rose enthusiast

I miss ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER’s golden days

This but unironically, though. This is the only kind of big tent I want for the next 50 years

“bought a used Cybertruck” feels like it tells you a lot about a person

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tom Grey always worth reading on Wagner. Bet I could get this out of JSTOR, but there’s the citation.

The outside of Hobby Lobby

Some discounted frames at Hobby Lobby

A lovely gold cherub at Hobby Lobby.

Some hangers and lamps at Hobby Lobby.

picking up some things at hobby lobby

I’m 15 years out of date on the scholarship but I’ll do some digging when I have a chance—it was the sort of talk that was going to make it into print eventually.

I bet I have the handout from an AMS talk years ago on the thornbush imagery, it might have been published but I can’t really look at JSTOR at the moment so I’m guessing

that said, SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS is still dead on for the state of the Now

Ilium is one of the all-time disappointments once the Big Thesis dropped in it :|

Mime and Alberich in their squabble in Siegfried, yeah. Beckmesser I don't buy and yes I've read all the articles about it

Gene Wolfe all-time SF champ

a tiny aloe plant with a post it note that says LEAVE ME ALONE! TRYING TO LIVE >:(

tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house

That’s usual, there are the sort of traveling regulars who show up at Parsifal carrying a swan

Gonna have to come up with a taxonomy for these guys. I don’t think Hegseth is the most evil but I think he’s the biggest piece of shit.

There’s also supposed to be two more books to go with ONE FOR THE MORNING GLORY. Used to love recommending people to read that and then to follow it with KALEIDOSCOPE CENTURY…

I wanna say that was one of the books where apparently there was heavy editorial interference and he’d love to redo it some day and he still owes all of us A FAR CRY goddammit

I think it was... @denam.bsky.social ? who pointed out that Black Library novels are the male-reader equivalent of YA / Romantasy.

I don't think The Silmarillion would ever work as a live action movie or series. Its true destiny is to be the nightmarish product of a Czech stop motion animator from 1979 that's only discovered in an attic years after its creator's death.

An email from Bearaby that begins: A tough update about Bearaby Hi Mark, This is Kathrin, Founder & CEO at Bearaby. I'm writing this with a knot in my stomach. Because of sudden 50% tariffs for India, we have no choice but to stop production of our blankets. Many of you have given them to loved ones, or drifted off under their weight after long days. Over the years, they've become more than blankets. We don't know when - or if - we'll be able to make them again.

Trump take weighted blanket

@dicknixon.bsky.social

A comics buddy let me know that the New 52 Earth 2 run is getting an omni and my seething anger at T. Taylor rises anew

Yeah, sure, it got worse from his stint (WHERE DO THEY SHIT?), but his takeover and writing on that book pushes my biggest rage button for a choice that a writer makes...

Did they train this model on fucking command and conquer cut scenes?

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

always a pleasure to see people outside of old fandom discover these :D

LRT: Always a pleasure to see someone new encounter the names of the Black Dagger Brotherhood characters lol

A picture of 6 men styled in the dorkiest fake gangster way you can imagine, words can't capture it. Their names are Wrsrh, Tohrment. Rhage, Vishous, Zsadist, and Phury

Ok ok but wait here are their names, the terrifyingly wtf costume choices, and this show was produced by a company owned by Elon Musk's sister.

You're welcome.

on the surface this looks pretty bad, but please remember that even if the AI bubble pops these datacenters could be turned into incredibly sick paintball arenas