Franziska von Kaline

God, Whirler Virtuoso was an absolute house

I really wish someone would upload a video of the Pokestar Studios mode to youtube. I can't find anything about it, it was so forgotten.

I mean, I personally always knew that human sympathy for robots would expire the absolute second a real robot that could take someone's job existed.

0x04 Xenofeminism is a rationalism. To claim that reason or rationality is 'by nature' a patriarchal enterprise is to concede defeat. It is true that the canonical 'history of thought' is dominated by men, and it is male hands we see throttling existing institutions of science and technology. But this is precisely why feminism must be a rationalism -- because of this miserable imbalance, and not despite it. There is no 'feminine' rationality, nor is there a 'masculine' one. Science is not an expression but a suspension of gender. If today it is dominated by masculine egos, then it is at odds with itself -- and this contradiction can be leveraged. Reason, like information, wants to be free, and patriarchy cannot give it freedom. Rationalism must itself be a feminism. XF marks the point where these claims intersect in a two-way dependency. It names reason as an engine of feminist emancipation, and declares the right of everyone to speak as no one in particular.

I need that T-shirt the way I need my RPG group to not stare at me weirdly when I say that 'it was a monoalphabetic cipher, guys, I have literally cracked those in the middle of dreams'

Do you have *any* idea how mad I am that 'I'm into crypto' now doesn't mean cryptography?

You're a fan of ciphers? I've followed you since college and I had no idea.

Nonviolence is a Tactic I have no interest in saving people's souls, only their lives, so I'm indifferent to moral arguments that the Minnesota protestors should stay nonviolent. But that's not the only argument to make.

This was important enough that I felt a need to upload it. I wish I had gotten it out when I started writing it around the death of Alex Pretti and not 'when we're invading Iran', but, you know.

I have no interest in saving people's souls, only their lives, so I'm indifferent to moral arguments that the Minnesota protestors should stay nonviolent. But that's not the only argument to make.

Well. I'll be issuing a post at 6 AM PST tomorrow. With this in mind, I should be able to write something about our invasion of Iran shortly before we detonate a nuclear bomb over Greenland.

We are legion. Radical liberalism is back, baby. War to your castles and peace to your villages.

If his stated preference in public is for the Norkies, fuck it, I’m not keeping his secrets anymore. This dude reads my friend’s mind control quest thread and left comments on it. And on pony clopfic. God help us all if he discovers cultivation.

In the name of peace, we must ensure that Russia feels it is free to declare war on whatever nearby country it wants to, because all of the resulting suffering will be inflicted on people who are not like us.

Yeah. Bullying Venezeula and Iran from the sky with special forces? That's free. Saying we might have to stand up to Russia or China to protect Ukraine? That's warmongering.

No, I actually think this is accurate. Though I think we have different people in mind when we euphemistically say "centrists". I'm thinking about the anti-"war" anti-"establishment" left, the ones who posted the 'dying in the battle of Jerusalem because Swifties voted for Harris' memes.

You use songs a lot as chapter titles and in the fiction as well. Is there any music that makes you think of a specific character, something that you’d want to have something similar to for that character’s leitmotif?

All right, one more question.

Has Captain Tigranian issued a formal challenge to a sword fight to the death to Seamus Devenish yet, or is that just on the bucket list?

I haven’t seen the set you talk about first- is it available online?

Part of it is that segregation was so obviously an abomination that even at the time people didn't want to morally defend it; they just wanted to pretend that, gosh, they were powerless to do anything about it, what a shame that we have to keep everything good for ourselves.

The Federation can have a little honor, as a treat.

"Listen, we can use the boat in three more episodes, we can have an entire episode where everyone is locked on the bridge and no one has the key, or we can have the Federation's naval logistics brought to you by the refreshing taste of Mountain Dew. Choose."

I just want to say that I loved the entire sequence with the swift boat, because of course we have one.

I think I've joked to you about how impossible it would be to shoot that scene on a TV budget, though.

This is a bit of a personal question, and one that could be dangerous to answer, so feel free to ignore this one.

I get a strong feeling that you changed your mind about some things while writing Pershing.

Do you think writing Pershing *caused* you to change your mind about anything?

What the ADF wanted was the activist who tells them that Palestinians have rights to life, liberty, and property deported to a gulag, and what Uncommitted wanted was MOABs dropped on Tel Aviv to annoy the WaPo columnist they hated. Biden hurt neither, Trump hurt both, they both supported Trump.

All politics is about hurting your enemies as opposed to helping your friends these days, which is why the Biden administration placed itself squarely in the sour spot by trying to help the Israelis and the people of Gaza, thereby upsetting both US constituencies interested in the war.

A critically important function.

I should have seen Pershing being late to the Great and Dominion Wars. I love putting that sort of double-meaning in there.

I know you're the same way, what's your favorite double-meta-meaning like this that no one (yet) gives you an opportunity to brag about?

I'd just like to say that the endpoint of the final season was amazing and I can't wait to talk about it here. You built towards the right moment.

"It's all over, and I'm standing pretty..."

(Though "He looks like a father at the birth of his child." "He is." will stay with me forever.)

What was the out-of-universe reason you decided to name the ship after Pershing?

Shame, because I really liked the pitch, and I wanted to see what you'd do on a network show's budget. Didn't it get turned into a couple of tie-in novels?

I remember you saying it was canceled for low ratings, and then the next year it would have been the highest rated network show. I know you're biased, but in your opinion - marketed to wrong audience, just got unlucky and these things happen, or should have been on a smaller channel?

I'm kind of in support of Nathan Goldwag on this.

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