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jump scared by merge game gossip harbor

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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it's hard to describe if you haven't seen them

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unfortunately the best advice i can give to everyone bad at fishing in stardew valley is that you just need to get good at fishing in stardew valley

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ISA LMFAOOOOOOO

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For those of your not following the tech rumor mill: the bubble is titillating menacingly:

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Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

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Paul Evans - The Winter Blues (2021)

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David Corenswet as Superman/Clark Kent

Superman (2025) dir. James Gunn

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—MARBLE ARCH, ERIN LECOUNT

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Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

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I could never own a parrot. They are splendid and delightful joyful creatures but I could not match their fucking whimsy. If I woke up at 4:45 am on a tuesday to the sound of some gleeful feather-cloaked varmint doing aerial somersaults all over the house while singing the world's most high-pitched whistle nightcore one-man a capella cover of Funkytown, I'd eat it.

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Presenting to you my writing cycle

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thinking about how I saw someone say about Superman that, ultimately, Lex is kind of right that the metahumans are dangerous unchecked. Superman does interfere in a war that has nothing to do with him, he does take it upon himself to kidnap a world leader, threaten him, and laugh at him for pissing. and Hawkgirl literally kills him. and how it's kind of interesting though, that, they are just flauting geopolitical relations and like, any sort of being held accountable and the narrative's like "yeah that's okay"

even Lois questions it. but I think the reason that it's still so cathartic and inspiring as a viewer to see these people just flagrantly not give a fuck about international law is that like. we see what happens when people try to make change "the right way". we see how unchecked power tends to only exist on the side of people trying to better themselves while making the world worse for everyone else. we SEE how people can harm others on the daily with no repercussion, and yet, when someone tries to do good--admittedly in an extreme way--it's questioned.

and so, I think it's just NICE to see people with massive amounts of power stop handwringing and "playing by the rules" while the other side absolutely refuses to. it's fulfilling to see people say "fuck it. why should I have to play fair when the other side literally thinks it can invade an entire country if it feels like it?" it's amazing to see someone say "people were going to die" and not care about a single other thing than actually saving lives and protecting people

so, yeah. like, Superman and the Justice Gang... kind of big-time meddlers inserting themselves where they may not belong. but in a world in which the real people shoving themselves uninvited into world events are like Elon Musk, it's satisfying to see people on that level who at the very least, actually have good intentions

like, maybe they're wrong. but until evil people don't act like that either, I 100% support metahumans' wrongs

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Anna Sawai