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about me ...? ... i like northernlion
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I’ve been a little quiet lately but that’s because @kiwiitin and I are brewing up a little Hansry romance/mystery visual novel!!! Her INCREDIBLE art and my dubious poetry combined into a fun, choice-based and multi-ending VN!

We will let everyone know more details when we are further along but I thought you guys might enjoy a maasive little glimpse 💜

#ive never been more locked in in my life.
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gonna work the rest of the night on thesis probably so reading a lot about red dead and frontier myth in video games. this post is not about that though this post is me asking fans of the hit video game duology kingdom come deliverance 1 and 2 who are doing graduate degrees and/or working in academia to produce more materialist critique of it in the name of the father and of the son

#im not going to name names but thinking about warhorse makes me feel crazy.#i was talking with a friend a while ago (hi if you see this boss) and in the course of that conversation i realized what bugged me about#most of the front-facing people involved in the game and its promotion is that i sometimes wonder and mourn what these games would be#if the people behind them were not almost certainly uncritical neoliberals LOL#like im not going to defend myself for investing so much time in these games but its true that 90% of my appreciation for them comes#from fanwork and transformative queer reading.#its not about them man its about us#tldr i have very complex feelings about hit video game duology kcd1 and 2
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there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look

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Popiku → Full pic

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Happy Qixi!

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It may be possible to participate in sporting cultures without becoming complicit in the current dehumanization of both athletes and spectators. What this requires is a rapprochement between players and fans. Capitalism systematically separates, distances, and commodifies individuals, destroying the bonds of human connection and community. The solution to this dehumanizing social arrangement is not spectacular surrogate forms of fabricated community predicated on athletic sacrifice, but rather, the re-humanization of the relationship between fan and player. It is through an acknowledgement of shared humanity, pain, and passion that more authentic and humanely productive forms of community are possible [emphasis added]. This is not simply idealism. During the 2011 National Basketball Association lockout, players and fans came together to organize their own version of elite athletic performance. That experience transcended anything professional athletic spectacle had ever previously offered for at least some of the players and fans who participated. It remains a beacon for how sport might be resistant to rather than complicit with the dehumanizing and totalizing demands of capital.

Kalman-Lamb, N. (2018). Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport.