It's so hard not to feel like the image of punching a wizard in the face is symbolic of this idea of ordinary people using the kinds of power we can understand, however ugly and nasty and uncouth, against the powers we can't -- finance and politics and tech and other spellcraft
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It's why
@sadydoyle wrote about how even though the Hulk is literally a giant cliche about toxic masculinity, "I'm always angry" and "Puny god" can hit as such powerful and resonant lines from a feminist POV2 replies 2 retweets 27 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Picking up a goddamn baseball bat and smashing your super special magic computer with the special algorithm in it that tells all of us what to do into little pieces Reminding us all that, in the end, it's just a goddamn plastic box
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The smug billionaire prick realizing that all the money that exists as 1s and 0s in a faraway computer and all the complex knowledge of law and finance he's spent a lifetime accumulating means jack shit when all the little people start physically rushing the door to his mansion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
@RuffleJax talked about how the Bay Area techbro rationalist community is in love with Mage: the Ascension and their private Discord server is named "Doissetep" after the Chantry of the Order of Hermes And wow that analogy just makes me appreciate Hunter: the Reckoning so much3 replies 1 retweet 16 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Everyone who hated Hunter tended to be like "Hey it only makes sense for the Vampires, what about the Werewolves and Mages? Hunters hate them and they're good guys" They are not good guys Are you kidding me The Traditions get the wall *first*, *before* the Camarilla
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
At least Vampires, like, biologically need to drink blood and the fact it's very hard to do so consensually is why they created their whole evil mind control thing It's not a moral excuse at all but it's an evolutionary explanation Mages just think they're smarter than everyone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Everyone I knew exposed to Mage pretty quickly got to “wait, so the technocracy... are they really the good guys? Or better guys, at least?”
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Replying to @muddlewait @arthur_affect and
Since, at least from a public-face perspective, their deal was “we should all have access to magic and follow rules regarding its use”
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Yeah but Technocrats still think they should be special and run everything after they've brought "Enlightened Science" to the masses, they're no angels
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