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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Life is Hard. We should be Kind.

Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I really cannot stress how important it is to pay attention right now and hold people accountable. It was a Nazi salute. He knew it was. People knew it was. People still cheered. Keep yourselves safe. Keep your families safe. Especially if you’re any kind of brown. They decide who’s legal.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Welp, if all this comes true. I'll apologize in four years." No, You won't. On the off-chance you actually try? It's hard to apologize to corpses. In Forty, you'll be the same ones saying "I just don't know how it all happened!" "I wish I knew whose fault this is!"

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Hopefully everyone made it through the holidays intact. The next two weeks are gonna drag for many people with reason to be afraid. Quick Tips for it and beyond: 1. It's gonna be hard, but we can get through this. 2. Don't Comply in Advance. 3. Be Kind. Even when its hard. Maybe ESPECIALLY then.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Daásitche Báalaanmaapbaaaliinneetiseek (Merry Christmas!) Today, I hope you can at least rest. You deserve a day of rest and kindness!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I hope you're where you want to be, (today, not in life. I'm too millenial for THAT Sentiment) with people you enjoy. If you're not, I hope you spend the day doing something that makes you happy! Tomorrow means what you want. Like Today! Fill that meaning with joy if you can. For me! As a treat!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Despite the fact that it very much is not, if you listen to any racialized person. What's a Solution? Best I've seen is the "Stupid Defense". Put on cow-in-headlights eyes and ask "Why's that funny?" and make them explain it. Potentially ask, "Isn't that racist?"

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It's the culmination of decades of work. Graying out photos that are available in colour. Constantly using Past-Tense language in history books. (Any Native practice as ALWAYS talked about as if it's an extinct artifact from a bygone age.) It's created and fortified the idea that racism is past.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

That's racist” and “you're racist” are fundamentally different statements. People are complicated and good people can have bad opinions. Sometimes just momentary blunders. “That’s racist”, means I believe you're worth the following conversation. I don't bother telling someone “You’re racist.”

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Kahée! Almost time to rock and roll!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Watched the new 1923 trailer. It reminds me of why it took me so long to watch the series. Roughly a third of the show centers on a native character, but she didn't appear but for a few seconds in the trailer. Wanna guess who is only in the trailer for literally 2 or 3 seconds again?

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

(I was very fond of Red Shoes!) I've been writing a lot of mystery and horror stories lately, and I've been playing a lot with recursive narratives, but I also find joy in telling simple stories well!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yes! It reminds me of the conflation of "Protagonist" with "Good Guy". Although, by making a character a protagonist, the framing is that we should be empathizing with a character. One of my biggest issues with "Killers of the Flower Moon" is how they framed a villain as the protagonist.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Apparently, if you refer to the Muskrat as "Elonia" or the First Lady, you get booted off X. Apparently, Free Speech isn't so absolute when you're making fun of Mummy's Special Little Boy! XD

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's not that these tropes don't show up at all in other cultures and story formats. But they show up MUCH MUCH Less! Usually, heroes have to earn the title. Even with special births, it's viewed as an obligation to live up to. Not a privilege to enjoy.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's a little different when they DO have to Earn it. But in those cases, they're normally not called Chosen Ones! It ties back to the MC Syndrome because many people feel they're Special so their actions are justified. We become Chosen Ones for our own reasons and use stories as justification.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Or Coincidence of Place. Too Often, they didn't have to DO anything to be Chosen. They didn't have to demonstrate Competence, or Virtue. They just had to Exist, or Be in the Right Place at the Right time. Or be Picked by a higher power, because Reasons. (Often Because "Fate")

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Meanwhile, the Chosen One narrative is a related issue. Too often, the Chosen One isn't Chosen, but Born. They are "chosen" because they were the son of god. They were born because of midichlorians. They were bitten by a radioactive spider. No Choice in it. Just accident of birth.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

(This is partially a tangent I have of "Why should we do anything if we're just playing out something that was destined to happen?" If I am sitting here, acting out a part that was already pre-written, then nothing I do ultimately matters. But that's neither here nor there.)

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Fate is such a copout. Same with destiny. Especially when paired with our societal view of Bootstraps and Personal Accountability. "This was fated to happen!" "It was just Destiny" "God Has a Plan!" All of it is so contradictory to the idea of personal agency. ("If you're poor it's your fault!")

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The MC Syndrome comes as a part of how our society is so individualistic. "Get yours and fuck the other guy!" doesn't lead to much community building, (likely by design). A lot of our stories encourage this. We're very reliant on "Fate" and "The Chosen One", both of which are tropes I LOATHE!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ancient Aliens answer too often was "Well, the white folk in Europe didn't know how to do this, so there's no way these brown folk could have figured it out! I mean, come on! You know why!" That's a trope practically as old as stories themselves. "That inferior groups Heathen Gods helped them!"

