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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage

@elflawyer.bsky.social

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They/He Proud parent of a rescue dog. Love cube, cooking, fantasy books, history books, food history books, TTRPGs. We need to rework the Democratic Party. Only here til I'm ~35.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 4d

give tron to the wachowskis.

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 2h

Sad

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 2h

Daretti erasure

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 2h

What does that have to do with the post?

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 13h

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 2h

@thehermitdruid.bsky.social @jayemel16.bsky.social !!!

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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

Very silly

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

No unfortunately

Would be funny if 'Mao but a teenaged girl' was also yuri

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

(Although good reform would obvi require more funding, etc etc)

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm ngl, a lot of my public education in the US was based around regurgitation of information & techniques for taking standardized tests. There was a tiny, tiny bit dedicated to media literacy, but it's not prominent. Reform is more important than more funding, imo.

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Judge Rob ➡️ Frenzy at the Falls (Cube Judge) @judgerob.bsky.social · 13h

It's me! I'm so excited to be a part of Shoebox, and want to bring everyone a bunch of well-run "weird format" events that I love deeply.

Shoebox @shoebox.gg · 16h

Here at Shoebox, we 💖 our judges! 👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️
Rob and his team will be working hard all weekend to keep those events rollin' and stacks resolvin', so lets give a warm welcome to @judgerob.bsky.social as our Event Manager!

A colorful graphic with the text:
"Meet the Shoebox team: Rob - Events Manager.
Rob McKenzie has been judging events since 2004, and has worked events of every scope and type, from Pro Tours to CubeCons to GenCon to local draft events.
Rob records with Good Luck High Five and Commander Arcade, and is on the Judge Foundry Board of Directors."

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"Shoebox, St. Paul Minnesota. March 13-15th. Shoebox.gg"

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

It's so wild that they made the switch back, just actively & openly encouraging scalpers.

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 3h

If people who only consume Brandon Sanderson could read, they'd be very upset

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ACelestialBloodWitch 🩸 @acelestialbody.bsky.social · 11h

world building outside the scope of the narrative is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 12h

"I asked her to step on me; she refused and failed me. I will be enrolling for another semester."

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 12h

Every year's assigned readings should have at least one funny book

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 12h

I read Dorian Gray at 14 purely b/c of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 12h

Those, sure, are terrible suggestions. What about Pratchett or Vonnegut?

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 12h

What about moldy bread

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 13h

That's what I assumed, but I never worked in theater, and figured it was possible some fucking private equity firm had legal rights to it in America, or some dystopian shit like that.

Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 14h

Half the complaints I see about RF Kuang's work boil down to this

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🎃 Sid Oozeley 🎃 @oozeley.bsky.social · 14h

we need to make kids read A Confederacy of Dunces in school so they learn this

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jay 🔜 CubeCon Stage @elflawyer.bsky.social · 14h

There's too many books!