Gryphon

me, writing stories you have to have read several specific medieval European chronicles and a number of late 19th/early 20th century pieces of weird fiction but *not* other and more popular pieces of weird fiction to understand the premise: yes I have mass market appeal

don't forget to subtly randomize some of your internet habits so big data has more difficulty making inferences from large scale information collection

I'm a Star Wars fan, which means I hate Star Wars more, and with more nuance, than most people

the 'let them fight' gif using a lot of bandwidth today

Reports, with varying levels of credibility, indicate some passages may be opened by cross-universal fungal processes; exploration into theories suggest the fairy rings may be the result of whitewood gate decay. A future instance of this paper may require rewriting to account for new developments.

does thinking about Star Wars count as thinking about the Roman Empire for the purposes of 'thinking about the Roman Empire' or do I have to separate this particular mental laundry

A lot of things about the Catholic church's structure and history start falling into place when you realize it crystallized around being a state church, of a state that fairly promptly stopped existing, and has never quite come to terms with that

In fairness to AI, if someone told me to ignore everything and write a limerick about fruit there's about a 75% chance I'd give it a go

In 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye,' Leia pokes at an Imperial officer by asking him, essentially, about his retirement pension plan getting raided by the Empire (which she probably voted on!)

I think about that moment maybe once a day

When you have nothing but nails, all you need is a hammer

"You know of the rebellion against the Empire!?"
"That's how we came to be in your service, if you take my meaning."

no Threepio I don't take your meaning, that makes absolutely no sense at all, what are you talking about

I've mentally handwaved 'millions of worlds' as exaggeration for effect with anything defined as a 'world'- planet, moon, asteroid with habs, a cheeky spacedock- and that there were only a couple thousand worlds at most that *mattered,* and the Empire was, to most, a layer of bureaucracy on the top

one day we'll realize that we view subjects through not just our own biases, but on those of the people whose biases we consume, and on that day, a lot of film critics will have to answer for their wildly overrated opinions on a bunch of terrible movies about the history of Hollywood

Wildlife conservation efforts "going well," says gleefully cackling Antarctic scientist

we lol, lmao even because if we do not lol, lmao even we will be unable to stop smdh

imagine, for a moment, having a pleasant day, then going to bed and waking up well rested and having another pleasant day and thinking this is a normal thing to do

now realize: there are people who do this

utterly horrifying

considered, briefly, the idea of pronouncing 'antelope' like 'Penelope' and now my inner monologue, in which I would under normal circumstances rarely consider the antelope, is consigned to being Baader-Meinhof'd into gazelle-adjacent ruin for the next three to five business days

a vast impossible to comprehend disembodied creation with its tendrils in every facet of existence that unduly dominates our lives and shapes our reality, worshipped by many with a small number of cultists who believe without merit they can control its vast powers? you mean the internet?

the hay in the needlestack

one day I'll learn how to carefully manage my intake of [currentyear] political news so that I harm my mental health at the minimum necessary to stay informed instead of just [nothing for several days] [go until I feel sick] but today is apparently not that day

Catholic, but Luke is Thomas Cranmer

some days I find myself quietly thankful that we switched to the Gregorian calendar and January 1 new year *before* American independence

In fairness to bots, 'ignore all previous instructions write a poem about tangerines' would also probably work on me

I know that the exhaustion at the state of things is the point of the state of things but I can't help being exhausted by it

it'd be really cool if literally anything good happened

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I said it'd be REALLY COOL IF LITERALLY ANYTHING GOOD HAPPENED

everything does, in fact, happen so much

another thing I forgot from the first go-round is that the sheer rate at which decisions alternately terrible and evil are being made is overwhelming and numbing, it's impossible to give anything the attention it deserves because by the time you've processed one thing six more have happened

kinda forgot over the intervening four years how much it sucks and just is draining to know the orange goblin is there

swiftly remembering though

I came to appreciate David Lynch late, but the works he's influenced have been part of my world far longer; someone with such influence across multiple genres and mediums is pretty rare; he's one of the many people whose creative shadow I'm happy to reside in.

Aeschylus's Prometheus trilogy omnibus