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Thaoworra

Thaoworra

@thaoworra.bsky.social

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Lao American poet and traveler

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Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 16d

America, F* Yeah!

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 16d

So a planet-eating planet that's a transformer is just casually walking the streets of some other planet. This is WILDLY stupid but strangely metal and epic as far as the cosmic weird goes. I'll allow it 🤣

"This place will take me aeons to eat! I'll get started after I'm done shopping..."

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 18d

Just so you know

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 18d

Great questions of the internet

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 18d

For those who need the reminder

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 18d

co-signed

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 22d

52 years here, I'll allow it

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 23d

'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, in the full piece you also see the interesting implication of the lotus buds before they flower completely. H.R. Giger probably didn't give any of this consideration in his biomechanical quest to create horrifying meditations on the phallus but it's interesting we can see adjacency.

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

Once upon a time, from a distant land overseas, green giant warrior-magician perverts in armor came to attack a civilization & steal its most beautiful queen who embodied the virtues they treasured. How could that possibly inform a conversation on xenomorphs and pew-pew power armor technologies?

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

"Your ancient myths about men recruiting living bioweapons such as simian beastmen like Hanuman to defeat the giant monsters created by the science and magic of evil galactic empires would have no bearing on a science fiction story of robots, cyborgs, synthetics, and hybrids, Southeast Asians"

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

US arts & media are so dismissive of conversations they COULD have if they let SEAsian voices chime in with our perspectives on nothingness, reincarnation & consciousness, karma & dharma, violence & duty and cycles of repetition in the cosmic void, the fate of colonizers & capitalizers. Missing out!

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

Detail from the Laomagination Patreon's discussion of Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War metaphor in Aliens & how we would treat the questions xenomorphs raise in our encounter with "non-human" possibilities of being and who defines that esp. within Buddhist gestalts.

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

"Ok, we'll call it a draw..."

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

I feel so attacked

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 23d

Solid advice, gang

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

New head canon accepted

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

"There are entire dogs that bed was meant for, monsieur kitty..."

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sure it's delicious, but at $16 I can't condone it without risking a portal of outrage opening across the multiverse

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

Apologies to anyone caught in the crossfire by this one

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

Not as sneaky as you think, 12' steel trash panda 🤣

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

Not ominous at all

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

co-signed

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

This is the world...

Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 24d

Yeah. I could never work in that space 🙄 I have to build a market that publishers can't gamble on but it works out for everyone.