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This is INSANE!

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New Secret Knots comic: "The Mesh".

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There's this one urban legend called the Devil in the Dance Hall: a girl is dancing with a mysterious stranger at a club when she - or the band, or another dancing couple - looks down and notices he has cloven hooves and smells of brimstone. Whoops, it's the devil! Who flees upon discovery (or the band discovering him & playing a hymn), sometimes taking the girl with him, sometimes not

It's obvious why this story exists: depending on the way it's told, it could either be a thus of ould thus now screed against those dang youths & their partying, or a coded warning not to trust strange men who want to take you off alone. Or both. It's primarily discussed as a legend of the American Southwest, found little outside it, and most cases you'll find are from that region, but Wikipedia claims it's originally a French-Canadian legend that apparently skipped the rest of the continent until it landed in Texas.

But the odd part is, you'd expect that to be a really old legend. From Ye Olden Days. And it is. But the latest manifestation of it, and one of the most well-known...

Is from the 1990s.

Says it took place at a specific nightclub that existed in Denver, Los Caporales

Features the Devil as a handsome cowboy

Involves the Devil being exposed by a mechanical bull

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"I just don't understand why you carry so many. Surely it encourages people to search you more thoroughly."

"Well, yeah – that's the point. I don't even know how to use them. The idea is to waste people's time."

"Does that work?"

"One time my crew got in and out while the pat-down at the door was still working above the waist."

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Typical Soulslike: You have no idea what's going on because every single person you meet is weirdly cryptic for no obvious reason.

Ideal Soulslike: Everyone would love to explain what's going on, but the first person you meet is a conspiracy theorist, the second treats all sources as equally credible, and the third is like, okay, we'll definitely get to that, but first we need to establish some context...

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Vacantism gets objectively funnier the more trivial the position in question is. Claiming that Pope Leo XIV is a fraud because the Holy See lost the apostolic succession in 1378 and the "true" pope is some random guy in Argentina? Everybody loves a good schism. Insisting that King Charles III is an imposter and the real King of England is living in secret exile in Bavaria? Practically a cliché. Arguing that the local school board election was illegitimate on procedural grounds, then getting together with like four other guys and "electing" your own school board chairperson? Now we're talking.

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In superhero settings that lack a single, unified rationale for super powers, I've gotta believe speculating that so-and-so must have powers from something there just isn't a test for yet would be a going concern. People on the Internet micro-analysing every mildly unusual event for "evidence" of undiagnosed superheroism like Tumblr users trying to Sherlock Holmes whether an artist is using AI.

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Life sim set in a fantasy small town whose economy has gone to shit because it's one of those open world console RPG settings that got retooled to be more fast-travel-centric a couple patches back and the town is located in one of those kinda fillery bits of countryside that everybody skips over these days.

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Suh Ankripton: The New Kryptonian Language from Superman

The latest from Jessie and me is Suh Ankripton: the new Kryptonian language from Superman (2025). It shows up in a key (but minor) way in the new film, though you'll hear it again in future (and a lot more of it). It's head-initial: SVO and inflectional, with verbs that are meatier than we expected... Eventually I'll put the dialogue from the movie up on my AO3, but I want to wait until people have had a chance to see it, as the dialogue plays a key role in the film. Look for that in the coming weeks!

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ok this is sick as fuck

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is hentai doujin appropriate for children. to you. because that's a book too.

You’re asking me, someone who saved Boston Red Sox Yaoi to the family computer when I was 13 and got in huge fucking trouble for it, this?

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reblog game put in the tags how you found prev

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给卡纳约的可爱小表情，无论是柱子还是此男都冷得可以，建设之，，，，，

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Fucking killer story map from NPR. A+++

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue