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timberwraith

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I'm here to rant as the mood strikes me, to stay in touch with friends, and to verbally stare at my navel. Often, this is not a happy space. I discuss the world's darkness in frank terms.

I sometimes post links to longer essays at my Wordpress blog: https://hauntedtimber.wordpress.com/

👉 No warranty is provided for anything produced herein. Contents may be broken upon arrival, more often than not. Caveat emptor.

she/her • trans femme • bi
~ compulsively antisocial ~
❄️ Minnesota ❄️

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You know, I'm a woman of contradictions.

I have breasts all of my own. I see them every morning when I dress for the day and every night when I get ready for bed.

And yet... whenever I see a pic with someone's breasts plainly, mostly visible, I'm like, "Ack! No! Scroll, scroll, scroll!"

It's weirdly embarrassing.

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I just realized that I can click on the eyeball icon with a cross through it to hide the alarming picture.

If I remember, that's going to be my method of avoidance from here on out.

timberwraith,
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I just figured it out. I feel like I'm invading her privacy by seeing that photograph.

That's what it is.

It's a kind of reflex that's well ingrained, regardless of what's going on in the photo. I feel that way even if the woman in the photo intended for things to be pictured as they are.

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I'm not saying it's rational. I'm not trying to make a moral judgement.

I'm trying to figure out why I react this way.

timberwraith, to random
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@gwynnion I couldn't stop laughing, while in the waiting room of a health clinic, when I got to the part where Ben is stuffing dollar bills down the owlbear's pants. 🤣

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@gwynnion You DID! In an amazingly hilarious way! 😂

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@gwynnion It was a pretty great opening to the book, I have to say.

timberwraith,
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@gwynnion We posted similar ideas simultaneously. 😊

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@gwynnion Riley felt kind of like another female iteration of Aurvandil. I don't know if that was intentional, but it totally fit with the recurring people with "linked souls" theme that pops up throughout Navigator's universes.

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@gwynnion Oh wow. Huh. Could be!

timberwraith,
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@gwynnion Also, I liked having the backstory on the planet that Ben was stranded on in book 4. The robot character was my favorite, LOL.

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@gwynnion Oh! I thought I remembered only one mood. So that's what happened!

timberwraith,
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@gwynnion I remember it being a mindbogglingly long time.

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@gwynnion I like that aspect a lot. It reminds of the "everything and everywhen is so fucking HUGE" that permeated many of the 1970s sci-fi novels that I read in high school. You capture that immensity rather well, I think.

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@gwynnion They do feel comparatively small. I wonder if the space program (and moon landing) of NASA in the 1960s/1970s created a kind of wonder about the scale and openness of space that was reflected in novels of the era which are now missing?

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@gwynnion That makes a lot of sense.

timberwraith,
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@gwynnion
A literal warning shot, LOL.

timberwraith,
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@gwynnion Zany frenemy, now with 30% more friend!

timberwraith, to random
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I don't give a flying fig if Trump winds up in a damp, rat laden dungeon. I only care that he winds up in prison. He probably won't.

If he does wind up in prison, it will likely be far more comfortable than any prison the rest of us would be placed in for far lesser crimes.

The powerful take care of each other, including their criminal peers, because little separates those in power from those formerly in power who are convicted of crimes, other than having been caught and successfully tried.

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I'm also going to point out what might be obvious at this point:

You know that tendency that some people have where they accuse others of racism in the hope that nobody will notice how racist they are being?

That's a primary underlying factor in more than a few political actors' discourse around antisemitism. It's a political ass-cover to distract from massive amounts of Islamophobia and anti-Arab/anti-Palestinian racism.

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I think one of the things that separates liberals from the left is that liberals, to a fair extent, adhere to the "great man" theory of power and wealth, in which people believe that many of the people in political power or who have wealth wound up in that place because they are people of great skill and talent.

On the left, people tend to adhere to the "great bastard" theory of power and wealth, in which one has to be a rotten, abusive person to wind up with political power or wealth.

timberwraith, to random
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Hoping for a Mad Max movie where they run out of fuel and vehicles and they're forced to chase each other on bicycles.

timberwraith,
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@PatrickoftheG Wow! That's so bad that I love it!

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I guess Biden's escaped humanitarian Gaza pier is now making him look like a blithering schmuck.

Which of course, isn't much of a change in status. 🤦‍♀️

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@Greenseer It's like the u.s. military decided to imitate the Keystone Cops while trying to build a pier from Legos and everything went FUBAR.

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