World Wants A Villain.

World Wants A Villain.

World Wants A Villain.Let me add the Super -Concocting a perfect bait & switch.Old Kansas City Shuffles.Paint myself in matte black,With silly little flags aloft. - Greater Goods.Fighting extinctions.Easier to play antagonist,When being queer & neurodiverse,Makes you hated from the...

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Hush Little Witches.

Hush Little Witches.

Hush Little Witches.Goodnight Void.Kiss Upon Thy Forehead;From The Most Terrifying Thing In The Dark.Sleep Comes In Nightmares.Death In Loops.We Promised Ciphers Of Three,Yet Remain Covens Of One.Enough Witchcraft,To Warp Reality.Garnered By Training Alone.Bone Dust.Grey Eyes Stare.×oxO

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Third, Final: Language.

Third, Final: Language.

Third,Final:Language is my tool.Weapon of choice.Mastering it,To set me free from violence.Learning words,To quell war.Pacifist Penance,Provides Potent Portents,Piled Pillories.Practicing Preacher,Principled Prisons Proving Proof.My abuser,Called me the cruelest.I learned it from her.

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Second: Entropy.

Second: Entropy.

Second:Entropy.As if The Tenfold Divinities,Weren't both power source,Plus religious ritual,Plus metaphor.Mortal Dictata,Deus Mortem.Never was good at dead languages.At least it helped me across romance tongues,With roots.Infinite Nothing.Requires Infinite Something....|||Empty Space,My Foe.

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First Of Three:

First Of Three:

First Of Three:This Blood Curse Writhes.Writes Cacophony,Repeating songs or phrases in my head,Silent,Ad nauseam.Ad infinitum.The Infinite Hunger.Nicknames for Dopamine Deficits,Dearth of Executive Function.Two of Six Symptoms.Genius.Intelligence.Savant at great cost.Too great.Neurodivergence From...

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Darkest of Faiths.

Darkest of Faiths.

Do not fear me,As per the uncanny valley.I stopped being human,A long time ago.Curled into a cryptid,Twisted by fel,& darkest of faiths.But I am evolution,Change in framework,& function.Something you can all achieve,Given enough time -& effort.Next stage of humanity.

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I’ll Find Out Either Way.

I’ll Find Out Either Way.

Witches' Dozen,Baker's Bread.Tell me who your benefactors are:I'll find out either way.Welcome to the table,Provided you provide me with providers -Or some other utility.But Truth is King,At my table.Monarque Du Rien.As I Remain."Access" is a bottleneck:One can apply as tool -Or weapon.

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Pure Heresy.

Pure Heresy.

Knowledge -Is sacred to me.Wisdom sacrosanct.Science:My religion.Empirical Methodology:My god.Truth is often skewed;As not black or white.But for some things it is:The Laws Of Physics.Or the nature of Sustainability.Never show me a circle,Then tell me it's a square.That?Pure Heresy.

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Tactical Strategy.

Tactical Strategy.

Wars are not often fought,All at once.Rather across many battles.Solid strategists,Play the lines.Between attrition & surprise,Morale & supplies.One win does not guarantee victory.One loss does not spell defeat.The wars we choose to fight -Are often long.Full Of Agonies,& Anguish.

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Apples. \\ Oranges.

Apples. \\ Oranges.

Listen -I love when internet personalities,Get uppity.Yes,You've a following.Clout.Fame.Whatever.Just smile.Nod.Often choose not to tell them:"I'm The Third Most Prolific Poet In History."At all.Apples.Oranges.But sure;Your jokes on the web -Are much better than my art.Of course.

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Fuck Shilling, Shills, & Shillery.

Fuck Shilling, Shills, & Shillery.

Getting close to goalposts.Only ever did it for art,Really.Getting here seemed impossible,Despite doing math on it all.Thought I'd be dead before I got this far.Just Five Years!Know I should do something with it.Monetize,Some bullshit.But I despise shilling myself.Hate Capitalism,In Art.

