Prester John Andrews 

Author of Dispatches From The Golden Horde and host of The Xanadu Review. Shitposter in the notes, cloyingly sincere in the posts.
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Hot take: character development is overrated

Or at least, it's not required for a good story. Many of the best stories have static characters that still tell complex stories. But “character development” (increasingly synonymous with how much pain a character goes through) just became one of those highschool book report check boxed that midwits can lock in on and it became an end to itself in literature criticism.

I wonder if the Internet was cut off tomorrow and never returned how long it would take some people to realize their whole personality and worldview are completely fake. Seeing grown ass adults who are into grade school gender wars, sincere belief in political systems that have been discredited over a century ago or some kind of esoteric race science. If your worldview isn't related to physical reality it's just a fandom.

My most boomer coded opinion is that the adage “music was better when it was made by ugly people” is 100% true. Some of the best musicians of the last century were absolute goblins and because of that, they were forced to be interesting, talented and made some of the best music of all time.

Yarvin spoke of this. Don't destroy your enemies institutions of power, take them over and make them your institutions of power. Vance is embodying this with his sassy “hope that helps” clapback tweets.

Talk about efficiency. The libs took years to become this cringe during the Obama administration.

I try not to pay too much mind to individual billionaires, but I really do wonder about Musk. Is he just playing up the epic bacon shit to endear himself to the base or is he genuinely this much of a sperg?I'll leave it to the future historians

To say this is like Idiocracy would be a little too on the nose. But in the nose…

TWO MORE PLANS TRUST THE WEEKS

Okay, alternate history book pitch. It's like Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South where South Africans go back in time to give machine guns to the civil war era south, but it's civil war era soldiers that go forward in time to Nazi Germany to give them flintlock pistols. It makes everything worse and the Germans lose even quicker. Titled Der Tarden Dixie

This is another super deep cut note for the 3 people I know will get it.

Apparently there's like a 2% chance a giant asteroid will hit the earth this year. And it will crash in like Southeast Asian or something, so even if there's a catastrophe I won't get to go out in a blaze of glory and I'll still have to go to work. Typical.

There’s something about spending time with someone who sincerely holds views or affectations you play with ironically that makes you have to square with the fact that for a neutral observer, there isn’t much daylight between how and sincerity and irony are perceived. Real exposure therapy.