Hello! As I have teased a few times before I will be holding a Kickstarter for my wilderness-horror RPG book “Into the Wyrd and Wild” Of which, the Kickstarter will be launching Monday, December 3.
Those of you who were there for the World War Occult Kickstarter know I like to do a little something whenever I promote one of my books; namely, giving out free shit.
So, from now until Monday, December 3, reblog this post for a chance to win some prints, a free copy of Into the Wyrd and Wild’s bestiary in PDF form, and original art by me!
The Rules
Reblog this post from now until Monday, December 3
Multiple reblogs WILL be counted.
On Tuesday, December 4 5:00PM ET three individual winners will be randomly selected and announced.
One winner will be selected to receive a series of three 8×11″ prints of art from the book.
One winner will be selected to receive a PDF of Into the Wyrd and Wild’s bestiary.
Finally, the grand prize, one winner will be selected to receive a commissioned painting of a character or monster of their design and choosing.
So reblog and spread the word for a chance to win some cool shit and also help me spread the word about Into the Wyrd and Wild!
Continue to check this post for updates as the time draws closer and make sure to check out the link below to the Kickstarter page once it goes live this MONDAY, DECEMBER 3.
holy SHIT I’m sitting at a drive thru and this older woman just came up and knocked on my window, so I rolled it down a crack, and she gave me a thumbs up and said, “capitalism is the Antichrist!”, I’m fucking dying hsjanxbxhxh
I am glad you are also using non-capitalistic computers, cars, video games, and art supplies…. right?
Yeah no shit dude, and this all went down in the drive thru of a non-capitalistic MickeyD’s too
Someone post The Comic
sdkja;lksadjfj how can you see the statement ‘there is no ethical consumption under late-stage capitalism’ and then reply with ‘well you consume things’ like HOW could you miss the point that throughly Im fucking blown away
this just in Im gonna embrace my anti-capitalist viewpoints by moving to a cave and making all of my things out of sticks because the only way to be critical of society and not be labeled a hypocrite is to die alone naked in the woods
Hello! As I have teased a few times before I will be holding a Kickstarter for my wilderness-horror RPG book “Into the Wyrd and Wild” Of which, the Kickstarter will be launching Monday, December 3.
Those of you who were there for the World War Occult Kickstarter know I like to do a little something whenever I promote one of my books; namely, giving out free shit.
So, from now until Monday, December 3, reblog this post for a chance to win some prints, a free copy of Into the Wyrd and Wild’s bestiary in PDF form, and original art by me!
The Rules
Reblog this post from now until Monday, December 3
Multiple reblogs WILL be counted.
On Tuesday, December 4 5:00PM ET three individual winners will be randomly selected and announced.
One winner will be selected to receive a series of three 8×11″ prints of art from the book.
One winner will be selected to receive a PDF of Into the Wyrd and Wild’s bestiary.
Finally, the grand prize, one winner will be selected to receive a commissioned painting of a character or monster of their design and choosing.
So reblog and spread the word for a chance to win some cool shit and also help me spread the word about Into the Wyrd and Wild!
Continue to check this post for updates as the time draws closer and make sure to check out the link below to the Kickstarter page once it goes live this MONDAY, DECEMBER 3.
Even before the election of Donald Trump, America’s pearl-clutching
class has been invoking James Madison and his fear of “impetuous
majorities” and his desire for “majority rule based on reason rather
than passion,” worried that the “adults” in the political halls were
losing their grip and being forced into “extremism” by mob rule.
Bouie points out that the extremist evils of our age are the result of anti-democratic action from the very institutions created to preserve the elite veto over “mob rule.”
* The Electoral College – an anti-majoritarian institution – put Donald Trump in the White House, trumping the majority vote.
* The Civil War – driven by the narrow, parochial priorities of elite
enslavers – killed more Americans than any of the “populist” parties
since.
* The Senate – Congress’s anti-majoritarian upper house – is the home
of the filibuster, dominated by politicians elected by a minority of the
population, pursuing policies that gridlock Washington and preclude
compromise on urgent issues like background checks for gun purchases,
funding for public services, or immigration reform.
Yet we continue to misdiagnose America’s political disease as “mob rule”
rather than “elite rule.” This misdiagnosis matters, because it leads
to prescriptions that merely heighten the grip by elites: rather than
reforming the electoral college or campaign finance, DC elites want to
regulate social media and fund “civic education provided by wealthy
citizens with a vested interest in defending existing institutions.”
LOL NOPE
Europe is racist as fuck. Europe has armed gaurds and high fences on its borders. Europe makes it illegal to rescue refugees at sea. Europe locks up refugee children. Europe has killer cops that shoot teenagers of color. Europe is full of fascist politicians nostalgically fantasizing about ethnic cleansing. Not a day goes by without attacks on Muslims.
Fuck Europe.
Can confirm.
