Cascading Hope

hey, that dogs whole job is to point at birds, and it is indeed pointing at a bird

Real life Road Runner

My hidden room as a child

A common complaint I see for stories like Babel or Yellowface or Chain-Gang All-Stars is that these books are too on the nose, they're too obvious, they're too cartoonishly 'hit you over the head with it' evil. Obviously colonialism is bad! Obviously racism is bad! Obviously institutionalized racism and abuse of prisoners is bad! But you gotta understand, people have been writing the subtle story for years, and people didn't get it. "Wait, The Boys is satire?" "Omg I want to be in Squid Game." "Keep your wokeness out of X-Men." Like, can you really blame people for wanting to write a story that you cannot look away from? That you cannot deflect from, say its not political, claim its fiction and not about anything in the real world? Can you really blame people for making it obvious when people don't listen when its not obvious?

me: lol what if every onion article came true all in one year

2020:

2026: