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Whilst entirely useless as a Wikipedia article, this version of the one on If on a winter's night a traveler remains one of the funniest things I've read

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i know what i was going to see, but i still gasped when i saw it.

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What's the "you have lived an illustrious life – may none recall it" bit? Google is unhelpful.

What fascinates me about those shitty CTRL+ALT+DEL edits that keep circulating on Tumblr is that a lot of them are legitimately better examples of two-dipshits-on-a-couch gamer humour than the actual CTRL+ALT+DEL. Like, the "you have lived an illustrious life – may none recall it" bit is a dead perfect execution of a punchline that could have come from a two-dipshits-on-a-couch gamer comic circa 2005, in a way that its source material, which actually is a product of that era, never achieved. I won't say that this is an example of parody that comes from a place of love for its genre, but at the very least it's coming from a place of understanding.

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webp. more like wet ppee.

also on bsky

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but although time travel is a supremely nerdy subject it actually taps into all these really deep and universal emotional themes:

- wanting to relive the past, change the past, undo the past

- wanting to know the future, determine the future

- conflict between free will and destiny both real and perceived

- the loneliness of being utterly out of place / time

- the difficulty of communication

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I always worry about elevators, because it’s like, isn’t it really just killing the you on the starting floor and making a new you on a different one?

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05.10 - Morningstar

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Boyfriend tells me I’m banned from fixing things around the house now >:(

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20 examples of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

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thinking about the japanese racehorse who was such a failgirl she became a folk hero for losers

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Happy 15th anniversary of what is technically Vriska Serket's first on-panel appearance.

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My train was late. AGAIN.

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Kaja Foglio:

Americans really like to know how things work. They enjoy science, and they enjoy machinery. Abraham Lincoln patented a device to lift boats over shoals, and back then to patent anything mechanical you had to make a model. So his idea of a hot time (no kidding!) was to take his kids through the Hall of Patents, where they’ve got thousands of little models that actually work. These days, more and more the idea behind industrial design is for the mechanisms to be hidden, resulting in a ‘magic box.’ The iPod is like the ultimate expression of that: it has no visible moving parts! People like steampunk because it gives them a feeling of smartness and control, that they’ve got a handle on things: ‘OK, the fuel goes in there, and I see the pistons move like this…’

i dont read girl genius anymore but phil and kaja foglio are like american nerd royalty to me. They did early magic: the gathering art! And Phil Foglio's is memorable for being in that silly cartoonish style, instantly recognizable. When I played the Avernum remakes and there were cartoon sketches associated with all the skills you could pout points into, instantly obvious it was Phil Foglio

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"The Trading Cards You Found in Your Attic" - full set

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"The Trading Cards You Found in Your Attic III"