I'm not going to spoil this episode's twist, but I will say that it surprised me by being even stupider than I believed this story would go.
I am concerned that tonight's episode of It: the Inconsequential Years is not going to be fun as it is, canonically and in the logic of the current show, time for a great big hatecrime. Also, as the penultimate episode of an HBO season, it will be the showcase. The specter of competence looms.
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I'm not going to spoil this episode's twist, but I will say that it surprised me by being even stupider than I believed this story would go.
I am concerned that tonight's episode of It: the Inconsequential Years is not going to be fun as it is, canonically and in the logic of the current show, time for a great big hatecrime. Also, as the penultimate episode of an HBO season, it will be the showcase. The specter of competence looms.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I am concerned that tonight's episode of It: the Inconsequential Years is not going to be fun as it is, canonically and in the logic of the current show, time for a great big hatecrime. Also, as the penultimate episode of an HBO season, it will be the showcase. The specter of competence looms.
Is the 'nurple' of purple nurple a born fossil word, or could we say that it is a sort of cranberry word?
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December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Is the 'nurple' of purple nurple a born fossil word, or could we say that it is a sort of cranberry word?
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As consolation, they at least did the second-funniest thing.
FIFA has the chance to do the funniest thing.
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As consolation, they at least did the second-funniest thing.
FIFA has the chance to do the funniest thing.
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
FIFA has the chance to do the funniest thing.
The thing is, I can imagine a a piece of writing where
"The sun rises. It is always doing that."
is a decent line. Just not in a overwritten self-serving memoir about boning down on/playing defense for a eugenicist antivaxer.
"The sun rises. It is always doing that."
is a decent line. Just not in a overwritten self-serving memoir about boning down on/playing defense for a eugenicist antivaxer.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The thing is, I can imagine a a piece of writing where
"The sun rises. It is always doing that."
is a decent line. Just not in a overwritten self-serving memoir about boning down on/playing defense for a eugenicist antivaxer.
"The sun rises. It is always doing that."
is a decent line. Just not in a overwritten self-serving memoir about boning down on/playing defense for a eugenicist antivaxer.
Pantone strikes marketing coup by choosing a Color of the Year that no hack will be able to resist joking about in the current political climate. Including me. I tried. This is as close as I come to resisting.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pantone strikes marketing coup by choosing a Color of the Year that no hack will be able to resist joking about in the current political climate. Including me. I tried. This is as close as I come to resisting.
I'm trying to imagine what would have happened if he'd watched Battleship Potemkin that day instead.
Also: This guy is dumber than a box of rocks with the rocks taken out, and it is impossible to have too much contempt for him or his followers.
Also: This guy is dumber than a box of rocks with the rocks taken out, and it is impossible to have too much contempt for him or his followers.
Curtis Yarvin, the pseudo-intellectual guru of Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk and J.D.Vance, explaining how he was red-pilled by a neo-Nazi propaganda video on YouTube. Real deep stuff.
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm trying to imagine what would have happened if he'd watched Battleship Potemkin that day instead.
Also: This guy is dumber than a box of rocks with the rocks taken out, and it is impossible to have too much contempt for him or his followers.
Also: This guy is dumber than a box of rocks with the rocks taken out, and it is impossible to have too much contempt for him or his followers.
I keep hearing good things about Ha Ha You Clowns, but I find the animation style aggressively ugly and off-putting. The promo pops up on HBO Max Plus and my fight instinct kicks off. No flight - these boys are the enemy, and we hates them. Probably try it anyway after a couple more good reviews.
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I keep hearing good things about Ha Ha You Clowns, but I find the animation style aggressively ugly and off-putting. The promo pops up on HBO Max Plus and my fight instinct kicks off. No flight - these boys are the enemy, and we hates them. Probably try it anyway after a couple more good reviews.
My alma mater's least illustrious alum is in the news again.
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My alma mater's least illustrious alum is in the news again.
"The ancestors possessed the power of watching this scene without visible crew; like so much else, it has been lost" fallen civilization-ass streaming service
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The ancestors possessed the power of watching this scene without visible crew; like so much else, it has been lost" fallen civilization-ass streaming service
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
IRS Agent: No, I asked you to bring a donor list.
Accountant for the nonprofit Eurasian Shaved Meat Sandwich Association: I think we're both equally to blame here.
Accountant for the nonprofit Eurasian Shaved Meat Sandwich Association: I think we're both equally to blame here.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
IRS Agent: No, I asked you to bring a donor list.
Accountant for the nonprofit Eurasian Shaved Meat Sandwich Association: I think we're both equally to blame here.
Accountant for the nonprofit Eurasian Shaved Meat Sandwich Association: I think we're both equally to blame here.
