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The Fell Knights in @gamewoven.bsky.social’s game of Cosmic Century Knights:

Sight unseen, I recon there’s a very sweet and cathartic 40k fan fic out there where the resolution is Cawl eventually realizes the thing that truly brings Friedisch back is them making love for the first time since the Qvo 69 experiment.

Tbh, I think I have the intended mass-market experience of Charles Dickens: I remember most of Christmas Carol because it’s short, only read a couple of his books, and only really remember a couple of really good scenes or broad bits of plot. He was a working author and I owe him like $30.

My dad read Narnia to me starting when I was in Kindergarten, and my mom got Great Expectations on tape for a long car ride not long after that. I really like the stuff I could get my head around, and I liked my parents explaining things I didn’t understand.

If I’m ever elected to something, I’ll figure out where I heard it first and post, “‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all,’ ~[some Thinker Toys Adventures cassette I think],” then never comment about bad people dying.

There’s a part of me that will always be Catholic, always believe that even the worst people are beyond redemption. I will always hope for the conversation of lost souls Not because I’m the bigger person, but because I’m Catholic, and coming to grips with how shit you’ve been hurts worse than death

*hm, been a while since we talked about non-toxic masculinity. Had Bourdain, Mr. Roger’s (though there’s probably some queer stuff to unpack), Sean had that bit about his dad…* Bsky today: JACKASS. Me: Hm? Bsky: J A C K A S S. … hey, that’s maybe the most honest answer I’ve gotten from y’all.

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

Racing the Devil to stay hydrated today.

Thought Slime and Foreign Man in a Foreign Land both put out essays today. Been months since I’ve heard from either of them, and that’s exciting, but it also be a day or two more because, as mentioned, 5hr Leftist Cooks video😂

Leftist Cooks just put out a 5hr video on meat and right wing grift, FD’s piece on Tyler Parry and HBomb’s Plagiarism YouTube were 4hrs. I like these, they’re good works. Do we start calling them something other than Video Essays when they clear like 2 or 3 hours?

Anyone got a song that feels a bit like their gender? I think I got this one: youtu.be/uErKI0zWgjg?...

I'm not trying to build combo meter in a superman game dude, I want Lex Luthor to say "I've calculated your top speeds superman, there's no way for you to be two places at once. Two missiles have been fired in two different directions, which will you try to stop first" then put a 10 second timer up

Been playing around building out a bestiary for @gamewoven.bsky.social season of Cosmic Sentry Knights (by @oneshotrpg.bsky.social and @worldstoforge.bsky.social ), and it’s really smooth and fun to do. It’s got just the right number of levers for quickly making flavorful enemies.

If I was less of a mark for sentimentality, Toy Story 5 would not have work on me. I am a mark for sentimentality, and the pathos engine worked even if the tech v toys angle wasn’t specific enough to say much of anything and some of the scenes felt padded.

Verizon has ads with a pretty good recreation of Dr Evil’s layer from Austin Powers, and they brought back the original cast. One of the Austin Powers movies was the first DVD a friend got and how we tested out the features of their new player, like scene select and languages. In 1999.

“High Elves of the Flying Cities, by contrast, take a meritocratic view of gender, where one might express oneself in any way they wish as long as they are sufficiently expressive. Their main source of conflict relates to sexuality, with raging, partisan discourse between bisexuals and pansexuals.”

Just asked someone, “What vegetable does your character most closely resemble?” as a bit, but hold on, that’s actually a good question. Eol looks like a turnip. Henbit looks like a green bean. Croc Chuckwalla looks like a sweet potato. Bahamut looks like a dragonfruit.

If you take the bones of a joke and boil them you can make a laughing stock.

Alpha Primus is huge, heavily scared, morose, and powerful yet graceful. He also has a mountain of Daddy Issues and is not the romantic interest of a new Warhammer 40k Romance imprint because GamesWorkshop is cowards.

After seasons of being regular public servants, super heroes, doing extreme sports, and I think a motorcycle season, the next run of Paw Patrol will feature Ryder, Rubble, some fucking pig, and their friends editing a podcast and be called DAW Patrol.

Apps could stop reminding me that I have push notifications turned off. I’m aware of it, I did it on purpose.

I bought one of those Chia Pets of Nigel from Devil Wears Prada so I could Tucc grass.

Since the end of Indenture, there’s been an increase of discussion among Hottihoos about returning to their homeland. Opinions are mixed; it’s been several generations, so many are content to remain where they are and push for great equity, which has been a slow process.

