Orogeny Vexrede

anti-revisionist Animal Farm about the dangers of Dengism

Setting this to >=10M and waiting for Mr Beast to show up

Funniest thing that YouTube lets you do is filter your comments by the commenters' subscriber counts.

This was my initial thumbnail design, but just looking at it triggered such a visceral feeling of discomfort that I couldn't go through with actually using it

YouTube video by Orogeny Vexrede Revisionist Tolkien Fanfics — Did Sauron Have a Point?

And one final video for the year. Honestly surprised I managed to get this one out in time youtu.be/OFHsPQ7S-k8?...

She had such a way with words

This actually might be one of the most fun things I've read in a while firstthings.com/ayn-rand-rea...

YouTube video by Orogeny Vexrede Unpacking C.S. Lewis's Space Travel Novel

I've been procrastinating on this one for a while, but finally got around to finishing it up www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvo...

You can tell she was 14 when she wrote it but that's part of the fun

people are sleeping on the Atlan series by Jane Gaskell ngl

such violence

It didn't really cross my mind, but there's definitely lots that could be said about it.
I realized while scripting out the video that a full survey of the most notable works would end up being way longer than I wanted, so I had to just keep to a handful of examples

YouTube video by Orogeny Vexrede Cosmic horror isn't about tentacles

Cosmic Horror Isn't About Tentacles www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdV...

They are doing Laura Palmer shit to the Deltarune Christmas Deergirl

True. I probably ought to read the Corpus Hermeticum to learn how to live virtuously

I've spent most of this weekend playing Deltarune, while also reading House of Leaves and Kill Six Billion Demons for the first time.
I feel like my mind is melting

YouTube video, with the title: "Madam Blavatsky's Occult Imprisonment by Rudolf Steiner"

rudolf steiner's reign of terror knows no limits

tbh my political science brain says Tolkien would be negatively polarized into supporting trans rights after Peter Thiel blew up Cambodia with a killer robot named the Isengard Hobbit Slayer 9000 because negative polarization is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.

Though it's worth noting he didn't read it until 1964, after writing LOTR.
I have seen speculation that the Nameless Things might've been inspired by proto-Lovecraftian writers like Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson, or that they were based on Níðhöggr from Norse mythology

Letter sent from C.S. Lewis to E.R. Eddison on Nov 16th 1942. The whole letter is beyond the character limit, but it's all written in comically archaic prose, beginning as follows: "Honour’d Sir, there is a sawe commonly vsed among our uplandish folk that yf a man pick up were it but a pibble stone or a straw and bestow it in his poke, lyghtlie it shall not fayle but before the yearsend it shall stande him in greter stede than the best treasure ever he ow’d. "Of the which I have right good exaumple by a foolish book (on the novello) that came late to my hands, made by som poore seely wench that seeketh a B.Litt or a D.Phil, when God knows shad a better bestowed her tyme makynge sport for some goodman in his bed and bearing children for the stablishment of this reaulme or els to be at her beads in a religyous house."

Reading through C.S. Lewis's letters is great because he corresponded with E.R. Eddison for years and every single one of their letters is written like this

For motherfuckers obsessed with secret ineffable knowledge the gnostics sure fuckin wrote a lot

Toxic yuri

The big difference between Thedas and Faerûn is that Ed Greenwood would tell you that for free

An Interview with Michael Moorcock Hoi and Jeff have the supreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric and Hawkmoon stories among many others, and the youngest and only living author from the Appendix N list…

I know he's given at least one recent interview where he downplays it—around the 17:00 point, he says he doesn't like LOTR but that it's just a matter of personal preference appendixnbookclub.com/2019/12/02/a...

You may not like it but this is what peak dove performance looks like

(the actual book is only about 20% as homoerotic as the back cover blurb)

Just got through Kothar, a book with a delightfully homoerotic back cover blurb

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