Bi-Zen ‮✨📷🖋 @wxcafe@imaginair.es

hey my local game store is running a Monsterhearts 2 campaign! I knew it was a good place when I met multiple queer people there and they had trans/rainbow flags on the walls, and this is definitely a confirmation :) https://bstrat.eventsmart.com/events/monsterhearts-march/

when sisters of battle release I'm making a kill team thingy (hopefully I'll have received my paint and stuff by then...) and playing at my LGS I think, because I love the adepta sororita and I love the models and everything but I can't really get a real army cause I don't have enough room to store all that shit in my place (and I also want to try kill team out)

Honestly I kinda want to make a role playing game in the wh40k universe powered by the apocalypse, I think it could be made to fit perfectly...

so uh yesterday I finished reading The Power as @Eutrapelie recommended it a few days ago, and.... wow.

It's a very good book! The writing style isn't my favorite but it's very accessible, and it has pretty good characters and a *very* interesting story. Be warned though that there's depictions of sexual assault and violence, a bunch of "regular" violence, sexism, and probably other stuff I didn't think about

quick summary of the plot: suddenly, women start being able to generate and direct electricity out of their bodies. We follow a few characters around the world as the social status quo changes quite quickly.

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now... I don't know what to think about what the book seems to express. It's really weird to see the way it talks about feminism from different points of views, how at first it places "reason" in the hands of the white american politician, but it quickly escapes, seemingly to end up with the leader of the New Church, which seems to start as a really positive organization and ends up, uh, destroying the world I guess? I feel like it's trying to go to the conclusion that gender is ultimately irrelevant and that power struggles that have been installed for centuries are what really shape the social landscape, which is /true/ but seems a little weird as a conclusion given the *current* social landscape, and a little defeatist: what are we supposed to do, just give up because "well, historically power distribution has always been like this so I guess better to accept it"? That doesn't feel right for a book that touts itself as feminist, and the way the only character that's never seen to have any negative actions is a man is pretty weird too. Once again, it looks like the book is trying to tell us "power corrupts all, there's no escaping that" and in that case is trying to get power for women actually a bad thing? is that what the book is trying to say, that if women get power they will be corrupted just as much as men are currently and so... what, even? what's the conclusion to this? Are we supposed to see the end of the world as negative or not? Are the examples of male sexual mutilation presented to make us see how "actually they're all the same, it doesn't matter who's in control"?

That's a weird conclusion, and it made me feel pretty uneasy. I don't know what to think of this book, honestly. But I enjoyed reading it, and I would definitely tell people to read it, if only to have a conversation about it at some point.

so anyway Idk if you've seen but Autumn Burchett just won the MTG Mythic Championship yesterday! It's so good to see a nonbinary person win an MTG championship!!

https://twitter.com/Aaron_MTG/status/1099808808099024896
https://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/2019MC1/finals-autumn-burchett-mono-blue-tempo-vs-yoshihiko-ikawa-esper

why even bother writing a game then...

@amphetamine hey would you let the deletion sleep for a while again and lower the rate again? Sorry :<

well, this ravnica allegiance prerelease was really good! I won 3 rounds out of 4, surprisingly, and the store was really cool, very helpful, there was a sense of community amongst the customers bc it's very local I think! and they have gay and trans flags on the counter so this is my new default mtg/rpg/40k... store now!!!

(this is Brooklyn Strategist btw)

Move to another country, forget to take your switch charger but don’t forget the four fountain pens obviously 😩

Also, always ask to try your pens before buying them. An M nib isn’t always the same as another M nib, even by the same company.

Also revived my first fountain pen from middle school with ink from the cartridge, the first traces were... pretty dark. Old ink...

Finally changed the ink in my fountain pen to something more acceptable... Mont Blanc Midnight Blue

I had to transfer the ink from my older fountain pen that still had a bit in it... :/ I need to get a new bottle