@Kalshann@mastodon.social
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Kalshann

@Kalshann@mastodon.social

Diversity is Survival.
Equality is Survival.
Community is Survival.
Solidarity is Survival.

(he/him)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

@gwynnion aka Nowhere Girl finished her newest book: "Infinity Has Your Phone Number".

It has snarky teens; sardonic swords; unintentional heroics; the creeping madness of dealing with reality; time travel accidents; cheese warriors; demons & sorcery; and the return of Navigator characters!

It's 19 stories & an encyclopedia for Navigator! It's 500 pages of the multiverse fucking around and the main characters finding out.

It's @gwynnion 's birthday - buy a book!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5L8YPNQ

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

"I can tell you taste like the sky.
'Cause you look like rain."

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

"And I find it kinda funny;
I find it kinda sad.
The dreams in which I'm dying,
are the best I've ever had."

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar

Watching Netanyahu, in an interview with Doctor Phil of all fucking people, argue that if Israel is stopped from "eradicating Hamas" then Iran will come for the rest of "western civilization" next and wondering if anyone realizes that he's making the exact same argument literal neonazis make on the regular re: both US foreign policy and "Fortress Europe." I know Bibi knows, but I'm astounded that mainstream society doesn't blink an eye when world leaders start quoting Dickie Spencer.

Kalshann,
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

@angiebaby @AnarchoNinaWrites
And he'd be so useless as an interviewer too. Just pre-scripted softball bs!

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

I do have to wonder how many KKKristians and fascists will blame the aurora on student protesters or trans healthcare?

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

This is not 2024, we just in the 41st month of 2020, because this shit isn't gonna end until most of us are dead.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

I know due diligence is required, but I'm getting tired of having to be a near-professional investigator, journalist, researcher, and historian just to read some news articles. Like "science discovers this nifty thing!" Requires me to look into the author, the site, the papers they cite, the school/corp doing the research all to insure it's not bullshit.
It's really fucking tiresome.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

"The vultures rob everything; leave nothing but chains.
Pick a point on the globe; yes, the picture's the same
There's a bank, there's a church; a myth and a hearse."

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

There are 2 types of republicans I've observed in my life. First, there are the ones who talk about monstrous things and when in the dark do the monstrous things. Power obsessed and angry.
Second are the 'reasonable ones' who try to debate, try to show a rational for their ideas about oppressing people. Often, they are fearful, scared missing something, or losing out.

Gov Noem is a rare public example that they are the same fucking person. Never trust republicans. They are always a danger.

Kalshann,
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Being white-ish/het/cis in a place like Texas - I've heard the horrifying shit the political and religious conservatives think, I know what their locker room talk is like.

From suit wearing affluent 'serious' men to fucking drug dealing white supremacists. They are all the fucking same.

Each of them are various levels of scared fucking cowards with delusions of self-importance and dreams of power. Give them titles, wealth and authority and it will ALWAYS make them worse.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Something people outside the US (and honestly most English speaking white majority nations; Australia I see your bullshit)
You might have a good encounter with your police, they might do a job, sometimes even good deeds.

In the US, we have cops, not police. Their job is nothing but violence, threats, and oppression. They get more money for weapons and military gear than many nations' entire military budgets. They are an armed occupying force that serves capitalism and white supremacy.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Seriously. I remember in 2016 thinking "Oh fuck, this is going to replicate globally isn't it?", everyone knew it would.

Though I must admit - being from the US seriously distorts my perceptions of guns. They "had access “to a massive arsenal of weapons” including 380 firearms," and my first thought was 'meh, that's barely large.'

Also - taking and holding the Reichstag with only 150k rounds of ammo is very unlikely. For a long siege and holding hostages?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/the-prince-the-plotters-and-the-would-be-putsch-germany-to-try-far-right-coup-gang?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Look, blocking someone isn't telling them to fuck off. That would be actually interacting with them to tell them: FUCK OFF.

Blocking is just mitigating who we want to deal with. You're a capitalist-loving fuckless coward willing to cheerlead for mass murder and genocide and I'm the fuck not. So fickity-fuckity-boo, I block you.

Go fly in the cesspool of your natural habitat of alt-right pit stains and nazi boot leather.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

so many people are going to get themselves seriously hurt, sick or dead because of the failures of the internet. The bloated use of AI, the enshittification of services, the spread of intentionally dangerous misinformation.

