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I wonder what it's like to be English and have another English person say "I'm afraid you've lost the plot, old boy." Devastating, I imagine.

Captain Wily (self-insert Trek-fic original character): Welcome about the USS Loki, ensign. As you know there's only one rule for joining my crew: you have to at least tried to cheat on the Kobayashi Maru back at the Academy.

One way to get me on your side is a big fucking swing right at the beginning, because now I'm rooting for you to connect. Today's example: the last paragraph of chapter 1 of Angel Down.

and Bagger, already weighed down in mud  and blood, further heavies in the dreary certainty that the shriek won't ever end, just like the war won't ever end, like the carnage won't ever end, it's a sentence in a book careening without periods, gasping with too many commas, a sentence that, once begun, can't ever be stopped, a sentence doomed to loop back on itself to form a terrible black wheel that, sooner or later, will drag each and every person to their grave,

Prehistoric sage: Once upon a time there was a snake- P. Warrior: Pft boring. S: A GIANT snake, as big as a mountain W: NO too scary! S: Uh, so then a man killed the snake. W: Yay! S: The- W: Was it grandad? S: *sigh* Yes. W: Yay! S: The end. W: I should be king because of the snake.

Hear me out: - Elon Musk, richest man, possesses power and wealth that used to be limited to royalty. - EM's behavior is making the world suffer. - EM is rumored to have a dickwreck situation (botched implant). - If EM's penile health were restored, he might amend his behavior and heal the world.

A ranking of the emotions behind Wet Leg songs based on the quality of songs they inspire: 3. Happy/in love 2. Bored/disillusioned *tied with 2. Horny 1. Angry/spiteful

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With so many new and returning characters, and so many existing characters meeting for the first time, Avengers: Doomsday is going to have a lot of people saying their name and what their deal is. There's a real danger we get Cats but without the songs.

I think one of the things that sometimes obstructs our view of the ancient world is that we still use one of the words they used, but it's changed so much. We say "hero" and we usually mean the good guy, or at the very least someone trying to do good. When the hero comes to town, things get better.

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2w ago

If I’ve a complaint about the Odyssey it’s honestly that Nolan softens Odysseus way too much. He has Hector’s infant baby thrown off the walls of Troy and hangs all of his maids. He’s definitely not the type of guy to tell Penelope that she can remarry.

I appreciate that Ed Markey rolls with a crew, but having them make tough faces at me as they walk towards me and the camera keeps jump-cutting in closer until their whole face fills the screen is unpleasant. He should film his friends with more flattering camera work.

People are rightly dunking on the the intellectual incoherence of this project, but many are neglecting to point out that it will look like absolute dogshit and also will never exist. I almost hope it does, though, if only to see chuds insisting on the artistic supremacy of Dingo Pictures' Oddysey.

Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w ago

JUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.

I am as much of a capebrained MCU simp as the next guy, but all I could think watching the new trailer was "Too many guys."