My Zelda Headcanon Is That The Three Main Characters Are All Cosmic Actors Whisked Through Time And Space

Batman: dystopian fascism

Superman: utopian fascism

Iron Man: techno-fascism

Captain America: nationalism

Spider-man: anarchism

tumblr is a 'yes, and' website

reddit is a 'no, because' website

I have to admit, the Pacific garbage patch excites me a little. What freakish(endearing) microorganisms are breeding out there? The seeds of new life that will emerge when humans and our machines have collapsed into rust and dust

The Texan Federation's first military act was to push the hogs out of their territory. Beginning in a line from the coast, the army drove every pig northward. They devastated the landscape, using grenades and mortars whenever they caught a herd on open ground. A few soldiers, unsuspecting and inattentive, were knocked down by a big male and trampled by hundreds of hooves. A few more were lost to equipment failure, or their own mistakes, or the mistakes of fellow soldiers. Eventually, at the cost of a few dozen people and a few thousand hogs, the herds were driven north of the Red River and west out of the Arkansas area, into Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee territories. The Texans placed landmines across long stretches to mark a northern border and block the hogs' return. For several decades the Texan military would maintain this defensive line, blocking both pigs and refugees from the north.

The US government, hollowed out, has all but collapsed. The east coast states down to Georgia have mostly held together and still recognize the authority of Washington DC. California, Oregon, and Washington have formed an independent coalition on the west coast. Texas' influence captures the whole coast of the Gulf of Mexico, now called the Gulf of Texas by several hundred million people. The Great Lakes states have merged with Canada. And the Great Plains in the middle of the continent are overrun by feral hogs, and war.

Some time around World War I, maybe earlier, and definitely by World War II, humans stopped being the scariest thing in the world. For thousands of years, the most terrifying thing to see coming towards you was a group of men, always with metal, often with horses. With the advent of the machine gun, chemical warfare, heavy artillery, airplanes, a mass of people no longer seems so frightening. The scariest thing now is a machine. Victims of modern war often never see the operators, only the plane, the barrel of the tank, the drone that just dropped a grenade on them. Sometimes death takes them totally unawares.

'Military' itself means something different now. No longer a reference to mass human violence, now it means networks of mechanical violence.

so i hear tumblr's dying and this moby dick meme idea has lived in my head for literal years...

when Brennan said "The first rule of existence is: as above, so below. People are fractal images of the universe. You are as we are. In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't."

when Brennan said "It is a horrifying responsibility to think because things cannot remain the same, each and every one of us must shoulder some responsibility for how they will become different."

when Brennan said "Sometimes decisions are not difficult. Sometimes they are just hard."

when Brennan said "There is no moral. The Wolf eats you one day and until it does, the forest is beautiful."

when Brennan said "I always felt the fundamental substance of the universe is creation. None of this makes any sense, when you really break it down. It's like, none of this had to happen, but it's beautiful and art is the definition of 'this didn't have to happen, but it's beautiful.' [...] It resonates with the universe because the universe is consciousness playing with itself."

when Brennan said

when Brennan said

Honestly, at this point, I'd support Taylor Swift for president

Is John not neutered, or is that just a part of him looking funky because of the weird shave down and such?

He was just neutered on Friday. You’re just seeing his empty sack. The fact that he’s shaved bald doesn’t help either though, there’s no hair to hide those bad boys

and how many petulant letters embedded in well-designed structures?

This is the exact sort of passive-aggressive Rich Old Man Grumpiness I can get behind