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#WritingWonders 7/29: Antagonist POV: How do you feel about what you do?
according to Isaac Magnin:
Being the dark lord who secretly rules the world and has remade human civilization to bring it to a technological level suitable for the creation of artificial bearers for the Starbreaker is dirty, thankless work, but somebody has to do it. Otherwise, my species would have been obliterated by the ensof Sabaoth, and yours would be nothing but slaves endlessly praying to an imposter who uses your own belief systems against you.And it's not like the job lacks perquisites. Regency era rakehells recognized me as their patron saint alongside Beau Brummell, and dear old Prinny took the blame for the worst of my libertinism. I have more money than any man could reasonably spend in ten thousand years despite scrupulously paying every tax demanded of me. I have always paid my taxes on time and in full even though I can afford to exploit every available loophole in every tax code to which I and my operations are subject.
This is not virtue on my part, incidentally. When your country's leaders know that I am their top taxpayer, and that I can renounce my citizenship, close down operations in your country, and withdraw all participation in your country's economy at a whim it makes your leadership rather more amenable to my interests than you might prefer.
Nevertheless, it was great fun to walk into the Oval Office, show a newly elected President footage of what really happened to one of his predecessors, and remind him of who foots the bill for the North American Commonwealth's imperialism. And, yes, I did pay Oswald to assassinate Kennedy. It seemed only fair after Kennedy arranged to have Marilyn Monroe assassinated and to make it look like an accidental suicide by overdose. The things one does for love, though I must admit I liked her better as a brunette named Norma Jean...
All prompts for this month are collected on my website at <starbreaker.org/blog/writing-w…>.
prompts by Alina Leonova (npub127n…yf0u) 🌛🦋Amelia Kayne (hiatus)🦋🌜 (npub19qs…44zq) Branwen OShea (she/her) (npub1kdq…yrjv)
according to Isaac Magnin:
Being the dark lord who secretly rules the world and has remade human civilization to bring it to a technological level suitable for the creation of artificial bearers for the Starbreaker is dirty, thankless work, but somebody has to do it. Otherwise, my species would have been obliterated by the ensof Sabaoth, and yours would be nothing but slaves endlessly praying to an imposter who uses your own belief systems against you.And it's not like the job lacks perquisites. Regency era rakehells recognized me as their patron saint alongside Beau Brummell, and dear old Prinny took the blame for the worst of my libertinism. I have more money than any man could reasonably spend in ten thousand years despite scrupulously paying every tax demanded of me. I have always paid my taxes on time and in full even though I can afford to exploit every available loophole in every tax code to which I and my operations are subject.
This is not virtue on my part, incidentally. When your country's leaders know that I am their top taxpayer, and that I can renounce my citizenship, close down operations in your country, and withdraw all participation in your country's economy at a whim it makes your leadership rather more amenable to my interests than you might prefer.
Nevertheless, it was great fun to walk into the Oval Office, show a newly elected President footage of what really happened to one of his predecessors, and remind him of who foots the bill for the North American Commonwealth's imperialism. And, yes, I did pay Oswald to assassinate Kennedy. It seemed only fair after Kennedy arranged to have Marilyn Monroe assassinated and to make it look like an accidental suicide by overdose. The things one does for love, though I must admit I liked her better as a brunette named Norma Jean...
All prompts for this month are collected on my website at <starbreaker.org/blog/writing-w…>.
prompts by Alina Leonova (npub127n…yf0u) 🌛🦋Amelia Kayne (hiatus)🦋🌜 (npub19qs…44zq) Branwen OShea (she/her) (npub1kdq…yrjv)