Posts by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
(DIR) Post #ARJBgkJObvu86ZGKNk by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2022-12-16T08:21:43Z
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I'm Ásatrú. It's a neopagan-- more or less-- historical reconstruction of ancient Germanic beliefs. My kindred-- think "church"-- believe in hard polytheism, ancestral reincarnation, and the gift-cycle.I'm a Universalist, which means I believe my heathen ancestors lived pre-racism and being antiracism now is more ancestrally and theologically correct.I hate that I even have to specify that.My faith is at the core of my ethics, my politics, and much of my work.#asatru #religion #pagan
(DIR) Post #ARJC3vbUnHDrmpmZbE by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2022-12-16T06:41:33Z
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I don't want to get into politics too much on here; most arguments I have opinions about upset me.I'm a Pirate: I am a libertarian on most questions of allowing persons to do things, and a progressive on most questions of helping persons to do things.Gets fuzzier on the topic of organizations, corporations, and nation-states.Other people forget that the courts and police are controlled by the exact people they want to give them the authority to regulate. I don't.#uspp #humanrights
(DIR) Post #ARJCOuPQQlbCA98nuS by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2022-12-16T05:41:44Z
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I'm "Dammit" VK (Victor or Vicki) Farfalle, struggling and aspiring author for the last thirty years. Rest of my life story's in the bio if you care.My primary interests are in non-"traditional" and interstitial fantasy: #wuxia , #spaceopera , #urbanfantasy , #weirdwest , #swordandsorcery, and every way you can combine them.My three current "genre obsessions" are: • 8-Bit Sword & Sorcery• Mystic Space Western All'italiana• Cyberpunk Wuxia Portal Fantasy#introduction #writingcommunity
(DIR) Post #AkxiM2xKYQxabAbbs0 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:17:35Z
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I don't want to make decent people angry, but I seem to have... this thing... where all of my work is liberally seeded with hand-carved golden apples designed to start arguments between people I actually like.It's not that I want the arguments. I just want my games (and my stories) to be a little bit morally complicated and a little bit uncomfortable. I just don't want to encourage decent people to feel smug about finding easy answers to simple problems.#amwriting #ttrpg #SocialJustice
(DIR) Post #AkxiM55Ce8RhCAIvQ0 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:27:31Z
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I don't have the answers; I don't even have the right questions. I'm just an entertainer and I'm not trying to solve all the world's problems one $30 hardback at a time.I just don't enjoy stories where thorny conflicts can be resolved by a hero making a speech while standing on the corpses of all the stupid, evil people responsible for the whole problem.I don't want to read or write about heroes like that, because people who think that way are never the heroes in real life.
(DIR) Post #AkxiM79AyKoPb4B7tA by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T13:42:50Z
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That's why my fictional heroes are all problematic, all part of the problem, and why my games make being part of the problem the default.Because we're all born and bred to be part of the problem. Wanting to become a part of the solution is a difficult and painful moral choice.Actually being part of the solution requires us to acknowledge and engage with the fact we've been part of the problem all our lives, and we're going to continue being part of the problem until long after we're dead.
(DIR) Post #Akxim15893piJadZYG by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-08-14T15:49:01Z
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@lextenebris I'm not even advocating moral positions, most of the time.I'm just giving my funny little aliens problems that aren't the same as human problems as an allegory for the fact that human problems are often not the same as human problems.
(DIR) Post #Am8XulBdhEY2fQitV2 by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-18T19:01:15Z
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@ErikUden I don't even know how to answer. I'm cis, I'm hetero, so a lot of kids these days say I'm not a part of "the community" and my feelings don't count.But all my life I've been mistaken for "some kinda queer" and I've paid for it, and all my life "the LGBT community" has been where the bullies put me and where my friends found me.Kids say they're "reclaiming" the slur, but it still tastes like blood to me. And I don't like how those kids treat other people who don't like the taste.
(DIR) Post #AmSHGk5kdSbzaC40sC by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-27T19:23:13Z
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#FediCoven 2024-09-278What first drew you into paganism or witchcraft?I was one of those intolerable, intolerant smarmy atheists through most of my teens.I was researching white supremacist hate groups for a paper in my high school Sociology class, when I discovered that late 20th century Nazi filth was still exploiting indigenous Germanic religious beliefs to give their nonsense an air of legitimacy.This led me to discover LEGITIMATE recon heathenry.
(DIR) Post #AmSHGm2dO1J5d6cYIC by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-27T19:28:22Z
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I saw a verse in the Havamal. Don't remember who translated it, and I've never found it again, but they rendered Verse 126 thus:"When you bear witness to grave injustice /Take the grievance on unto yourself /And offer unto your enemies no peace."I realized that I'd Come Home before I got to the end of the poem. I learned that I was a heathen that day, and I've been learning how to BE a heathen every day since.
(DIR) Post #AmUMf3mtwiP1hoa7hQ by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-28T21:27:51Z
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@HeliaXyana No. Our faith was not preserved whole, these past thousand years-- and if it had been, it would not be the same faith as it would have become, if it had been practiced for the last thousand years.It's one thing to retrace our ancestors' footsteps, to see where they've been and honor their journeys. It's another thing to try to be the kind of people they would have wanted us to be. And it's a third thing to become the ancestors we would want for our descendants to look up to.
(DIR) Post #AmUMf5KyBXFSVlWqRM by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-28T21:47:21Z
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@HeliaXyana Those three things are related. Closely related. But they're not all the same thing and sometimes they pull us in different directions.Our duty to our 1000 CE ancestors is to remember their duty to their 1000 BCE ancestors-- and remember our duty to all our descendants yet to come. They had millennia of sacred traditions because their ancestors spent millennia making traditions. We have decades of tradition and textbooks written by aliens... and our duty to our future kin.
(DIR) Post #AmUMf75neuInxIRl4a by vkfarfalle@zirk.us
2024-09-28T22:05:03Z
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@HeliaXyana We have to ask ourselves constantly if every step we take is 'heathen', if it's authentic and ancestral.Our ancestors didn't, and they wouldn't understand why we must.They'd ask if they worked. If they pleased the land and the gods. If they brought the community together in peace and prosperity. They would ask if their magic *fed* their luck or soured it.We still have to ask the question. But the fact our ancestors didn't... is part of the answer.(Sorry, done now.)