mx. clara spooky @mxsparks@vulpine.club

TWO

The stone stairs to the left are unlit, heading into darkness; the breeze from ahead is strong.

You take the stairs carefully. There's nobody here to see you be bold - and nobody to rescue you.

Still, near the bottom of the stairs, your foot slips out from under you. You flail out. Your flashlight flies away, clatters, flickers off.

You manage to catch yourself on something.

You lurch forward; without the flashlight's light, you see a glow on the floor's edges.

#PenCatteAcombs

Do you:

INTRO
You're standing at the edge of the Pencatte Catacombs Park, where the curated, protected ruins are fenced off from the real catacombs that run under most of Pencatte.

Your friends have a tradition of Halloween dares. This year, your past dares have come back to bite you:
you're going into the catacombs.

Your friends are cheering & jeering - they're NOT coming with you.

It's just you, these bolt cutters, and the darkness.

You flip your friends off & walk into the dark.

#PenCattacCombs

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On this day in 1859, John Brown & a small team of abolitionists attacked the Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry, in order to acquire arms for an anti-slavery insurrection. Though the attack failed and the conspirators were executed, the memory of those willing to do what was necessary lives on.

Check out Terry Bisson's beautiful speculative fiction novel "Fire on the Mountain," which re-imagines the raid as a success, split between 1859 and the alternate future it creates
https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/fire-mountain

1990: chixxx with dixxx
2020: maenads with nads

@KitRedgrave imagine elon musk as a character in fiction

imagine how badly written a story would need to be to have him in it

transitioning is an isekai

"there is a word called 'Black' which is not a cultural identity in its essence. It is a paradigmatic position"

"Patterson would say that every group of people in the world has been enslaved; by contrast, what we said is that there is a group of people called 'Black' who have no temporal existence prior to slavery, and that this is unique."

Makes sense, blackness as a concept was created by european slavers as a construct to justify brutal violence and enslavement. It was applied to a diverse group of people from different cultures and religions who had little in common except skin darkness and the fact that europeans wanted to kidnap them and steal their labor.