👻 A Bit Of Tom-foolery 👻

back then firefighters were privatized, individualized companies and both them and the cops were in the same small but violent protestant groups that got all the important jobs in the city, largely known as the Orange Order.

Which is why there was barely (if any) police intervention when shit hit the fan day of. The firefighters had rooted up a bunch of their pals from the orange club on a vengeance warpath and the police took every effort to stall intervention. Apparently it took the mayor showing up and reportedly preventing a fireman from clown murder by prying an axe from his hands to start shutting the whole situation down

And apparently this, in accumulation with a bunch of other bullshit that involved anti-catholic riots and I think a bank robbery (?) was the impetus of widespread police reform. Like complete overhaul kinda reform. Like every-single-person-fired-and-replaced-potentially-multiple-times kinda reform.

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Think about how much power labor has. These guys working in big positions talking about the kind of damage some "high school dropouts who ganged up" can do with an edge of fear in their voice

This is called

I have purchased Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

AFSGFBCHH??

In summary

there doesn’t appear to be a statute of secrecy type thing magic is just fully integrated with the modern world and modern technology

Harriet is a wizard, but that means that she creates spells by typing them out in long manuscripts, which on one level is a nod to the book publishing industry but on another level is kind of interesting in of itself

there’s a??? spellcasting industry??

there are different types of magic users other than wizards, and they appear to be based on the d&d classes

or at least, bards exist and they are distinct from wizard

the dinosaur is a bard

Bigfeet exist and they are integrated with modern society

there are sentient motorcycles and no one finds this in any way unusual

I literally have no idea how to describe what I’m experiencing right now. Like this is a somewhat poorly edited parody adult dinosaur romance novel but. It’s genuinely?? Creative?? In a lot of ways???? And there’s a lot of heart to it, a lot of genuine powerful messages about identity and about art and creativity and the fourth-wall-breaking device is…I can’t explain it because that would spoil it but it’s actually pulled off so well?????

This is not like, a humorous joke story this guy did for Being a Little Shit and Spite reasons, it’s like actually in its themes and message a genuine “fuck you” to j.k. Rowling’s transphobia even though it’s this absolutely wild janky batshit story and I have never experienced anything like this in my LIFE

Wasteland Weekend is a 5 day event in the middle of the Mojave where people celebrate the inner Raider in them.

(These pics are courtesy of their website here)

Costumes are mandatory; themes include but not limited to Mad Max, Fallout, Borderlands….anything post apocalyptic.

You can camp there with friends or get a hotel; people chop up old cars and make crazy wastelander vehicles. They wanna keep it as immersive as possible so customized camps and tribes are encouraged. Theres a film festival, concerts…all kinds of shit.

Dates for 2019s festival are Sept 25th through the 29th.