@Edweirdian

Weird fiction, fantasy cartography, monsters, roleplaying games. Credits include Genial Jack, ENNIE-winning work on Dolmenwood. Blog: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ggD9PpmH4h.

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Joined April 2014
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I have big news. I've launched a patreon for the Hex setting, including monthly maps, fully-illustrated installments of the Hex Guidebook detailing every single street, a playtest version of The Hex Hack system, and an archive of older high-resolution maps. Subscribe below.⬇️
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Stephen Guy-Bray@SGUYBRAYOct 7
This is extremely bad and it could have been avoided if everyone had to read "The Heresy of Paraphrase." #CleanthBrooksWasRight
Fairy Gothmother, MD@jenny2x4Oct 7
I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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Aatif Rashid@Aatif_RashidOct 7
I do wish people understood that the prose is everything. There is no story “beneath” the prose. Cartesian dualism does not exist for books. There is no distinct soul of a book that can be separated from the body its prose. The experience of reading the language IS the novel.
Fairy Gothmother, MD@jenny2x4Oct 7
I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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I think this is a great take but might quibble with the verb "is." The dream certainly seems completely dead, but then in the very final moments it seems like perhaps it might not be. They're planning *something* over in Precinct 41.
Lego Kingo@LegoKingoSep 3
Disco Elysium isn't really about proving communism correct as much as it is about forming an authentic identity in a world where the dream of a better future is completely dead. As a result, Harry mainly experiences politics thru the lens of (often silly) identity formation.
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To me the game is centrally about grieving (among other things) - Harry getting over his ex, but also left melancholy and the end of history. What's dead is the Commune of Revachol, and the Deserter is the embodiment of someone melancholically attached to that specific project.
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Melancholy mean attachment to the lost love object overwhelms the desire to move on - but moving on in the political sense certainly doesn't have to mean accepting the capitalist status quo.
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“the humanities is all elitist jargon! how useful can Marx really be if the average person cannot understand it!” economists:
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john@johnsemley3000Aug 27
oh no! my 20 year-old adult child is reading the work of the most ruthless and important critic in all of human history at a university!
Craig Warmke
@craigwarmkeAug 25
Replying to @craigwarmke
Doesn't the history of criticism sound legit? Well, in the English department, this one is actually a course in "political thought and theory" where your child can read Marx and the great charlatan, Judith Butler.
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Jonathan Fine@jonathanbfineAug 26
academic twitter every single day
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Joyce Carol Oates
@JoyceCarolOatesAug 26
yet, probably, or improbably, this course is likely to be brilliant, perceptive, provocative. though not for someone so literal-minded that the notion "a cigar is just a cigar" is as far as curiosity takes him.
Craig Warmke
@craigwarmkeAug 25
Your child goes to Princeton and decides to major in English. So let's look at the course offerings. To begin, how about a course on dolls? "These small, domestic, and seemingly trivial objects have played surprisingly significant roles in large socio-cultural histories, including the histories of gender, race, modern psychology, commodity aesthetics, colonialism, and technology."
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This scene got absolutely delighted, cackling laughs in my cinema of left wing East Van cinephiles. We've all met some version of this person and probably most of us have been this person at some point, immensely pleasurable to watch.
ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ@dinosaur_infoAug 25
This is so much worse than I ever imagined
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Philip Bunn
@PhilipDBunnAug 19
Who could have possibly foreseen etc
Marc Porter Magee 🎓
@marcportermageeAug 19
Study from China: Students who used AI saw a 18% increase in grades on homework while spending only 45 minutes (down from 64). But they scored 20% lower on tests. This is what’s happening right now in US schools.
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Bloodborne boss.
Esper Borzoi
@EsperBorzoiJul 29
Photosynthesis
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Yaffa🖖@archaicf0ssilJul 29
Unfortunately Quark is kinda fashion goals for me. I need his fits bad.
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noah kulwin@nkulwJul 29
If I talked like this about someone else’s hospitalized child I would expect to get hit in the mouth
Nicholas Decker
@captgouda24Jul 28
Replying to @93xashley
It is, of course, your view that more medical care for you and your child is always justified, at least so long as you are not paying for it. But why should this be socially optimal? What basis do you have for claiming this?
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Xavier Aldana Reyes@XAldanaReyesJul 24
Look what just arrived in the post! A huge thank you to everyone who supported this project, one way or another. 💚 cup.columbia.edu/book/body-h… #horror #bodyhorror @ColumbiaUP
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Jacob Bard-Rosenberg@ProlapsarianJul 16
Here's what actually happened (thread...): Massification of higher education during the final decades of the 20th century and early 21st century, normally attached to a promise of social mobility. The liberal idea, at least, was at the least that this would make society more
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperJul 16
Increasingly, academics—particularly humanists—remind me of addicts who refuse to admit they have a problem: they’ve lost their spouse and kids, no one trusts them anymore, but they think everything would be fine if people just stopped spreading rumors about their bad behavior.
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Quantіan
@quantian1Jul 15
Well one fairly major casting change everyone makes from the original Shakespeare is having a woman play Juliet
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@Eleven__11XIJul 14
A genuine question for those defending every casting decision in The Odyssey… If someone adapted Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and completely reimagined the nationality, appearance, or traditional portrayal of several iconic characters… Would you still say: “The best actor should always get the role.” Or would you suddenly start talking about staying faithful to Shakespeare? That’s why this debate fascinates me. Should we judge every classic by the same standard… Or do we only defend creative freedom when it’s our favorite director
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I've been rereading At the Mountains of Madness for a paper and although it's really incredible, Lovecraft's Mythos allusions sort of mess with the verisimilitude IMO. Like he has such great, realistic detail and then suddenly the narrator is talking about the Necronomicon.
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Dolmenwood has been nominated for no fewer than 6 ENNIES! It's an incredible project and it was such an honour to contribute both drawing and writing - my work appears in the Maps Book (nominated for Best Cartography) and Campaign Book (nominated for Best Setting).
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The ENNIES are decided by popular vote of the gaming public, so if you enjoyed Dolmenwood, please vote for our books! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2…
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