Pre-larp anxiety. My jimmies are rustled. The awfulness of being perceived and potentially making a fool of oneself vs the niceness of seeing friends and playing pretend. The cost-benefit analysis is right on the edge for the next month or so.

yeah alright it's a short story's worth I reckon

Dream last night involved destroying a haunted and malevolent computer by powering it with energy from hell rather than connecting it to the national grid and then tricking it into travelling through an interdimensional portal. A greater person would make a novel or comic out of that

80% of my conversations when I leave the house

Good news! The November sumo tournament starts this weekend!

Email from university about a workshop on 'the ethical use of AI' lmao no

The 'oh god it's so dark' is setting in hard and there is months of this to go -_-

god imagine these people reading any forum post in 2003

If anyone in SW London is wondering what the weather is doing, I am about to step outside for a lunchtime run, so expect showers imminently

We all agree that a Chargin' Chuck acts with malice in his heart, and so could find Christ and seek redemption, but can the same be said for a Cheep Cheep? Do they act with Sin, or is it simply their nature, and so there is nothing to be redeemed?

*cackling* at the Frank Skinner story in this week's popbitch

you don't resonate with that thing you relate to it or it resonates with you

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights? LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York

Is there anything more calming than gently holding the toebeans of a small cat

My commissions are open! Consider this your official warning about Christmas commissions because I will being stopping taking new commissions on the 11th December! Policies in comments because I can't upload more than four images at a time #supportrealartists

From 2019 onwards, you say. How mysterious.

Well done for winning Mamdani now please get ready for a deluge of bad faith actors personally blaming you as if you were Batman every time a single crime or bad thing happens anywhere in New York

Tax wealth. Not work. Join.greenparty.org.uk

as far as i can tell this is what new york is facing right now and im wishing you all the best

PhD reading going much better than the work did in the latter half of my MA. Turns out that it is much easier to focus when you are not catastrophically depressed. Who knew.

Something faintly haunted about using a Blockbuster video membership card as a bookmark, I think (it was to hand in a drawer when I needed one)

Can't tell if Cuomo is voting or eating from his grain bag

To the tune of 'riders on the storm' gettin' in my head

happy tuesday, please enjoy these extremely early 90s stickers I found in my old sticker collection and ask yourself why a sticker of young Clive Owen exists (was he a heartthrob then??)

Marriage is a pvp server. My husband just came into the room wearing only his boxers and accused me of earnestly listening to The Birdie Song, owning it on vinyl, and reverently placing it on the record player while steepling my fingers and actively engaging with the music

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

being sappy and earnest and sincere is underrated. there are a million ways to show someone you love them and you should explore everyone of them, for friends and family and partners. do it for them, but do it for you, too. you'll feel great

is this happening in a pizza hut??

if you get a pizza, and you flip it, and put it on top of another pizza, is that a sandwich, or a calzone

Fired after one day on the building site. My brick glue was ‘runny’ and ‘not called that’ and my wall icing ‘uneven’ and ‘not called that’.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Own up. Who is buying Christmas shit at this time of year, and thus driving the market?

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

#3142 A spider without all that extra shit.

'eco-socialist' don't promise me a good time (I have already joined)

Rides

The number of people who think it's fine to leave a long ride queue and then just....push back in to where they were with their friends, is astonishing

What if rides....*but at night*

The repetitive, hypnotic, soporific, domestic reassurance of the easygoing assonance in the first line of the second stanza, giving reluctant way across the invisible threshold of enjambement to another set of vowels entirely in the second line. Beautiful, melancholy. Reminds me of Duffy's 'Prayer'.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I just had the sensation of sudden silence, like when roadworks or air conditioning that had been in the background but you hadn't really noticed suddenly stops, and you notice its absence _only I am in bed, and have industrial earplugs in_ _so it must have been a noise my own body was making_

Really heartwarming and a big, emphatic fuck you to the xenophobic, racist Cuomo and New York Post scaremongering.

When I see arguments about whether mental health problems are caused by trauma or neurotype or society or brain chemistry I feel like I'm watching two people have a fist fight over whether Kermit is a Muppet or a frog. Multiple things can be the case simultaneously. One does not negate the others.

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

You better believe haunt season runs all the way through November and the traditional telling of ghost stories at Christmas

It is 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' season

[me, flying up to galactus on a tiny surfboard]: where's your poppy

Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo

MTA arrival signs have little ghosts haunting the screens