On the minor dwarf characters, they're clearly leaning into Peter Jackson's unfortunate "Dwarves are inherently comic relief" impulse.

Eric Swalwell always gave piece-of-shit vibes. Burn him down. Burn them all down. Do NOT circle the wagons around rapists and abusers simply because they're on your "team" or because they were your friends. I have seen way, way too much of that in every community I've ever been part of.

I think Lower Decks was remarkably consistent throughout but it also topped out at perfectly fine.

TNG is still my favorite series, and the less said about its lows, the better.

DS9 was underrated long enough to become somewhat overrated.

a cartoon character says tell them i hate them in front of a building Alt: Tell Them I Hate Them

Me reading every article about Trump voters regretting their votes now that he's done every fucking thing he said he would do.

Mine is probably still The Princess Bride. Second choice is The Naked Gun.

Watching proudly ignorant and destructive grifters go from "Climate change isn't real" to "It's too late to stop climate change, so double down" makes me wish I believed in a hell for them to burn in. I will never forgive anyone who played the smallest part supporting these feckless shitsacks.

The forecast high temperatures here for the next three days of mid-March are 88/86/90. This summer will be truly brutal. Those in power are not only failing to do anything about it but actively making things much, much worse.

Oh good, I look forward to more credulous mainstream media reports referring to Markwayne Mullin as Cherokee even though his ancestry is likely 1/128th Cherokee, meaning a Cherokee great great great great great grandparent. I guess "Markwayne Mullin, who is 99% white" doesn't have the same ring.

My people throw the name of God
out like candy, not in vain
but in the way you say the name
of someone you love again and again.

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"Stadium nachos with the thick round tortilla chips and fake cheese and pickled jalapeños"

Hell and yes!

McDonald's fries + chocolate shake
Denny's Moons Over My Hammy
Papa John's garlic dipping sauce
Velveeta shells and cheese
Nacho Cheese Doritos
Beef-flavored Ramen instant noodles

Mapping the degeneration of the culture generally through Stranger Thing’s degeneration from well executed period horror adventure to idiot nostalgia fan service slop

Drop a crush from your youth.

(Still a crush, in all fairness.)

Cooking, then eating, then clearing up. Buying, then wearing, then washing and folding and putting away. Listing, arranging, remembering. Making the body, presenting it, hating it, remaking it, presenting it, getting fucked, getting fucked.

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It turns out the pain is a creature I’m growing. The creature
I’m growing lords over the nerves of walking,
continence and love.

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All last year, I waited for a white dwarf
to crash into a red giant’s stellar
wind, for the display–electric orange,
pink. I studied simulations online.

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ICE's strategy of escalating peaceful protest situations into violence and then blaming their victims for trying to get away comes straight from the playbook of every cop group in America.

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

Abolish ICE three times in the fucking face

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."

A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.

B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

They should try circling the earth around something other than the sun this time, just to mix things up

i didn’t mean to get nostalgic;
i just have a strange need
to be loved like i’ve been shot
nowhere fatal.

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Couple different malignant idiots have willingly gotten the shit beaten out of them in the past two days. I'm not complaining.

A line of wet black birds on the power
wire, coal drops, hunker
elbow to elbow. I will gun it

for the open drawbridge. There
is a casket I need
to go dancing on.

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Including that Harvey Weinstein was the smartest guy in Hollywood 🤷‍♂️

Well, kittens are the best, so that's something I guess? My brain is a fifteen-year-old misbehaving orange tabby (strangely like the one I "own").

Hoo boy, I take 3 or 5 mg and also not every night and also it makes me feel sleepy but doesn't help me sleep and also my CPAP isn't all it was cracked up to be so here I am wired at 1 a.m., so overall I think we're in the same insomniac club. Welcome!

Look, we aren't all lucky enough to bone a Scottish candle ghost

A screenshot of an email reading: Godzilla Deliver Pure Godzilla Joy There's No Bigger Gift Than Godzilla

This is what I hope to accomplish with everything I write

Five-ish games to get to know me:

Civilization series (IV if I must pick)
Fallout series (New Vegas if I must pick)
X-COM series (Enemy Within if I must pick)
Portal series (2 if I must pick)
Baldur's Gate series (3 if I must pick)

I've been sadly meh about too many of the fantasy novels I've read recently, but I have many good candidates upcoming.