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Post by dn on Apr 20, 2024 23:35:53 GMT -5
easy there moshe, there are more than enough nukes for everyone*. You'll get yours.
*Except Japan. Two nukes were not enough for Japan.
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Post by dn on Apr 20, 2024 9:09:05 GMT -5
yeah, a petition launched by 17 postcount user.
launched right into the bin am i rite?
the bin is also a faggot.
don't fucking pm me bullshit you retards. Kill each other or yourselves, just stop fucking bugging me.
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Post by dn on Apr 18, 2024 2:36:39 GMT -5
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Post by dn on Apr 17, 2024 12:42:23 GMT -5
"Oh, there have always been female custodes, bigot." These disingenuous motherfuckers. Pretty sure I just spent twenty fucking years and 70 + fucking books reading about this heresy shit, I think I might have noticed. Also pretty sure I've been playing since 2nd fucking edition, and this somehow slipped under my radar? Liars. I don't even care about the custodes: what I care about is some fucking blue-haired retard under the employ of GW just lied to my face and expects me to swallow it. And I fucking hate liars.
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Post by dn on Apr 16, 2024 1:35:38 GMT -5
Guess I could post a sketch I did of Paris from the Hilltown.
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Post by dn on Apr 15, 2024 22:18:48 GMT -5
Thanks mang. Speaking of arsewipings, chapter 12 is up. We've finally hit Dante's Lake of Boiling Shit, boys; this chapter is a faecophiliac's delight. Oh, there is usury in there as well. We can finally tick anti-semitism off the list. Full house, motherfuckers. Collated drive.google.com/file/d/1UrfxOspuNExi5NF1xNSbnR-Ace3OQfxS/view?usp=sharingTwo weeks ahead of schedule, so I took the time to clean up the poetry in C10 and perform various other housekeeping tasks. Not sure how I'm going to spend the rest of the month tbh: previously, every deadline I've imposed upon myself has been pushed right down to the wire, so this is kinda weird. Might just keep running onto chapter 13 to keep the momentum going, or I *might* rewrite C1 (again. for the 29th time). Got a severe sit-down with my artist coming up in two weeks, a proper couple of days in the same room drawing and revising like fucking madmen, where SHIT WILL GET DONE OR I WILL BREAK HIM WITH FUCKING HAMMERS, so I guess I could get organized for that.
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Post by dn on Apr 13, 2024 15:41:43 GMT -5
looks good boys.
Dunno about "loveable" tho.
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Post by dn on Apr 8, 2024 2:01:53 GMT -5
Actually, if the Out of Africa hypothesis is correct, then... My God. This is the loophole we've been looking for, gamer bros.
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Post by dn on Apr 7, 2024 15:19:55 GMT -5
y00 +|-|1NK +H4+5 84d \/\41+ +1LL y0o h3R3 ^80u+ \/\/4+ 1+ w45 Li|(e iN 1999
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Post by dn on Apr 6, 2024 19:49:41 GMT -5
True. At least when I write to uncle Ted I get a reply.
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Post by dn on Apr 6, 2024 4:35:25 GMT -5
Just popping in to say I've got the newest version! 8-) thank christ, the old version fucking sucked, delete it immediately.
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Post by dn on Apr 6, 2024 4:33:12 GMT -5
The entirety of the UK is ineffectual right now, but Scotland's been so since always. Most of Scotland's deficit is covered by London London before Scotland discovered oil. And London after.
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Post by dn on Mar 29, 2024 5:04:37 GMT -5
oops. In my defence I was catastrophically drunk last night.
Should be good now.
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Post by dn on Mar 28, 2024 18:58:04 GMT -5
subtle, wasn't it?
