A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

Probably some way to embed this, but the best I can do rn is a link Was recently reminded of a painful conversation where the other party misinterpreted my use of the word "fetish" - channeling the emotions positively. The other entries in this sporadically updated series are NOT lectures and I get that watching a dude talk for two hours (it's mostly conversation, the lecture portion is maybe 30 mins) is not as fun as a doc or ballet but I feel guilty about spending so much time on Thornton in the last post. Most famous as "the other old white guy who does a lot of Kongo stuff," Wyatt MacGaffey is a titanic figure in West-Central Africana; much of what we currently believe about early colonial spiritual systems and magical practice is built on his research in some way. MacGaffey hasn't received nearly as much love bc he:  a) was open about his disdain for universities as an institution before it was sexy to talk about le decolonizing b) wound up being pigeon...

is Négritude too on the nose? - Papa Ibra Tall's La semeuse d’étoiles "Added to this is the question of whether Africa serves merely as a mirror that refracts the image of the United States, thereby enabling the ‘returnee’ to explore issues of home and identity with a measure of contemplative distance." - Saidiya Hartman, The Time of Slavery In the grand tradition of reading games as texts + inflammatory titles, this is a (hopefully concise!) discussion of some issues I have with the celebrated Pathfinder 2E supplement The Mwangi Expanse . For people who haven’t been keeping up with Paizo’s releases, TME is a revamp of Golarion's Notfrica (oldheads might recall the Expanse from Heart of the Jungle, Sargava: The Lost Colony , and the Serpent's Skull adventure path in the last gen) for PF2E; it's served as a launching pad for other stuff that's come out focusing on the Expanse, like the Strength of Thousands AP or The Slithering . There's a lot to lo...