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It’s so sad that the vast majority of humans are born and die without ever playing dark souls II

Lewis - Let's Fall in Love Tonight [Ethereal Folk/Ambient] (1983) https://redd.it/nhyy2x https://youtu.be/xlLnIFpjA9k

One of the really good blogs, here.

grateful | adjective | appreciative of benefits received : feeling or showing thanks Thank you all for a superlative year. Here are some of our favorite posts of 2025.

Still in awe of the people of Chicago. Trump and his party spent so much time trying to get them to give him some sliver of fake reason to do the insurrection act, and there was so much discipline from the Chicago area: sustained resistance, while not giving trump what he wanted Truly impressive

"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"

Oh yeah this is a Pynchon movie

Let's cry at Salt Shed while watching Y Tu Mamá También and My Own Private Idaho??? www.saltshedchicago.com/cryingatthes...

A late 90s bisexual fever dream. I forgot that Eric Roberts was hot.

Let's give credit where it's due. On the one hand, Nicki Minaj's political views are cringey and half-baked. On the other hand, so are her albums.

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Haha, this is exactly right, again from Elizabeth McCracken: “If you’re not afraid of failing as a writer, it means you haven't risked enough. Or you might be a sociopath. There are some good writers who are sociopaths.”

"It blows my mind that 2020 saw one of the greatest uprisings in modern history, and our novelists and short story writers are acting as though…we were all just inside talking about fruit ninja. Solely because they are afraid of being called didactic." countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Mozzarella sticks are my dementia vaccine

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

Going into 2026 like...

Winter is -5 days old but feels like it's been going on for months. Anyone praying for a white xmas gets the electric chair.

We all wanna be comfy in our down time, man.

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Additionally I want to call out how amazingly perfect the composition of this shot is

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

We need a renaissance of guides for older games on gamefaqs. There are so many games where the recommended guide is: 1. garbage 2. Based on the JP version of the game so all the names in the guide are self-translated to English (i.e. written by Kouli) Still need to publish my SaGa Frontier guide

And they love their gaudy diamond crosses that christ would've ripped right off their elitist necks

I thought why is this hockey show playing some old ass tatu song? Should've known it would be a whole thing. Mesmerizing.

Horny hockey show making me feel more emotions than just horny again. I've been (hat) tricked!

I can’t even begin to tell you how much seeing someone post something like “I read this story or poem in Kaleidotrope I really liked and I think you’ll like it too!” absolutely makes my entire day.

( me after seeing four guys in any body of water whatsoever) Well well well if it isnt the Spiderland Mouthbreathers

I'd love to read this but I cannot buy any more books, no, no no www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... #pagan #mythology #folklore #books #reading #folkhorror

🚗 #oc a spread from my Road Trip riso zine!

One day a doctor cut me open and pulled out a person, and now that person bites me for no reason. I'm expected to believe this is all normal, by the way.

Deep Space Nine Oh Two One Oh

Love it 🙌

One of the new Nightreign characters is a nun that devours flesh to survive, fights with a super quick hammer moveset, and has a super high poise trance. Her ultimate has her rip a bone from her throat and fly a huge distance to stab it into an enemy and explode. She is, basically, perfect.

this website today

from the inbox: protesters disrupted a city club luncheon today celebrating cook county state's attorney eileen o'neill burke's first year in office. demonstrators denounced a "truly shocking" 14% increase in people jailed pretrial. "burke and trump are the same, lock you up and pass the blame!"

I know Banana Fish wasn't the only series with an AI dub slapped onto it, but part of me wonders if the reason why they selected Banana Fish specifically as one of the test beds was because Banana Fish is early foundational gay media and thought it would have fewer viewers and no one would catch it.

Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!) BCS @strangehorizons.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org

Remembering Julee Cruise, born this day in 1956 who collaborated so memorably with Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, including her single "Falling" in Twin Peaks.

Awesome news!!!

Know Who You Are at Every Age - Cocteau Twins I Still Do - The Cranberries Sat in Your Lap - Kate Bush If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray Nikes - Frank Ocean

this a fantastic and moving article about one of the most formative games in my life

Totally normal horse

773-202-LUNA

I played this song when Alf Clausen died. It was a constant play for me when I moved away and was feeling homesick while stuck in the worst year of my life. This is one of the best examples of letting a moment sit and breathe I can think of.

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)