Brian Edits Things

My favorite part about the discussion my GF and I had this morning about Geralt getting isekai'd into Spider-Man's body isn't necessarily the part where Spider-Man now has Two Big Swords.

My favorite part is the required prologue crossover between Geralt and Truck-Kun.

"??? ...fuck."

Jette is a trans noble teenager whose parents have just been murdered. She's hiding in a school that's secretly teaching commoners magic (gasp!). It's run by an evil(?) cult, but nobody knows that yet.

She's naive, trusting, and believes rules keep everyone safe. Lots of rules here in magic school!

Cuidado! Piso mojado!

I guess not. Well, let's see what kind of cultural landscape the combination of end-stage capitalism and laziness leaves us with! I'm sure it'll be cool and good.

Welcome to Ayatollah Roberts's America, where the Supreme Court will rubber-stamp this as part of the path to a theocratic ethnostate. Laws no longer matter.

The policy of "only successful influencers deserve to be authors" surely won't have any detrimental impact on the nation's cultural or creative landscape.

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The #rapture happened! Millions of people all over the world are confirming it!

...you just weren't picked. Sorry. Better luck next time!

I've been fantasizing about that for years. I want everyone who believes they'll be raptured to be raptured. Post haste.

I can hardly *imagine* how much we could get done without them violently fighting and threatening us every time we suggest being marginally less cruel to the poor and oppressed.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

What about that which is not dead but can eternal lie?

You'd think "I support not letting a captive audience of children starve" would be the easiest policy position to adopt in the history of policy positions.

And yet, it's a tooth-and-nail fight.

Rogue Reviews: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba Reviewing Saints of Storm and Sorrow is a challenge, because I have a limited amount of space into which I need to squish a nearly limitless amount of praise.

I have finally posted my review of Gabriella Buba's *Saints of Storm and Sorrow* over on the Rogue Writers website. Sorry about the delay!

TLDR: S-Tier, 9/10

(The review contains no spoilers.)

#saintsofstormandsorrow #booksky #gabriellabuba

It's Hulk Hogan's influence that has led to a situation where all the wrestlers who get real, consistent ring time are in their 50s and all the younger, new talent gets cut after a year or two.

Also, I believe Vince McPredator would have been ousted a long time ago w/o Hulk, but that's just imo.

Aww, I was excited for 85 opinions.

I mean, I knew it was an unreasonable expectation, but still...

"Elon's Death-Note-flavored sex tulpa" may be the best thing I've read in years, and I edit books for a living.

18-year-old Army infantrymen manage to do a better job minimizing civiliant casualties in an active war zone than cops do at home. They have no excuses.

Which is nonsense. They're "not allowed" to break into an innocent person's apartment and shoot them in their sleep, either, and yet...

They're allowed to do whatever they want. They don't help because they don't want to.

Philadelphia would get long much better for much longer without the mayor than they will without sanitation workers.

Maybe the mayor should go on strike and see how long it takes anyone to notice.

Not much; what's bofa with you?

HAH HAH! GOT EM!

Mice can be a nightmare. I fought those little assholes for close to 15 years. Calling in a professional is the right move; there's no room for mercy or half-measures once they get bad.

You just can't with these people. They'll talk in circles and redefine common words (like "good" or "blood") and *never once* notice how absolutely unhinged they sound to anyone who wasn't exposed to this stuff from the moment they were born.

God is allegedly the axiomatic basis of "good." Anything he does is "good" by definition.

That dumb idea infects everything else in conservative ideology: "good" is an inborn identity, not a function of choices and actions.

If Trump does Thing A, it's Good. If AOC does Thing A, it's Bad.

We were marching better than this by the third week of RDC (Navy boot camp). These guys are skylarking *so hard*. It probably takes more work for them to be that far out of step with each other than it would to just march correctly.

A guy showed up in my discover feed with dogwater takes on how the LA protestors ought to change. Ex: Their flags make their fight for survival unpalatable to mildly racist middle-class folks.

Not sure what this guy's deal was, I clicked on his bio.

"Staff writer at The Atlantic."

Mystery solved.

You know that feeling when you've been writing pretty consistently your whole life, then burn out and stop writing for like six months, which causes you to believe that you no longer count as a writer, and now saying "I'm a writer" makes you feel like a liar and a fraud?

...oh. That's just me, huh?

Stet.

Come on, y'all, you paid me the big bucks for this advice, you should probably take it, right?

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Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption A localized outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia in Cyllage City among a population with no history of travel to infected regions has been tentatively linked to consumption of the regional insectivorous zub...

Sometimes, academic publishing IS interesting.

(This is not one I edited, but I kind of wish I had.)

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TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank