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Having a really fascinating conversation in the DMs about how high training requirements for truly distruptive military technologies kept them from changing history at the time they were introduced

because that’s the sort of girl I am
Also I think I’m going to have to write about siege warfare in the 12th/13th real soon, and Richard II, ur problematic fave
Plus a bit on English rifle regiments v Napoleon.

Gotta make a liquor store run this afternoon
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Positivity counter-balance! Twitter, what actors / actresses do you see in a leading role and are like “wow, this person makes interesting choices / does good work, this film is on my radar now”?

(Be honest if it’s just ones you’re thirsty for & will watch in any old garbage)
Me: Jake Gyllenhaal. Rachel Weisz. Increasingly, John C Reilly. Channing Tatum. Margot Robbie.
Also, I’m not thirsty for any actor. I’ve met too many of them.
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2019 comics projects:

* weird, angry YA fantasy but w too much mom / family in it to be real YA, done as 6 quarterly 60-page ‘zines

* the Mayday sequel

* uh, another weird YA fantasy about Nonviolent Superman?

* a quarterly 72-100p art zine w 1 comics & 1 prose story / issue
* A very dark action comedy / Roadtrip of Vengance story I keep describing as “Martin McDonagh’s DIE HARD”

* And finally some cool WFH books and other comics-adjacent stuff not yet announced
About half the creator-owned stuff doesn’t have a publisher yet but YOLO, we’ll figure it out somehow, we always do

Oh, I’ve also got a super-creepy J-horror book that’ll be four super big ‘zines or just... a graphic novel. Prefer just a graphic novel.
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At this moment I’d like to remind you of a frequent tactic of abusers when confronted with their actions:

DARVO = Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

(1/3, and source: dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…)
Abusers are often extremely manipulative and self-loathing people who will do anything to blame others for their behaviour. They are the real victim!

If they can’t straight-up accuse their victims of lies, exaggeration, or vindictiveness— (2/3)
—thereby adding to the already high feelings of self-blame victims struggle with, they will blame LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE as to blame for their actions.

They’re especially fond of blaming things unable to fight back...

...such as fictional characters. (3/3)
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Here’s to all the people I secretly thirst after intellectually to follow me on this hellsite.
Here’s to having a really great feud where I pull off the one thing I have never done: a scathing and pithy retort exactly at the right time.
Here’s to having a less awkward camera presence because I fix my issues with prolonged eye contact.
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IT BEGAN NOT by tapping enemy insurgents’ phones or capturing their emails, but by #FollowingTheMoney

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#History/#Art thread – From my recent trip to Madurai/Tirunelveli. On Jain sites (some with a rich history dating back to at least the 3rd cent. BCE), early Pandyan rock-cut cave temples (7th-8th cent. CE) & the amazing Vettuvan koil.

Pic: Mahavira (~8 cent CE), Kizhakuyilkudi
Before I start on the places, the history around all this is fascinating & splits opinion. Is it apt to call the script Tamili/Tamil Brahmi? Did it develop independently in the Tamil country/come with the Jain monks from the north? Were 8,000 Jains actually impaled in Madurai?>
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I hardly took any photos, but here's a summary of my highlights from #VidCon2018:
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Of particular note, @the_musser's talk on information presentation is going to help me SO MUCH.
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This is such an important and hard question. I think my third line is something like this: "Ok. Do we believe that we can treat people any way we want to because they have broken a law? Does it matter to you what kind of law? /1
If you were driving your children around on an expired license, should the police be able to take you to jail and put your kids in foster care?

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