Just dead people, who'll be blamed for their own overdoses, or 'wrongly mixed' medication - and google or whatever that told them it was safe will just keep plugging along killing more.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Apr 14: Do you keep a log of incidental characters (e.g. shop assistants) or forget them once they've featured?

I've run ttrpgs for 25 years, I can tell you honestly every character is written down and note to excess! Characters who haven't appeared have notes, like Tanis' abess or Sanis' extended family.

Now finding the file I jotted those notes down in... [wide eyed look of confusion] gimme a minute, I think the file named "story assholes" have them? Maybe "the bad guys"?

Kalshann, to writing
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Chapter 14 of Dragons of Ruin is posted.
It's got the barest bit of blatant flirting, the confirmation of a conspiracy and some soul searching that leads to .. well, mostly Shandril changing the subject to avoid introspection.
Oh, and , I guess?

@timberwraith @TamsinSays

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51160225

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

You know that universal feeling of absolute dread and loathing that comes from trying to find someplace to live?

No, you don't? You and I aren't living on the same planet. Congratulations, must be nice there.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Day 10 - How much power does your MC have?

Chal'tanis.

None, and all. Knowledge is a powerful thing if wielded properly, but her order and teachings (indoctrination) make her view her role as serving others. It's her role to be of use to those who need such knowledge, not to use it herself.

In the past those such as her overturned the world, and allowing that to happen again would be terrible.. right?

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Pet peeve of the day. The Far Right aren't performing 'far right activism' they are fucking terrorists.

The left protests things with boycotts, the left disrupts highways or throws paint on people.

The right sneaks into houses to kill people, shoot up clubs & burn down Black churches or synagogues.

Glen Beck, Musk or nazi-aligned judges aren't doing that shit - but they support it. They protect those who do; they are the back of the spear making sure the tip is ready to kill us.

Terrorists.

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

So I woke up to a video essay about 'problematic faves' that dove into a look at how we grapple with them. Assholes that make the things we love but turn out to be bigots or rapists or other evil.

It was good! The author talked about his own ‘fave’ turning out to be a problem, and how he turned his love of the work into something private. I think that ignores a major point of such things: if we keep it private, we're being silent on their horrible actions.

Silence is complicity, isn’t it?
1/3

Kalshann,
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Silence is easy. Silence makes life less complicated. Silence protects us from having to argue with people who might disagree. From co-workers to family to friends. Silence is the way we make less waves.

But that silence serves the Musks and JKRs of the world because we love their products or creations. It emboldens them because they get to do whatever they want, and because of our silence, they can continue to do so.

Those who love their work aren’t complaining, right?
2/3

Kalshann, to random
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

Apr 9 What powers (e.g. political, religious, magical, natural) influence your characters’ lives?

Chal'tanis. History, ancestry, ancient wars, the vestiges of Imperialism, cultural expectations, government classification, childhood 'exceptionalism', to start.

All of that leading into institutionalized control & forced conformity, psychological torture, and brainwashing.

See, it's fun learning magic & being an 'adventurer'. [rolls eyes]

Kalshann,
@Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

There is a conversation that Gwynn & I have about what makes a 'mage' (or sorcerer or wizard or what have you). Someone who'll sacrifice their life for the power to change the world, bend the laws of nature and upend the order of things? I mean - sounds good right, but you live in the order of things. It brings you pizza and you keep your stuff there.

What makes a mage? The need to change the way things are. The fear of things being as they are. [shrug]

rooster, to random
@rooster@chaosfem.tw avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    Kalshann,
    @Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

    @rooster
    It can happen. The skin of the cheeks or forehead tightening (or weight loss) can reshape nose structure a little bit.

    Kalshann, to random
    @Kalshann@mastodon.social avatar

    It's not about the sun & moon.
    It's about the crescent light & shadows from the leaves. The sky being grey, then midnight. The silence of wildlife as they don't know what to do, then their reality returning. The wind, soft & constant, formed from nothing more than shadows. The city lights kicking in, cars slowing as unaware drivers are confused. Children screaming about the moon to parents, and the parents freaking after the full darkness descends out of surprise.

    Looking up isn't all of it.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • Leos
  • InstantRegret
  • khanakhh
  • cubers
  • thenastyranch
  • tester
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • love
  • rosin
  • kavyap
  • ngwrru68w68
  • everett
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • magazineikmin
  • Durango
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • mdbf
  • osvaldo12
  • tacticalgear
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • provamag3
  • ethstaker
  • modclub
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •