clearwind.bsky.social
🇵🇱/🇮🇪 🇺🇸, SW VA to SF (w/stops in CT and MI), leftCath, yimby renter, and FromSoft fan navigating the borderland of demSoc and socDem. My kungfu is stronger than yours
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Well, you've also got the part-demon thing working in your favor
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While I sort out my thoughts, in the meantime: a stupid meme
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Grumpy!Raven always brings me joy, especially since a few years back I had a couple of hospital stays where reruns of Teen Titans Go and Deep Space Nine were the only things that kept me sane
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And a blind masseur yakuza? It is to laugh
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Carry him over to the sequel and get Mr. T, Sid Haig, and Tamara goddamn Dobson in the same series? Yes please
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*High Table, even
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The world depicted in the John Wick movies is the American urban jiānghú, with the assassin's organizations being the occidental wǔlín. In this essay I shall <is smacked by the Dark Lady of Nine Heavens and the High Council representative both>
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About 20 years ago a guy who didn't get a Hugo award for his book threw a big tantrum on Usenet about how this meant he had been cheated, the awards disenfranchised his fans, etc etc etc. He was roundly schooled on his whining and innumeracy.
I'm guessing this column is no different or better
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Sadly, Zombie Lake (1981) doesn't appear to be on Tubi. To paraphrase Lyz Kingsley: there are many ways for a movie to be bad, and Zombie Lake incredibly is all of them at once
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Red Harvest/Glass Key/Yojimbo intensifies
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I can't find it now, but I believe @bretdevereaux.bsky.social has written about students thinking this way about the past - and how it unfortunately ascribes knowledge and agency to the powerful, and not to those they ruled over
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From the Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés:
All religious figures are:
a. Intolerant hatemongers who make Hitler look like Jesus;
b. All-tolerant lovemongers who make Jesus look like Hitler;
c. Ignorant, unwashed rabble
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Arneson was supposedly drawing on the swashbuckling hero of Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (1974) for his take on the cleric, and it would have been cooler if that was the image that took hold, rather than the pious and dour combat medic that the cleric so often turned into
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Souls games and Shrek-pilled? Bah Gawd that's @ironpineapple.bsky.social 's music
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Cdrama and Cn-CRPG fans can think of another
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Be right back, working on a pitch for retelling the history of Caltech vs MIT pranks in Green Lantern form
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I hope to Heaven you don't know anyone in Portland named George Orr
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It especially needs more misidentified or nonexistent polearms, preferably to go along with misidentified or nonexistent types of armor
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I have complete faith that a combination of naive cheerful hero, spunky tomb robber, sweet demon girl, and moody swordsman/sorcerer will get me out of any trouble, especially if a corrupted Daoist sect is behind it
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"We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing!"
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You are: Roland Altenburger, The Sword or the Needle: the Female Knight-errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative (Peter Lang AG, 2009)
(It happens to be next to me right now)
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Don Beveridge died in 2022 so try as they might, there is no Whopper Button to hit
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Happy birthday! 🎉🥳🎂
Gorilla-Man and Human Robot M-11 send birthday wishes as well
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We are in Hell. This is the Home Depot/Paramount
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👏👏👏👏
Congrats to her and you and Maura
🥳🎉
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<covets>
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Look, Rick Astley seems like a good guy, and he's been *remarkably* chill about the the whole rickrolling thing, but associating him with Elon and Ro...that may be the thing that makes him snap
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Ham sandwiches, things of that nature
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I just don't want it to slip my mind in the intervening millennia. Waiting 18K years only to forget at the last minute...tragedy
(They are babies in that pic. *Babies*)
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So I tried clearing some space on my calendar, and am confronted with:
cal: year `20251' not in range 1..9999
I demand better tools!
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May his selection of kaishakunin be as poor
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"No Truths" being the only true thing to have appeared there is bringing us into Raymond Smullyan logic-puzzle territory
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Coming up: The Night of the Long Sporks
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It would be less weird than a translation of The Three Kingdoms I encountered where everyone was given cliched 19th century British army officer names