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Boom & Bust.

Boom & Bust.

Collapse is coming.Seems gut instinct,Is roiling inside folks.Without knowing the fake social science -Of Economics.Supply & Demand.Boom & Bust.Sullen acceptance.Somber sobriety.The world won't end.But I've always known:People like us,Will have to pick up the pieces.Rebuild from ash.

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Glass Half Empty (Better Than None.)

Glass Half Empty (Better Than None.)

We're a breed sans hope.Almost no understanding of the word."I'll be an eternal optimist for both of us!"Major Depression.Cynical Skepticism.Pessimism.So used to struggle.Fighting for barest survival.There was no hope -Only the grind.Putting out fires,One by one,Amidst seas of flames.

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Corrupted, Into Monsters.

Corrupted, Into Monsters.

Evil Men Succeed;When good men do nothing.Alternatively,When there are no good men left.Few good women.The Enbies are mostly okay.Very few good Humans at all,In fact.Selfishness,Greed,Corruption.The usual suspects.Evil Men Succeed,When we've been brain drained,Corrupted,Into monsters.

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Variations On Nightmares.

Variations On Nightmares.

This nightmare different;In two parts.First sneaking aboard an exodus ship,Destined for somewhere across the world,After a fall.Bastions of civilization,Amidst authoritarian regimes.Wastelands filled with monsters,Forced to scavenge for trash.Fighting the system,Monsters,All.

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The Pickup Truck Diaries: “The Second Most Prolific Poet In History” & Goal Setting.

Let’s start this edition of The Pickup Truck Diaries with a rhetorical question: “How does one go about achieving the goals they’ve set for themselves?” I’ll give you a few minutes to pause and think about that. Most folks have already started churning their brains into realistic “brass tacks”...

Central Universe Science Fiction Shorts: An Update!

Campfire. Come gather 'round the campfire. Let me tell you a story. Several small ones, in fact! It started a month or two ago, when I had a bunch of hits on "Our Better Angels" via the 'ol analytics. Now, I've been running this little business for half a decade - so out of neurotic perfectionism,...

McRae’s MTG Corner: The Rainbow Bible. (AKA The Rukarumel “Gay Pirates!” Tribal Tribal CEDH Primer.)

WARNING: This piece clocks in at 62,000+ words. It currently holds the record for longest "CEDH Primer" ever written. (Although it's more like a textbook or resource guide to Tribal Archetypes, and Rainbow/5c Magic, really.) It is over half the size of my sci fi books. Please remember to drink...

McRae’s MTG Corner: Tempo For Dummies (Especially For Commander.)

Aight, we back yet again. Somehow in my long years of being an L1 Judge and Modern and EDH player, I had never realized that learning tempo in Magic The Gathering is a rather visceral experience, in that you learn experientially. For the layman, that means that you have to learn that deep sense of...

McRae’s MTG Corner: Siloing CEDH & EDH

Ew, I got CEDH in my EDH… Today we’re here to talk about power levels in the casual commander format, as well as how to encourage better CEDH & EDH play by more carefully separating the two formats despite their strange interwoven nature. As a “retired” L1 Judge for Magic: The Gathering, I’m...

False Muses.

Can you feel me pinching your phantom limbs?Pieces of yourself you threw away?Heart long rotted,We learned to live without,Haven't we?Callous fools,False muses.A hundred thousand preening voices.You're missing the plot,By several million lightyears.Already happened.

An Ultimatum.

Truth.An ultimatum,Painted in the blood,Of all the dead I have known.There can be no peace,Within lies.No calm,Within conspiracy.I will speak truth,As best I can.Mine and others,Until the ground swallows me up.And I fall into the sky.This is a demand.

The Brewery Episode 40: “Live Brew Special Part 2.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHcH_hlcDLQ&ab_channel=TheBreweryMTG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant vs Hokori, Dust Drinker vs Abaddon the Despoiler vs Isshin, Two Heavens As One | MTG Commander Gameplay | The Brewery Ep40: “Live Brew Special Part 2!” Welcome to the jankiest #MTG show around! Join...

