BetaPositiveSA @BetaPositiveSA@mastodon.social

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Just chillin. https://mastodon.social/media/sbKqgHVYS5enyFNcImw

Never underestimate pawns. https://mastodon.social/media/QK5hhLx4roCIJQXt1eU

It is not allowed to get 20 degrees colder overnight.

Chinchilla naps.
https://mastodon.social/media/nVIousyCP95kqBYEVsY

Chinchilla hiding on a shelf. https://mastodon.social/media/BFFZn-8RW4feVFHDoR0

A properly cleaned chinchilla. https://mastodon.social/media/ccCoR3go1jpRMBtrg0M

She spent weeks chewing that hole in the platform. It is her favourite escape route now and I don't have the heart to replace it.

Sleepy chinchilla. https://mastodon.social/media/4mxVzwL2GdPEvHCFlNU

If you have a bad day, try rubbing a chinchilla on your face until you feel better. https://mastodon.social/media/LWv2_A53Xx0z9lx23GA

Izzy loves you. https://mastodon.social/media/sj_HFVdIRWcbQrne-gw

Chinchilla friend balancing on my hand. https://mastodon.social/media/HwTy9MlIMP_i4y8gDiM

Anti-Business Idea: start a debt collection business, purchase outstanding debts from credit and mortgage agencies, then just forgive all the debts.

I kinda wonder if there is anything that would stop you doing that?

Twice this month the murder of an indigenous person has resulted in acquittal despite the evidence presented. This is shameful. The outrage of Indigenous Peoples over these cases and the many like them is our version of what the USA is experiencing with the Parkland survivors, only ours may get uglier and is even more deserved.

We have failed them too many times already.

I'm a white guy, my culture has been the default assumption of fantasy and science fiction for so long it seems unfamiliar for me to see it any other way. What would Lord of the Rings look like if it used Algonquin stories as a basis instead of Germanic myths? I am too ignorant of the matter to even guess, but I would love to find out.

I have seen some of the complaints about Black Panther's possible impact on Hollywood as "what if they just start pumping out sci fi/fantasy takes on whatever culture they can find a director for?"

My answer: I hope they do exactly that. I want to see all of them.

Other nice touches: referring to white people as "colonizers" in a derogatory tone. The line "Guns. So primitive." And the whole plot hinging on isolationism and its negative effects.

Morgan Freeman casually explaining how the US overthrows governments flies under the radar but hits close to home for many of the countries Wakanda stands in for the potential of.

By the same token, the depiction of South Korea was of a beautiful, vibrant city, but not as incredible as Wakanda.

It got interesting with Oakland, CA. Which was shown as a poverty-stricken, violent hellhole. It was run down, dirty, and death was common enough to be banal.

The main city of Wakanda is a sci-fi city based on Afrofuturist design. I loved it precisely because it made me uneasy to watch.

Decades of portrayal have caused me to read "African city" as meaning "impoverished and starving", so I emotionally reacted to it as if it were exactly that. Only it wasn't. The city was futuristic, the people were happy, everything was clean. It played those expectations perfectly and forced me to consider my subconscious reaction.