The problem with England (I can’t talk for the rest of Europe) is that our racism and our xenophobia and all our bigoted views manifest in a different way then America, and we use this to claim that it doesn’t exist, even when our country is built on it.
We are taught that the British empire was a good thing, and pretty much no one here knows anything about colionisation and our role in most current world problems.
But the amount of times that I’ve tried to talk about any issue within England and been shut down with the claim “well we’re not as bad as America”.
That’s why the trump protests were so important. We are constantly looking to America to justify our own bigotry. We’ll call America out on their unjust wars, and ignore the fact our own army and government was supporting them.
Listen, I like my country- I like that we have a rich history (not that I support it, but heck, everyone likes learning about the Roman Empire, doesn’t mean they think it’s a good thing), I like that we have countrysides and big diverse towns like London, I like that we love fish and chips and curry sauce, I love our old pubs and traditional pub food, I like that we have the NHS (though I dislike how it’s run), I like our sense of dry gallows humour, I like our film and tv industry, I love our history of theatre, I love our myths and legends.
But god damn are we historically an awful country, and have we ever tried to make reparations? Our actions are still affecting other countries and ruining life. I don’t like the empire, I don’t like what the monarchy stands for, I don’t like our politicians that spew bigotry and hate, I don’t like our press which are like vultures, I don’t like the power the BBC has to cover-up actual sexual abuse and rape, I hate Katie Hopkins and that she has any platform to spew her hate, I hate Brexit and that it was founded on hate, I hate how we think our lives are more valuable than that of refuges or immigrants, I hate that we don’t think that we are directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of the refugees and asylum seekers that exist today, I hate that we have a system that is actively leading to the deaths of disabled people and that even when investigated by the UN and told to change because we were violating human rights we refused, I hate how we support America’s bigotry and then use their country as a shield when accused of our own bigotry.
I hate that we, as a country, are incapable of accepting responsibility and making amends for our terrible actions.
Incredibly well put.
One of the tricky things is that every European country has their own fictional self image which it keeps repeating to convince itself it’s not a bigoted shithole.
In the UK it’s very much focused on being better than the US, being civilized and polite and stylish, while.. ya know… having a lot of blood on its hands and doing all the same racist and bigoted shit everyone else is doing.
In the Netherlands it’s focused on being ‘tolerant’ and gay-friendly and having semi-legal weed, while.. ya know…
having a lot of blood on its hands and doing all the same racist and bigoted shit everyone else is doing.
In Germany it’s focused on having ‘learned from the second world war’ and being ‘better now, while .
. ya know…
having a lot of blood on its hands and doing all the same racist and bigoted shit everyone else is doing.
And so on.. every European country considers itself either an underdog or a pioneer or a peak of civilization or small and quirky and of course they all consider themselves so much better than the US while
doing all the same racist and bigoted shit everyone else is doing.
I still remember exactly how it felt to read about this man being brutally asssulted, HIT ON THE FACE WITH A PLANK OF WOOD, in London, a city I lived next to and visited all the time, simple because he was speaking my native language in public.
I remember breaking down sobbing because of how many people in this country I love hate me so fucking much for being born somewhere else.
IIRC, there was another similar incident on the underground this past April.
So tell me more about the supposed lack of xenophobia and racism in Europe
These sort of things are sometimes best articulated by people who did not grow up here and suddenly experience it all at once. Pretty much every exchange student of color that I’ve spoken to in the Netherlands has recounted an experience to me
that went pretty much like this:
Day 1: “Yay! The Netherlands! Country of tolerance and gay rights!”
Day 2: “Huh, that person was really friendly to me and did like 15 micro-aggression, that was weird”
Day 4: “Waaaaaiiitt… why does this happen constantly? Are people messing with me? Am I imagining this? Do I just misunderstand their culture? The Netherlands can’t be this racist.”
Day 10: “Oh my god, I’m not imagining it, people actually are this racist and they think they’re not! WTF”
Day 12: “Holy crap, if I try to point out a micro-aggression people go from super friendly to hyper aggressive screaming in my face in about 5 seconds. And people I thought I could trust jump to their defense. What is this hellscape?”
Day 13: “Everything I thought I knew about the Netherlands is wrong. This place is so racist.”
Day 14: “Holy crap, is that a primary school teacher in black face?”
Yeah, the European side of tumblr likes to pretend they’re not racist or xenophobic or anti-black, when yall come from countries that let refugees drown at sea or try to ban headscarves.
Both the USA and Europe are built on the oppression of those deemed “other.”
Also, US-based Tumblr-users/activists/bloggers etc have a strong tendency to go “this wouldn’t happen in Europe”, “we should be more like Europe”, “we should copy the European model of healthcare/drugs/prisons/cops/etc”.
Which generally brushes over all the things that are terrible here and makes it very hard for people in Europe to make the oppression they are experiencing heard and acknowledged by an international audience.
Anything American Tumblr says echoes LOUD, so think twice before you pretend it’s all so much better in Europe.
