Sontar-HA! Sontar-HA!

If I were transported to another world nearly-but-not-quite like our own, I think I would "invent" Batman. I'd tell them it was all my own original idea. Best part is I'd get to make the Joker like a C-tier villain. I mean he'd still be in it, but we're talking on the level with Mad Hatter.

We need to find a Gene Wolfe of the Left

New Ao3 tag day is always a fun one

I have pavlov'd myself into putting on an episode of @postponiespod.bsky.social every time I go to the big Asda near where I live. I was heading in there after work today and I had to take a minute to dig my earbuds out of my pocket and listen to them yell at each other about magic horse bullshit

my Trek hot take is that Berman was a piece of shit and deserves the hate, but also that a lot of the shitty things about him were broadly in line with mainstream US culture at the time and making one upopular man the locus of all misogyny lets everyone else off the hook, often including the speaker

Well today my commute home is being disrupted by a suspect package at the station I needed so how's your day going?

new americ anfootball is pretty fuckin good

I have a lot of problems with the current UK government and with any Labour government that would realistically replace them but I do have to say I think they're onto something with the rolling smoking ban. Hope that particular baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater in a few years.

New fic! Upon finding the reality of Susie's home life, Toriel decides that she cannot let it stand.

Noelle Holiday must have the wildest Ao3 bookmarks you've ever seen in your life

Reading Pale Fire by Nabokov. Not thrilled by all the pubescent boys! Like Lolita was one thing, that's ABOUT a paedophile, but this one is ostensibly about poets and academics! Really not sure we had to go back to that particular well twice.

Just read Eternal Summer, by Franziska Gänsler. I thought I had guessed what the ending was going to be and then it turned out arguably grimmer than that. Good book! But a bit of a rough one.

Damn new Drawfee's pretty good. It feels like the kind of vids that made me subscribe in the first place.

Who decided sirens were going to be called that? Why did we as a society name the "get the fuck out of my way" machine after the "get the fuck over here" monster? Should've called them medusas, that's at least a creature that tells you to fuck off

Imagine the moment Carol Holiday finds out the dark world exists. What must go through her mind? A world of magic and fantasy - could she meet a wizard to cast a healing spell on Rudy? A crystal ball, to find Dess? Before she even knows it she's sprinting to the shelter, sword in hand and praying.

I wonder if the "humans are more physically concrete" thing from Undertale carries over to Deltarune. When Dess used to hit Kris, was she doing it with the knowledge that they could easily tank hits that would be dangerous for a monster. Perhaps more importantly, did KRIS know that?

Guilty as charged

All day at work today, in the most normie British office job, I didn't hear one person talking about the new Harry Potter thing. Nobody was excited about it, nobody looking forward to it, I think it might just be dead on arrival.

Griffith: Hey Guts, what house would I be in? Guts: OK you know the way I was going to kill you? It's gonna be like 10 times worse now, holy shit.

Oh yeah new username btw thought I'd try one more in keeping with the style of the site

Aeldari Guardian guy torsos having 6-packs but girl torsos having no such muscle is an act of cowardice on GW's part. I could maybe forgive it if the Howling Banshees were shredded, to make them more special by contrast, but no they don't have 6-packs either.

Becoming one of those tiresome "Pluto is a planet!" dipshits but specifically for The Ninth House and not actual Pluto.

New Ace Attorney fic! Phoenix Wright and Maya have a brief discussion of the letters Phoenix has been exchanging with a certain inmate serving time for Accessory to Murder. Just a little bit of Feenris to enjoy

I feel about shipping the same way I feel about canon. Once a ship is big enough and I believe it implicitly enough, I stop feeling a need to actually ship it, and it just becomes part of the background of the work. Wrightworth? Yeah obviously they're in love, everyone knows that.

New Ace Attorney fic! Phoenix Wright and Maya have a brief discussion of the letters Phoenix has been exchanging with a certain inmate serving time for Accessory to Murder. Just a little bit of Feenris to enjoy

Just finished Ghost Story by Peter Straub. There's an excellent 2-300 page book in there, smothered by an excess 200 pages of shit.

If you give a shit about: * Books * Art * Fresh water * Food * Breathing an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag. This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake. Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social repost the comic from yesterday but make the blue guy even more callous and self-centred

I love "The 30 Years' War but it's warmer and sandier", that is my very favourite thing

Wait when did the Lib Dems turn orange? I'm sure they used to be more of an amber yellow

Keir Keir for the love of Christ Keir DO NOT get us involved in this one mate, it's not going to be your Falklands just let it pass us by

If Reform actually do become the biggest right-wing party in the UK, do we switch to calling them tories, for the sake of tradition?

Green Party win! Woke Leftism rides again!

Starmer putting everyone in the UK less popular than him up against the wall and to be fair that might actually work out well for him

Similarly if you could ask a German in 1942 why people were starving in prison camps it would be "we can't get supplies because of the British blockade" or "railway lines are being damaged by allied bombing", they'd never admit that starvation was the goal The purpose of a system is what it does.

MHA fandom has missed out for years on culture clash with Momo, Tenya and Todoroki all being upper class dipshits Give me fics where Momo doesn't know how the washing machine in the dorm works because that's for servants! Give me Jirou having dinner with her, but she doesn't know which fork to use!

Reminder to every 40K fic author: your characters have never read a Codex, they've never read White Dwarf and they've certainly never been on /tg/ Keep em ignorant, even the smart ones

I did a tour of a cold war nuclear bunker and in the end all I felt was futility. I couldn't fathom the people who would want to survive a nuclear war just so they could die in a hole in the ground a few months later.

Man that James Baldwin sure could put a book together huh

Looking back on the kind of dumbass comedy I liked as a teenager in the 00s - Lonely Island aged really well, IIRC. I can't remember any of their stuff having the same "homophobic background radiation" as a lot of comedy of that time, ditto racism or transphobia.

In every Poorhammer video the hosts either turn into idiots once an episode or do very deliberate engagement bait once an episode and either way it's incredibly noticeable after a certain point.

Games Workshop, please hire me to write vaguely sinister things you can use for the "Thought For The Day" captions in the next codex. I can do vaguely suicidal, implicitly fascist, openly classist but only against illiterate peasants, I can do the full spectrum of Imperial pontificating!

A Blood Angel told me the Spider planet keeps eating his battle brothers, so I asked how many it had eaten and he said every week he sends down another company. I told him it sounds like he's just feeding Blood Angels to the Spiders and then Sanguinius started crying.

My world politics hot take is that China, Russia or both will have a woman president before the USA.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Currently reading The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada. I fuckin hate Furufue, man. "Huh? Wha? Collect an easy salary for years just by going on hikes and making charts? Huh? Wha? I don't get it" shut the fuck up and take the money you stupid asshole

I don't get people who cling onto "Pluto is a planet!!!" as an issue that they care about. Like damn, try getting passionate about actual problems.

I have to wonder what it's like to get killed by a melee weapon. Do you have time to process the sight of someone swinging a mace at your head? Do you think you're doing OK in the fight before getting instantly cut off? It's a morbid thing to ponder of course, but I can't help but speculate.