Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
@womzilla.bsky.social
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A dilettante in the old sense. "We are all us."-Greg Stafford "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
A dilettante in the old sense. "We are all us."-Greg Stafford "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
![Even more, [these economic and social dislocations] open up opportunities for theatrical figures who are not driven by ideas at all, let alone principles, only by an insatiable need for attention and approbation and an instinctive sense of what will capture the public’s ephemeral imagination. These are the jokers in the pack each age gives us. They have no serious ideological lineage to trace, only the wreckage of things they have corrupted or destroyed trailing behind them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sksiwee5kesx5rdndw27gxfh/bafkreibbgwwt3dhqhra5xdwci2vfsbpsuaeqmoykaitclgv5f2a2a2b2vu)
![Pinky and the Brain, from the eponymous series.
Pinky, a dumb mouse, asks "What we gonna do today[,] Brain?"
The Brain, a mouse with a gigantic cranium, replies, "The same thing we do every[ ]day[,] Pinky[...]"
(Sorry about the terrible punctuation in the meme; it was the only copy I could find with this exact fragment of dialog.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sksiwee5kesx5rdndw27gxfh/bafkreicc5codx432pg4oy26uvcn2za5tpb2rico3egrw6xsk2ylsanb3au)
![page from SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD: SIEGE #4, part of SECRET WARS 2015, by Kieron Gillen and Filipe Andrade.
The Thing and Thanos (who is chained) are talking in Thanos's prison cell.
The Thing: Thanos, I don't know whether to punch you or hug the hell out of you.
Fugget it, I do.
[Full panel of Thing punching Thanos in the jaw.]
Thing: What now?
Thanos, knocked to the ground: Doom has asked you to live on your knees. Every day of your life, he's beaten you as you lie there.
What do you do?
Thanos, standing, breaking his chains with a flex: YOU STAND UP.
Thanos, proudly: What time is it, Ben Grimm? WHAT TIME IS IT?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sksiwee5kesx5rdndw27gxfh/bafkreidz3tzdz2br4jfvxb5tsqtz26dbz52d7clvd4smzv5n56n32b6ite)
![“I have come to die for your sins,” Jesus told a stooped figure passing him on the road.
“Then what am I to die for?” the old man asked.
Jesus took a smal] notebook from his pocket and copied the question.
“If I may have your name and address,” he said, “an answer will be sent to you.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sksiwee5kesx5rdndw27gxfh/bafkreiehtkcooag2z22c42j2gentsi5wwmvwvo7l3ld6daahhiyk2j265a)
