Corodon

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This is inexplicably the victory anthem of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, if you ever want to look up a video of a bunch of dudes singing Dancing On My Own exuberantly in a stadium.

LITERATE KITTY

I didn't realize it was JK Simmons but I instantly knew who you meant, and I absolutely put Lae'zel in that armor.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

James Bond is a product of the 1950s, so rebooting him in the present day makes about as much temporal sense and putting him in the 1870s. I know which version would be more interesting, anyway.

My grandma, no joke, got launched by a buffalo she got too close to while trying to take its picture at a national park. It was not her best moment.

Every time someone posts a new skeet to correct a typo in their last one I have to bite my tongue.

I can't think of a Disney villain whose origin story would be less interesting than Gaston.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth whose back is turned to us, and Macbeth posed towards us with his hand on the back of his wife's neck. The long cut in the back of her dress reveals skin in the shape of a sword/dagger that Macbeth seems to be holding.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth facing us with her cleavage cut into three pointy triangles. Macbeth is kneeling in front of her, away from us, his face in his wife's chest. The exposed skin of Lady Macbeth looks like a crown that aligns with the top of Macbeth's head.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

I would like to know more.

The first 3 characters I made for D&D were aspirational versions of me, one way or another. Then came a short-lived evil campaign and since then its been more about making characters with room to develop as people, and who will get into the right kind of trouble.

The whole thread.

Of all the historical figures you’ve researched for your books, who would you invite to a dinner party? It’s a very strange question when you think about it. I mean, obviously I would choose Shakespeare, and probably Isaac Newton. But the thing is, you wouldn’t be learning anything – you’d be spending the whole dinner explaining to them why they’re not dead any more! I mean, they would just be saying, “What the fuck, what’s going on?” and it wouldn’t be like a congenial dinner party with everybody drinking and relaxed. And then, you know, who’s going to tell them that when the dinner is over, they have to be dead again – that they have to go back to their graves? I don’t want to be associated with this exercise.

OK, this is a good answer to the dinner party question. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Is this one too obvious?

He literally had one of the other characters tell Dr. Frankenstein, "You're the monster."

The more people feel like the only path to security is "get lucky," the more the Skinner-box vampires can feed.

The more I think about this, the more I think it's the Flimsy Steve of it all that sells it.

There's probably no better term for what Tolkien intended to represent with his orcs than "hard men."

Race, gender, history. So much reactionary anger seems to really be people getting mad that they're expected to learn something new after they've grown up.

Are those train buffers on the front of the horse?

Because of politics or, um... geography?

Theory: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is grumpy because he was an analytic philosopher born several generations too early.

Better estimate higher, then.

IIRC this is the thinking behind Dwarf Fortress. Write stories, then identify the systems you'd need for that to happen organically, and add them to the never-ending list of things to add.

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

I'm one who follows you, anyway.

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..." Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?" Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!" Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !" Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!" Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!" Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!" Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

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