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Post by dn on Mar 28, 2024 18:56:11 GMT -5
nae hassle
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Post by dn on Mar 27, 2024 22:20:00 GMT -5
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Post by dn on Mar 27, 2024 11:59:29 GMT -5
I am concerned about the punishment meted out to Genghis Khan; this man reversed human progress for a brief time and genocided several peoples. I think that merits a tad more punishment than being boiled in blood and shot at by centaurs. Especially weird considering that not much time had passed between Genghiz raping the Hwan et al. out of existence and the writing of the cantos: you'd think that shit would be fresher in everyone's memories. I suspect that, if Mr. Khan had pulled a Mohammad and deified himself afterwards in opposition to Christ, then you'd see a reaction from the west. Anyway, C11 is finished. Which means that we're officially halfway there, and only three months behind schedule, which is pretty good all things considered. Collated.
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Post by dn on Mar 24, 2024 16:19:00 GMT -5
I'm not seeing anything here that the blues won't fix with some last minute mail ballots.
These leads are not huge. And from what I've been seeing online, I'm uncomfortably reminded of premature celebrations of the Clinton campaign.
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Post by dn on Mar 23, 2024 23:01:50 GMT -5
Only ESG influence I've noticed was in the shipwright and builder being nonattractive women. Actually, living near to the north sea coastal villages, I can confirm this is a Real and Accurate problem. The winds and sea turn bitches into salt beef jerky.
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Post by dn on Mar 23, 2024 21:06:33 GMT -5
Fair enough. Just slightly concerned that this thread is turning into a Kontraposting one-man spergatory.
Anyway, onto chapter 11, aka The Soddomites.
I am going to get in so much shit for this chapter; I'm probably fucking myself out of my prospective publisher, there is no way those grovelling fucks are going to be OK with this. There are going to be screams of homophobia and transphobia from the fucking rooftops, the reeeeeing is going to be heard from outer fucking space.
Need to work up a defence in advance, and I figure the only defence that is going to work is an academic one. If I can prove that I know what the fuck I am talking about here, then I can deflect the criticisms as the ignorant wailing of Calibannic illiterates. And also I do care, kinda, about actual gay rights (the real rights, not that fake twitter bullshit), and I feel compelled to make a fucking effort to explain myself here.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, I present
DANTE AMONGST THE HOMOSEXUALS
Canto 15 of Inferno has troubled scholars for a while now: most of them get all fuckity-twisted about the sin being punished (sodomy et al.), try to relate 14th century ethics to modern morality (a mistake: they ought to be comparing religious belief from the two eras) and usually get hung up on the obvious Sodom / Gomorrah parallels (fire falling from the sky to punish the sodomites). And then most follow in the footsteps of Eliot, who rightly notes Dante speaks of the sodomite he meets here (Brunetto Latino) with respect and affection: indeed, this is the only sinner in the Inferno that Dante has anything like a cordial relationship with.
The question that is fucking with the academics is why.
Eliot asserts that Dante, in writing the Inferno, placed himself between a rock and a hard place: if the cantos are meant to inspire man to reason (religious reason & political reason & rational discourse: it is only through reason that mankind can understand God) then Dante himself must prove to be reasonable, and without hypocrisy. And yet, a lot of the Inferno is Dante attacking sinners & those he considers irrational (religiously, politically & in discourse). The cantos are, in many ways, the precursor to the modern diss track – although Dr. Dre never went as far as to boil fakeass niggas in lakes of liquid shit, or have Easy-E chewed on for eternity by the literal mouth of Satan like some AIDS-flavoured bubblegum.
Eliot says that, in order to appear fair an balanced, Dante had to include people he both loved and respected in Hell. He says that Dante's conflicted emotions about Latino do not indicate sympathy for homosexuals (not exactly compatible with 14th century religious thought) but sympathy for the person. Eliot points to the final lines – “one who runs as if he were winning, not losing” – as evidence that Dante regrets putting Brunetto here, and would take him out if he could.
The general mystification from Kirkpatrick, Gray, Eliot &c. seems to be how enlightened Dante is in his mindset, re: homosexuality. This is true, but is missing the point.
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It might help at this point to give a broad overview what Dante (and the church) consider to the the problem with homosexuality: it's a crime against nature, if the definition of nature is “God's will”. The gist is that God made man, and God made woman to be man's partner. Rejecting that by sleeping with other men is rude, considering all the effort God went to to make us some pussy.
