Dezzy Parrish (Xe/ Xer/ Xem)

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

What I've found weird about the binge steaming era, when Star Trek was a network broadcast show with 26 episodes and stayed mostly episodic. But today, with 10 episode streams, they try to develop these ambitious arcs.

This week in Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse we're "Cloning Around" (pause for laughter and/or groans). Take a look
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Quick, Send in the Clones They're Already Here Cloning has been a part of Science Fiction for a century. Pod people, Engineered populations, Teleportation accidents, Parallel dimensions, the ways clones are imagined go on and on. The literary vehicle of clones and cloning has been used to explore the questions of identity, personhood, and society Traveller is no different. There have always been clones in Traveller.

Quick, Send in the Clones

They're Already Here Cloning has been a part of Science Fiction for a century. Pod people, Engineered populations, Teleportation accidents, Parallel dimensions, the ways clones are imagined go on and on. The literary vehicle of clones and cloning has been used to explore…

Yas! Tacos for errybuddy!

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This week in Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse I'm exploring how Michael Moorcock's Eternal Struggle of Law and Chaos can be used in a Traveller campaign. And I'm debuting a new masthead for the Dezzy Traveller Universe

Dancing at the End of Time The cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos comes to Traveller Somewhen in spacetime. Outside of the linear flow that most sentients experience, parallel to the physical universe and the higher dimension known as jumpspace, there is a place where the original creators have long since transcended beyond their Technological Singularity. Still the pocket dimension remains, where spacetime, quantum mechanics, and the fundamental forces of the universe are but tools that can change the state of matter and energy here for those who know how to use them.

Dancing at the End of Time

The cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos comes to Traveller Somewhen in spacetime. Outside of the linear flow that most sentients experience, parallel to the physical universe and the higher dimension known as jumpspace, there is a place where the original creators have…

get it wrong, especially when I'm not focused on it. But when I use the wrong name, I apologize, correct myself, and continue to use the name they want to be known as.

Because I love my oldest child (and our middle child, and the youngest child) and part of loving them is supporting them
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insignificant effort when measured about what is needed to discover your identity, and jump through the legal hoops needed to change it, tell your family and friends, and insist on it's use. So remembering to use their name rather than the one I chose for them decades ago, it's tricky. I still
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legal name because they want one, they need one, or for any reason or non reason. They are a person. They have the fundamental right to be called by the identity they choose, not the identity anyone else chose for them before they were born into the world.
It took effort on my part. An
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their name. Not mine. They were an adult and they could change their name to reflect how they knew themselves to be. POINT being. Their name is their choice. They can appreciate the thought and care their parents went through to give them the name on their birth cert and still adopt a new
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meaning to both of us. We'd chosen my grandfather's name (who passed on a decade before) to be their middle name. The name we filled out their birth certificate did have meaning.
To us, to me.
But I knew (and so did my co-parents, credit where due) that the name my child was given at birth was
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my kid self opened this can of worms, my oldest kid came to me and told me they were trans. They told me they were changing their name to reflect their identity.
Their mom and I had thought long and hard about what name we were going to give them while we were pregnant. We chose one that had
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their gift."
Then I asked what my name meant.
They said it didn't mean anything, it was just the name they chose for me.
Insisting your child use the name you gave them the moment they were born to fill out a certificate is nothing but pure ego.
I'll share one more anecdote. Forty years after
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I remember when I was a kidlet (I must have been around 5), I asked my parents if I could change my name to "Dan" because I liked the way it sounded. My folks responded with such an expression of hurt that I apologized to them. "They gave this name to me and to change it would be to throw away
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This made my morning!

Remember when Trump went after Gold Star Families? John McCain?
Friendie, this is no longer a sensible nor moral world.
But it might be again. We're gonna need some tar, a wooden rail, and a whole fuck-ton of feathers.

This is a Traveller Subsector Map illustrated into a .png using GIMP 3.1

I designed a Players' navigational map for the region around Gorky in Promise Subsector. Gorky's data, and the data within 2 parsecs of Gorky (including the whole of the Unity of Promise) is current. Any data beyond that is old from around 1120 3i.

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Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Cabals and Guilds In the Third Imperium, there are countless organizations dedicated to the social, political, business, even academic advancement of their members. The oldest can exert generational influence, protecting themselves and promoting their members. The vast majority of these groups are private, using oaths of secrecy and hidden rituals to defend themselves and expand the scope of their power.

Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?

Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Cabals and Guilds In the Third Imperium, there are countless organizations dedicated to the social, political, business, even academic advancement of their members. The oldest can exert generational influence, protecting themselves and…

Watching season 7 of Clone Wars and there's this moment where Ashoka is using the Force to help her friend and starts chanting..
*"I am One with the Force and the Force is with me."*
And now I'm sobbing like a child on the couch.

flopped. But he fucked around and found out that he remains a nobody. Drug off like the drunk at a bachelor party who makes a run on the stage. Rep Omar is safe and by lunch, this guy will be in a holding cell hoping his grandpa sends bail money.
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was hopped up on Trump and Maga and was going to be "the guy". He attacked Rep Omar knowing that he was gonna be seen by the Dictator. DONNIE WOULD KNOW WHO HE WAS. He thought the Dictator would say something along the lines of "You're very special, we love you." like he did back when Jan 6
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His idol, the Dictator, when asked about the attack, babbled on about how the attacker was a stooge, acting out a staged attack. Which, by the way, is in the top five dodges from these brain-dead ijits.
I just can't help but wonder, this fucker just ruined what little passed for a "life". He
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So there's this entitled Trump-simp that attacked Rep Ilhan Omar this morning. Which is terrifying, but Rep Omar has seen more War and Horror than that chud ever dreamed about while playing with his GI Joes on the kitchen floor. The thing that must just take his nuts and put them in a vice is..
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Farm Boys and Princesses Life Path Emergent Storytelling From Star Wars Most of us know the stories by now. Indeed, they're archetypes in Science Fiction roleplaying. Luke and Leia grow up in two separate environments and end up in the same place at the start of Act 2 of their movie. Their backstories (pre-carreer), and not counting their secret space-twin connection are as follows;

Farm Boys and Princesses

Life Path Emergent Storytelling From Star Wars Most of us know the stories by now. Indeed, they're archetypes in Science Fiction roleplaying. Luke and Leia grow up in two separate environments and end up in the same place at the start of Act 2 of their movie. Their…

the end of the Sopranos.
I'd rather have a Winds of Winter and a Dream of Spring to bring me a conclusion to Martin's epic, but if it all ends here, that fits too.
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about Jon the whole time, and when he died, the story came to an abrupt end. Which I think is totally in line with how the story has gone to this point, with main characters suddenly dying or being slain. Jon was the person the story was about and when he died...

Well it's a cut to black like
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possible), the story of A Song of Ice and Fire ends with A Dance with Dragons.

Which ends with Jon Snow being killed by his buddies of the Night's Watch for allying with Mance Rayder.

So, the last event of the last book is Jon's death. Which implies that the story of A Song of Ice and Fire was
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SPOILERS for a Dance with Dragons and speculaition about the Winds Of Winter for all you Song of Ice and Fie nerds out there..

If GRRM never finishes Winds of Winter, and no one picks up his notes and letters and puts whatever final 25% of the manuscript into publishing shape (which is entirely
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