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Faxe MacAran CR: Wind and Truth & The Atlas Paradox
@themacaran.bsky.social
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themacaran.bsky.social
Welp: got my first "you disagree with my so you're a fascist!" on BlueSky. I thought for a time that I'd left that behind in the other place. Oh well. It was a good dream while it lasted.

Below is a thread collating my argument on the problem with the ACA discourse happening right now.
Screencap of a bsky thread. Sarah (@legndofphoenix): "How are YOU removing any swords? The shutdown is entirely in the hands of elected officials right now. You're a poster on bluesky. Faxe: I'm using my voice to try and get people to stop undermining the politicians who care whether or not all of us posters on bsky support what they re doing? You've got a much larger voice that I do. How are you using it? S: No, you're using your voice to go scold people and tell them to stop demanding better. Because you're a bootlicking fascist cuck. F: I think that during an immediate fight to protect what we have achieved, we should focus on promoting something better, not poking at the holes in what we have. I think vociferously criticizing what we have while it's in danger helps the people trying to destroy it. I used my small voice to say so. The argument continues below what is shown in the screen cap, but I blocked and stopped responding after that.
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Today Oct 20th 2025, we're in a fight to keep people alive until then. I do think most politicians are reactive, short-sighted creatures. This shutdown fight hinges on ACA tax credits. Seeing people tear down the ACA (even when it is very valid criticism) right NOW says to them "fold on this fight."
Screenshot from Men in Black. Will Smith as J and Tommy Lee Jones as K sit on a bench Infront of high-rise buildings in New York. J is wearing a white t-shirt with an orange jacket. K is wearing simple black suit with white collared shirt and black necktie. K is speaking Caption: A person is smart Politicians are dumb panicky animals
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe my response comes from an incomplete picture of the situation. If you think that makes me bootlicking fascist cuck then I guess I'm going to block you now. I'm sure you'll screencap something and go on about how terrible a person I am, but I don't see the point in continuing.
Two panel meme of the animated Madagascar penguins. 1. Skipper Kawalski and Rico stare suspiciously into the camera. The top text is "Stalin when someone slightly disagrees with him over the smallest thing" The bottom text is Skipper saying "wouldn't that make you" 2. A closeup of skippers accusatory face as he says "A fascist"
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Home sweet home.
Tribe Homecoming 2025
A picture of a brick courtyard with grassy terraces leading to several red brick buildings with sunlit trees and students milling around.
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Both collared and un-collared subs welcome.
A white letter on brow sign attached to a alat rail fence. Reads: Blue Collar. White Collar. Dog Collar. No Collar. ALL ARE WELCOME! BOLD ROCK Hard Cider
September 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Image capture from Pirates of the Caribbean. Two grungy looking pirates look down introspectively. One says "Now that's what you call ironic".
August 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
Ancient Aliens Meme, but instead of Aliens it says "Lesbian" A screencap of the History Channel showing "Ancient Aliens" showing Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, a white man with a ruddy complexation, a large forehead and wild hair wearing s suit and holding his hands up emphatically and saying "Lesbians"
June 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
I was just in B&N and this caught my eye while walking around. Then I saw this post. Despite today being the first I have encountered your work, I instantly knew it was the same author. Your books have such vivid and distinct cover art and it's really memorable.
A picture of Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis sitting face up on one of Barnes and Noble's feature tables.
May 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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For #WoTSkies people who want to find me at #JordonCon, look for the hat.
A picture of me, sitting in a train seat. I'm a light skinned person with dark brown curly hair and a thick beard.I am wearing a grey shirt, rectangular frame glasses, and a wide brimmed brown felt hat.
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Totally different Muradin but: FOR THE BRONZEBEARDS!
An image of Muradin Bronzebeard from World of Warcraft. A dwarf in bulky blue and gold armor and a horned helmet with a thick braided beard of red gold color. He has an oversized axe in one hand and an oversized hammer in the other.
March 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A pie chart labeled "Where Your Cool Internet Friends Live" The chart is mostly black with a this sliver of purple at the 12:00 position. The legend is Purple: Within driving distance. Black: Fucking Atlantis or some shit.
March 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Finished product. It's a ward against the Finn. Don't ask what it's painted on. Or what it's painted with for that matter.
A tan ribbon with dark red print. There is no text, only four symbols. The first is the so-called "Hjarta Bindrune", a symbol for courage.* The second is a campfire. The third is a treble cleff with a 5 line musical staff running through it on a wavy diagonal (a part of musical notation). The last is a Bohr model schematic of an iron atom labeled "Fe" in the center. *as best I can tell this is a modern design with an ahistorical interpretation, but I'm doing this for fun and it's really hard to find a commonly understood symbol to represent courage.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
I'm not saying ICE is an existential threat to all Americans, citizens and permanent residents, but if they're grabbing green card holders, threatening to arrest citizens, and ignoring Writs of Habeas Corpus well...
