i believe in life and terror
you believe in killing time
i'm a tactical goodness confidence queen
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oh hi. i see you’ve wandered into my labyrinth of horrors. i’m w.s. healed, although i sometimes go by rose quarter-drifting. i make silly little posts here and publish tabletop roleplaying games as the HORIZON MACHINE.

i’m in my early 20s and i go by she/her pronouns exclusively. i’m a tactical goodness confidence queen and a very very smart girl with something like a university degree in Truth; rave reviews have described me as ‘an organism hostile to all human life’, 'a strange woman with odd ideas about how the world works’, and 'a cunt’. i post about communism, imperialism, and ttrpgs. above all else i am on this webzone to have a nice time on the computer.

if you like my games or writing, you can support me on patreon or buy my games from the HORIZON MACHINE itch page. i have a twitter, a cohost, and a bluesky, although i don’t use any of those platforms much. if we’re mutuals, you can dm me for my discord handle.

you can find all my original posts under #tattletxt, my poetry under #hieroglyphic every particle, and passages from books or articles i like under #thought cabinet. before asking me a question, you should check out my faq, because i get the same few questions a lot.

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I feel as if studio ghibli films being reduced to their 'cozyness' would be tragic if not for the fact that it is a deliberate branding thing for them. from the ghibli museum to the revolving door of hot topic collabs, miyazaki and/or the people he puts in charge of these things are aware of how desirable the worlds within ghibli films are. even at that, how meaningful is the politics of howl's moving castle being motivated by miyazaki's outrage at the 2003 iraq invasion when you examine it alongside the actual text of the wind rises? what does the environmentalism of ponyo mean when faced with the massive amounts of waste generated by ghibli merch you can get at wal mart? i'm straying from the point here but

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this was an officially licensed product that was released to promote grave of fireflies

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i LOVE your work on award winning podcast on eidolon playtest. i feel like i have already posted about how much i like your characters in the past, so let me just say that your style of play is a really fun one to listen to – you embody the pbta ‘play to find out what happens’ ethos in the best way, you always being ready to pull out some crazy rymp or gleefully take the tower is part of what makes eidolon playtest my favourite AP. outside of that though i really respect how you are steadfast in your belief, plus you have a Great sense of humour. one of my consistently funniest mutuals for sure

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💌! -yvesdot, who is a sideblog

i think you are very deft in your writing (at least, what i’ve read of it) about invoking the thematic links between transness and monsterhood in a way that is subtle and thoughtful and engages thematically and critically with the gothic tradition instead of just hammering the reader over the head with WHAT IF VAMPIRE IS GAY?? – an effective reminder when it has become in many spaces a trope that’s hammered into the ground of why ‘monster as queer metaphor’ is an interesting and worthwhile space to beign with. also your name is cool as hell :)

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Anonymous asked

hey, could I ask for more info/source for miyazaki being an imperial apologist? admittedly I don't know much about him tbh but based on what I read, it seems he's known to show anti-imperialist sentiments consistently (I read some articles dating at least a decade back and some recent ones) i just wanted to know if there's something I missed

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Miyazaki’s ‘anti-war’ stance isn’t anti-imperialist. It’s just anti-losing. He expresses zero remorse for Japan’s empire or the fact that his family built those war planes. He was only upset that the war hurt Japanese people. That’s not being anti-imperialist, that’s just nationalism with a sad face.

If Miyazaki regretted Japanese imperialism, he won’t make The Wind Rises. Imagine a German filmmaker making a tender biopic of the Messerschmitt’s engineer then claiming it’s anti-war.