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Looking at stories from other cultures, you have different formats and different act structures, each of which have their own pros and cons. But, especially in America, we view Europe as the "Proper" way of things and anything else as "lesser". (It's a big reason Ancient Aliens was so popular.)

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Well, the reason it's easy to write is because it's so familiar. We've been told it's either the only, or the best way to tell a story. It's very Eurocentric.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

You Reap what you Sew. These words have sow much meaning right now. There are enough meanings that you could practically so them together. It's like the "old" saying goes: Metaphors are good. Malaphors are better. Malaprops piled on top of each other make word nerds eyes bleed :D

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

That's really cool! It reminds me a little of Glass Town, a fantasy world that the Bronte sisters created and maintained basically through their entire lives. One of the things I do for fun is just to write little vignettes about comic characters from Bystanders' perspectives.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Bored? Know a millennial? Pass the time by seeing how many of these phrases cause your Millennial friends to activate like sleeper agents! Let's Get Down to Business. Are Y'all Ready for this? Ain't No Lie

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Do I believe its the same person? Eh, different angles and grainy photographs play havoc with perception. Do I believe that they used less than ethical surveillance software to grab this dude? Definitely.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I do indeed! She was already getting called a far left lunatic, she should have just embraced it. Would have gotten her far more traction than the whole “nothing comes to mind” middle ground that worked out So Well for her.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

You're right on those! I'm thinking about situations like homelessness, housing, and inflation. Unfortunately, the "Left" in our government is largely a phantom. It makes a lot of noise and accomplishes almost nothing, (because it's constantly trying to be civil). So it ends up centrist.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ooo, I've never heard that one! Sounds accurate, tho!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm still convinced that if there had been an actual Left Candidate, that we believed would do what they said, (A Tall order, IK,) They would have won in a landslide. Sometimes the Right wins just because they at least notice issues and offer (TERRIBLE) solutions understandable by the masses.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

But you don't understand! They're superior! Their mommy told them so!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I don't know any TEDTalks on Leadership Specifically, but I know of at least one or two I’d recommend for how to capture an audience’s attention that demonstrate great public speaking techniques!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

He's a textbook Manchild. He's been told his entire life that he's Superior. He's internalized that he's Mommy and Daddy's special little Boy. He's Special. It LITERALLY CAN'T Be his fault! Sky is Blue, Money is Green, the Sun Rises in the East, and DJT is a Winner.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ssh, they don't want to listen to policy and hard data. Only rhetoric that says they're not to blame. Less cavalierly: It really is sad that all the good the administration has done was overshadowed by rhetoric. …and genocide. I miss the days we could pretend there was a Good Option.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

That's an excellent point! Sometimes the answer is as simple as talking to your neighbor! Introduce yourself and make friends. Sometimes, because of location, marginalization, or even just anxiety, that doesn't work. At this point, I think any community is better than none.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“What do WE do?” is the hardest question to answer right now. Honestly? At THIS moment the best thing to do is to organize and prepare. (Build communities!) Be ready to give and receive help. This is gonna be an incredibly difficult time for many. Be as kind as you can. Including to yourself.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

As time has gone on, I've been experimenting more with other formats than the “typical” (read: euro-centric) three act format. (I have a long rant about lashing societies to formats for another day.) What are some of the different structures y’all have used?

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It depends what you mean by Mythical!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That's why terms like First Nations have gained popularity, and why you're more likely to hear people identify themselves by their specific tribes, (and especially tribal endonyms!)

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Yes, we're all indigenous to somewhere. But we're not all Indigenous American, Native American, or whatever other term you'd like to use. All those terms are a little flawed, in that they center American. As a comedian once said "It's hard to be native to something your country is older than!"

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Your character has a tribal background somewhere, definitionally, but it's probably not gonna come up much.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In practice, this just means don't give the character a tribal background. Much in the way that I have family in Germany that hails back to a very old clan of minor nobility, but it doesn't come up in conversation and it will likely never affect my life.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Both settings that have gotten focused are very metropolitan ones where characters' tribal heritages don't really come into play. Many people in the cities of Makasing don't really think about their tribal backgrounds. The cities are very diverse places where people from all across Makasing come.

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Imma answer the character question first: We ask that your character not claim a tribal heritage you yourself don't possess means "Don't make a character that's Dine' if you as the player aren't Dine'."

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In the setting of C&C, there's about eight hundred years of divergent history! In cities like Cahokia and Ahu Tiiko, tribes are less central to identity and daily life. Your character might know their heritage, but its not something they necessarily care about! The cities are very cyberpunky!

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Logan Boese @akiichiwee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Alright! We all make it through Thanksgiving relatively Okay? Or are we still knee-deep in relatives?

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