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Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else. https://rajivmote.wordpress.com/published/
If you’re a worldbuilding nerd (and/or writer), this article by Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a gem:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/buil...
One of the more annoyingly misused phrases in our current era of shared multi-verses, trans-media franchises, and other pan-galactic gargle blasters is “world-building.” It’s an annoying expression be...
I, for one, enjoyed a crisp, fall-like day in the killing fields of Chicago. Looking forward to tomorrow, too.
The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb.
(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker holds press conference in response to recent threats made by President Donald Trump to send the national guard to Chicago, in a similar manner that he has done so in Los ...
Huh. If they're imagining a human body, maybe Miss Minutes WILL be in VisionQuest... thedirect.com/article/marv...
New Marvel images showed off a version Miss Minutes fans never thought they'd see.
HELL YEAH.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge! I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover his face and speak to me."
"Why does He hide in a cloud of half promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but cannot?"
This scene came up at work today, in the context of when you stop having faith that there is a plan, and start demanding proof of it.
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
"We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call God." The Seventh Seal, confession to Death scene