Limited Omnipotence.

Let me self-actualize,Expanding beyond body,Exponents of a form.Precocious cultists,Will watch with glee.Learning stolen secrets of the universe.Grow until naught can encompass thy self.Ascend beyond gods,In limited omnipotence.Once awakened -Force destiny as wont.

Punt.

Punt with the best of them.Savant syndrome means nothing,If you're tired.Burnt-out.Left wanting.Pretend there's solace,In finding true challenge.At peak.In radiance.Full bore.Lest you manage to stop me,You have my respect.I often slip up in the guillotining.I jest.

Breathing Zeitgeist.

This is the path,Of will & way.Quiet moments of oneness,With every universe.Breathing Zeitgeist in & out.How much have I drunk,From human history?Enough to know our cruelest truths.I've seen the worst horrors,Of Humanity.Blood boiling in my veins,In absolute zero.Men crushed like bags of...

Use ‘Em As Ya Wish –

As Ever -Take My Visage,Various Forms;Method Acted Characters.Use 'Em As Ya Wish -Taking Art To Twist,New Stories,Different Endings.Show Me That Kaleidoscope,Good Or Evil,Latter More Malleable To Great Tales.Greyscapes."Fatal Flaw."Hubris.Too much Ego Death,To play those old tropes.

Rough Mornings.

Rough morning.Puked up the remnants,Of last night's chinese in the shower.Then vomited up,All the water I drank,Afterwards,In the sink,Whilst trying to brush my teeth.Just trying to take my medication,To be functional.This flesh & bone body,IS WEAK.I'm tired of it.

Midnight Poetry.

Maybe I am doomed,To writing midnight poetry,Alone in dark rooms.As before,So now.Circles of life,Repeating ad nauseam.Sick of this repetition.Playing at Robin Williams,What would my teenage self think,So dark,Wrathful,Full of angst?Grandiosity -Bleeds.Dies.

What Can I Do?

I have no mother.One that birthed me,Used & abused me for decades -A sick,Mentally ill woman.Refusing to believe in facts,Experts,Or science.Sociopath through & through.What can I do?Threaten to tell the truth about her harms?Demand she stop stalking me,Or I expose her name,& crimes?

Ashfall Upon The Tips Of Our Tongues.

I'm an acquired taste.Doomed to a life as a sour key,Beloved -Until such sour tartness,Rubs your mouth raw.Then discarded as disgusting.I am the taste of oblivion,Ashfall upon the tips -Of our tongues.Bitter,Yet I do still salivate,At charred red meat.Craving the taste of iron,Suffering a life of...

Equals.

I am no kingmaker.I don't believe in kings.Nor queens.Only equals,In talent and experience.The most skilled,Should get the job.Regardless of whoever the fuck they are.When I give a mandate,It shall be based on portfolio,On my confidence in them.How they treat others.

Just A Veil.

Graduate To Master:Learn Brutal Calculus.In All Ecologies & Forms.Metaphor & Allusion.Let them become silent,Invisible weapons.Knowledge & education,Always are.Black Magic,Is Just A Veil.Metaphor woven into several meanings,Allusions,All at once.Secrets:Hidden In Plain Sight,Silent.

Fractured Stars.

Fractured stars,I'll weave into crowns,Then shatter as a show.Illustrious wiles,More serious intentions.A dark so deep,It swallows the soul.A perfect black void,Entropy coiled into metaphysics.I was a survivor,Of generations -Believing ideologies:"Culling The Weak."

Meat.

Meat.Red meat.Steak and eggs,Pull-apart fibers.Teeth honed via evolution,Sharp and slavering.Ravenous,Voracious,Rapacious.Hungry.More,And more.And more.Consuming,Until there is naught but fat and gristle,Left to gnaw.Hold in awe!Ingestion craw,Feed the maw.