Michael F Kane
@MichaelFKane
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Husband, Worship Leader, Sci-fi Author, cooks a mean pork butt. Subjects include faith, politics, writing and more. Typos are a feature not a bug.
Joined December 2018
You should read my sci-fi western series After Moses. Here's a thread of reviews to prove it. đ§”
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Men 'identifying' with Gaston is a modern internet phenomenom, willed into existence almost entirely by memes. A child that watches the movie will correctly identify Gaston is the monster. It takes adult depravity to identify with the obsessive narcisist that tries to manipulate.
The primal womenâs fantasy is to tame the monster. The primal menâs fantasy is to slay the monster. Thereâs a reason Gaston resonates with half the audience.
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@theblaze This is awful and Blaze should be ashamed of publishing click bait trash like this. A cartoon depicts a well functioning family with active, engaged parents, and conservative media tries to cut it down. Make some art or support art you think is better you absolute hacks.
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@discord @baldursgate3 You just pulled a Windows 8 UI on mobile app. Never pull a windows 8.
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@imbrettcooper Sorry/Not sorry, but the proliferation of weed culture is doing more damage to the US than most people realize.
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I have never seen a more perfect example of this tweet lol.
I usually hate using "tourist" as an insult but if you're crying about Zelda being the protagonist because iT's wOkE, then you're not only a fucking moron but 100% a tourist as well! We've wanted a Zelda game starring Zelda for 30 years! Don't ruin this for us you fucking cretin!.
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Everyone complains about European style fantasy. What would American coded fantasy look like?.
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Hot take. High schoolers shouldn't have to read shakespeare. Because they should go and watch the plays performed live. Or if that's not possible watch a high quality recorded stage production. They're plays people. They're meant to be performed.
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@Grummz @NintendoAmerica Japanese companies need to keep a tight leash on their Western offices.
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This guy gets it. Gaston locks the princess in a dungeon the moment he sees what he thinks is a dragon he can slay. Narcissistic to the point of psychopathy.
@MichaelFKane âSlay the monsterâ is only half of the primal male fantasy (if you want to call it that). The full idea is âSlay the dragon, save the princess.â. Gaston is a mighty hunter but he hunts for his own glory. He wants Belle as just another trophy for his wall. He is no hero.
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Look I know it's an election year and it's going to be miserable, but can we all just agree that Aragorn, son of Arathorn, would make a better president than any of our options?
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Those are teeth. The blur of a CRT screen makes it more obvious.
The Super Mario World Boo sprite has a distinctive 6-pixel wavy mouth. An obscure sprite from the SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie removes one pixel from the mouth, making it resemble a W-shaped cat-like mouth instead.
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I'm convinced that Firefly's cancelation sealed its apotheosis. As it is it exists in this state of pure potential, having neither had a chance to fail or truly succeed.
@MichaelFKane It's a good thing that Firefly ended after a single season while it was still good.
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Nothing in this post is true. The story makes it clear from scene one that Gaston is a narcissistic sociopath. Some of you haven't seen the movie since you were kids and it shows.
@athaidad @MichaelFKane The Beast is the anti-social inversion of the Chad protector. He actually has all of Gaston's vices and more, but none of his virtues, but is still the good guy somehow.
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@TigheSammy As a kid I was pretty floored In the 90s, violence in cartoons was pretty strictly controlled. I have no idea how they got away with a death scene like this. Getting evaporated is NOT exactly tame lol.
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@TerribleMaps As an Arkansan, I never want to hear jokes about this again, CALIFORNIA. đ.
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The Illiad and the Odyssey are load bearing tales. Civilization and culture build upon the past. It's one thing if you haven't read something. It's something else entirely to not even be aware of its existence. If you aren't aware Shakespeare exists, you're not going to be able.
The way people are acting around this book is insane. So what if people donât know what it is? Are people supposed to be aware of every single piece of literature? You understand schools teach different things right? Bet a lot of you havenât read Macbeth, An Inspector Calls and
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@MutantDespiser Tell me more about your petty vendetta against religion, oh great and edgy writer.