A picture of the Silence from Doctor Who, and tall grey skinned alien with deep-set eyes and no visible mouth or ears. It is wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt and saying "You should kill us all on sight"
March 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
If you see this, post a dragon!
Alexander Karim as Lews Therin Telamon, a dark skinned black man with short hair, just beginning to go grey, wearing a formal looking black coat that fastens diagonally toward the left shoulder with a gold insignia in the shape of a fang on the right breast.
March 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
There are two types of people in the world.
Screen cap of a post by Florence Ashley complain that they are out of milk for their coffee an the nearby cafe is closed. The first response is "Embrace the misery, drink it black." The second response is "Any ice cream in the freezer?"
February 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Deep Space 9 Bashir and Garek meme. Panel 1 Bashir: So tell me about this Fate series. Panel 2) Garek: It's a war with 14 major characters. All but 2 are certain to die at the hands of the others, but you'll fall in love with all of them. Panel 3) Bashir: Even the ones that I hate? Panel 4) Garek: My dear doctor, especially the ones that you hate.
January 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
One political post for the day.
Picture of Jake and Elwood Blues from the movie The Blues brothers. They are sitting in a car wearing black suits, fedoras, and sunglasses. The caption reads "I hate South African Nazis."
January 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Oh, capitalism solves itself alright. Eventually. The same way cancer, or a viral infection, or anything predicated on contiguous unlimited growth does. I don't think we want to wait around for that particular solution.
New Yorker Comic by Tom Toro: a man in a torn and ragged business suit sits outside around a fire with three children in torn and dirty clothes. The man is saying “Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
January 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
Is this you ,Doc?
Rate My Professor page for Jamie Bronstein, Subject: History, New Mexico State University. The review show is for History 201 from July 2022. Reviewer gives a 1.0 for difficulty and 1.0 (out of 5) for quality. The review reads as follows: Class wasn't hard, but then again History isn't a particularly difficult subject. I gave her a low rating because she insulted me about a family members cancer. Said it wasn't a big deal. Just because your political ideologies don't line up with hers, doesn't give her the right to insult an ill relative.
January 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025?
Two decorative hand towels hang on a rack in front of a wooden wall. One is medium grey and has white text saying "If I die choking on a gummy bear tell everyone i was killed by a bear and say no more...". The other is white with black text saying "Don't worry dishes Nobody is doing me either." The word Nobody is on a stylize script font. The rest is a standard block print font.
December 29, 2024 at 10:44 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
My #WoTSelfieSunday is actually from Friday but it's the best one I have because it shows off my fancy new hat.
Selfie taken in a parking lot. I am wearing the traditional academic regalia of a PhD. Black robes with two velvet panels running down the front and three horizontal velvet stripes on each sleeve. I am also wearing an octagonal tam with a gold tassel and you can see part of the blue lines PhD hood ground my neck.
December 22, 2024 at 9:38 PM
themacaran.bsky.social
Ok #WoTSkies #WoTSelfieSunday this technically from yesterday, but y'all can deal.
Selfie of me in a pinball arcade with a strange purple decorative light behind me and 6 different pinball cabinets lined. Up in a row. The lights from other cabinets are glaring on my glasses. I am wearing. My usual wide brimmed brown hat and a grey T-shirt for the sci-fi show "The Ark"
December 16, 2024 at 5:22 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
Seriously, I was trying so stay quiet but I started clapping and had to bite my tongue to keep from squealing.
Two panel image of Chris Fleming as "Gayle". Top panel: Okay was anybody going to tell me that IDINA AND CHRISTEN HAD CAMEOS IN WICKED Bottom panel: or was I supposed to LOSE MY SHIT IN THE THEATER BY myself.
December 16, 2024 at 2:52 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
It's a wonderful shot, but it's missing my favorite Christmas ornament.
Picture of hangman's noose sitting on nondescript black surface.
December 8, 2024 at 6:37 AM
themacaran.bsky.social
So, are we gonna get the scouring of the Two Rivers this early? Cause that's kinda what these buildings look like to me.

#WoTSkies #WoTBookSpoilers #TheWheelofTime
Screen shot from the WoT S3 trailer. Perin is running (or riding?) towars the camera wearing bloodied battle armor with an axe raised over his head. People are running and a building is on fire in the background
December 8, 2024 at 6:34 AM