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suburbia; or the sad, quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted

"No Surprises," Radiohead // Safe (1995) // Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard // Blue Velvet (1986) // "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads // Little Shop of Horrors (1986) // Jon Ware on I Am In Eskew // Vivarium (2019) // "His 'n' Hers," Pulp // The Truman Show (1998) // White Noise, Don DeLillo // Supergod, Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny // 17776, Jon Bois // photograph of 1970s Las Vegas underground Cold War bunker // Disco Elysium, ZA/UM

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Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me

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the thing about the garden of eden is that while eve was partially deceived into eating the fruit of knowledge, she primarily did it of her own volition because she wanted to know. whereas adam only ate it to be with eve. she's everything he's just ken

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Do we even know what sort of magic is protecting the arcane vault?

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

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wish i could live here

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I am reading lots of basenji breed profiles and they’re all like “if you want a manipulative, scheming dog that will make you a pawn in its cosmic chess game as it plots the fall of empires and destroys your house at the first sign of boredom, the clean, elegant basenji may be for you!”

“If you’ve ever wanted a conveniently-sized canine version of Lord Vetinari that will eagerly kill every cat it sees and will escape and run away forever to reclaim its throne the moment you open your door, the basenji sounds like your perfect dog!”

“If your idea of a dog is an ancient Egyptian spirit trapped in a dog’s body that reads Machiavelli and will stab you in the back the moment your agenda no longer aligns with your own, consider a basenji!”

They sound like fucking nightmares, and yet... I am intrigued...

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what if a garden gnome is just the larval stage of a wizard

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thinking about “you haven’t met all the people who will love you” and like!!! you also haven’t found all the things that will make you happy!!!! there will always be new authors and musicians and artists whose work you will one day discover and love!!!! there will always be new hobbies and skills for you to learn and feel fulfilled by!!! there will always be new things around the corner that will bring sudden and unexpected happiness!!!!!!!!!!!

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something really cool that happened recently is I wrote a graduate-level term paper on fae semantics & pragmatics (as depicted in Labyrinth) and got an A+

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oh? if i'm an *evil* wizard then why does the king let me skulk around the throne offering bad advice unimpeded?

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what if Jenny of Green Ribbon fame were an escaped head from Princess Langwidere's boudoir

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me: wow this man is so self aware the man:

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Needle Felted Griffins

LISa Felt Stories on Etsy

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Unmute !

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Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater) / Brianna Wiest, How the People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again / Mitski, Old Friend / Jacob Aaron Schroeder, Alice Wu Director’s note for The Half of It / Alison Zai / Trista Mateer

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