NorthWest Unrest and Weirding

I was more thinking Merc should be an immortal figure floating above all of that world building and you can leave the tucker character as Bard of Rivertown

Was reflecting on me + foster, and whomever, being in the currents straits of history and thinking “what the fuck is this, gotta be a different set of principles or explanation… one that leas to some change”

And the difficult part for anyone is imagining the change that comes from a critical state NOT being the one you imagine (a post apocalyptic wasteland… or idk, a multiethnic coalition that shifts towards clean energy and veganism)

But what feels more novel and interesting to me, is thinking of something completely different from any of those, that’s what I felt struck a cosmic chord in the vein of high wizardry

I feel like Foster senses that too in the mention of Native Americans and a different viable culture, etc… like “yeah this is the other path that exists that I can’t fault the logic on”

lol, no reason to go to deep. But it’s like a conversation with Braf or Aunt Rose. If you want to enjoy talking about the world, go with aliens, not the political landscape

Please read my refusal to travel to Portland as a metaphorical line in the sand representing the divide between reality and fantasy. I shall take no step beyond that line. I will never enter ‘Portland’ and it’s purported ‘weirdness’ that is still, as it were, mundane - as opposed to surreal.

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Art as explanatory

Animal Machinstrosity

What is the simple ARTISTIC VISION OF THE WORLD

#story-line
#wiz-history
The world in 20 Panels

1. The world exists

   • (A picture of a world, or landscapes, wizards in the sky, great magic arcs surrounding a planet)

2. The Wizards Erected massive works and portals that kept the world safe and sane

   • more detailed pictures of these works, no words needed, but things that seem to restrict or constrain certain forms and occurences. Magic probability condensers, hyper reality dimensional walls, simple, heavy ATTRACTORS that grab the weird particles and filter and sort them from each other.
     • dynamics attractor space diagram... grabbing all sorts of weirdness from one reality to another, represented super abstractly...
     • SYMBOLIC MAGIC

3. A some point, they left

   • They vanish, they fade, they age, they take other forms...

4. The powerful magic formworks begin to degrade

   • collapsing, chaos, integrating of strange symbols

5. finally they come apart

6. we see the world start to experience calamities

?? How is this reduced to the universal symbolism

the high wiz symbol is a REND between worlds.

BANDITS are sitting around, waiting to steal MERCs ship

MERC's ship gets stolen, then he needs to get back to his sky island