• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


we have a nasty tendency towards self-pity ourselves, and we have been struggling to defeat the tendency. it's a very whıte Western thing, breast-beating about one's sins and wallowing in sorrow about them rather than doing anything useful about them.

Richard Nixon was a master of self-pity. he inflicted self-pity on America, and made his sickness into a national pastime. "how can you possibly rule the Free World without doing some crimes?! isn't this the way of the world? anyway Those People [substitute as necessary] are animals who'll eat us alive if we don't toughen up. I did the best I could!" etc. etc. etc.

it's altogether too easy to imagine Richard Nixon droning on in this vein forever, in the style of Secret Honor—endlessly ruminating on old crimes, making up fresh excuses for them, gnawing on old resentments, cushioning them with sentiment and nostalgia for times when things were better.

sounds familiar! =D we too have been warped by childhood exposure to too many opinion writers and essayists. I hate to think that I have been inadvertently echoing Andy Rooney.

~Chara


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