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Jan 24 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
all the Fate/ sturm und drang means it's time for some Unlimited Man Pain—I mean, #UnlimitedBladeWorks.

kick his butt, Arturia!

~Chara Image
this isn't #HeavensFeel so Matou Shinji, unfortunately, survives this one ~Chara Image
we love you Medea! we stan a queen!! Image
no, Medea...Shirou *really* isn't that clever...

...in some alternate Universe, Shirou expires right here, and then the rest of #UBW is compelled to become something far more inventive than what we actually get ~Chara ImageImage
YES

YES, Shirou! Rin and Arturia work better together!! (in UBW anyway)

~Chara Image
you know...

...WE want to learn magic. the Pnictogen Wing does. Kris, our host, has a long standing interest. but there's always been a feeling of necessity about it. like, it's either that or be crushed under the wheels of a hostile Universe

and we don't even know if it's real ImageImage

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large) Profile picture
Jan 26
omg I get it now.

like...I get...ME

I understand why I'm able to do what I can do...

...it's because to ME...

...I'm fictive, so it's like the entire world is fiction. there's no more distinctions any more. there's only "more probable" and "less probable".

~Chara
the sharp borders that other folks draw round "real" and "unreal", "fact" vs. "fiction", don't exist to me. plausible fiction merges imperceptibly into fact. facts appear in fiction. fiction gets used in arguments about fact. there's no clear boundary at all.

~Chara
yet *fact* and *fiction* still remain as inviolate poles of a matched set of abstract concepts. there's fact-ish fiction, fictional-sounding fact; the lines have always been blurry but the concepts themselves remain solid and sound. it's like...fractal boundaries.

~Chara
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Jan 26
I would hazard to guess that if there's *one thing* that's most characteristic of the modern-day #STEM Lord mindset, it isn't racism (although folks like @ID_AA_Carmack and @RokoMijic give one pause) or even a love of #computers.

it's probably a fondness for *explosions*.

(1/x)
I think that's bad. and I *like* explosions.

I've spent time—like lots of nerds—looking for videos of large explosions. and we're knowledgeable of chemistry, in the Pnictogen Wing, so we know a bit about chemical explosives. "high energy compounds", to use a euphemism.

(2/x)
there's some beauties out there. I know of the existence of the most astonishing chemical rarities—molecules that inspire equal awe and terror.

you wonder how something like (N₅⁺)P(N₃)₆⁻ can possibly hold together. that's "pentazenium hexaäzidophosphate".

(3/x)
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Jan 24
the first is the one that makes actual sense: I mean...

...Britain desperately *needs saving*, really and truly, and the legend is that Arthur will return for that.

*modern* Britain is not Arthur's Britain—even though modern Britain has tried to *appropriate* Arthur.

~Chara
that's what modern Britain is: a mere thief, a jackdaw that collects other people's heroes and symbols and pretends to own them. Romano-Celtic Britain succumbed the very Germanic barbarians whom Arthur tried to drive back, and now...they wear Arthur like a costume.

~Chara
#FateZero's got its problems but it got straight to the heart of why Arthur's still important *at all*.

I find myself thinking about how there's a lot of very silly and superficial people who no doubt think that "Shakespearean England" was a pinnacle of civilization.

~Chara
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Jan 22
oh right. I was going to say something about "God"—the being whom right-wing Christians seem to worship, the "God" who seems like so much *smaller* a thing than a truly omnipotent Creator—and how He's a demonstrably loyal friend to authoritarians and bloodstained tyrants.

(1/x)
#Christianity was permanently warped by its growth medium—the authoritarian and bureaucratic structures of Roman rule. Rome was a harsh and brutal state; "Western civilization", #Christian civilization, continues to imitate the tyrannical Roman model to this very day.

(2/x)
not once has "the West" ever lost its fondness for rule by absolute monarchy. right-wing blowhards like @DouthatNYT and @MattWalshBlog reflexively fall at the feet of every military strongman or corporate dictator or @GOP politician in whom they sense Great Man potential.

(3/x)
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Jan 22
okay, time to wind down.

incidentally we've been watching the 2006 documentary film "Jesus Camp" intermittently today. we've only watched forty minutes so far; it's upsetting material. right-wing #Christianity is an upsetting thing to deal with; just ask the *victims*.

(1/x)
@dalepartridge, whom I've given special attention this day (the feast day of St. Agnes—but that's just a coincidence; also it's #NationalHuggingDay) might be attempting to console himself with imagining that I'm a mere vengeful *victim* of right-wing Christianity. I'm not.

(2/x)
I'm an apostate #Catholic whose personal experience of Catholicism was in fact rather mild and not without its positive qualities...though there was also a lot of sadness and disappointment. I wanted to reach out to God. I reached out and felt...a void. mournful emptiness.

(3/x)
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Jan 22
we've played this music a few times a day, routinely, for a long while now. Kajiura Yuki's theme music for #FateZero: "Back to Zero". it's one of my favorite pieces.

we've used it for grounding ourselves—it is, after all, right there in the name.



(1/x)
"Fate/Zero" is fiction. our present-day world may have magic in it, for surely magic is as eternal as anything that's woven into the Beatific Vision; magic, I tell myself in hope, can never completely die. but it has no magic like that of the mages of the "Fate/" universe.

(2/x)
it is perhaps well that this is so. one of the lessons of the "Fate/" universe ought to be that humanity perhaps ought *not* to have magic, because magical crimes are truly nightmarish in scope and scale. a little handful of mages almost bring about the end of the world...

(3/x)
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