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sun wukong

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the power of snakemen is without equal

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They found a fossilized neanderthal dream in a hollow stump in Poland. And yes, it can be fermented into alcohol to gain his cave memories.

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gonna be a hater for a minute, reblog and put in the tags the last movie that you HATED like viscerally hated like 1/2 star on letterboxd HATED

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realest tweet ever

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Winged Prophets.

a selection of mothmen. some deliver their warnings more gently than others.

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an itinerant warrior of the midlands has announced he will be defying the starmer government's sword hunt and has begun martialing the dispossessed under the banner of "the sword-saint of birmingham"

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tragic. they found an angel stcuk tangled in the telephone wires outsside your house. sorruy. yeah we dont know how to get it out cus anyone who approached the divine light of their holy aura got obliterated. yeah we forgot their names. it'll probably get free sooner or later. dont go outside

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I feel like Lovecraft's "Cool Air" gets a bad rap as the iconic example of the author's weird anxieties informing his work, both because "my upstairs neighbour has a bizarre obsession with air conditioning and forcibly recruits me to help him install a series of increasingly powerful AC systems, to the point that portions of his apartment are literally freezing over, and in the end it turns out that he was undead and using AC to prevent his body from decaying" is a fairly solid premise for a Twilight Zone episode, and also because there are Lovecraft stories where the inciting anxiety is objectively much dumber.

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the only good purchase i’ve ever made was spending too much money for a cel from this fucking song

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[赤井さしみ@sas_akai]

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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.