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Mid-30s library professional, ttrpg dork, Bast cultist, pulp fiction enthusiast, enjoyer of filmmaking & animation. It's not over until you're all out of healing potions & the cleric is unconscious
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“The Palesmurt is described as looking like a human but having only one half of the body, one arm & hand, one leg & foot and a head with only one eye. This horrific being trapped unwary travelers in his territory & choked them to death." Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters and Dragons

I had that free trial newspapers dot com account and I kinda went nuts looking up sleazy old movie ads

People like kissin'! There's also a pretty stiff pushback against romance and kissing because, well, mostly incipient fascism ...that may sound like a joke, but I'm fuckin' serious.

When people say, "Kat, why are you so full of yourself?" Makes the right people upset, that's why.

I think all the time about the episode of the Sopranos where Patsy goes to a coffee chain and can't make the shakedown work anymore

Todays hero

Find a reason to join in, Edgy McEdgerton #TTRPG

Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw’d the Dead in their last dresses, And (by some devilish cantraip sleight) Each in its cauld hand held a light… —in Robert Burns’s 1791 poem, Tam o Shanter stumbles upon a witches’ hoolie in the ruined Alloway kirk… 🖼️ John Faed, 1855 #BookWormSat

Behind the Bastards recently did a great (checks notes)- blimey, six-part episode on Oprah. It is… disconcerting how often she platformed con artists and conspiracy theorists and bought everything they were selling. I didn’t even know she was one of the main disease vectors, so to speak…

The Spanish Civil War also resonated in India. Tagore and Nehru wrote about it, Indians raised money to buy an ambulance for the Republic, and Nehru visited Spain in 1938. Learn about all this and see a newsreel of Nehru in Barcelona here: www.vscw.ca/en/node/616 #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum

'And whether we see him as a mad prophet or a melodramatic eccentric, one thing is certain: Antoine Wiertz was never dull.' This is a great article about Wiertz written by Dirk Puehl. Follow him on Instagram for more brilliant stuff like this. wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2025/02/roma...

Art by • Phil Moss

Art by • Rowena Morrill

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

My thesis director used to say that wheat and humans have a symbiotic relationship, since we made it an extra-successful species and half of the world cannot live without it and I haven't been the same since

Ehhhh fuck you AI shit. oh for chrissake

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

this is how it feels to use windows

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“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”

back in 2018 i decided it was very important that i stop working for a bit to draw some crowns on some capybaras

Ok, we need a new James Bond AND a new Archbishop of Canterbury, and pretty soon it'll be time for another new Willy Wonka and a new Doctor Who. We need to economise. They should all be amalgamated into a single new character called Archdoctor Bondwonka.

Billboard for Luigi Mangione goes up in New York before his upcoming court appearance.

Just a weird little movie I found a long time ago vimeo.com/391193091

Reading theory

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

I have a #FridayFinish - keep strong 🇨🇦 My mum didn't get it, but that's ok. My #Art, and it's going to be a daily reminder to stay strong. #ArtShare #FishyFeb #FebruARTy #CrossStitch #StitchSky #CraftiVerse