Day of What, exactly?
Writing has been getting better. A couple stories up at Patreon. Will have a few more. Thinking about the prevalence of vampires and immortals in the lit I've seen. A stand in for the inequality seen everywhere these days (though too many times they look up to the CEO/Vampire bossman. Of course, if I write anything like that, it won't be in that vein.
And if you read me, you know I like tipping over the shit out of some sacred cows. In fact, in many ways, the more I think about it, it's what makes Black Leopard Red Wolf keep rising in stature as the filter of time is applied to it, I sense that it has at least bothered to tip over some tropes associated with the fantasy genre.
Well, you saw my previous piece on the Qatar World Cup and the current odd chorus to boycott it. Then I read something like this, in Al Jazeera. Now, ofc, AJ is funded by Qatar. Here it's claiming that the UAE (a current enemy, along with the Saudis, though I'm still not sure why exactly... something MBS wanted to have happen or perhaps the others getting angry?) is pushing this narrative (on African journalists in this case).
One can easily see how many would dismiss this as Qatar propaganda. Is it? Does that matter? Let's assume it has some modicum of truth to it and a group of African journalists have indeed decided to protest UAE's pressure. What then? Maybe the UAE actually is using a real problem (migrant workers in Qatar, though I'm guessing it's also a problem in the UAE & KSA, but in geo politics that doesn't matter, you scream, pay others to scream about one thing, then if someone points out the hypocrisy, it's whataboutism, or so that seems about the crux of the situations I've been observing) and we should pay attention to it.
I still stand by my earlier statements. Let's see what that leads to.
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And if you read me, you know I like tipping over the shit out of some sacred cows. In fact, in many ways, the more I think about it, it's what makes Black Leopard Red Wolf keep rising in stature as the filter of time is applied to it, I sense that it has at least bothered to tip over some tropes associated with the fantasy genre.
Well, you saw my previous piece on the Qatar World Cup and the current odd chorus to boycott it. Then I read something like this, in Al Jazeera. Now, ofc, AJ is funded by Qatar. Here it's claiming that the UAE (a current enemy, along with the Saudis, though I'm still not sure why exactly... something MBS wanted to have happen or perhaps the others getting angry?) is pushing this narrative (on African journalists in this case).
One can easily see how many would dismiss this as Qatar propaganda. Is it? Does that matter? Let's assume it has some modicum of truth to it and a group of African journalists have indeed decided to protest UAE's pressure. What then? Maybe the UAE actually is using a real problem (migrant workers in Qatar, though I'm guessing it's also a problem in the UAE & KSA, but in geo politics that doesn't matter, you scream, pay others to scream about one thing, then if someone points out the hypocrisy, it's whataboutism, or so that seems about the crux of the situations I've been observing) and we should pay attention to it.
I still stand by my earlier statements. Let's see what that leads to.
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