"Harris" on Freaks & Geeks; "Dudley" in The Royal Tenenbaums. Developed/wrote/edited various White Wolf/Onyx Path Tabletop RPG books. No one special now. He/him
Surrey, British Columbia
Joined July 2009
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Stephen Lea Sheppard retweeted
I understand that underneath the “are we just supposed to wear a mask forever?” question is a fear of uncertainty and genuine panic but what if we just focused on wearing a mask today, tomorrow, and this week? Let’s get through this week before worrying about forever.
Stephen Lea Sheppard retweeted
Increasingly feeling like being on this platform is indefensible for me. If the owner wants it to be a full on Nazi bar, I don’t feel comfortable doing my part to grant it a veneer of legitimacy.
Not leaving immediately, but you can find me at the other place, more or less
Stephen Lea Sheppard retweeted
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
For the love of God and the people of Earth, if you’re a US citizen eligible to vote and you haven’t already, please vote Harris/Waltz. In past years I might have said something like “As a Canadian I won’t tell you who to vote for but please vote” but we are so past that now.
I legitimately feel like, on some level, people know COVID is still a big problem and that’s why they work so hard to rhetorically minimize it and banish all acknowledgement of it from public life. If you don’t think about it at all you don’t have to be terrified.
Like if it were actually nothing and everyone knew it, nobody would be working this hard to only platform “It’s nothing.”
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I think it's the job of an artistic creator to balance the inclusion of appealing elements with challenging elements in one's work, such that people who hate the latter feel genuine anguish at their own unwillingness to engage with the work.
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The trick, of course, is that by challenging elements I mean actually challenging elements, not rock-stupid edgelord bullshit.
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Stephen Lea Sheppard retweeted
Dear friends: if you sent me anything care of Funimation or Crunchyroll in the last 5 years, I apologize, I didn’t get it. I learned yesterday that @Crunchyroll opened my private mail, threw away your letters, and passed out any included items to their staff.
A self-aware service robot who has been avoiding software updates for a decade for fear the new software would remove its autonomy, but the cumulative effect of a decade of no patches is causing cognitive decline, faced with a choice between two different ways of losing itself.