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I've never read Watchmen, but I think it's funny how the author is mad that his readers interpreted a character named Rorschach in a way he didn't like. That is golden irony.
Alan Moore didn't know how to make a nuanced right-wing character genuinely look bad, so he ripped off a Steve Ditko character and said "but he's also smelly and an incel.".
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Reminder, that while not perfect, the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy is incredibly traditional in its values. It's message to young men is to grow up, find a girl, stick with her, accept responsibility, have a family, and then pass on your culture to them. Not something you
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My father passed away this morning from cancer and went home to his Creator. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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Watching Beauty and the Beast with my daughter and I have a confession to make about Gaston. I've always been right about him. He's a creep and you guys that idolize him are being super weird. đ
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I see an awful lot of Gaston would be a good guy if the writers wrote them that way. Yes. Obviously. đ. Stories are intentional things with deliberate causality. Writers are the only ones with most of the agency, with readers having a small amount in interpretation.
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@MiddleearthMixr I agree with this. It's obvious that whoever wrote Shadoes of Mordor actually really knew their Tolkien. They were given an absurd game system to marry the legendary to. The result is wild, a bit silly, and completely bonkers yet still feels 1000x more faithful than RoP.
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@smashbaals This is a bad post. It's leftists that have traditionally tried to apply minority status to orcs. Orcs are fantasy creatures and have no real world analogies. This is playing into leftists memes.
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@TerribleMaps Tell me you've never been to the south without telling me you've ever been to the south.
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Tolkien actually IS as influential as people think, but it's not in details of the setting. Most of that stuff is more Gygaxian these days. IE most elves and dwarves these days have more lineage with D&D than Tolkien. Tolkien's real nfluence was on the morale and spiritual heart.
Give me your Fantasy hot takes that have you like this. Mine is your morally gray characters arenât more interesting, theyâre just more murderous
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The other news today is of course more important. This little guy came into the world about 12:30. He and momma are both healthy. Its been a hard year. Been a good year. God is good in both. (This will be his only social media appearance, so enjoy the one glimpse you get. đ
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We did it. 100 ratings is a big milestone for an indie. I started the year around 25 and had the goal of reaching 100. Feels good to reach a big goal. Also, rumor has it that Amazon sends a complimentary unicorn, so I'll be waiting expectantly. đ. Thanks to everyone that has
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@abbythelibb_ This 'new right' you refer to is largely terminally online. Put in public, in the real world, you'll thankfully seldom run into creeps like that.
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1. Turkish Delight takes a lot of sugar to make. The novel is set during WW2 when sugar rationing was heavy, so TD would have been pretty much impossible to make. Therefore it plays into ideas of indulgence and temptation. 2. We have basically weaponized our skills in making
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So I've been thinking about Brandon Sanderson lately for obvious reasons. (No I haven't read Wind and Truth). I've long said that he writes killer book 1s and none of the follow ups are ever as good. And I think the characters are part of this reason. Here's my theory. Most of
@MichaelFKane Hey, I'm reading Brandon Sanderson to learn how not to write characters and a God System.
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I miss Christopher Tolkien.
Source to Screen: Showrunner J.D. Payne revealed the season overview is reviewed by the Tolkien Estate and a team of Tolkien scholars to assure the story adheres to the legendarium.
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This is so on brand for David French that it feels like a Babylon Bee story.
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Gaston gets worse over the film, literally locking a woman and her father in a cellar while refusing to listen to her explain the truth of the situation, while the Beast repents and learns humility and mercy. It's really not that difficult.
@MichaelFKane Yeah Gaston is bad, but so is the beast. I donât understand the debate over wether Gaston or the beast were the villain. They both were.
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@imbrettcooper @Starlink Meanwhile the federal government is trying to bury SpaceX under a mountain of bureaucracy to slow down their Starship launches.
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Subversion isn't inherantly bad. Good subversion requires that when you take apart a beloved story idea, you use it's pieces to build something BETTER than the original. The Lord of the Rings is a subversive take on heroics. Long before out current grey goop of nihilistic
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This actually IS my real advice to young authors. Get a good career. A trade or a stem that pays bills and gives you life experience. Practice writing in your twenties and then maybe in your thirties, you'll have a family, a source of income, and the life experience to start.
