As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.
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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
@thecracksau.bsky.social
The final sleeve up and shuffle is always a nice feeling- it's all here, in place, it's real
John Darnielle singing solo at a microphone
John Darnielle and saxophonist/bassist/keys guy Matt Douglas
Matt Douglas playing a saxophone very well
John Darnielle singing No Children to an entire audience yelling "I hope you die" (lovingly)
Some @themountaingoats.bsky.social shots from last night- incredible show!
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Doing the Gollum voice when you play like Ring of Xathrid is very fun
Ooooooooh comely
wait, fuck, this is gorillaz
Oh man I'm going to Sydney in a few weeks didn't think I'd get TWO harbour bridges
Utility folder was a banger
I don't have a list written out but I have a Gollum, Faithful guide deck that contains cards for each of Gollum and Bilbo's riddles in the dark (including, breaking g the rules, a basic Mountain) and a whole pile of rings that Gollum is searching for. Like Sisay's ring
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
John Lennon doing that stupid walk
Walking away from Omelas like
Paddington in Parasite (2019)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1820
Cunk on the Multiverse
The only person to be compleated then promptly uncompleated once they realised what they had.
As an Australian though I need to know how Canadian Tire compares to Princess Auto
One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation
@jacksonwryan.com nice piece in the sat paper
Did you hear about the scientists that tried to cross a cheetah with a crab?
Things went sideways real fast.
If it's any consolation I've long at least suspected you exist.
A page from the Silmarillion, which I definitely wasn't already rereading
Look what you made me do
Just chilling here in Valinor waiting for- oh this is what you were talking about
Wow I see how it is
Macbeth: SHIT