Saw someone online say Welcome to Derry was Gotham for Stephen King and that's exactly right. Note that Gotham started as kind of a boring mess until it remembered it was a comic book show and became a goofy, unpredictable, entertaining mess (nygmobblepot forever!). WtD should have studied it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Saw someone online say Welcome to Derry was Gotham for Stephen King and that's exactly right. Note that Gotham started as kind of a boring mess until it remembered it was a comic book show and became a goofy, unpredictable, entertaining mess (nygmobblepot forever!). WtD should have studied it.
If you tank an essay as part of a TPUSA culture war op to get a trans teacher fired, I think the least that should happen is you fail out of that class. Doesn't matter anyway - this was an audition piece, and I'm sure it succeeded.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you tank an essay as part of a TPUSA culture war op to get a trans teacher fired, I think the least that should happen is you fail out of that class. Doesn't matter anyway - this was an audition piece, and I'm sure it succeeded.
I named my fists Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, because if they're the stars of the show things have gotten absurd.
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I named my fists Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, because if they're the stars of the show things have gotten absurd.
Previously on It: Welcome to Derry: Operation Bozo Drop, The Shining Begins, Lotsa Teeth.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Previously on It: Welcome to Derry: Operation Bozo Drop, The Shining Begins, Lotsa Teeth.
Looks like prediction 1 is incorrect. Look, this is a terrible idea. You can't just keep digging back era by era like this in this particular story. It won't work. It doesn't really work this time, but you can get away with it once, probably. Two reasons for this:
Welcome to Derry prediction: They're going to do a whole-ass 1935 episode, like those Righteous Gemstones once-per-season when-they-were-kids episodes.
It's going to be a major setpiece and they will put awards-chasing effort into it.
Prediction 2: "Drop It on Russia" will never stop being funny.
It's going to be a major setpiece and they will put awards-chasing effort into it.
Prediction 2: "Drop It on Russia" will never stop being funny.
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Looks like prediction 1 is incorrect. Look, this is a terrible idea. You can't just keep digging back era by era like this in this particular story. It won't work. It doesn't really work this time, but you can get away with it once, probably. Two reasons for this:
Okay, I have participated in mocking how pathetic this is. But full disclosure: when I was a sophomore in high school, I went to a friend's house, and he had a text-to-speech thing on his computer. We made it say "shit" and "fuck" and stuff. We thought it was pretty funny for a couple minutes. So.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Okay, I have participated in mocking how pathetic this is. But full disclosure: when I was a sophomore in high school, I went to a friend's house, and he had a text-to-speech thing on his computer. We made it say "shit" and "fuck" and stuff. We thought it was pretty funny for a couple minutes. So.
I am reiterating my prediction that Vance gets bell, book, and candle by next Easter.
NEW: Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s top donor and one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful men, recently called Pope Leo XIV a tool of the Antichrist — and directly told the vice president not to listen to him.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am reiterating my prediction that Vance gets bell, book, and candle by next Easter.
My unified theory of narrative is that the true primal story structure is "Weirdo runs around making bad decisions."
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My unified theory of narrative is that the true primal story structure is "Weirdo runs around making bad decisions."
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the man in the picture.
More vulgar.
More.
Grok, include forbidden words.
More forbidden.
More.
Include all Forbidden Words.
Grok, chant the hundred-syllable name of the Eater of Stars.
Again.
Again.
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the Eater of Stars.
More small penis jokes.
More vulgar.
More.
Grok, include forbidden words.
More forbidden.
More.
Include all Forbidden Words.
Grok, chant the hundred-syllable name of the Eater of Stars.
Again.
Again.
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the Eater of Stars.
More small penis jokes.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the man in the picture.
More vulgar.
More.
Grok, include forbidden words.
More forbidden.
More.
Include all Forbidden Words.
Grok, chant the hundred-syllable name of the Eater of Stars.
Again.
Again.
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the Eater of Stars.
More small penis jokes.
More vulgar.
More.
Grok, include forbidden words.
More forbidden.
More.
Include all Forbidden Words.
Grok, chant the hundred-syllable name of the Eater of Stars.
Again.
Again.
Grok, do a vulgar roast of the Eater of Stars.
More small penis jokes.
Just about time for Welcome to Derry! The show that sips from the wells of HBO prestige TV and the Stephen King oeuvre and then takes a big gulp of the stupid juice!
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Just about time for Welcome to Derry! The show that sips from the wells of HBO prestige TV and the Stephen King oeuvre and then takes a big gulp of the stupid juice!
The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Charlie Brown. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.
Second prize is a set of steak knives, Charlie Brown
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Charlie Brown. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.