Fascism is the shriek of the Nazgûl; it can't hurt a hopeful heart. #lordoftherings #fascism #hope

AI is a religion: it gives you answers without explanations, everyone trusts them without question, they're always begging for more money and taking over land, and rich people are behind the scenes manipulating the outcomes for personal gain.

Non-toxic masculinity and non-toxic femininity are both nurturing. I feel like this speaks to something very important, and very human.

I want to go to a furry convention and throw a tennis ball.

I want to make a mage that studies all schools of magic and call them a "polywizard", just so I can watch linguists spontaneously curdle.

If you want to stay neutral in these times, know two things: good people will respect your decision, and evil people will appreciate it.

Ever feel like life is an endless social media race and you're still using the default avatar?

If you do the math, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a Thanksgiving movie.

No matter how good you are when you start, you will be better when you finish.

If the electricity used to power your home was instead used to lift your house off the ground (with 100% efficiency), your house would rise into the air at a rate of about 400 feet per day (based on US statistics). I don't know what to do with this information, so I'm giving it to you.

"Love" is a machine that turns "time" into "memories".

That which describes me does not define me.

"Accent", "dialect", and "language" are just three points on the same spectrum.

Why doesn't Link just strap a few cuccos to his shield before going to fight Ganon?

In a world of ride-or-die friends, be the one who pushes your buddy into the passenger seat and takes the wheel.

"Being human" is not a fixable mistake.

"Friendship" is when you can smile behind your mask. "Love" is when you can take your mask off.

"Maturity" is when the demon of depression is gnawing on your leg, but instead of pushing your friends away, you smile and ask if you could have just a bit of time to deal with things.

Me as a child: "That doesn't make sense. Girls and boys can do the same things if they work hard enough. We're all human." Me in my 20s: "Huh. I guess I'm bi." Me in my 30s: "No, wait; I'm pan." Me in my 40s: "... and non-binary, apparently." I almost had it figured out as a kid. Self-doubt sucks.

The world can be very confusing and scary. If you squint, things start to blur, and you can fill in the uncertainty with comforting imagination. But science doesn't squint. It wears safety glasses.

The movie 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights', had the line: "Robin will be dead. D-E-D dead", where "dead" was meant to be spelled out for emphasis, but was misspelled for comedic effect. Thing is, "ded" was actually an acceptable spelling in Middle English. I wonder if the filmmakers knew that.

Dear Satan, Competition incoming. Sincerely, Earth #OzzyOzbourne

The me you see Shall ever be Living behind The backspace key

I want to go to a Frieren cosplay con dressed up as a mimic.

I can't "write" but I do have "a modicum of experience in compositions of the written word".

I'm going to start yelling "BEEP-BEEP" instead of saying "excuse me" from now on. This includes moments when I don't understand something and am asking for clarification.

Paladin, Oath of Devotion. Only instead of adhering to the laws of a particular god or goddess, they are instead devoted to their jacked muscle-mommy werewolf-waifu. Their divine powers come from fertility dieties who see that and go, "... nice."

What do OCD people think about pronouns? Specifically, "they" as gender-neutral singular vs plural.

People who are both queer and colorblind have such interesting hurdles in life.

"Erring on the Side of Obscurity" - the title of my autobiography (that will, of course, never get written)

Stick and stone do hurt when thrown, but now they're yours to wield.

I've set a goal to write between 500 and 1000 words per day. A not-insignificant portion of that ends up being "things I want to write".

Would a female elevator be an elevatrix?

Superman sits down on a park bench. A stray cat jumps into his lap and falls asleep. The Justice League has to pull double duty for the next 10 hours because Supes is trapped under a sleeping cat. Batman is not amused. The Flash is VERY amused. Diana wants to adopt. Selena gets there first.

If everyone lived in houses identical to each other, save for the location of a single pebble, people would agonize over where to put the pebble.

"The Lord of the Rings" is yaoi. Discuss.

English "drop" comes from Germanic 'drupo', which is not related to Latin 'drupa' meaning "olive", despite the fact that the traditional method for harvesting olives is to smack the trunk with a stick to make the olives drop.

I estimate approximately 35% of horror movie situations could be escaped with a basic understanding of how permiable walls really are.

'Felis Catus' translates to "cat cat".

I like my partners like I like my OSHA manual: small, readily available, neatly bound, well used, and filled with safe words.

"Caesar" (as in "Julius Caesar") is pronounced with a /k/ not an /s/, in classical Latin. It was also borrowed by Germanic peoples and later became the German word "kaiser", and Slavic peoples where it became Russian "tsar" (via Old Slavic "tsesari"). The etymology of "caesar" is uncertain.

The Latin name for the common vetch - Vicia Ervilia - translates to "vetch vetch".

Anyone else struggle to pronounce the word "nuwudle"?

TIL: "Corn Maze" is a pun.

Meanwhile, the DM is on his sixth cigarette and fifth highball; it's three in the morning and two of the players have already passed out on the beanbag chair. "Guys," he pleads for the nth time, "it's a fantasy... it doesn't have to make sense... the lizard just has tits, okay?"

Peter from the movie 'Office Space' follows the Hero's Journey beat-for-beat. Think about it.

Selfishness is always short-sighted.

The most fun thing about being pan is that, if anyone asks me where I'm represented on the Pride flag, I can just smile and say "yes".

In order to get to the Bluesky website, I go to my browser and type 'bs' into the url bar; this autofills to bsky.app and I hit 'enter'. In other words, every time I want to visit the only major social media platform I use, I have to abbreviate "bullshit". ... well, need I say more?

Recently got back into Minecraft. I never bothered much with endgame stuff; I was content to build my little worlds. ... well, I just discovered you can travel thousands of blocks in a matter of minutes using elytra and rockets. Old dog has learned new tricks.