We can pipe the lectures in through little shells in their ears and really make them feel part of the class!

I’ve tried to make this joke so many times but it’s a visual gag and I’m glad a visual artist got to it in a high profile way.

Country music gets better the more vocal and active the women are (as subjects and artists), and there are very good songs about a dude’s car, but the song has to be extremely about the car to be any good.

Slightly increase a band name The Aitles

I’ll take the side of Can’t Handle Ketchup and invent new ways to make food taste like things before I indiscriminately add pure, flavorless heat to my food to prove how tough I am.

My weird thing for the day is sketching out a sequel fic to Encanto set like 10 years later. No clue what the plot would be aside from Isabella is bringing her gf home for one of Dolores’s kid’s door ceremony.

in a sense this is my whole philosophy

“Capitalism is the Villain” is a cliche at this point. It’s the low-hanging fruit, and I think when we say that’s the point of a story we’re just leaving some work half-done and not really saying what *about* Capitalism is bad, identifying the mechanism that make it fucking rotten.

They’re the stars of the present, the celebrity gig economy. They are how corps have made fame the risk of the individual. That’s not stardom in the traditional sense, but it is modern one.

“Eol, what happens after we die?” “I bury you.” “But where do our souls go?” “Not back into your body, if I can help it.” “So the undead have souls?” “People tend to.” “So where are the souls supposed to be?” “Among the living, not the dead.” “So there’s life after death?” “Not here.”

“Ok, so, here’s a list of everyone who has personal beef with this big, important revolutionary leader sucks and why. He’s a 5’10” squirrel who’s been keeping about 100,000 people fed for a century. The first time he appears in the show, he’s literally doing the dishes.”

PSA to folks on here: Odds are that if your letter carrier is even looking at names (and you have your name in your mailbox), they’ll deliver by last name instead of first, and you can add whatever names you might be using to the card and get shit delivered.

Character pitch: Someone who buries all their feelings and mistreatment and stress, but instead of snapping at people close to her like a normal person those repressed feelings turned into a gun.

“Give it to me straight, Doctor.” “I was talking to the old ball-and-chain, who I love very much, after putting our kids to bed and you have 6 months to live, no homo.”

Algo recommended me a video reaction to Folding Ideas’ recent video, and the title seemed to imply that the person reacting was butt hurt about, ‘I Don’t Know James Rolfe,’ and that shows your opinion is going to be bad, especially if you took away from the video that Dan wasn’t a fan of AVGN.

What work of non-fiction expresses how you world build? For me, it’s Dan Olson’s 2021 polemic against NFTs *Line Goes Up* for how it expresses the interlocking social and political conditions that created the quagmire while dragging the villains as pathetic losers who shouldn’t have power.

Guy who opens for comedians who’s act is ominously implying things about the jokes to come and they call him the Harharbinger.

Gang of herb-themed wizards where you’ve got your Thyme Lord, The Sage of Sage, Parsleydigitator, and Rosemary, who’s called Rosemary because that’s all she asked to be called and are you going to argue with a witch called Rosemary just because she asked to be called that?

You’re not Picasso or Tolkien *yet*. Learning the rules will help get you in that direction. And there’s something to tossing the rules out and doing what’s in your heart, projecting your mess out into the world, but you’re not entitled to love for it. You’ll have to soak that rejection.

Nobody can outrun the devil forever, but Old Scratch is gunna choke on my dust until at least tomorrow morning.

Something Turning Red depicts with a deft amount of subtlety is now not being allowed to be yourself makes you a worse person. Not a bad person, but a less good one. We’re sympathetic to Mei lying to her parents, but that’s not good, and the stress of that is part of why it breaks bad at the party.

That kid Tyler from Turning Red deserved his licks as much as Myrtle from Lilo and Stitch.

To zoom in for a critique, it gets cleared up a bit as the series goes on, but in early episodes it becomes clear that involving Chase, the cop dog, is mandatory, and you can see the writing strain to come up with bullshit for him to do. He has the widest array of tools, and none of them feel copish

Two points: 1. This is very easy to cut around by not telling stories where people have sex, though they can also trigger on non-sexual intimacy but this is not the point moving on. 2. The sex move for The Show - a rock-star type character - is “If you and another character have sex, sweet.” A++

Hell yeah let’s goooooooooooo!!

Actual @gamewoven.bsky.social lore:

Chat is this anything?

I pointed him in the direction of the alchemical circle and I’m very proud of that. You also need a straight edge of some kind and, he’s nixed my ideas that would have required a protractor and compass, but maybe someday.

In a critique of Republic, Bophadese - one of Plato’s contemporaries - compared debates with intellects so confident that they were unlikely to be persuaded away from bad options to men who kept almonds in their cheeks, insisting it was equally as nourishing as chewing and swallowing the almonds 🧵

In a critique of Republic, Bophadese - one of Plato’s contemporaries - compared debates with intellects so confident that they were unlikely to be persuaded away from bad options to men who kept almonds in their cheeks, insisting it was equally as nourishing as chewing and swallowing the almonds 🧵

Yeah baby it’s Papists v Everybody like God intended. There’s a billion of us and 90% of us don’t give two shits about minor doctrinal squabbles. We can send the ACCB and the SA enablers to the front and return to the True Faith where God only lets you into heaven if you help your neighbors. Go Sox.

Nobody: Me, caffeinated: Hey, so remember that joke I did four years ago before we started the project in earnest? This melancholic IG post crack it for me. Here’s how we work it into one of our core motifs by tying together two plot threads and present a resolution to a theme. It’s sad but hopeful

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

Their childcare should be free, their kids should get free lunch at school, they and their kids should get free healthcare and collect that $3k we get from soaking like 100 bastards who make too much money, and fuck it, the 100 soaked bastards get all that too because they live here. Everybody.

I don’t know which mathematical principle it would be, but I recon we can infer that Paramore is a safe band from the supposition that its nominal inverse is Perriless.

It the first year I’ve seen the initialism for today’s holiday. And so in honor: 👐TDoV👐

Borrowing a thing I saw on Twitter:

free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

Oh word? About Love, is it? Damn, here I was thinking it was about the embrace of natural birthright in determining one’s role in society and their ultimate disposition as inherently good, evil, servile, authoritative, etc. I guess it is about love, since you have to love predestination to be good

When I was a freshman in college, I took classes in essay writing, creative non-fiction, and rhetoric. I kind of wonder if now, 10 years on, they’ve started to include video essays on YouTube, because they’re a popular contemporary examples of those disciplines.

New rule, if you’re going to advocate for the Death of the Author, you also have to advocate for the death of The Author.

Seven-word death punch

You gotta figure there’s a whiteboard somewhere with, “Live Action KPop Demon Hunter” written on it and underline. It should be erased. An equally futile but far less pointless endeavor at making good art is “KPop Demon Hunters: The Stage Musical.”

She was the kind of girl who was disappointed in herself for getting an A- in Blood.

After the 333 Blood Moon Eclipse and New Moon in Picies and a dozen cards saying that there’s a storm to be weathered but that must be embraced in order to find the happiness on the other side, today is Ostara and wildflowers are blooming as the last of Monday’s snow melts in the 70 degree sunshine.

Ben and I have a slightly hacked together card divination system for @gamewoven.bsky.social that I’ve mostly been using to dig a bit deeper on taro reading. I was doing one tonight and drew Hope, and I’d like to thank @captainkrail.bsky.social for adding a wonderful character to our world.

Could you imagine how crazy the Sinners spin-off Saturday morning cartoon would be