Oh that one yeah. I mean, the role of the packager here is a bit odd, usually it’s the publisher going ‘I don’t have time to make this book, we will just pay to have it handled out of house’. I would be quite surprised if Alloy farmed it out to a plagiarist to be honest
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I don’t remember this one but a packager 100% writes the book.
02.03.2026 17:35 —
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It’s Prousted me into last week
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mention of The Storyteller has just Prousted me incredibly hard
02.03.2026 11:35 —
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They’re reading manga as far as I can tell.
02.03.2026 10:49 —
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Spider-Man married, announces Law-Roach
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the man has a rare genius for finding the position everyone will dislike
01.03.2026 23:13 —
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Christ I just looked at the Spurs score
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probably? He was very eccentric
01.03.2026 13:53 —
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"Charlie Bucket's ratking family" but it's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo
01.03.2026 13:37 —
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folks there are some excellent rats in the QTs, I love them all
01.03.2026 13:27 —
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also the first palaeontologist to write a full account of a fossil dinosaur, died in an insane asylum, ate a mole and didn’t like it. They don’t make ‘em like that any more folks
01.03.2026 13:21 —
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the author of these books, the Rev William Buckland, was the guy who set out to eat one of every animal species, a classic British old timey weirdo
01.03.2026 13:18 —
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I am determined not to know anything further about this subculture, I’m mainly just dismayed to see it showing up in cute little slogans from the actual Pentagon
01.03.2026 13:10 —
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possibly!
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honestly when the bad guy death cult in The Chronicles of Riddick was called the ‘Necromongers’ I thought ah that’s a bit silly isn’t it but we are about two weeks from that being the new name for the Air Force or something
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surely ‘shaken by’ unless in the sense of Shook Ones etc
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It’s also just incredibly sinister, amoral, death-cult stuff isn’t it
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oh for fuck’s sake really??
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For me it’s the pastels, they really stand out. The other ones look a lot like those Mary Pearsons
01.03.2026 11:46 —
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It’s AI
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Stephen King says the new Jason Statham movie is terrific and the perfect antidote to Trump's foolishness
Listen, god bless and keep Stephen King and all, and if we could all agree to just go see the Statham movie and leave it at that
01.03.2026 01:24 —
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The twin peaks title card but it says BYKER GROVE
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Omg the one sprawled over!
28.02.2026 19:31 —
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sorry man I know it's not your fault. If it's any consolation we also suck.
28.02.2026 16:37 —
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Oh! Yes he was very dear to me for a long time and a lot of those early works are masterpieces.
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*wearily* but now the penne has dropped
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very good as ever. A word that occurred to me when you mentioned vassalage was ‘Danegeld’ - the tax we used to raise on our own people to pay protection money to Viking raiders who would otherwise just burn everything down.
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And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win
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