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I keep trying to read cozy sff and I keep kinda going “that’s it?”

Cozy mysetery on a spaceship and I’m just going. This is a generation ship type deal with universal memory uploading/downloading and bodyprinting so your memories get put into a new body when you die and everyone is functionally immortal. Where are you getting the wool and the silk for your cute yarn shop. Why is embezzlement to get rich even like, a thing on a luxurious interstellar passenger liner generation ship that’s been cruising for 300+ years now. This is an exceptionally closed system, where is that money even coming from. How am I supposed to believe there are the normal motivations to Get Rich on a generation ship where everyone is explicitly provided equal housing in a location of their choice for free and a food replicator that can make anything they want also for free and also everyone is functionally immortal. Like I absolutely expect weird status competitions to arise but embezzling from your yarn shop to Get Rich just feels so… what is the point of setting this story on a spaceship when it’s just a cozy mystery pastiche of early 20th century manners in a queer socialism setting that does not care about the generation ship part at all. Just set it on a queer socialism planet or something so I stop wondering who’s raising silkworms and angora goats on this spaceship! Mannnnn I love generation ships and I know I just wanted this to be a different story than it was, because this story ran exclusively on Quirkiness and Vibes so it could do its memory uploading murder mystery and cute aunt who solves mysteries and likes to knit, but I think cozy sff just is not for me because I’m going no back up what the FUCK is the economy on this spaceship

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Oh.

I literally forgor 💀 You can read my whole 15,000-word Obra Dinn-ssertion about Pope's use of the virtual dead body as text, as a game, and a Gothic medium in Return of the Obra Dinn on muh website. WOE. cadaver nerd essay be upon ye.

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oh my god

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Bug girl

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This is still one of the greatest things ever made.

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at first i was kind of dismayed by how dredge isn't very good horror but now i actually kind of like it. it's like, yknow, a game about becoming acclimated to the horror. doing something awful over and over again until it becomes routine and normal. Ah the great srepent scracthed my hull thats the whole morning gone :/

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A big non-human intelligence making impressions of humans that show up like ghosts and then later reaching out to Centaurus looking for something like itself.

Can't tell if this is a "weird that it happened twice" situation or a feature of gothic fiction.

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Michael A Davenport, 3,090 Degrees Fahrenheit (Oil on canvas, 2025)

30in x 48in

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there used to be this giant book that was shipped to everybodies home whiched doxxed everybody in the city

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Cameron: I fundamentally do not care about the lives and interior operations of the American upper middle class. I simply do not.

Michael: Mh-hmm.

Cameron: I want to know about elfs. I want to know about dwarfs. I want to know about: wizards. I want to know about: goblins. I want to know about: cyberpunks. I want to know about: rampant AI. I want to know about: Master Chief. I want to know about: gay wizards. Okay? Like that's what I want to know about.

Michael: Of course.

Cameron: And that shit does not appear in the papers of record when it comes to short stories.

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I’m being cursed. Haunted.

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And while we've got your attention - we commissioned the amazingly talented @rosenkranz-does-things to create a piece of artwork for Our Wars Have Ended, our next audiodrama after The Silt Verses, to help us set the tone.

It's gorgeous, it's awful, we love it. Really excited to share more in due course as we stumble frantically in the general direction of production!

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kekkai sensen is a great show. whenever i describe it to people i tell them 'it's sort of about hunting vampires in a demonic version of new york city but it's also not really about that at all' because its not about that. ostensibly the show has some kind of plot but let me tell you ive watched it several times and i dont remember or care what that plot is. because the point of kekkai sensen is about being a broke bitch in new york. and much like jojo's bizarre adventure the best episode is one where the entire plot is having a really good meal at a restaurant. it's pure cinema

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Love watching movies with people who are autistic about different things than I am. Last week a friend and I were watching Twisters, and he said, those are going to turn out to be good guys. And I said, how do you know? And he said, because their truck brands are owned by the same equity company as the main character's.

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you don't know. how bad the engine situation inside my zaku is. you don't get 3x performance without running a few coolant lines through the cockpit

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happy 10 years to one of the best videos of the 2010s. to this day, i cannot listen to alt j without being haunted by it