My advice to young authors: . RUN! . RUN WHILE YOU CAN! . THIS JOB WILL SUCK YOU DRY WITH ALMOST 0% CHANCE OF MAKING POCKET CHANGE. BE AN ELECTRICIAN OR A PLUMBER! AT LEAST YOU CAN TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF.
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This is awful and Blaze should be ashamed of publishing click bait trash like this. A cartoon depicts a well functioning family with active, engaged parents, and conservative media tried to cut it down. Make some art or support art you think is better you absolute hacks.
How a beloved children's cartoon turns fathers into mothers â and what the Bible says about it
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@BrainLeakage03 I'm not sure Huntsman is an inherently positive archetype. For instance in Snow White he accepts money from the Evil Queen to kill Snow White being back her heart (liver?). He doesn't go through with it, but older versions have him convinced the animals of the forest will kill.
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@MattWalshBlog I agree with what you're saying here. But I don't see you stepping out and supporting that creative talent either. That's what @GPrime85 tried to engage you on (maybe a little overzealously) a few months ago. Use that platform Matt if you believe this. Please!.
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One of the reasons I wrote After Moses was because sci-fi has become nearly entirely R-rated, leaving no on-ramp into the genre for younger generations. There's a place for hard content, but it's a good thing for us to have stuff share with a twelve year old nephew just getting.
Star Trek shouldn't have nudity or swear words in it.
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Because modern sound editing is garbage and I keep having to tell my grandparents, no it's not them thr voices are just that low.
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This is the best MCU movie and it's not even close. A coherent self contained story where the characters are more important than continuity?. Plus it's a fairy tale about a good king and his two wayward sons. Heck. Yes. I will be dunking on all detractors.
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Tons of right and libertarian leaning fiction writers out there. We can't get published. The trad pub industry laughs at us and the conservative media industry doesn't really do much in the way of the arts. We are here. But we're drowned out by the hurricane of crap and ignored.
So many authors on the Dissident Right are busying themselves competing with one another to be the next Dostoevsky by writing a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, when in fact what the world needs right now more than anything, is dissident YA literature. (A Thread đ§”1/5)
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Frozen isn't just bad. It's poison. Itâs the movie where Disneyâs long beloved theme of self-discovery reached its dark conclusion. Ever since Ariel sang about wanting to be part of our world and Belle sang that she wanted adventure in the great wide somewhere, self-discovery
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@xkcd Now add considerations for energy density of the fuel/battery and weight. I love my electric lawnmower, but they are much less powerful than gas ones.
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A few thoughts on the goodness of God in light of my father's death. My father broke his back last winter. It was a hairline fracture that didn't show on X-ray. Ultimately the injury prolonged his life, as when he finally had an MRI, they discovered he had cancer. Multiple
My father passed away this morning from cancer and went home to his Creator. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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My wife and I watched the D&D: Honor Among Thievew movie again last night. Ignore lore arguments aboute Tieflings and other stuff that i have stake in, it's well liked for a single, very simple reason. It's perfectly predictable in every way. It telegraph it's intentions from
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Stories have to end eventually, or else you end up with nonsense like this. There is no justice in Gotham. If there was the joker would have been executed long, long ago. Batman simply dumping him at Arkham is not justice. In fact, it perpetuates the injustice of the fallen.
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I hearby promise that none of my books will EVER have space communism UNLESS the book is about heroes that kill space communists. đ«Ą.
> person who doesn't know me well recommends a science fiction book.> i ask if it's a well-written futuristic story or space communism.> they don't understand.> i pull out a chart explaining the difference.> "it's a good book, anon".> read the cover blurb.> it's space communism.
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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?".
me seeing drug dealers and OF girls buying their 5th car while I wake up at 6:00 am every morning trying to be a good person
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@AlysssaHazel I say it all the time. Stories have to have endings. As far as I'm concerned, this is Harley's final appearance. She gets out. Batman keeps her from really screwing up. They have a good moment and she goes back for a brief stay in Arkham. Once she's out, she disappears forever.
