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Matt Blair

@mattyblair.bsky.social

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I like science fiction, history, and comic books. I even have a few comics of my own and I'm looking to make more.

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Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1h

It's like the argument that the Roman Empire never fell, it just became the Catholic Church.

Again, it's a solid and valid argument, I just think there are enough differences to separate the two.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1h

It is a solid argument, but while I agree that Mahmed did maintain, preserve, and reform a lot from the Empire he did it as an outsider looking in, while the Byzantines did the same thing, but could claim continuity of governance.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2h

Because the Marian Reforms made Roman soldiers loyal to their generals instead of the city itself, and because the Romans didn't pay Alaic and his people enough to do the job they had contracted them to do.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 5h

Oooo. Thank you for showing this, I will definitely be checking this out!

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 12h

You take that back!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!

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Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 12h

They won't learn until it's too late.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

Meet Jacob, the most lethal dragon/human warrior on the face of the planet. He has served the dragons for most of his life, and now he fights to save them..

Find out more when our Kickstarter launches next week!

Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kai...

#comics #comicbooksky #booksy #art #oc

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

"Well, this is a dopamine hit that I'm never experiencing again." vs. "Ugh...again?"

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

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Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

But...if they're all participating...how is it preferential?

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

If the author isn't alive to complain, is it really plagiarism?

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

Because the Fourth Crusade had left Constantinople depleted and tired, while Mehmed the Conqeror moved his navy over land to attack the seaside walls and had cannons that shot literal boulders.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 16h

Your feelings are valid, you need to stop stressing and love yourself.

And don't worry about me. I'm a trash human being who is completely undeserving of any love and affection who is obviously fishing for undeserved sympathy.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1d

Secret Six Bane is a dork and I love him.

Also, there was a scene early in the run between Deadshot and a minister where the minister talks about how he provided spiritual guidance to the Spectre and that really stuck with me.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday!

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Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1d

What a majestic floof!

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

We failed you Alan Moore, and we broke things so completely that we're still picking up the pieces decades later.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of being more introspective and thoughtful you get juvenile takes like this made by people who think critical thinking is for losers.

Instead of having heroes be more complex and human, you got creators who thought that all they needed to do was have heroes argue and fight each other.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Alan Moore created a paradigm shift in American comic book storytelling that could have been so great. He helped bring more mature and meaningful ideas and themes into superhero comics in a time when they were sorely needed.

Unfortunately, too many people took the wrong lessons from his work.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

I would definitely talk to an accountant/lawyer to clear up any tax stuff, but I don't see why it couldn't work.

If you're comfortable doing so, you can dm me what kind of stuff you want to ship (not the content, but like if you ship books, prints, pins etc.) and I can do some research.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

So I'm not a lawyer or expert on this in any sense, but this is something I've been thinking about.

What if you found a printer/fulfillment service in the U.S to print and ship your rewards from within the country? It might be a bit more expensive, but maybe cheaper than tariffs?

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

While worker rights and safety are paramount, you gotta respect the unhinged dedication to the creative process.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm, I wonder why there are so many rules about using weapons on movie sets.

Matt Blair @mattyblair.bsky.social · 3d

Okay...so what's REALLY going on?

I'm not trying to be conspiratorial, it's just that this has all the hallmarks of someone trying to distract people.

Either that or he's actually losing his mind.