I, for one, feel that the best way to stem this growing tide of illiberal Gen-Z leftists is to tighten our belts and tax billionaires and corporations in order to fund the fight against these dirty socialists through making sure they all have healthcare and housing.

Not to appeal to authority, but I’d probably just find the stuff on the record from the Voyager probes. It’s a decent sampling of what music can be, and I’d probably start with a bit of the context of that being what some humans 50 years thought might make for a decent introduction.

I saw this podcast clip of a woman saying she had masturbate Bandit from Bluey and one of the cohosts said, “Oh, like if he was a human?” and you could see how hurt and disappointed she was. It’s one of those things that haunts me. Some folks will not understand when you’re in earnest and it’s sad.

I don’t know if I have or even am. I’ve spent the last 6 years in a very uneven process of Becoming. I’m digging myself out of a hole. I’m undrowning and learning how to breathe. Attempting to reteather my soul and mind to my corpse so the world isn’t driving me, I am.

Hardly a novel point, but the Right Now of it all sucks. STEM and Trade education are good, but they’re kind of Right Now sorts of education. Liberal Arts is basically giving you tons of context and frequently shoving you out to make use of it on your own, but like… context is good, actually.

I took a Postmodern Fiction class in college, and the professor paired The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao with a lecture about Hypertext as a literary tool, mostly because have you read the fucking footnotes in the book goddamn. This is an underutilized feature of e-readers.

What, the money drawer is jammed and won’t open? Till issue.

What, you owe someone money for a service they provided? Bill issue.

If @gamewoven.bsky.social is ever going to be a billion dollar property, we need to start emulating successful franchises. As such, I have decided that everyone important is related to Tristian, the entirety of The Weave is Midwest grasslands, and the Undying Emperor’s first name is Frad.

That bit from Christmas Story where Ralphy bits the stuffing out of the bully is one of my favorite fight scenes. It’s ugly, unpleasant, grotesquely sincere in contrast to literally the entire rest of the movie, and that fucking kid had it coming.

Everyone once in a while, I’ll randomly look up at nothing and think, “We really got to figure out what’s up with The Ophidians.

The Theatrical Cuts of Lord of the Rings are the best version of the story of Lord of the Rings. All the supplemental bullshit and travel logging in the books is well-written faffing around, fleshing out the world, but that’s for the hard core, the people who want to live in the world. I don’t.

My current idle project is making a list of constellations for @gamewoven.bsky.social. These might get referenced but probably won’t, and backfilling stories for them is an opportunity to fill out the world a little more. Understanding your world is for you, the story is for the audience.

skill issue. just do the worldbuilding/research and then not put it into the story this is not a joke. thinking out the implications but not explicitly enumerating them allows meaningful consistency without bogging your story down

Sometimes you look like an asshole, pulling into the second-from-right lane and slowing down to not pass the semi in the far right lane. Maybe you catch a gesture from the car behind you. Then they realize right lane ends right there and this is the exit lane that they need out of and that’s that

Random, useless flash of regret: I was talking about “Fountain” with a friend’s dad, who was lamenting modern art in the way conservatives do. I pushed the conversation towards what art is instead of making one thing clear first: I think it looks good. It pleases me aesthetically.

Why are tech dipshits trying to remove all the buttons? Did a button refuse to fuck them in high school because they were the kind of loser destined to become a tech dipshit and now they’re trying to make a world without buttons? Now that all the physical ones are gone, they’re killing the simulacra

Vacant properties should be taxed at progressively higher rates the longer they’re vacant relative to the asking price (both to rent and buy). Holding out to maintain property values should be a very risky investment.

Autistic dating is you partner telling you a bunch of crow facts and kissing you when you say they have cawtism.

In @gamewoven.bsky.social, gods die from forgetting, rejection, or violence. If they’re forgotten, they will be made anew. If they are rejected, they must be replaced, and that rejection is an act of violence. If you try to stab one, don’t miss.

Attempting to explain my gender: youtu.be/UvYcunuF3Eo?...

The part of this that I personally struggle with are the ways that sexuality or the aesthetics thereof ought to show up in public spaces. I hold myself to a relatively puritan ethic in that regard, even though I know better and, frankly, want better for myself.

Isn’t what’s being described a chunk the 9-5 part of being an academic? Like… imagine a carpenter talking about not wanting to maintain their tools or verifying they’re using the right kind of wood. Framed like that, the complaint is explicable, but shows the complainer is bad at their job.

For me and Ben: 1 1/2 Genders between 2 people, unevenly distributed, mostly performance.