the simpsons has been on so long that they went from a fairly standard single income middle class family with a house and three kids to an impossible fantasy world where a thirty four year old high school grad with no inheritance can have any of those things and still be ‘lazy’

homer has a secure union job doing technical work he was clearly trained to do by his employer. they had a kid in their mid twenties and it hasn’t destroyed their life prospects. without the family’s material circumstances changing the family became totally detached from reality

that a show which was originally about a dysfunctional mess of a family barely clinging to middle class life in the aftermath of the Reagan administration has now become aspirational is frankly the most on the nose manifestations of capitalist American decline I can think of

oh shit this is picking up steam, uuuuh... i'm a trans tabletop roleplaying game designer, i make games about military history and queer stuff, please buy them so i can avoid being Frank Grimes

i made a game about being biplane pilots in a fantasy world https://opensketch.itch.io/flying-circus 

welp this post is now out of control big and also starting to attract detractors, and i’m sure the transphobes aren’t far behind, so i’m just gonna mute

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