Kyle Marquis

Empyrean Overthrow your father's regime with his own secret experimental fighter plane! Dogfight dieselpunk aeros to save your city and the iron jungle beneath it.

Want something short and super-fun? Try my first game, the flying-ace adventure EMPYREAN! You can play the first four chapters for free!

I am usually a "nothing changes and everything gets worse forever" guy but I think Trump can do it, I think this war could become a jam he can't wriggle out of

(flipping to TBS on my old Daewoo) ah it's not on for another half hour (watches the end of Air Force One)

Gray cat at dinner table in front of the bread plate

Gray cat at dinner table closeup

"Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel! One only wonders at the long-suffering or blindness of the crowned heads."

Oh yeah, the people least able to understand the EC are the people who keep losing because of it. Like some kind of wizard curse.

one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism

This is on average true but if you explain Electoral College-based voting strategy to a European, they look at you like you're the Avignon Papacy

A girl holds hands with a pikachu, and says, "pikachu, we will do it, we will electrocute timothée chalamet". The pikachu replies, "yes master".

It must be done.

no one there needs to know why my grandmother fled her country of birth that’s between her & her god & a handful of saints who used to be gods.

Some time in the '90s the GOP realized that both "read!" and "vote!" were partisan Democratic positions masquerading as general civic engagement, and that was the end of that

IDK if people are talking about Kai Cenat's public reading journey, but he's using his power for good.

A lot of people can't read. At least not at what we consider adequate levels. And it is not their fault. Society as a whole severely pulled away from literacy advocacy.

Dirt y limbless snowman with one twig sticking out

Walked around the block. All the local dogs and cats are sitting on their front stoops for the first time since November. Didn't get any pictures of them but here's a folk horror snowman

It's finally above freezing but I have to wait another week to go for human-walks because no one plows the bike trails and I have to wait for the snow to melt.

Cat on a leash watching the snowy backyard

Waiting for the snow to melt

darkwing duck sitting casually next to his villain bushroot wrapped in plastic looking dead as hell, like laura palmer

flashbanged with memories of the twin peaks episode of darkwing duck

Exactly. These are the most precedented times of all. (Though I wish all the precedents weren't hitting us at once.)

I'll defend the aesthetic, legal, and political importance of porn, and criticizing porn for not doing what literature does (I mean literature in the broadest sense, from Anna Karenina to a Star Wars comic) is going to make you miserable and, if you're not careful, reactionary.

This becomes a lot more bearable if you realize the article is about romance (the genre) and you accept that romance (the genre) is just porn. Those books are pornos, so of course people are fussy and particular about them. It's 2026, no one just throws on "a porno"; they want what they want.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

this post has broken containment, here is my disclaimer: i cannot overemphasize how much this is *not* a star trek account, we mainly post naked catboy titmeat here. which, now that i think about it, is very Trek in spirt. even so... fair warning

Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.

Of course, TopatoCo (which sells webcomic t-shirts, and Saint Homunculus t-shirts in the World of Darkness) is still around (it operates out of Easthampton) and newspapers are all dead.

I should point out that this comes from a lot of newspaper comics' attitudes toward webcomics when they first showed up: "They're not selling comics, they're selling t-shirts!"

Years ago I had a Dark Ages Mage plot about a necromancer resurrecting Jesus Christ the necromancer way instead of the Bible way in order to destroy the concept of Grace and, as I recall, eat it to gain power.

went back in time to introduce a Victorian child to pizza but instead they got me hooked on some kind of embalming fluid they were all doing. these kids are fucked up

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

There's no way to add up America's good decisions vs bad decisions but there have been SO MANY bad decisions that you can really pick wherever. The failure of Reconstruction, '68 and the collapse of the New Left, Clinton functionally creating two right-wing parties, really wherever.

I think "this came out of nowhere" is a bad take. Future historians of American decline will be tracing this back to talk radio in the eighties, Ronald Reagan, American interventionism in Latin America, the 94 crime bill, white flight, 9/11, and creationism. It's stupid but complicated.

People are reposting the daylight savings posts I reposted last year, I keep going to like or repost them but I already have I already have I already have

Many countries didn't want to take the risk of Selma Hayek turning boys into normal and boring heterosexuals