"Descendants of Norse raiders became fearsome warriors in Ireland" sounds like some weird fantasy bullshit but, like, it actually happened.

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

I posted 2 tiktoks yesterday, one about a fantasy horror novel that I've gotten requests for since I started on YouTube and one about an obscure YA romance from 2010. You truly never know what people want you to make, and I can't decide if that's great or terrible.

Do you think this thumbnail works? Or is it too much?

So I just finished reading "Between Two Fires" and it might be the first example of Christian horror I've ever come across that genuinely scared the shit out of me. 5/5 stars, this is a great thing to read during Halloween season.

He looks like he should be telling me to please keep my arms and legs inside the ride at all times.

I call dibs on starting today's pointless discourse. Watching anime when you're not Japanese is cultural appropriation, actually.

Sometimes people claim that fiction affects reality but they only ever mean that in a negative way. What if Ser Duncan the Tall inspired me to defend the innocent? What if Sora convinced me to fight the darkness? What if Leon Kennedy taught me how to spin kick zombies?

Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party used left wing rhetoric to make their antisemitism and other reactionary beliefs more palatable to the general public. They never really believed in socialism. Just reminding everyone, no reason.

How it feels when your parents try to ragebait you and you don't get mad.

This is a very disappointing thing to learn. And while it sounds like Jacob has grown past the person who would commit such a heinous act, I, personally, don't feel comfortable supporting him or his content any longer. Maybe one day that will change.

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · last wk.

I feel bad for Kuwaitis, they're stuck between Iraq and a hard place.

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

When Caesar led the apes in their war to overthrow humanity, did Curious George kill the Man in the Yellow Hat?

This is a big part of why I don't like most political video essayists anymore tbh.

Valhalla sounds weird because everyone who dies in battle goes there, that means you have to spend eternity with a bunch of soldiers. Have you ever met those guys? Just imagine being surrounded by a bunch of guys in their 20's forever.

It happens everyday from Midnight to 1 AM, unless I spend too much time pining after one of my exes before bed, then it lasts until 3 AM.

@genericuser12345.bsky.social · 2w ago

So you are saying that being chased by the manifestations of your psychosexual shame and regret is just Tuesday for you?

Let's see: I can try to survive a horde of mutated zombies that overrun the police in a matter of hours, followed by a nuclear explosion, or I can try to survive a realm of psychological torment filled with slow nurses that die from getting hit with a pipe. Not a hard choice.

There are two types of Halloween monsters: Sexy and unsexy. Vampires? Sexy Zombies? Unsexy Fairies? Sexy Werewolves? Depends on who you ask

These people want a revolution to overthrow the current system and they think the best way to accomplish that is by acting like petty bullies to others in their community.

doom boy@doomboy.bsky.social · 3w ago

hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.

The Locked Tomb should have stayed locked youtu.be/C1ptGpErIvg

The Locked Tomb should have stayed locked

YouTube video by James Tullos

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Rambling thought: In the Riordanverse (Percy Jackson, The Kane Chronicles, etc.) Gods are immortal and the only way they die is when humans stop worshipping them. We see that with the "deaths" of Pan and Helios in PJ and it's also implied that the Celtic Gods all faded in this manner as well.

I call dibs on starting today's pointless discourse. Batman is pro-Palestine, but also in favor of the Iran War.

They say all dogs go to heaven and that's clearly not true. Do dogs get baptized? Do dogs understand the divinity of Christ? Has a single canine ever spared a moment to contemplate Martin Luther's 95 theses?

"Why don't you have a seat?" "I'm sorry, there must be some mistake." "You're 104 years old and you say you have a girlfriend in highschool. You see how this looks, right?"

Is it just me, or does a large component of the online left seem to be composed of folks who want to be edgelord nihilists and ultra-woke language police simultaneously? Am I imagining things? Or have others noticed?

Calvin and Hobbes is weird because half of it is the greatest comic strip ever made and it's about a child going on imaginary adventures and the other half is also the greatest comic strip ever made and it's just an old boomer ranting at society.