Peter Damien
@peterdamien.bsky.social
Writer, reader, Dire Warning
The alt text is the real treasure in these posts
I HATE ALL COMPANY'S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN
January 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The alt text is the real treasure in these posts
1,700 words written yesterday, 500 words written today. I'm within sight of the end of this story, I swear I am
January 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
1,700 words written yesterday, 500 words written today. I'm within sight of the end of this story, I swear I am
It's really cold here in Seattle, and I wouldn't mind if it would at least come with some SNOW. Either commit to winter, or retreat back to stylish jacket weather, dammit
January 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It's really cold here in Seattle, and I wouldn't mind if it would at least come with some SNOW. Either commit to winter, or retreat back to stylish jacket weather, dammit
I don't have the heart to read it, and I don't need further convincing...but here it is if you haven't read anything on the topic and need to. Content Warnings abound, obviously
An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it.
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I don't have the heart to read it, and I don't need further convincing...but here it is if you haven't read anything on the topic and need to. Content Warnings abound, obviously
Reposted by Peter Damien
The Vulture piece on Gaiman is heartbreaking, disgusting, and important. I hope our genre stops looking away.
January 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Vulture piece on Gaiman is heartbreaking, disgusting, and important. I hope our genre stops looking away.
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Many thanks to all those sweet congratulations on The Wrath of Khan being included on the National Film Registry via the Library of Congress, (which, I take it, is still open for the people's business).
December 18, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Many thanks to all those sweet congratulations on The Wrath of Khan being included on the National Film Registry via the Library of Congress, (which, I take it, is still open for the people's business).
Ohhhh I'm ready
First look at Guillermo del Toro's ‘FRANKENSTEIN’
Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster.
Releasing on Netflix in 2025.
(Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...)
Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster.
Releasing on Netflix in 2025.
(Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...)
November 22, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Ohhhh I'm ready
Sometimes when I read articles about Fascist Tech Bro Utopias, the articles will wonder "didn't they play BioShock?"
of course, they did. It's just that they were on Andrew Ryan's side from the getgo. All the bad stuff that happened was someone else's fault.
boingboing.net/2024/05/02/t...
of course, they did. It's just that they were on Andrew Ryan's side from the getgo. All the bad stuff that happened was someone else's fault.
boingboing.net/2024/05/02/t...
Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism
Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan advocates anti-democratic "gray tribe" to take over cities, ban liberals from areas.
boingboing.net
November 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Sometimes when I read articles about Fascist Tech Bro Utopias, the articles will wonder "didn't they play BioShock?"
of course, they did. It's just that they were on Andrew Ryan's side from the getgo. All the bad stuff that happened was someone else's fault.
boingboing.net/2024/05/02/t...
of course, they did. It's just that they were on Andrew Ryan's side from the getgo. All the bad stuff that happened was someone else's fault.
boingboing.net/2024/05/02/t...
CW: for Cormac McCarthy's underage muse.
I wanted to read the article because as with Neil Gaiman, I like to be thorough when learning an author is shit. But good Lord the prose in the article is so desperately literary, it rapidly vanishes up itself
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
I wanted to read the article because as with Neil Gaiman, I like to be thorough when learning an author is shit. But good Lord the prose in the article is so desperately literary, it rapidly vanishes up itself
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
www.vanityfair.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
CW: for Cormac McCarthy's underage muse.
I wanted to read the article because as with Neil Gaiman, I like to be thorough when learning an author is shit. But good Lord the prose in the article is so desperately literary, it rapidly vanishes up itself
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
I wanted to read the article because as with Neil Gaiman, I like to be thorough when learning an author is shit. But good Lord the prose in the article is so desperately literary, it rapidly vanishes up itself
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
It's freezing! I have a chest cold! We're starting the week really well so far!
November 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM
It's freezing! I have a chest cold! We're starting the week really well so far!
...well now *I'm* waiting for this
I’m not ‘waiting’ for anyone to join Bluesky except Sam Neill so I can see him post one picture of his pigs every three months and then disappear
November 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
...well now *I'm* waiting for this
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I’m not ‘waiting’ for anyone to join Bluesky except Sam Neill so I can see him post one picture of his pigs every three months and then disappear
November 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I’m not ‘waiting’ for anyone to join Bluesky except Sam Neill so I can see him post one picture of his pigs every three months and then disappear
Finally, the sort of news and journalism I want in my life.
November 17, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Finally, the sort of news and journalism I want in my life.
ALL MY MF'RS AGREE WITH THIS
August 10, 2024 at 9:15 PM
ALL MY MF'RS AGREE WITH THIS
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This morning, my Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon is probably temperature based...
January 16, 2024 at 1:54 PM
This morning, my Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon is probably temperature based...
Reposted by Peter Damien
If Bruce Wayne was serious about cleaning up crime in Gotham City instead of dressing up as a Bat, he should spend his billions on buying DC comics and making them publish comics with less crime in them.
January 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM
If Bruce Wayne was serious about cleaning up crime in Gotham City instead of dressing up as a Bat, he should spend his billions on buying DC comics and making them publish comics with less crime in them.
Hello and happy 2024 everyone. I hope for a lot of good food, good tea, and a frankly alarming number of books for everyone.
(You can swap out tea for coffee, I suppose, but I'm not responsible for what that does to your 2024)
(You can swap out tea for coffee, I suppose, but I'm not responsible for what that does to your 2024)
January 1, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Hello and happy 2024 everyone. I hope for a lot of good food, good tea, and a frankly alarming number of books for everyone.
(You can swap out tea for coffee, I suppose, but I'm not responsible for what that does to your 2024)
(You can swap out tea for coffee, I suppose, but I'm not responsible for what that does to your 2024)
tf you mean MADE FOR ME, Spotify?
December 17, 2023 at 4:44 PM
tf you mean MADE FOR ME, Spotify?
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There's something incredibly delightful--and fucked up--that the guitar riffs in "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie are by Slash.
December 16, 2023 at 5:20 PM
There's something incredibly delightful--and fucked up--that the guitar riffs in "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie are by Slash.
I don't know, the Independently Wealthy Industry seems to be doing remarkably well
It's such a bad time to be in *checks notes, squints* Literally Any Industry
December 13, 2023 at 4:47 PM
I don't know, the Independently Wealthy Industry seems to be doing remarkably well
I'm sorry, but I feel in my heart of hearts that the face is on the stem, because the top bit is always A HAT. Plus it's weird-lookin'
December 11, 2023 at 4:37 AM
I'm sorry, but I feel in my heart of hearts that the face is on the stem, because the top bit is always A HAT. Plus it's weird-lookin'
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