through-the-digital-mirror
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Robert Prevost must take every precaution not to come into contact with JD Vance
things I did today
—ate a delicious breakfast
—went to physics lecture
—listened to Sarah Sparks
—definitely didn’t text the ICE hotline pretending to have been given it at a bar
—definitely didn’t report a Disney character on the ICE website
Seriously why is everyone on here either super cool and wholesome OR a rabid moonbat racist
ok, like I get that casting Meryl Streep as Aslan is a weird choice and, perhaps, even a bit troubling, but I truly don’t believe that the most important qualification for an actor voicing Aslan is “have a penis”. Not overjoyed about it but also I know the movies will not stand or fall based on this one casting decision
There is a random trebuchet in my classroom
Behind the scenes on “Housebreak” a short Nerf action film I’m working on and starring in. Was trying my best to look pretty here lol
Trying out Medieval quarterstaff over break!
Jewish culture is having goyim keep comparing us to goblins when Tolkien himself . Father of modern fantasy. Based the dwarfs after our people in one of the most loving depictions and analogy to jewish folklore in history. Especially by a non-jew. A proud and strong people. Mastercraft of our crafts. Loyal. Resilient. Our homeland taken from us to be reclaimed. Our relics plundered. Yet they (we) stand strong on our path to reclaim both. And everyone else can (and I quote dain ironfoot) "JUST SOD OFF"
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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
—Voltaire
Still from my work-in-progress, a 20-minute brickfilm adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror novella "At the Mountains of Madness".
To follow along with the filming, check my Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DutchPatterson
Had a student try and get into politics with me (prior to going in for surgery) the other week and it has stayed with me. If you're unaware, Professors are not supposed to push, espouse, or support any particular political party or rhetoric. We have major policies about it with very considerable consequences. Even courses where things might have a political nature, that are not polisci because they're different, have to be touched upon very carefully lest there be some blowback (e.g. a professor at Texas A&M was talking about Texas's drug laws in a criminology course and how they were ineffective and got in trouble because someone who knew Paxton was a student and felt offended because their "uncle" couldn't be bad).
So of course I didn't say anything. My policy is just to go "yeah, I'm gonna vote" and leave it at that.
Said student went on a mini-tirade though about how Kamala is obviously the better choice, but that they might vote for Trump because Biden and Kamala have been "facilitating a genocide". Said student then had the self awareness to admit that a Trump presidency wouldn't be better, more people would suffer, and it wouldn't "stop the genocide", but they wanted to "punish the Democrats".
My TA and I looked at each other a little wide eyed and the student came out of their fugue state to realize what they'd just said in front of their Professor and TA, gathered their things, and then mumbled something before hurrying out the room.
It's clear they care about the I/P conflict, but also about domestic and foreign policies that would result from this presidency. But their behavior is so quintessential college age activist that I had to highlight it here.
Being passionate about something doesn't mean burning everything down because you don't have the perfect response, especially if you are fully aware that your burning everything would actually make it worse.
Why do that?
It's a completely juvenile and immature response that really shows the quality of the person in that moment, where they are in life, and their intellectual and emotional development.
At least they became cognizant of how unhinged they sounded by the time they were done.
“Get busy living—or get busy dying.”
A lot of vulnerable people are now more vulnerable. Give them a hand these next four years. We can do this!
Tolkien being relevant
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I know we're all stressed, so here's a playlist
9hrs of peaceful stuff. Y'all don't need this stress rn.
In a democracy, we get the President we vote for—and, therefore, the one we deserve.
—Dutch Patterson
You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.
Hank Green
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
—Randall Munroe, xkcd #893
Still from my work-in-progress At the Mountains of Madness, a Lovecraftian short brickfilm. Follow the production process here: https://brickfilms.com/brickfilms/QnJpY2tmaWxtOjI5OTY1/at-the-mountains-of-madness
