SeattleSamurai

The US isn't _becoming Nazis. We taught it to them. We were _always Nazis.

This fight will never end.

Keep going.

Ya'll want the same processes? Does that mean we get to shoot back? And face no consequences? We can execute you in the court of "I'm scared"?

My Latina partner: They seem to really be upset about Renee.
Me: uh, yeah, it's a white lady. Americans, even the good ones, are steeped in the WCN morals of "save the white ladies".
Her: But the WCN are not upset?
Me: No, they don't consider lesbians women.

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Our conflicts with Venezuela are well documented at this point*

The attack against child care we're suffering is notable evidence that anti socialism is just racism in disguise.

Of all the reasons to hate AI, I place above them all the nearly compulsive use of emdash.

Last WorldCon's loots

Same... so same.

Nerds do be loving badge flags...

What do you call someone who isn't a racist, xenophobic, or authoritarian, they just want to see Germany get back on her economic feet and get back a sense of pride again?

Oh yeah, Nazis.

The distinction between the charismatic bigot and the useful idiot has always been irrelevant.

Lol noted

At least he used "you're" right.

Me watching this episode: This is why I don't let you near my eyebrows.
Her: I just go for the middle ones.
Me: THAT'S HOW IT STARTS

I wanna try out that #larp style that's blowing up in China, jubensha. Turns out you can in Seattle, but you'll need some translation help. Turns out I've got that, now I just need three or four more of you to join us... who's in?

Social media is bad for #larp. It suppresses events and promotes toxicity and strife, because that's what makes them money.

They're probably wondering what I wonder: how do I make visible a disability that is activated by being observed? Accommodation is easy for those with canes, wheels, hand signals, etc... empathy is easy. But what if you can't see the need for accommodation because I can't show you the disability?

Anyway, I guess I say all that not to excuse myself, but to explain. I can do better, and sometimes get it right. I'll keep trying, but it's an honest to godz disability, there's only so much I can do without accommodation. I don't think I'm the only one, I think a quote talker is reading this

all listeners have about me, based on my appearance. I forget what you're seeing. I forget I'm the bear in the room. I forget I put you on the defensive if I don't smile harder, laugh often, and shrink. I'm weird and scary for reasons that aren't about me, but expectations of me.

But I never got good at the talking. I collect quotes still, my lingo is often surprisingly relevant. I can work a room, be charming and fun. I can repeat facts like a pro. But i can't say what i feel. It comes out without the proper affect that expresses the context that overcomes the assumptions

Very human like, but "wrong" in some way nobody could quite put their finger on. It was easy to leave me behind. It was easy to be cruel about it. I had it coming, they'd say. I learned to serve, as quietly as I could. It was harder to leave the useful, even if they are unrepentant in their oddness.

Of course, this would all fall apart if anybody asked me something I didn't have a quote for. I couldn't get what I needed, because i didn't have that quote. Eventually, it harmed me, so I started learning how to not parrot, but construct. I was so bad at it. I lived squarely in the uncanny valley

approximate a conversation, with many guaranteed approval noises due to the professional nature of the source material. I've forgotten many of those sources, but occasionally I'll watch an old show or movie and catch one or many of them.

I learned it consciously, like a math or science. While I read like a vacuum, it didn't translate well into speech. People don't talk like that. TV became the source material I trained on. Most everything i said was a quote. Even the boring stuff. With an extensive library of responses, I could

If Autism is a spectrum, where "super into trains" is red and "totally mute" is purple I'm an indigo. Subjected to recurring hearing tests (it was the 70's in the south in the army, autism wasn't on the radar), I remember the day I chose to speak. It was a recognition of an obligation I never wanted

Yes, I agree.
Sorry, twas the 'tism. I'm bad at this on a good day, worse when I'm excited. These things I made are really exciting to me.

It's not a larp. It's support tool for larps, so developers aren't thusly burdened, and can spend more time on on the fun stuff and less time doing, well all that stuff that was listed.
Many hands make a lighter load. It was meant to be uplifting, not condescending.

This thread describes, in detail, why we're making @freeworldlarp.com . So there's less of that, and more story.

Using 'larp' as a pejorative is bigoted abelist nonsense.

Is it working? Did I get the likes?

Not if the larp has a king