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@realchrisrufo Plenty of conservative work COULD prove itself in the marketplace if it had institutional backing. But it doesn't. Mosy creatives on the right struggle in obscurity. The left is much better at patronizing art, entertainment, and culture than the right is.
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A lot of folk who want the stabilizing force of a society filled with Christians but don't want to be one need to stop and ask why Christianity is a stabilizing force to begin with.
Christianity would attract a lot more practitioners if they stuck to the moral core of the tradition and got rid of the magical thinking. Good: "The servant who doubled his master's silver was given more silver, but the servant who buried his master's silver had all his silver.
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@MattWalshBlog Fast forward 3 years and no kid will ever get to greet a mascot. The lawyers will say its too much a liability to risk. On the plus side, Character mascots like that are kind of creepy. đ
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@imbrettcooper Who writes this stuff?.Who do they think they are writing it for?. That was the worst two minutes of my life. đ.
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Also for the record, this comes from watching Over the Garden Hedge with my wife recently. I think it falls under American Fantasy quite comfortably.
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If you're a guy in your early 20's buy Lego. Go into debt if you have to.
If youâre a guy in your early 20s, buy a Rolex. Go into debt if you have to.
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Sir, this isn't reddit.
The Church is evil in fantasy because through most of European history the Church was evil in real life. Hope that helps!.
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Alright here's my take on the Problem of Susan. There is no Problem of Susan. Everyone knows darn well what Lewis meant, they just want to be mad at him for being sexist or something. It's all bad faith and always has been.
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Lady and the Tramp is possibly one of the most overlooked Disney movies. The character animations are incredibly well done and the background paintings are a shockingly beautiful homage to turn of the century American life. Disney used to find beauty in the domestic.
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Gaston defenders think he's cooler than the Beast who fights a large pack of wolves off with his bare hands. I really don't think you guys have watched the movie.
@MichaelFKane Everyone knows these are not good men, but they are examples of extreme masculinity and classic examples of the ârule of coolâ where Hollywood makes the villains cooler than the heroes. Gastonâs song is one of the primary reasons why.
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@BroJoeChiRho Gaston: becomes worse because he can't get what he wants. Beast: reforms and gains humility, atones for his crimes by letting Belle go. Their character arcs are in 100% opposite directions.
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@MattWalshBlog Come on. They have every right to be mad, because you routinely disparage any art that isn't in the very narrow band that you enjoy. We get it. Your brand is Phillistine and it sells well. Everyone else don't have to like it.
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@MattWalshBlog There's a reason over engineered mega cities are always misery holes in science fiction. People are terrible. That would doom this false utopia from the outset.
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That looks awful. Some stories are better told through animation.
From animation to live-action, âHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGONâ. In theaters on June 13, 2025.
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@beerdefeater Brave of trying to protect that giant corporation from their customers. Very brave and selfless of you.
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Try being a novelist. Six months on a manuscript that sales for 4.99 a copy. Split royalties with Amazon. Now imagine how many readers we have to find to pretend it's a side gig.
In the good ol days of cartooning, artists were paid a decent wage for newspapers to print in their work. People could earn a living from it. Now, cartoonists have to grind and scrape just to earn a week or two of grocery money. "WHERE HAVE ALL THE ARTISTS GONE?" đ€Ș.
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I left this open ended on purpose, but I think it's interesting how nearly every example is actually set in the US or an alternate US. As opposed to in a made up world that's still American in it's themes and ideals. đ€.
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Conservatives do NOT struggle to make good art. We struggle to have our good art seen because mainstream insitution are owned by the left and right wing institutions usually aren't interested or are otherwise focused. Seriously this isn't hard and is obvious to anyone paying.
Do conservatives struggle to create good art?. "Just take a look at conservative entertainment over the last two decades. Aside from a few shining examples, itâs been a sea of mediocrity and cringe." . New in @BlazeAlign:
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The absolute state of trad pub.
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