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tern-based strategy

@artisanalvoid / artisanalvoid.tumblr.com

i cast spell of Steal All Your Food fandom blogging over at caladblog
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Reblogged gallusrostromegalus
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“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

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Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

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Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

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The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.

The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.

Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.

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You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.

You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.

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Substack: home of Nazis, Covid misinformation, anti-vaccine propaganda & transphobia

(I'm reposting this from my patreon. You can also read it here.)

As the Twitter dumpster fire burns to ashes and artists leave Instagram in droves due to Meta's shit new policies, I have watched more and more friends turn to Substack in the past few months. Please don't do this!! Substack has well-documented problems with platforming literal Nazis, as well as writers spreading Covid misinformation, anti-vaccine propaganda, and transphobia. There has been a major exodus of writers leaving Substack basically every single year since 2021, as the company doubles down and doubles down again at being the welcoming home for people whose views are so extreme and hateful that they've been banned from every other site.

Please read this short article "Substack Has a Nazi Problem: The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out" by Jonathan M. Katz for the Atlantic. Most of the points below are simply in support of this article. If you would like to convince a creator you admire to stop using Substack, sending them this article is a great place to start.

(long post below the cut)

#i understand all platforms are garbage now but like. please don't
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Reblogged sachfremd
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As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

  1. Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
  2. This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!
  3. If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
  4. What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
  5. What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
  6. Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic
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Like obviously demonizing and belittling stereotypically feminine interests and occupations isn’t the answer and that’s not what I MEAN, I just see the argument going from

  1. Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways
  2. Women have the same potential as men
  3. Women can do anything men can!
  4. Women shouldn’t be TOO MUCH like men, though.
  5. In fact, maybe women choosing to stick to historically female roles is BETTER.
  6. Actually, maybe women NEED to stick to feminine things.
  7. Woman actually have completely different needs and impulses than men.
  8. Is staying at home and raising babies the REAL empowerment?
  9. Women need to make sandwiches to survive actually
  10. Women are weak and incapable of complex thought and that’s *better* than being a man
  11. Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways
#i do wonder how much of tiktok's hashtag girl[noun of the week] is ironic#like. certainly not enough of it#but i (also 30s) remember when i was a teen there was a time when Not Like Other Girls was said sincerely#then there was a phase when u learned that was shit and didn't say it#and then you started saying it sarcastically#eg “im not like other girls. i live in the pelagic zone & lure my dinner w/ bioluminescent patches near my mouth”#so surely some of these trends are driven (at least in part) by girls making fun of the sexist norms impressed on them#HOWEVER#advertisers and The Algorithm (in order to sell ads) explicitly want to split us into ultraspecific groups#in order to sell ads more effectively but this also has the side effect of narrowing the sphere of People U See to ppl just like you#and that is a bad thing-- it's healthy to meet & engage w/ different viewpoints#furthermore @ tiktok girlies even if ur saying this shit ironically some people actually believe it & they are in Congress.
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AAAAAA A ÃA̧AȂA̦ ǍÅÂÃĀÁȂ AAAAAAA!

Scream Cipher [Explained]

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[Top of the panel has 26 letters of the alphabet, each followed by a hyphen and the letter "A" with a unique diacritical mark for each. "A - A" at the top is an exception, where the latter doesn't have a diacritic.] A - A B - Ȧ G - A̋ L - Ă Q - A̤ V - À C - A̧ H - A̰ M - Ǎ R - Ȃ W - Ȁ D - A̱ I - Ả N - Â S - Ã X - A̽ E - Á J - A̓ O - Å T - Ā Y - A̦ F - A̮ K - Ạ P - A̯ U - Ä Z - Ⱥ

[Cueball and Megan typing on their phones, Cueball with two hands and Megan with one hand.] Cueball's phone: A̰ÁĂĂÅ Megan's phone: A̰Ả

[Caption below the panel:] In the Scream Cipher, messages consist of all As, with different letters distinguished using diacritics.

#corvids observing use of the Scream Cipher excited to finally have concrete evidence of human language
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