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Mind’s Eye, or MES, is a nationwide community of gothic-punk role-players who come together to take on personas of vampires and other supernatural beings (known as Kindred), dealing with night-to-night struggles “against their own bestial natures, hunters, and each other.â€
MES has a number of different sects, with names such as Vampire: The Requiem; Vampire: The Masquerade; Changeling: The Lost; Geist the Sin Eaters; New World of Darkness and Werewolf the Forsaken, among others.
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MES, extremely trademarked and organized, is by no means a trivial enterprise. It is a highly regimented association of like-minded people, similar to a church (or cult) complete with its own rituals and performances.
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Listed under “other interests†on his bio page, Rush describes himself as a “sworn officer … fo’ real,†suggestive of his double life in the “occult†world and the “real†one, as a lawyer and Alachua County sheriff’s deputy.
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But who will the GOP be supporting? Will it be the “straight shooting†Republican Jacob A. Rush, Archbishop Kettering, or Chazz Darling?
MES has a number of different sects, with names such as Vampire: The Requiem; Vampire: The Masquerade; Changeling: The Lost; Geist the Sin Eaters; New World of Darkness and Werewolf the Forsaken, among others.
[...]
MES, extremely trademarked and organized, is by no means a trivial enterprise. It is a highly regimented association of like-minded people, similar to a church (or cult) complete with its own rituals and performances.
[...]
Listed under “other interests†on his bio page, Rush describes himself as a “sworn officer … fo’ real,†suggestive of his double life in the “occult†world and the “real†one, as a lawyer and Alachua County sheriff’s deputy.
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But who will the GOP be supporting? Will it be the “straight shooting†Republican Jacob A. Rush, Archbishop Kettering, or Chazz Darling?
There's also some messages and stuff from Rush that are more problematic at least in a "Everyone says dumb **** but yours is worse because I get to judge you for it" sort of way. The blogger mentions some various photos from the MES wiki site but I don't know if any of those are actually connected to Rush or just "Gasp! Stock photo goth girl headshot labeled as succubus!"
Business Insider has picked this up now with a statement from Rush's father laughing it off with comments like "What if you find out about our Halloween parties" and connecting LARP activity to community theater and the arts.
This isn't a representative group to be asking "Would you care...?" what with you all being MMORPG dorks and stuff but I did find it interesting. The liability of it, the Jack Chick style hand-wringing, all of that. Makes the candidate who was called out last cycle for playing World of Warcraft seem like small potatoes.