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Jason Bradley Thompson

@mockman.bsky.social

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Artist, RPGer, manga & horror fan. Creator of Mangaka, Cartooner, D&D walkthrough maps, Manga The Complete Guide, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath GN. Spouse & parent. Current project is Dreamland RPG at dreamrpg.com.

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1h

It’s fun to dream of entering an isekai world and being powerful & cool but “Metropole” is a more unfortunately believable situation

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1h

I love Ferenc Karinthy’s “Metropole” partly because it expresses how I often feel about life: a totally confused outsider who’s worried about money

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

A fourth flotilla attempt is schedule for November of this year, this time with up to 1,000 ships prepared to attempt a landing in Gaza after studying the ways in which Israel intercepted the last three.

Fourth global aid flotilla to challenge Gaza blockade in November

Fourth Global Sumud Flotilla with 1,000 boats plans November departure to break Israeli blockade and deliver aid to Gaza before Ramadan.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3h

Newsom’s response is such a joke. I couldn’t believe it was this bad until I saw it. Complete panic

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3h

One of the book's strengths, I think, is just how hard & cleverly the protagonist tries to figure things out (and how well the author thinks through all the implications and thwarts him in this).

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 20h

Really enjoying “Metropole” by Ferenc Karinthy. Extremely Dreamland (to me) absurdist novel of a man who takes the wrong plane and ends up in an impossibly large unknown city where no one speaks his language. A bit Twilight Zone, a bit JG Ballard, with a tiny bit more hope (still reading tho!)

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard for me to think of any 21st century pre-YA children’s books in which the reader wants to kick the sh*t out of characters more than the villains in “Horton”

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

Still need to introduce our kids to “The Lorax,” his masterpiece, in which the jerk is the narrator

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know enough about 1940s children’s books to know if more confrontational plots were common, but… in Dr Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who” and “Horton Hatches the Egg” the villains are SUCH annoying hateable jerks!! It’s rare to find such total a-holes in children’s books today, uh, 80 years later

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

@damianarvizu.bsky.social Hooray! I finally found you! Thanks for the follow!

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I knew how to change their minds too.

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, if they truly don’t care about any number of dead Palestinians, they truly don’t.

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever any ghoul says “Gaza isn’t a genocide. If Israel really wanted to commit a genocide they could have killed way more people” what they are also saying is “…and I wouldn’t have minded”

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3d

Cool!!! Thanks for the heads up!

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3d

Horror story about a kid/adult who since birth doesnt recognize other people (outside say their immediate family) as ‘human’

This may fall under the category of too-obvious-metaphor horror stories

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3d

When you’re super old you’ll sometimes consider yourself a fan of something and then realize “I haven’t read this in 10 years” and that is how it is with me and Thomas Ligotti

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3d

Art by Aeron Alfrey who is also insanely good

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 3d

Occasionally I forget how insanely good Thomas Ligotti is

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 4d

It’s still up there! Theres just no one crazy enough to record an endless loop of it, and it’s too distracting to have to keep clicking on it again every minute. 😂

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody in YouTube put together a one hour loop of the opening music of “The Big O”? Lame. NyanCat it is

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s song youtu.be/-RRWvHTQjPE?...

The Cruel Angel's Thesis | Evangelion Finally

YouTube video by Milan Records USA

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 4d

Valuable DMing skills developing early

Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 4d

I asked our son (2) what friends he had in his pre-K class and after he answered, our daughter (5) added “oh and there’s also Bubbleface. And Starryglar. And Fweeny” and she rattled off like 12 made up nonsense names right on the spot. I’ve never been prouder 🙏

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