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Michael vs. the Living Dead

@thepmann.bsky.social

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Boy from Oklahoma, now in New England. Writer of fantasy. (#amquerying) Nerd. Neurodivergent. Anti-fascism. Friend to dogs. He/him. I say "fuck" a lot.

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · Jan 13

Jia’s to-do list: Find the wizard’s killer. Save an innocent barbarian (who’s still kind of a jerk). Get her aunt the crime boss off her back. Find the wizard’s missing roommate -- alive. Maybe make some time with the barbarian’s cute partner. And oh yeah, don’t die... #Bluepit #fa #sns #A

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 7h

Happy birthday!

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 7h

Also, and maybe this is just me, but I don’t really see much value in going back into, say, The Martian Chronicles, and adding in that everybody has cell phones.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 8h

I have to admit, “This time the Predator has Elle Fanning for a backpack” is a novel direction for the franchise.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 11h

War. War never changes.

Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 12h

Alaska is again becoming a priority for U.S. military leadership, who see the state not just as a base from which to send out American forces, but also a place that could be the site of actual warfare. (via Northern Journal)

With twin threats from Russia and China, U.S. military puts new focus on Alaska

In the past, large-scale exercises “occurred in Alaska,” one general says. “Now, this is high-end training that is occurring — that is about Alaska, from Alaska.”

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 11h

Please use the word “eugenics” liberally.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 15h

Kate Micucci

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 18h

All it needs is a repenting harlequin.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 18h

Happy birthday!

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Fuck That Guy Day to all who celebrate

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 21h

Walking.

If that doesn’t count, horse-drawn carriages.

Kiki Lee | Author ✒️ 🩷💜💙 @kikilegendlore.bsky.social · 23h

Authors and Gamemasters, today's world building question!

What is the most common mode of transportation seen throughout your story?

#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #worldbuilding #storydevelopment #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompts

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

My days here lately consist of following weirdos and freaks (complimentary) and blocking weirdos and freaks (derogatory)

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

All-in on AI

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 1d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

Frank & Joe Hardy would go on to ruthlessly oversee Chairman Mao's purge of the landlords.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

Ragdoll. Love that unrepentant freak.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

Panic! At the CVS Minute Clinic

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

So terminally posterbrained he thinks followers are the same thing as money.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

The worst fucking posters from Something Awful are now billionaires and run everything.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

You’re white, Danny, just go to Whole Foods.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

I love heirloom tomatoes. They’re such fucking freaks.

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

More like rec.arts.simpsons. Just the most joyless fucks you could imagine.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you see, George W. Bush looked in his eyes and saw his soul.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 2d

I distinctly remember the finale airing on its own. (I left a work function early to watch it.)

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 2d

Complete with hangings.

Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 2d

It occurs to me that there’s a nonzero chance these fucks fed some Harlan Ellison into that thing. His estate probably wouldn’t be too happy about that.

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