R.J. Huneke
@rj.rjhuneke.com
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I'm an author of SFF, Thrillers, Comic Books, Poetry + a new book of fantasy: Ants Waking | Founded TheForgottenFiction.com magazine | He/him/ally 🏳️‍⚧️ #AuDHD #ActuallyAustistic #neurodivergent #autistic | New York + Portugal | https://linktr.ee/rj_huneke
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Rarely been so proud as I was to be on the Tilting at Windmills #podcast talking of #reading / #writing, supporting causes like @autisticadvocacy.org (ASAN) and Global Action for Trans Equality @gateorg.bsky.social, the NY Mets curse buff.ly/EUsuxy2 #booksky #trans #autistic #SFF #neurodivergent
Tilting at Windmills, S3, Ep. 145 with RJ Huneke
On this episode, Chrys and Benjamin Gorman talk with R.J. Huneke, author of ANTS MARCHING, about his efforts to support the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and Global Action for Trans Equality…
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry.  Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button.  He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs.  Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.
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i believe i said "fuck" on a comic con stage for the first time today.

the full quote:

"Fuck 'A.i.'"
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La poésie de l’automne… 🍁
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Hope he feels better soon!!
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New life goal unlocked!
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Emile on sale!
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#DEAL ALERT! Calling all one-clickers because EMILIE AND THE HOLLOW WORLD & EMILIE AND THE SKY WORLD @marthawells.com is on #sale on #Kindle for a limited time only!
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The Emilie Adventures: Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World
Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly successful Murderbot Diaries.
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Ashley s “it can’t be over “ face hahah I miss you guys!!
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Number 6 done. Another successful #NYCC
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Yesterday I heard some dude recounting a borrowed Internet meme about how the 1st Indiana Jones movie would play out the same without him. Ugh. Indy is the point of view character. He tries to stop it & even though he fails we get to witness the results of Nazi hubris because we followed his story.
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It’s very funny to see him say this about Ozymandias, maybe the only character in Watchmen who can’t be correctly described as an antihero
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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.