Monthly Archives: March 2019

Power Level Is Maximum

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Basheer Ghouse

Before the movie came out a legion of haters, trolls, and assorted alt-right scum accused Captain Marvel of being some vanguard of political correctness. That it was going to be a feminist SJW movie putting politics in our comics, emasculate men, feature an overpowered hero, and be the vehicle for Disney to drain our precious bodily fluids for their own gain. They bombed the reviews, started on the smear pieces and personal attacks on Brie Larson well before the movie came out, and began crowing about the inevitable doom of Captain Marvel.

A summary of the pre-release captain marvel controversy

But now it’s out and smashing records. People can see the actual movie and put the truth to the lies. The best thing is, the reactionaries weren’t even wrong about it being a feminist SJW movie about politics. It’s just that that’s what makes the movie great.

Discussing that is going to involve some spoilers. If that isn’t your thing, I recommend you go watch the movie before you read on.

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Stop Giving Them a Voice

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Basheer Ghouse

To every supporter of Pirro, of Carlson, of Maher, of Hirsi Ali, and Trump: what did you think was going to happen? Did you think there weren’t consequences to their words? When you talk about invasions and brown tides did you think people weren’t going to take you seriously? When you called us subhuman, every day, on every channel, since I was eight did you think it wouldn’t sink in?

You are responsible for this shit.

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I’m Writing an RPG

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Basheer Ghouse

You haven’t seen a lot of me this month. Few Incident Eliph updates, one, rather short post here, no public movement on short stories and the like. This isn’t because I’ve forgotten to, or because I’m suffering writer’s block, or because I’ve given up on Ko-Fi. Rather, it’s because I’ve been working on another project for most of the month.

I’m writing a tabletop RPG.

More accurately, I am co-writing Hope is a Nuclear War Crime with visionary RPG designer Erika Chappell.

Hope is a Nuclear War Crime is a roleplaying game about parenthood, the problems each generation passes on to the next, and the apocalypse. It takes aesthetic inspiration from Evangelion, Godzilla, and the super robot genre, while thematic content draws heavily from current events and Abrahamic eschatology.

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