Stephen Lea Sheppard

"Harris" on Freaks & Geeks; "Dudley" in The Royal Tenenbaums. Developed/wrote/edited various White Wolf/Onyx Path Tabletop RPG books. No one special now. He/him

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

stephenls dot bsky dot social.

[danita @danitasteinberg]

I understand that underneath the “are we just supposed to wear a mask forever?” question is a fear of uncertainty and genuine panic but what if we just focused on wearing a mask today, tomorrow, and this week? Let’s get through this week before worrying about forever.

[Erin, on the side of caution @CalliopeAnim]

Increasingly feeling like being on this platform is indefensible for me. If the owner wants it to be a full on Nazi bar, I don’t feel comfortable doing my part to grant it a veneer of legitimacy.

Not leaving immediately, but you can find me at the other place, more or less

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

@K_Iragana_A Done.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

Good luck out there, folks.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

Literally begging here.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

For the love of God and the people of Earth, if you’re a US citizen eligible to vote and you haven’t already, please vote Harris/Waltz. In past years I might have said something like “As a Canadian I won’t tell you who to vote for but please vote” but we are so past that now.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

Being so goddamn vehement about "You can't mask forever" reveals, on some level, acknowledgement that yeah, maybe we should be. But the problem feels too big, and the sense of helplessness and terror is intolerable, so the public doth protest too much.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

I legitimately feel like, on some level, people know COVID is still a big problem and that’s why they work so hard to rhetorically minimize it and banish all acknowledgement of it from public life. If you don’t think about it at all you don’t have to be terrified.

[heather 💫 @_hxneyglow]

covid has ruined so many peoples lives, mine included, and you’re not even like allowed to talk about it in front of the average person without them losing their minds or straight up denying everything lol

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

Like if it were actually nothing and everyone knew it, nobody would be working this hard to only platform “It’s nothing.”

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

This needs to be unequivocally disqualifying as a Prime Minister of Canada.

Full stop.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

@K_Iragana_A Not *just* Dune, but yeah it’s just Dune.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

@Mah_Buddy_Keith @NornQueenKya @OrdoRenatus I always preferred the take that they shave their heads and those are asbestos wigs. Because of all the flamethrowers.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

The other trick is that this decade's actually challenging elements are next decade's rock-stupid edgelord bullshit.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

I think it's the job of an artistic creator to balance the inclusion of appealing elements with challenging elements in one's work, such that people who hate the latter feel genuine anguish at their own unwillingness to engage with the work.

[Stephen Lea Sheppard @SLSheppard]

The trick, of course, is that by challenging elements I mean actually challenging elements, not rock-stupid edgelord bullshit.