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Ideas for Free! Grapple: Ends of the Earth

On a pastoral Earth, actually set several millennia in the future, villages discover that some of their youth have become shamans, intermittently possessed by ancient deities. Their powers seem fantastic, granting them great strength and athleticism, and endowed with knowledge of hand-to-hand martial arts, apparently ushering in a new era of prosperity. But soon trouble arises: when these shamans meet, they invariably lose control to their spirits, and battle erupts.

The gods possessing the children are 80s pro wrestlers, and the great wars that follow are story lines from that era, complete with face-heel turns and smack talk. Main character is young girl possessed by Hulk Hogan and her signature move is the leg drop. Love interest is boy possessed by Macho Man Randy Savage. Lots of hulking up.

Please use my idea.

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The UCSB shooting

Oh my god, I just woke up and didn’t know about this. I’m so upset, fuck. I’ve been getting more upset by misogyny as time goes by, and especially over the past month, but then this had to happen.

It sounds like the shooter had high functioning autism, which is not by itself mental illness, although something else must have been there. (The Sandy Hook shooter was similar.)

But the post is correct: the cause here is the fucked up attitude from PUAs and other misogynistic horrible people. There are definitely other issues, such as the proliferation of guns (mass shootings are definitely the crime of our time, these things move in trends) and how society treats people who are not neurotypical or have mental illnesses.

But what we need to talk about right now is misogyny and entitlement and the cultural expectation that men should get something for nothing.