Songs in the Key of Real Life raining on the beach vacation staying calm during a root canal crying softly at your desk patching a hole in the drywall living the dream
38 Influential Posters@bsky38.com · 3w agoGood afternoon, bsk38.com was a 2-week sociological study conducted by Bluesky University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time. But for real, congrats to @moara.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net, @atrupar.com, and all 38 influential Bluesky posters, as voted by the people! 🇧🇷
final fantasy: you now have an emotional attachment to this tiny wizard me: ok final fantasy: do u promise to love him me: yes of course final fantasy: THE WIZARD IS NOW IN MORTAL PERIL me: 😭
Our family tradition is keeping the kids home from school on 9/11.
Twilight Princess is the Zelda game Reddit would make.
We need a word to distinguish a single story conceived of and written largely at the same time but for whatever reason spread across multiple entries (The Lord of the Rings, KSR's Mars Trilogy) and a series of sequels (Earthsea, Children of Time).
If I had a nickel for every early-career experimental alt R&B project from an incredible female vocalist who has since gained mainstream success I'd have two nickels. Which isn't enough, I need to know every project like this.
There was some great 10s pop playing in Lowes this weekend and I realized Gaga and The Weeknd are now "classic rock"
Different category but there was a point at which a friend had rolled credits on exactly 3 Final Fantasy's, and the three were XVI, II, and IX. Possibly the only human to ever do that.
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agopromoted by this revelation: what are the strangest two MCU movies to have seen if you have only seen two?
The Last of Us probably has a great story, I certainly enjoyed it for the first few cutscenes, but playing the game felt bad.
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.
I recently read my first John Crowley, his second novel Beasts. Crowley's prose is astonishing, painting a host of human and animal character's interiority with empathy and finesse. First author I've read in a while who upon finishing my first novel of theirs I immediately start another.
The Prince of Annwn by Evangeline Walton Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey guy readers! Quote this with some books by women and nonbinary authors that you recommend. A few from me: Meg Elison's Book of the Unnamed Midwife R.F. Kuang's Poppy War Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful Fonda Lee's Jade City Sarah Gailey's Echo Wife Premee Mohamed's Annual Migration of Clouds
keep hating, Vance, this only makes Trump thirstier for AES
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
pleasantly surprised to not find Samuel Delany in the thread and bewildered to find Iain Banks.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo agoalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
My favorite scene in The Odyssey is when Athena refuses to address Plotholes and does goddess stuff instead.
I understand wanting to play the action hero more than the affable chud but Damon is so blah as the former so good at the latter.
tfw your moot with way more followers rts you
ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 3mo agoPhotographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.
The Detroit MTG set will have commander decks for Eminem, Malcolm X, Henry Ford, and the Lions.
Star City Games@starcitygames.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 2027 Magic roadmap is here! 🗺️ Feb. 5 — Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Apr. 9 — Universes Beyond June 4 — Kamigawa: Titanbreach Aug. 6 — Universes Beyond Oct. 1 — Zhalfir Nov. 19 — Universes Beyond MagicCon: Detroit, Tokyo, Las Vegas, and Amsterdam! Limited Championship: Minneapolis #MTG
The Remains of the Day (1993) is a great date night movie if you're hoping to have that hot "somberly reflecting on your life choices" sex.
seeing Supergirl (2026) in theaters as anti-fascist praxis
not the guy with the PRAY t-shirt bout to murder someone at the National Park snack bar because the food is taking 20 minutes
Guy whose only read the Nicene creed seeing "we believe" in any context: getting some real Nicene Creed vibes from this
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoVance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed