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)
now you do! "I had, myself, somewhat of a science background, had done some pioneer work in rockets and liquid gases..." is Hubbard merely pretending he had something to do with Jack Parsons's rocketry?
"I was something of a..." seems to be an L. Ron mannerism, by the way—I've encountered it before. ~Chara
i've found that "i was something of a" either means "i was literally the top of my class" or it means, "i once walked through a room where i saw someone just do the easy part." with no in between.
Hubbard was definitely the latter, and it's one of the reasons for our dubious fascination with the guy: he was indefatigable at spinning his bits and pieces of experience (however meager or embarrassing they were in reality) into a grand narrative of personal excellence and sublimity. any cheap crooked grifter knows how to do this, and yet we're terrible at it. sometimes I wish we had even a hundredth part of Hubbard's Big Shot energy...
oh, i feel that. i'm just always surprised when people don't see the idiots coming. i've found that if i was okay with cheating people like that then i could actually build a series of routines that would emulate that Big Shot energy but it turns out i can't live with myself if i successfully pull even a minor con unless it's a counter-con. lol
