Avarice's Nest

I think his real problem with allegory probably lay in the fact that other people who knew superficial things about him would project their own ideas of what the allegories represented to Tolkien and present them as fact. This isnt even just a problem Tolkien faced, its something every author deals with.

We see it in fandom discussions everyday. Readers will find a supposed allegory or something they personally think resembkes one and twist it according to their own bias and then act like it was the authors intention the whole time. Tolkien himself had literal nazis writing to him because they thought LOTR was proof Tolkien was anti-jew just like them (he wasn't and very impolitely told them to fuck off)

So in my mind, it wasnt that he disliked allegory specifically, he disliked readers projecting their personal interpretations onto him.

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

What if the game world in question is based on games that break the fourth wall?

Like. I'm gonna grab my favorite child, IMSCARED, for this example. IMSCARED is a horror game in which the entire gimmick is the fact that it acts like a virus, a REAL ghost in the machine situation. The game is self aware, it knows it's a game and it knows that you're out there playing it and it knows where it is and it knows who you are and it knows how to make your blood run cold. IMSCARED knows.

So how would THAT translate to the Gameoverse? Would IMSCARED just KNOW its whole situation? Would it know that it's a planet stuck in a cruel, self cannibalistic universe? Would it know? Or is the entire gimmick of breaking the fourth wall, limited to basically playing pretend, genuinely believing the premise it's placed in?

I wonder this mostly because i LOVE games that push the boundaries and make you get SEVERELY immersed and i love Gameoverse now so what if my two favorite things got mashed together? What if Kit and Kaboodle get put in a game world based on these types of games, like IMSCARED? Doesn't the idea just sound interesting?

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

If you're so bothered by a piece of fiction maybe you should go to a therapist and talk about why it bothers you

Not send death threats

Every time something like this passes by, I will talk about this kind of person. The ‘think of the children’ type of person, who fed my abusive partner my every move while I was trying to get out because I was on ‘the wrong side’ of some shit that went down in a huge fandom explosion of ‘omg you people are sick, you can’t write that!’ (It was actually a whole ass group of people and they also harassed the fuck out of a bunch of others too. Some of it was in person at a convention.)

But like- I was trying to get out with my child. Not some hypothetical child- a living, breathing human being.

Moral purists for fictional content are just as bad as radical extremist conservatives and TERFs. If you're harassing people and policing people over fictional

Hear me again

FICTIONAL

content then you are just as bad as transphobes, homophobes, and racists in my eyes and I'm going to start pushing that HEAVILY on this blog that you are JUST AS BAD as transphobes, homophobes, and racists if you are doing this shit.

It’s the SAME DAMN TACTIC with a different color slapped on.

Radical conservatives use “the children” as their moral shield — “think of the children, protect the children from the gays.”

Purity police in fandom use the exact same moral shield — “think of the children, protect the children from the bad ships/kinks/fanfic.”

TERFs and most transphobes say “we’re just protecting women” while dehumanizing trans people. Purity culture says “we’re just protecting survivors” while dehumanizing anyone who writes/draws/ships the “wrong” thing, INCLUDING victims of abuse and survivors of CSA/incest/SA/etc

It’s the same cycle of weaponizing morality to justify harassment, ostracism, and censorship. They just change the buzzwords depending on the group they’re targeting.

And once you accept the premise that “fictional content = real harm,” you’ve already swallowed the same logic conservatives use to ban queer books in schools. If you think a FICTIONAL ship is dangerous because it’s “problematic,” you’re no different than the school board banning a book for being “morally dangerous.” It’s the same fascist impulse.

Purity culture isn’t progressivism — it’s authoritarianism in a rainbow jacket. Once more!!!

Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

Do you think the heroic impoverished proletariat is doing better or worse now that their workplace has burned down and they can no longer perform labor in exchange for wages? Was this an effective action to empower the heroic impoverished proletariat, or was it destructive and helped nobody except as it provided masturbation material to communists?

The issue isn't the blatant arson which is a huge problem. The issue is the fact that this individual took it upon themselves to make it so that hundreds of workers now no longer have a place to work. Meaning they no longer have a way to make money unless the warehouse sends them to places significantly further away from their homes in order for them to work.

This type of destruction is never okay and it's never necessary. This person easily could have just gone to find a different job that paid him more if he was really that upset about it. We don't even know if this individual ever actually asked for a raise. But I should expect nothing less from people who are pro-communist. Destruction and and murder and violence are means to an end for you to get your whiny toddler demands regardless of whether those demands are functional or even possible. That warehouse was a hub for paper towels baby wipes and other varying things of that nature.

And now due to some toddler throwing a literal temper tantrum because he was high off his own farts, several stores will now go without products that they use on an everyday basis. And it will take a decent amount of time for the market and the supply chain, to catch up. And what's more what do you think that fire does to the climate? Since most of you are all climate alarmists anyway? Burning chemicals and an entire warehouse that is filled with a lot of plastic etc?

Employers liked offering this structure because then they didn't have to like, try to guess how long the invasion of spain will take and then carry 800 coins per soldier around the battlefield where it could be captured. It also gives them the chance to budget around the assumption that they take an enemy city and *find* vast sums of treasure even if they don't have the full value at the beginning of the war.

The main flaw of this system is that it's very easy to end up in a scenario where if you have, say, 50,000 guys that have been fighting for 800 days, you now owe 40 million silver to your army, and if the budget has not worked out to a 40 million surplus, you literally can't afford to end the war, but you can probably afford to pay them for a couple more weeks. So then you have to start thinking creatively.