a small paragraph of backstory- anything!

1. Kohta ran away from home when he was 16 because he couldn’t handle living with his father anymore. He feels guilt because his mother and siblings were also victims. As of currently, he has yet to return home or talk to anyone in his family.

2. Alek is a big flirt but unlike Aes, he actually knows how to smooth talk. He very much likes to flirt during battles as a way to get his opponent off guard and have their flustered-ness get in the way of fighting properly. He wouldn’t mind taking them out for dinner if they were serious.

3. Lieutenant didn’t originally like Eises when she first joined the squad because she’s part wolf. Even when mentioning some of her strengths or traits, he would talk about her with some bitterness in his voice. For example, frowning while saying “Of course she has great endurance, she’s a wolf.” 

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What;s your goals for 2021

Oh man, I don't know where to start!

I hope to earn my partner's full respect, at which point we can enjoy a healthy affair – after which we can get on with the real planning for the rest of our lives.

I want to write at least 25 books, and I hope to become the best writer alive.

I want to write the very best thing I can.

In 2021, I want to have a healthy relationship. My goal for 2021 is to keep doing what I was doing 2011-14 and make that relationship great. I want to build on what we've built, and then create a legacy that is as good as the last one.

I hope we continue on this path forever.

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top 10 phrases

"The supernatural is real, and it is strong."

All three of these have appeared in my head all at once, which is an amazing coincidence

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Tell me about your giant psuedopod!

It is, like many of my friends, a giant bloodsucking worm, which I have named Mothra. It is basically a big moth with a segmented exoskeleton which is covered in long fuzzy antennae. It has a massive, mouthful of razor-sharp razor-sharp teeth which is used to eat prey that is smaller than it, as well as many other non-moths and other small insects.

I have a number of friends who are giant phytodietes, and they are always great fun to talk to, but Mothra is my favorite.

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hello! how have you been?

I'm doing well. Work is having some complications and I'm not in the best mood, but I'm trying to get my shit together.

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micheal wave

hello my name is Michael! how are you? are you here to play a quick round of Truth or Dare?

What? No!

It's cool man, I'm here to bring you up to date on the science of my giant psuedopod

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thoughts on

It's not a very good episode. I think I've mentioned this before, but "Apes" is the only episode of TNC I've ever felt quite like I was watching a "giant bomb" episode. There are lots of clever moments in it, but it's at its best when it's just a typical murder mystery story, with the weird details that add up to a big picture.

Of the three episodes of TNC I've written, "Apes" is the (fifth, if you include the shaky-cam fight scene). There are a lot of bad writing choices – the decision to have Sally ship an animate slurry instead of a print, the joke about simulating viewport size to force all the cars to drive exactly in a straight line, the clumsily overplayed "out of this world" weirdness, etc. – but many of them work only because of the weird story kind of way. The great thing about Douglas Adams material is that his characters feel like human beings, without thinking of themselves as anything better or more important, more real, more important than anything else. That's a statement that holds some truth so far as many of his characters go. Given some world historical shenanigans, it could easily have felt false.

To some extent this kind of story has obvious heroes and bad guys, everything sorted out. But there's a caveat. "In the beginning was the command, and the command was with." The command in the story is "capture Professor Plum in a box," and this has been written down and physically broken. It's as real as anything in the story, a concept so real that it leads to some plot twists, including one in which someone is able to drive a bowling ball into me.

There's a lot in that end of that sentence but it's trying to get me to understand a concept which I can sort of get at, but not completely: in the modern world, people are less likely to decide "everyone should be what I am"; we're far more likely to have seen ourselves as "RSS readers or the kids at lunch," perhaps in the last somewhere. In general, it's not fine social control anymore to say that "everyone should be this way" because that's a safe/safe-ish response and actually no one in reality is going to act in that way without extreme begging and pleading because it's so much better to do so.

The Iraq war was a terrible dumb idea, but people did it anyway bc it was a "safe" or "safe-ish" idea, and they were appearing within social H+ and people had this great set of social boxes or types for themselves, some of which were pretty real, or at least egregious or at least significant, and so they did and no one ever regrets their decision because not doing so would have seemed out of line to any of these things. Even in voting, most people "surrendered" or accepted your baseline, your right to poof yourself into a certain box bc it was "safe" to do so. You don't regret voting, you're just doing it to Somebody bc you lack other options/you are afraid of the alternative (because of social bonds or isolation or something, with a patina of the arbiter of What the Stuff Closethrough Ideology and It's Very Classy) and your superior default setting/closed boot options is "neither of these." There's a brand of person thinking in (the bulk of) these terms that I don't want in terms of choice structure – their world is "x" off the scrap heap and if "x" disappoints them, they take responsibility for the box that's left over in the 2-3 spaces left on the ~lesser of 2 or 3 of the 3 offcuts. You gotta come through with the other 2-3 spaces!

And part of what this saves them from is the fact that their world is preposterously different from how many of their choices affect most humans overall. You know how you are, average American or really productive rock star? The person who is motivated by the normal continuum of various things: this job,/a single partner,c ability to put food on the table,c the ability to buy clothes and house cash – makes the person happy and very productive and rarely lonely in many walks of life, and would certainly feel OK in a more spontaneous setting? If you had to make new life choices and be unlikely to retool? You become "this" person. Kind of like being a teenager so busy you can't stop having relationships but who cares, relationships are great, mom and dad stuck with the job that means shit to them and pays off the prom, and so on and so on, just under a different name. But if someone else had to the ~lesser of 2 or 3 offcuts~ it could have been a person who would have become a lot more into relationships otherwise, it would have been way less clear that the "this is me" actually works, or that this life mode is actually worth the stylization.

So, The End of Podcast Theater, Bernie Suarez, and a rambling, tumblr-reblogged koan about the principle of O. The note in my Evernote files was something about the birthday menu of Jimmy Neutron: The Movie, of all animated properties ever, and I am still digesting it without revealing it.