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December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring.
Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.
Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring.
Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.
Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.
Sometimes I feel like posting online involves a roll on a random encounter table. You just wanted to gripe, but now some autistic is trying to engage in a discussion because he doesn’t realize that. Roll for initiative.
(I am that autist. I am very sorry)
(I am that autist. I am very sorry)
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes I feel like posting online involves a roll on a random encounter table. You just wanted to gripe, but now some autistic is trying to engage in a discussion because he doesn’t realize that. Roll for initiative.
(I am that autist. I am very sorry)
(I am that autist. I am very sorry)
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I still maintain "Van Helsing" should have been a musical with songs by Jim Steinman. It would still have flopped but would probably have gone on to become one of the most beloved films ever with stage versions in cities worldwide raking in billions.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I still maintain "Van Helsing" should have been a musical with songs by Jim Steinman. It would still have flopped but would probably have gone on to become one of the most beloved films ever with stage versions in cities worldwide raking in billions.
Need to learn multithreading for my brain so I can still think about dragons while doing Work
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Need to learn multithreading for my brain so I can still think about dragons while doing Work
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Hang on I thought the subgenre was about financial and political intrigue inside the royal harems of fantasy settings and concubines that controlled entire fleets of trade ships that made them richer than the emperor have I been lied to
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hang on I thought the subgenre was about financial and political intrigue inside the royal harems of fantasy settings and concubines that controlled entire fleets of trade ships that made them richer than the emperor have I been lied to
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Desecration.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Desecration.
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I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.
I wanted Black Phone 2 to be good so bad, but what an abysmal sequel! The wretched script for that movie felt more violent than anything I saw on screen. Starring Ethan Hawke’s voiceover and a plank of wood that hijacks the movie for an emotional filibuster every twenty minutes. Great visuals though
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I wanted Black Phone 2 to be good so bad, but what an abysmal sequel! The wretched script for that movie felt more violent than anything I saw on screen. Starring Ethan Hawke’s voiceover and a plank of wood that hijacks the movie for an emotional filibuster every twenty minutes. Great visuals though
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Me to resistlib cringe content in the second term
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Me to resistlib cringe content in the second term
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listen. it isn't. I have, it's not, there are lots of--but, all the same
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
listen. it isn't. I have, it's not, there are lots of--but, all the same
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So, hot take but actually the solution is not quotas (obviously) but just more jobs in the academic humanities.
Part of the problem with the humanities jobs crisis is you get hired basically sight unseen (straight from PhD) or not at all and I'd buy that process is more ideological.
Part of the problem with the humanities jobs crisis is you get hired basically sight unseen (straight from PhD) or not at all and I'd buy that process is more ideological.
that Demsas piece about GOP affirmative action is exactly as bad as you'd think. this is Chait-level shit. this is Conor Friedersdorf quality.
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So, hot take but actually the solution is not quotas (obviously) but just more jobs in the academic humanities.
Part of the problem with the humanities jobs crisis is you get hired basically sight unseen (straight from PhD) or not at all and I'd buy that process is more ideological.
Part of the problem with the humanities jobs crisis is you get hired basically sight unseen (straight from PhD) or not at all and I'd buy that process is more ideological.
Can we cool it with the BlueSky is dying discourse I JUST got here
August 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Can we cool it with the BlueSky is dying discourse I JUST got here
My favorite genre of #OSR blogpost are the ones that take some weird assertion made by some of the oldest versions of the game and extrapolate what that implies about the setting or world.
July 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My favorite genre of #OSR blogpost are the ones that take some weird assertion made by some of the oldest versions of the game and extrapolate what that implies about the setting or world.
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For the thousandth time I demand my gigantically overblown and baroque ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ prestige series, one trillion dollars per episode, sweeping vistas, enormous sea battles, all the gold accents are real gold, wig budget bigger than the GDP of Portugal, etc
If you could adapt any work of literature into a TV series (and you can only pick one), which would you pick and why?
We'll go first. Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber. Seeing that world come to life with walls of Caribbean culture would be real fascinating to see on TV. So good.
Your turn!
We'll go first. Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber. Seeing that world come to life with walls of Caribbean culture would be real fascinating to see on TV. So good.
Your turn!
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For the thousandth time I demand my gigantically overblown and baroque ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ prestige series, one trillion dollars per episode, sweeping vistas, enormous sea battles, all the gold accents are real gold, wig budget bigger than the GDP of Portugal, etc
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When you have a killer headache but have to fire the interior decorator anyway.
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When you have a killer headache but have to fire the interior decorator anyway.
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The Locke and Demosthenes was by far the most ridiculous part of Ender's Game and yet we live out its core premise of how vocabulary and ideas spread on here every day.
July 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Locke and Demosthenes was by far the most ridiculous part of Ender's Game and yet we live out its core premise of how vocabulary and ideas spread on here every day.
I always see people insist that the OSR TTRPG space is like ten meters up its own ass or something, but truly I’ve never found more TTRPG content that’s more nuts and bolts in other game spheres. Cannot understand this discourse.
June 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I always see people insist that the OSR TTRPG space is like ten meters up its own ass or something, but truly I’ve never found more TTRPG content that’s more nuts and bolts in other game spheres. Cannot understand this discourse.
Just now found out that the titular streetcar in “A Streetcar Named Desire” does not grant wishes, and the story is about abuse. I feel mislead and honestly betrayed.
April 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Just now found out that the titular streetcar in “A Streetcar Named Desire” does not grant wishes, and the story is about abuse. I feel mislead and honestly betrayed.
It’s 2004. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2014. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2024. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2014. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2024. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
December 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM
It’s 2004. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2014. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2024. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2014. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
It’s 2024. I am playing Pokémon Crystal on Christmas Eve to avoid socializing.
The unseasonably warm weather has really sullied the Halloween spirit in me. Climate change is the scariest thing of all.
October 31, 2024 at 8:44 PM
The unseasonably warm weather has really sullied the Halloween spirit in me. Climate change is the scariest thing of all.