A136.1 God rides unusual animal.

long past time i did hesse's demian

D1810.8.2 Information received through dream.

reading a canticle for leibowitz for christmas which dares to ask "what if faith was the only thing to survive the atomic fire and that was good actually?"

touched down in oakland so of course i am going to cholita linda before seeing my folks. priorities.

A1464.1 Acquisition of poetry.

watched wake up dead man and within a year we will have a photo opp of rian johnson and the pope calling it now

bought a big package of day old bread at the sandwich shop ama

C12.1 Devil called on for help.

not buying the new wh40k game until the gaunts ghosts vs blood pact dlc adds gaunt and the tanith as a playable faction

working my way through the farseer and one of the things that strikes me is hobb's obsession with bodies as a site of failure and breakdown

i bought a switch solely to play three houses and in the final reckoning theres a decent chance i buy a switch 2 at some point just to play the sequel

the notion that kotor2 is bad because the kreia stuff is kind of dumb doesnt track for me at all since no one had any idea what the kreia stuff was actually about until years later and even then its mostly a post hoc critical narrative not a thing in the game

one of my foundational memories is the moment when japanese literature clicked in university. i am walking across the quad having just finished tanizaki's quicksand and i realize that the whole novel is a series of nested deceptions no one ever even believed in the first place

dividing all japanese literature into a "lying is sexy" pile and a "lying is anxiety inducing" pile

was describing mishima and was like "she's a messy bitch" then i paused for a second and thought to myself for a second and neither amended nor retracted the statement

mishima: morris-kun only you can understand the true meaning of 2-26. i need this from you before i die. ivan morris: yukio what the fuck are you on about

if i had a dollar for every sf author who was a former professor of byzantine history i'd have two dollars but that's still a lot honestly

the problem with grass lawns is there are too many failure states. people think this is a basic front yard pick but it actually has a very high skill floor.

For I have eaten a Scamp with my left tongue, but in my right tooth is how it could have won against me. Myth is under my crown only.

19. The Unburied Netch. 215 22. The Rapture, or Six Images. 1 4. The Burning Scheme. 82

K405.2 The stolen pot pawned with the real owner.

saw bugonia which is an a+ scene stealing performance from emma stone in an otherwise completely eh movie.

D759.10 Three soldiers in the enchanted manor.

J1875.2 Complaint of the porridge pot.

F460.4.4.2 Mountain-men chain captive peasant.

B191.1 Weasel as conjurer.

i think the twist is a really core element of the wierd tale--not in the "wow shocking" sense but in the "this recontectualizes everything that has come before (perhaps even everything you understood about the world)"

H1214 Quest assigned because of hero's knowledge of animal languages.

"is atton vapid?" the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 12,239 pages of heated debate

H586.5 One traveler to another ( as they see corpse borne by): He is not entirely dead.

C51.3.1 Tabu: desecration of God's name.

A1236.1 Mankind emerges from buds on trees.

I've been hearing of a lot of people with bad dreams, seeing bad omens, stuff like that. Haven't you?

@matthewharrison.bsky.social hey so my old roommate from university (who is a philosophy professor now) is giving a talk at your university might be amusing to attend and heckle him on my behalf

in virginia for four days and somehow not going to any civil war battlefields. i mean what's the point of coming here then, really?

G271.4.1 Exorcism by burning object for sympathetic magic.

bluesky what is the worst xcom enemy unknown level and why is it rainy highway?

A2426.1.2.1 Squirrel's call: asks whether viper (who ate up his children)is his friend.

8 am on a saturday and the coffee shop is poppin classic portland

A136.1.2.1 Sleipnir: eight-legged horse of Odin.

A720.1 Formerly seven suns.

Vivec smiled and told Mephala that she had become a King of Life.

also: sometimes i see people i stopped following a long long time ago and you know never once have i regretted the decision

the return of @mythologybot.boodoo.co has brought balance once again to my feed

G303.16.11.2 Devil prevented from revenge by pious priest.

H1289.3 Quest to giant's land.

"these confused times in which a young man from a good family wasn't even free to play a game of faro without involving himself in compromising aquaintanceships. bad times."

do you ever just whistle the armored trooper votoms theme or is that just me? this is my one anisong vice form some strange reason

D2161.4.19 Methods of magic cure --miscellaneous.