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@eatingcroutons.bsky.social

Well over 18, any pronouns. Recovering academic. Anti-censorship, pro-scoia'tael. I can't promise content warnings here. I sometimes write things. Find me on AO3 and elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/eatingcroutons pfp by the lovely @keyxiidae.bsky.social

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

If the official "Legend of Zelda" timeline is to be believed, the same exact Ganon has done the "calamitous final transformation you can only use once because it burns away your humanity" thing on like six unconnected occasions, which suggests that for evil wizards humanity is a renewable resource.

Remember to be kind to yourself today. You can be evil to yourself tomorrow. On Wednesday you should be kind to ducks. On Thursday the ducks will be evil to you, so watch out for that

No no we will NOT stop talking about THE ODYSSEY. We will TAKE OUR TIME. You might think it will end soon but LIKE UNINVITED GUESTS posts will keep STEALING YOUR ATTENTION. In fact we will FIGHT for it and SHOW OFF. The journey will have TWISTS and TURNS and there will be SCARY SMART WITCH WOMEN.

2081: The war rages on. No nation states now exist. No commonwealths or republics or empires. No, only two politic impulses remain. The enduring struggle of the battle-hardened Nolanites against the Wilsonians.

very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”

Having been Very Online in the 90s is rough because half your core memories are like "yeah, this Flash video's pop culture deconstruction is amazingly topical even today, and I can never rec it to anyone because its premise is a level of homophobic ordinarily found only under laboratory conditions".

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities AND as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.