Ragged Jack Scarlet

Artist making Hail Mary play at respectability, or at least infamy. All tweets to be read in nasal, scratchy cartoon monster voice.

[Ragged Jack Scarlet @RJScarlet]

@politicalmath Kill Bill as a fable about indecisiveness.

The other assassins represent other possible paths Beatrix's life could've taken. She tries to avoid a hard choice, and so they steal her future (her daughter!)

To win back her future, she has to reject them all, and let them die.

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@max_spero_ @___frye maybe this is just my bias but I'm feeling weirdly specific blind spots:
lowbrow positive (COOL, FAST, SEXY)
technical neutral (PARALLEL, LAMINATED, SYMMETRICAL)
icky negative (STALE, RUDE, GOOEY)

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@max_spero_ @___frye shot in the dark:
the positive words are "TED Talk vibe"
the neutral words are "teenage poetry vibe"
the negative words are "A24 horror vibe"
its all riiiiiight on the edge of grandiose

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@pervexists69 The downfall of the Easter Island natives— though not sure how apocryphal that story is .

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mandatory vulnerability + mandatory sociopath coolness = "don't build walls around your heart, BUILD MINEFIELDS"

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)

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Not-Mad-Online is a solved game.

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Plato.

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@Michelesonn there's also the infamous 'Locate City Bomb' https://t.co/Uv3gfHU78e

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@Michelesonn There's a scene in the comic Fables where they create an airborne fortress by attaching 300 Aladdin-style magic carpets to the hull of a warship.

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@PYeerk @owenbroadcast hmm yeah--ngl the general spirit of "treating demons of temptation the way you would treat an annoying door-to-door salesman" thing he's got going on is pretty cool 👌

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@PYeerk I agree in spirit-- but there's a problem of format/medium. These ultra-compressed viral comic type things don't lend themselves to heroic tales. Trying to make courage 'pithy' risks reducing it to "fuck you got mine, pussy"

viz, redpiller 'motivational' shit.

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@genghisnyan trad masc androgyny is the Swashbuckling Scoundrel With A Rose In His Teeth archetype

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@mashcore4mums Ironically there IS a way to pull off that combo-- tyrannical boy-king archetype, like that omnipotent psychic kid from twilight zone.

but boomercon machismo won't let them portray their enemies as the sort of powerful that's -actually frightening-.

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@robert_mariani @AuerbachKeller had a theory that it’s actually two irreconcilable ideologies in a trenchcoat https://t.co/GZkWP6eHSp

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@antimule in D&D its almost inevitable that the players "win" in the end. it's the DM's job to make the road to victory as interesting and difficult as possible, not to "defeat" the players.

[David Hines @hradzka]

RPG MacGuffin: I dunno abt you guys but I am PRETTY SURE the car Walt Disney sold to finance the Disney empire is a potent magical artifact

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the Temple of Trypophobia is my favorite Zelda dungeon https://t.co/cUHPzsGQEO

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

Heatherwick's Zeitz MOCAA, carved into the concrete skeleton of a disused cluster of grain silos in Cape Town, is an instant masterpiece

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Commodore Perry starts a war --> COWBOYS VS. SAMURAI https://t.co/Se9LzGJxnX

[Wilmari Jamil Richardson is over at Bsky 🫡 @DecolonialBlack]

Quote this with other alternative histories we could make into TV shows instead of ANOTHER take on "WHAT IF THE CONFEDERATES/NAZIS WON!?!?!"

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Chopra-tier self-help as radical praxis.
"Just use yoga to cure your poverty and unemployment and alcoholism :) :) :)"
thanks Becky.