Rereading Witness for the Dead, and it’s striking how much more modern the world feels when you get away from the milieu of the Court.
Up there it’s all ceremony and courtly intrigue and arranged marriages and fancy clothes, down here it’s shitty apartments, canned sardines, streetcars, and verismo opera.
Spy X family is so fucking funny. Because Loid was legit like: alright I wanna make my pretend daughter happy in this fake pretend family, so I’ll rent a fucking castle and ask every single fucking agent to stop what they’re doing so my daughter can be a princess, who I don’t have any attachment to at all btw. Also my fake wife pretends to be a witch with insane martial arts skills, nothing suspicious about this woman who can kick my ass. Anyway I’m doing a splendid job being a spy, no one suspects a thing.
i can’t believe the akagi anime left out the part where washizu dies and goes to hell and fights his way out bc he remembers that akagi is stepping on his head irl
The funniest thing about the Teen Titans cartoon is how they all call each other by their code names and it’s because despite living together they don’t each other’s real names. Titans Tower was a discord server
all that creativity and that’s what they name it. every employee was asked to put their title ideas in a bag and they shook it up and someone pulled the suggestion added by the receptionist who isn’t on the creative team, she just hears “dread wolf” around a lot and assumed it was one word
With the resurgence of Percy Jackson, I’m thinking of making a uquiz about whichrealistic godly parent you’d get (meaning no option to be fathered by Zeus, Poseiden, or Hades, and an rare option to not be a demigod at all) because I think we all need that.
Behold, the realistic godly parent quiz! And behold, apparently I’m the daughter of the God of sleep. How fitting.
NAWWWW WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I WAS IN TWO MURDER PLANS IN THE RP BYE
I KNOW MY CHARACTER IS GULLIBLE BUT PLS SPARE THEM
YO, WHAT?!- hOW?!
*Sweats Nervously*
EEEEIIIIHH-
Hmmmmmmm
Uhhhhhhhhhhh-
That’s fine then
I will do it again.
I will not hesitate to kill you in over twenty thousand different ways with the power I hold, peasant, while watching the despair on your face grow and grow from being betrayed by the group’s leader and then get out of the school alive while still looking like a literal goddess in my satin gloves and high heels. I will swing my dainty little knife and daintily stick it in your skull, spinal cord and nervous points so you die from agitating pain in front of my very eyes and then I will laugh over your corpse and prettily tidy up the crime scene while still maintaining my perfect hair and natural beauty. I wall walk away like a lady. I will send my bodyguards and government officials to destroy you and everything you love. You will regret the day you met me.
Stephen King is just continuing the fine New England tradition of horror which can trace itself back to such greats as HP Lovecraft and Nathaniel Hawthorne of being unable to picture the world outside New England as anything other than a screaming void of horror.
To be fair from what I’ve heard from Florida my aunts’ work in healthcare (one as an administrator and the other as a doctor) and my cousins time in school there, they’re not wrong.
(Also, note that even though Howard Philips Lovecraft is a well-known writer and any statues of him would be even more entertaining than the statue of Edgar Allan Poe being attacked by a raven just off the Boston Common, Boston does not have a tradition of putting up statues of people whose main contribution to history was their racism.)
