Alex Maskill

Developer, writer, musician, game designer. Terry Pratchett First Novel Award winner. My novel The Hive Construct out now. 少し日本語が話せます。

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@hurtleap @zooomettee Therese Raquin too in that case

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@pidgedotcom @mertonesque he came up in music forums, not GenX but clearly socially influenced within that milieu

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@its_mccarthy Seeing a real absence of Gramsci and consequently Hall in these replies.

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@resurrecti0ns feeling like the donnie dark therapist meme going "model for higher education or aristocratic fantasy?" about all this shit

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@Graham_Mark_E But that's the point, right? That careful quality is illegible to laypeople; they want the vernacular affective experience of having their minds blown, and they will sacrifice all the rigor and robustness in the world to get that.

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@sharkrado insane to ask open-endedly when someone is free and when they respond go "ah! no, i've decided that's not correct. try again!" i'd at the very least be on guard for other potentially manipulative things after this.

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@nise_yoshimi One of the reasons "Seventeen" by Ōe is so cutting - not only does he get at a better portrait of the killer than "Patriotism", he gets at Mishima's own use of nationalism as a site of fantasy.

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Reunited DC post-hardcore power trio Regulator Watts share their first new music in 29 years

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@BretDevereaux No no no you're supposed to just have the literal unmediated meaning of the text frictionlessly slide into your slack-jawed head

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@Sturgeons_Law It makes sense though, for fantasies that use queerness to be acceptable for straight people *because* they are not assumed to interfere with "proper" heteronormative pairing, and so for breaks from heteronormativity to be seen as a threat to this site of fantasy.

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@nguyenhdi @getty_a96716 Okay but...good? If your reading depended on some idea of ancient Greek texts as always written in a register which they often weren't, you ought to be disabused of it.

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@keewa The only real oversight here is plenty of The Folks This Is Clearly About are under 18 to begin with

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@daisyelfling lfggggggggg!

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@Arbeitologist Congratulations!

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Learning Japanese with any sort of university focus was a struggle for me because I studied politics (政治, seiji) which is one diacritic away from semen (精子, seishi)

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the german language is really beautiful sometimes because u could mix up one vowel and suddenly the upcoming weather is hot and gay

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@hangsawoman @BarryPierce It's pretty good. Some stuff that seems exasperating at first but reveals itself to all be motivated and disciplined.

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@ettingermentum @Nassreddin2002 they think it makes them sound avuncular. gotta rebrand from what they actually are, the last soldiers of Blairism-Cameronism

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@_bezpilotnik I say this as a Terry Pratchett Guy, but so much of British Columnist writing about books smacks of a precocious bibliophile childhood they still define themselves by

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@spinningjoe Every bookshop I went to in Japan had a two volume translation of GB84, as well it should.

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@nise_yoshimi Currently about 2/3 of the way in and having a great time with it