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doctor who but with longer seasons and shorter episodes, something in between a soap opera and the old version of the show, leans into effects not looking “real”

a film adaptation of “Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini”

specifically there’s a story by Michael Bishop called “The House of Compassionate Sharers” that made a big impression on me & I never see people talking about it. I hope to find more things like that

there might be a period in my life coming up where I once again read a lot of science fiction stories that I don’t know anything about beforehand - it won’t be as exciting as the first one of those but it could be cool

Saint Saens sure knew how to put some notes together

just read a 1949 Margaret St Clair story where a meal described as “punk” also included a fly in liquid

freshet is one of the great words

Mervyn Peake “it was the smile one sees in the mouth of a dead animal when the loose lips are drawn back and the teeth are discovered curving towards the ears.”

it’s annoying to just repeat the insight you read in the introduction but it’s so cool to read an artist’s prose

I’m meeting all my dietary requirements while engaging in a stimulating foraging activity!!!

if you get on the wrong go bus they will let u off and ask the driver of the other bus if they can pick u up

that image sums up Stephen King’s politics I think

retweet for a cozy and bountiful winter

stop trying to moeblob up jeffrey epstein. Stop putting his stupid words in the mouths of the dumb ass toddler women from anime you like [snaps suddenly out of vicious argument with parallel reality, stares uncomprehending at new surroundings] Asus makes a fine monitor

Sort of nice to know that a principled and powerful voice such as Coates’s actually does vex and obsess the powerful. It isn’t enough on its own, as I’m sure Coates himself would agree, but it certainly doesn’t vindicate cynicism. Your words might carry farther than you think.

I really think i shouldn't have to be made aware of details of jeff epstein's life

most frustrating thing in the world, to me

also a big memory is reading Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius on a high school trip of some kind and feeling like the floor was dropping out of the universe from how much it diverged from my sense of what a piece of fiction could be like

About a year ago Doctor Faustus made me afraid of Hell — I hope I get over that

the popularity of tim rogers and northernlion show that the people yearn for a Severian the Torturer

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

If I had spent my youth differently I might know what this tasted like, but now I probably never will

like what if everyone made a loud and nasty sound that hits you in the head? what if classical music sounded a bit more like shape note singing?

I really believe that choirs (or at least some of them) should be trying to sound more like choirs from the 30s or earlier — a horrible weirdo opinion!

I’m beginning to have too many singing opinions that cannot be expressed without sounding like a crank

VILLAGE FOOL: In my reverie I saw a cruel Dutch tyrant flyting most arrogantly with a warlord of the east
LOCAL PARSON: here in the village, lad?
VILLAGE FOOL: no, sir. On Youtube
LOCAL PARSON: nonsense. I've no tube upon me

Men feeling emotions

have you guys listened to Folksy Nina?

My #1 hope is that we progress past the need for posts by then, but if that’s not to be then I hope I post similar to how I do now, but slightly cornier

I wonder what my posting style will be like in 2050

post-exoticism kind of carries on this spirit I guess