• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Bryce Mitchell

    Personal life

    Mitchell has a degree in economics from Harding University. Outside of his mixed martial arts career, he is a cattle farmer.

    Mitchell is a conspiracy theorist, voicing his belief that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab by the U.S. government and deliberately released, and that the U.S. government stages mass shootings to advance a gun confiscation agenda. He has also criticized the Federal Reserve as a “corrupt institution” that is manipulating the value of the U.S. dollar. Mitchell is also a flat Earther, a geocentrist and believes that gravity is a hoax. […] In 2021, Mitchell released a seven-track country rap mixtape titled “Pasture Fire”.

    In 2024, he indicated that he would homeschool his son because he did not want him to be a Communist, to worship Satan, or to be gay.

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    When the AI censor can’t figure out a child’s face and a man’s nipples.

    BLUR EVERYTHING!

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The premise of my magic college novel is exactly like that kid

    tw: self harm, drug use, parents fighting, animal dying, domestic violence, etc.

    The idea is that the main character is born on a farmstead with a brother and a sister. He’s homeschooled to speak the equivalent of Latin, an ancient dead language, and given a Latin name. His father never wants them to interact with the outside world and their parents argue bitterly about it. For example, MC wants to go see a play in town b/c he heard about it at the market, so he asks his mom. His mom begins to argue with the dad because he adamantly refuses to exchange any of their precious metals for currency. He feels that her wanton spending will send them into poverty and she feels that their lifestyle due to his frugality is poverty. One time the father catches the MC with a lewd poster from a manga so as punishment, MC has to slit a (chicken-equivalent)'s throat over the poster, gather wood for a bonfire, and burn in to ashes while the father chants in Latin. He has to read some ancient Latin philosophy about how saints are supposed to act for homework. The parent’s arguing turns into a messy divorce where the mother tries to take the kids while the father is yelling, but MC is hiding in a closet too petrified to move. MC becomes bored & despondent and, like his father, has trouble coping. While his father uses drugs, the MC decides that slicing at his wrists silences the horrible feelings, including guilt for not going with his mother, for a while. When his father finds him in the act, he punches the MC which is the final straw so the MC decides to run away to go to magic college (where he has trouble affording tuition which sets the narrative in motion).

    The the novel is supposed to be, at some level, a reminder to myself that running off to start a farm somewhere trump-anguish sounds good, doesn’t work. It’s also one of the greatest flaws with the manuscript because after revealing the backstory, I do absolutely nothing with the characters introduced in the backstory again. With the sequel taking place in a foreign continent, I doubt that he’d run into his siblings there.

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      I homeschooled my kids for the first three years of the pandemic because their online education was making them miserable. Homeschool turned out to be awesome but exhausting even though it was only for three hours a day. Eventually my kids got bored and decided that they wanted to go back to school to be with their friends. It’s working well for them so far, though the liberal influence at school is extremely powerful, particularly when it comes to the normalization of the pandemic. I would definitely recommend giving homeschooling a try. In my state at least the paperwork was shockingly easy to fill out.