A lot of stuff goes straight over my head. I guess because I've never lived in a place with a prominent Jewish population, I don't have a lot of exposure. I gotta get educated on these things.

Thanks for the explanation! I don't know much about Jewish practices or tradition, so sometimes I don't recognize anti-Semitism when it happens.

Blind character gets totally cured with magic? Boring. Blind character telepathically connects to their bird familiar so they can see through the bird's eyes? Very cool.

Mostly I just find it lazy. I keep disabled people in my fantasy settings in large part cause I think it's more fun and interesting to come up with ways a fantasy world could accommodate that.

Probably in large part because it's a safe cause to stand with. Damn near everyone agrees that sex trafficking is bad.

It’s almost like an art piece making a commentary on what happens when a person tries to recreate something they like but don’t understand, and what results when they have a narrow set of influences.

It’s fascinating. I kind of want to watch it continue to progress in this direction and see how long it takes to become absolutely unrecognizable from anything human-made.

The whole point of heterodoxy is to remain open to NEW ideas. If you already heard an idea and you discarded it because it's a shitty idea, then you're not obligated to sit and listen to it again. You only need to step in dogshit on the sidewalk one time to avoid dogshit going forward.

It's making me irrationally upset. It feels so wrong. I know it's stupid to be angry about it but I can't help myself.

Whoa, folk magic?