Fuck Your Magic Castle Academy Aristocratic Bitch. Im Going To State-run Magic Polytechnic

my first newsletter entry is about the work I did this year on my longform comic project, strike the spark! it's about a group of friends in a socialist study club who are trying their best to support their school's union and their impending strike! I hope to finish the book next year. you can read the newsletter here! 🍀

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there are definitely instances where you can hear the past - not sure about reaching into it, though. possibly it's just ghosts and echoes at the point it gets to your radio receiver. im not competely certain, and i haven't read pjol, though, so grain of salt

quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?

not only would he wear the "I <3 DILFS" shirt, he would also get like +1 electrochemistry and +1 interfacing from it

i think the appeal of harry du bois is that he’s a character you can draw wearing those funny t shirts we all like to draw our favorite characters in, except he would definitely actually wear them. i can easily imagine harry du bois in a “I <3 DILFS” shirt and booty shorts. it’s harry du bois, of course he’s wearing that

once again going mad with envy that the G-Star E Para line is out of production. That shit all goes so immensely hard and my grubby little hands will never be allowed to touch it.

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no this rules. RIP

[“In his extended study, Viet Cong, published in 1966, Pike went to some length to show that the success of the Viet Cong came not so much from their use of violence and terror (as many Americans assumed) but from their organizational methods. By 1970 he had given the subject a new emphasis. “Terror,” he said, “is an essential ingredient of nearly all [the Viet Cong's] programs.” And he went ahead to show his own colors:

A frank word is required here about “terror” on the other side, by the Government and Allied forces fighting in Viet-Nam. No one with any experience in Vietnam denies that troops, police and others commanding physical power, have committed excesses that are, by our working definition, acts of terror.… But there is an essential difference in such acts between the two sides, one of outcome or result. To the communist, terror has a utility and is beneficial to his cause, while to the other side the identical act is self-defeating. This is not because one side is made up of heroes and the other of villains. It is because, as noted above, terror is integral in all the communist tactics and programs and communists could not rid themselves of it even if they wanted to. Meanwhile, the other side firmly believes, even though its members do not always behave accordingly, that there is a vested interest in abstaining from such acts.

Interestingly, Pike's “working definition” of terror was the “systematic use of death, pain, fear and anxiety among the population (either civilian or military) for the deliberate purpose of coercing, manipulating, intimidating, punishing or simply frightening the helpless into submission.” And by that definition the entire American bombing policy in Vietnam, North and South, was a strategy of terror. Even within the narrower definition of “terror” as an unconventional, clandestine act of violence — an assassination or a satchel-charge bombing — the Allies had been using terror deliberately for a number of years through professionally trained paramilitary units such as the Special Forces and the Provincial Reconnaissance Units.

As head of the Psychological Warfare section, Pike knew this as well as anyone in Vietnam. Only he, like many Americans who backed the Vietnam War, ascribed the best of motives to the Americans and their allies, while laying all the evil at the door of the enemy. It was the same kind of bad faith and bad conscience that in 1967 inspired all the American rhetoric about “revolutionary development” and “building democracy” in Vietnam. It was the same kind of rhetoric that inspired the unrestricted use of violence upon the Vietnamese.”]

frances fitzgerald, from fire in the lake: the vietnamese and the americans in vietnam, 1972

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