that one will make you feel like a noble warrior falling to darkness in order to win no matter the cost. and THIS one will make you feel like a fallen hero grasping one last glimmer of glory in her final moments before being cut down

Clandestine meeting

Judge Holden

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

It was a misdelivered letter that propelled her into magicianry. A red envelope stuffed with occult intimations. Read in rapture at the mail-slot. The threshold. The first of a thousand stolen secrets.

Hurrah for the gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes!

clothing of sogdians outside of sogdiana

She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Dun walked on through the night till he saw a fire that was shining from a large house, and when he went in he saw a crowd of men, and they fighting. 1/5

My arms are those of the Ba-soul lord of Djedet, my front is that of Neit lady of Sais, my back is that of Seth, my penis is that of Baba, my flesh is that of the lords of Kheraha, my chest is that of the god Great of Dignity. (BDQ)

Shall worship thee the beings of the heights, shall worship thee the beings of the depths. (BDB)

A freshly cleaned family mausoleum in Karazad, with an honorary feast prepared for the dead...

Speak when you know you have a solution, it is the skilled who should speak in council; speaking is harder than all other work, he who understands it makes it serve. (Instruction of Ptahhotep) (ALL)

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

You've betrayed the clan. Watch your back.

Carved in the likeness of the One True God, it was blessed with a mouth to give blessings to the people

You know, I kept meaning to write up something like this, but @hawkwinglb.bsky.social has done such a fine job, now I don't have to. Go read and then stop asking about Aragorn's tax policy!

I upgraded my fencing mask and spent yesterday enruning it in (mostly) Linear B so my namesake can embody me and clown on fools

That “three megabytes of hot RAM” line from Neuromancer is in grave danger of becoming vindicated

Wet Beast Wednesday

SUPPORT INDIE ANIMATION!!

5/8 and this is the warlords gun.

4/8 and this is the Acastus knight Asterius, the largest of the knights, around 15 meters tall with weapons that can level an apartment building with one salvo.

Secret Garden of the Countess

Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale!

Pencils done! The griddy bits will be scale armor, but ain't no need to detail that out in the pencils, that's an inks-only endeavor. But the cross-contour grid stuff will help when inking to make sure the scale suggests and defines the form.

Do not go quietly! Keep struggling!

Joker Poker Bala-tines #ValentinesDay #balatro

It is my dearest hope that, one day, people who write sentences like that in this memo have them read back to them moments before the end.

It is finished and I love my players.

Ned Kelly had that shit on.

I have written to Wes Streeting, following his private admission that Israel has been committing war crimes. History will shame those who could have spoken out against the genocide in Gaza, but chose to serve in governments that aided and abetted it instead.

So much colour! via www.facebook.com/cloakedandda... www.cloakedanddaggered.com

1997 AUSTIN POWERS (LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE IF BROSNAN BOND WAS A RAVER): How's all that end of history going, then? Still da bomb? 2027 BASIL: That's why we thawed you out. It was a bit overblown, I'm afraid. 1997 AUSTIN POWERS (THROWING BUCKET HAT TO THE GROUND): Oh, that's so gay

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

Redditors and YouTubers made fun of pure fantasy words like Fal'Cie so much that now everything in games is named shit like The Beforers and The Big Evil

I bet it feels amazing to dress up in a well-fitted suit of full plate armour and be struck with various archaic weapons for demonstration purposes.

The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party. He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war. Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.

Kucha swordbearer sketch

Oh. Oh no. I have just learned that the cast of Water Margin includes the 72 Earthly Fiends, a number very conveniently shared by the demons of the Ars Goetia. My inner hack is now demanding a crossover on his desk yesterday like he's J. Jonah Jameson

> Also in attendance are the 3 Cryptic Sins, the last 3 members of the 10 Deadly Sins. While the first 7 declined Zulin's invitation and descended on the world, the 3 eldest Sins were intrigued, and became entrapped. Their names are Ibsia, Ambathy, and Moscalune. Humanity has never experienced them

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

Tokharistan woman, 2025 vs 2026

Age verification? From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.