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Being neurodivergent and having grown up reading SFF in the 90s I *cannot wait* to tell you all about the connection between berserkers and bears.

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And it’s due out next year? I didn’t know that. Fantastic!

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I had to think about there having to be "early" fans, because that implies there are "late" fans and oh my god have I really been quoting Army of Darkness for 30 years?

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I just don't understand the need to tell trans people how to feel about politicians and their stances on trans issues.

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What kind of 1950s world is she living in where its shameful for women to talk about bra purchases?

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Oooo boy, I'd argue they're more neutral than lawful, which is more ethical anyway and makes Beartongue even more awesome.

The entirety of the doctrine of the Temple of the White Rat.

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I think I should feel grateful I have no idea what this even after reading your article.

Not even gender-nonconforming cis-women. I'm from MN; in high school I new girls hockey players who were totally feminine, but put them on the ice and they were fucking vicious. Should have played with the boys.

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This is how I know anyone objecting to trans athletes isn't actually concerned about fairness of competition. No one is talking about trans-men. And there are plenty of cis-women athletes who could or should compete with men.

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If there *is* a difference between genders in a sport, whatever that sport uses to measure performance is going to get distributed on a bell curve. One group of times/weights/whatever where "men" group and another where "women" group. Split them into groups A and B so the sport isn't dominated by

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You're a trans-woman? Cool, here you go into this group of people who run at similar speeds to you.

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Segregating sports by gender is completely arbitrary and we should just do away with it completely and put people into competitive brackets based on actual performance criteria.

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Top-level professional athletes are all biological freaks--they have larger lungs, their blood is better at carrying oxygen, their muscles are more efficient, whatever. I'll never be a professional cyclist, because my body will never be able to compete no matter how hard I train.

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The way we move forward is by not electing anti-trans politicians at lower levels that allow them to use that to get elected to governorships or the presidency. Have to kill it at the root or we end up stuck with a choice between a bad Democrat or an even worse Republican.

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Out of curiosity, which hadn't you noticed? That berserkers were bear-warriors or that Galen was a physician?

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Excellent point. I guess I can't just always say a wizard did it.

This is the problem when you have a brain like a packrat that is also a hoarder. Making connections that aren't there.

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You have talent for Tolkienesque word jokes and puns. Pairing the berserker with a werebear? Come on.

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I said I could have pizza in my fantasy book. A few people told me that would derail them and make them think about how they got tomatoes, finely ground wheat, etc. Seriously. Fantasy world. I can do whatever I want!

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Oh god, this is going to start the pizza discussion again.

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Yesterday I was grabbing some boxes from behind the health good store when the door opened; I stepped aside to not get hit by the door and tripped over a wire fence with some wood trellises on it, knocked the fence over and fell with it all the way to the ground. So it's ok.

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I understood what you meant with absolutely no problem whatsoever. I'd bet money a lot of outraged did too.

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

No, you don’t have California quail in New Mexico.

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

California quail? The chicks are so adorable. I’m surprised he doesn’t have an entire harem and a million chicks.

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Nathan @aliendog496.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

What is this fantastic wizardry?

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You know the foot people are going to blow up your DMs.

Still not as bad as Bridge to Terabithia, though.

Well I was probably 12 or 13 when I started and then had to wait as they were published, but yeah, pretty intense.

At no time in my childhood were there any restrictions on what I was allowed to read.

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It, Pet Sematary, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle, so many, many more.

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No, I don't think so. It would have been considered a YA novel, probably.

He also just dropped in to see what condition his condition was in.

Not gay, ADHD and depression. But the kids I knew were ahead of the curve on drug use.

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Depends on what you think of the 1980s Flash Gordon. Horrible film or delightful, campy cult classic?

Or a self-medicating teenager in the Midwest.

It would have been about 2nd grade, in the mid-80s, and I can't even remember the title or author. If I recall correctly it was about a boy who found and befriended an alien, bit like the Great Gazoo. Book itself must have been published sometime in the 1970s at least.

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I like it. That would be handy. But in practice it would probably be used to arbitrarily judge the content for "age appropriateness" and banning books.

Which we didn't know at the time, because you used to be able to be a horrible person and then just move and it went away.

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