We'll also need a quick definition of poetic parataxis: in short, it is the juxtaposition of two opposite and irreconcilable notions (fire & ice, living-dead, &c: note that poetic parataxis is different from parataxis in prose). The Italians use this rhetorical device a lot, especially in their poetry. The old cliché of love poetry, eg:
The heat of your love burns me as ice Life is death Why won't you give me my hole I need my hole, else I will surely die Thou art cruel in love Bitch lasagna.
It's the usual Italian hyperbole, wailing outside of Juliet's balcony because she won't fuck you, and has been a part of Italian poetry since Italians had poetry. It's based entirely in emotion, and thus to Dante is irrational, and so is to be despised (Dante's trying to improve the Italians, lest we forget: not only is he writing in the vernacular to improve his native tongue, but he jettisons other old conventions (like parataxis) as being an impediment to rational discourse.
Such is the poetry of Dante. But what of that of Brunetto?
Ah, yes, the unlucky damned one also was a poet, one of the Italian old school. And his poetry was filled with this parataxic, emotional shit.
Now, consider where Dante has placed Brunetto, beneath fire that falls as snow. Consider Brunetto's characterization: he is weirdly unconcerned with the fact that he is being cooked for eternity by hellish skyfire, doesn't really give much of a monkey's about it. He is, oddly, presented as quite at home in this circle of Hell. His chief concern is that, when Dante returns to Earth, he publicise Brunetto's books and works to a wider audience.
Books and works. Bad poetry, icy fire and life-in-death love-hate Italian bullshit. If we are to take Brunetto's poetry at face value (and Dante must have) then Brunetto has always been in Hell, hence his bizarre no-fucks-given about the fact that snow-fire is burning him. It always has. The implication is that Brunetto has never known God (because gay), has never seen God's light and so suffers the ministrations of Hell without complaint. In this, Brunetto is better-off even than those pagan souls in Limbo, Virgil et al., who witness God's light from a great distance but cannot, by fact of their pre-Christ birth, attain said light – they covet it, live through desire, but hopelessly. Fire that falls as snow = parataxic. Men in love with men = parataxic. Rational discourse and poetry = parataxic. The damned and legacy on earth = parataxic. Emotion & reason = parataxic. Loving the sinner, not the sin = parataxic. A running man who is both winner & loser = parataxic.
Dante both loves and hates old poetry, loves and hates writing in latin (that he chose Latino as his example is not a fucking coincidence). And he is well aware of the seemingly irreconcilable nature of the narrative here. Its irreconcilable, parataxic nature is the entire fucking point of the damn thing. To steal a line from Milton, viz: explaining the ways of God to man – the parataxism on display here is part of God's plan. Satan (evil) was created to further the greater good; God is cruel to be kind. God is Love; God created the Inferno.
Now that we have established my credentials as a fucking scholar – in the process disinterring Eliot and cutting the papal ring from his fucking finger – can you motherfuckers stop whining about fucking homophobia and think that maybe you ought to trust me I know what I am doing, go back to sucking each other's cocks please thank you.
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Post by dn on Mar 22, 2024 18:43:05 GMT -5
Nice summary Gokuma.
Amazing how the power fantasies went from schoolshooting.wad to schoolrapists.wad. Also amazing how it's always a pedosexual torture dungeon hidden away behind the supersecret linedef, and never a room that houses a lovingly detailed woodchipper.
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Post by dn on Mar 21, 2024 18:55:22 GMT -5
...does anyone even care?
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Post by dn on Mar 19, 2024 22:56:54 GMT -5
Working away on chapter 11. Also, rough draft of the Temperance Card.
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Post by dn on Mar 14, 2024 18:17:55 GMT -5
virginity. Tough hymens yo
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Post by dn on Mar 9, 2024 5:18:09 GMT -5
omg dn face reveal D0XX£D 4 R3OL
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