if any other vampire movie has used the "invite me in" conceit even close to that well I need to know about it but I cannot imagine any have done it with that many layers of specifically american meaning
I'm not a big horror fan but I guess am
a vampire fan but yeah
it is very very (very) good and it is definitely also that so not any way around it
I mean!
thank goodness at least Ryan Coogler is making movies, that's one good thing we have going
I hadn't seen Sinners (I know)
I have now, unfortunately I'm pretty sure this website is infested with vampires so not sure about hanging around
the thirty years war was complicated and hard to explain, honestly this one is pretty dumb and obvious!
Also, today. I love them so.
I'm sure the portland and seattle people have them, the land of extravagant dahlias
hardly the first nation founded in rapacious imperialism benefitting the few at the expense of the many to find it's death drive and unlikely it will
be the last
can someone better read in the classics please find the relevant quotes from imperial rome or any other historical example this exceptionalism is very tedious
the translucence!
I love that star shape, I don't know if I've seen dahlias like that in person
a bee hovers around the yellow pollen centre of a purple tree dahlia flower
bee on tree dahlia
what happens when the march temperature swings match the oil price swings
among these the only one of interest is pedro pascal boyfriend
she woke up one day thinking "I just had the most wonderful dream we were bombing the hell out of Iran" and it turns out she had fallen asleep with the news on
Muahahaha,...
if only anyone understood why this keeps happening or what to do about it and had known for at least fifty years
my favorite song
“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.
contradicting them never helps so all one can really do is validate their delusions and move on, not worth it
I think a lot of times, editing is really just remembering what people have said and repeating it back to them so that they can read it through.
—Aaron Bady
(and, yes! A lot of editing is listening)
years of customer service have taught me that people ask for things that do not exist and get disappointed by not getting them all the time and will tell you they must exist with absolute certainty
I show symptoms of anxiety too but no one's claiming I'm god smh
signs you may be thinking about the Egyptian New Kingdom or 8th-century BCE Assyria rather than the HRE:
polytheism
highly centralized palace economy
literate secular bureaucracy
large-scale infrastructure projects
imperial conquest + mass deportation/population control
institutionalized diplomacy
so much notionally Euro-medievalist fantasy bears a much closer relationship to the political, economic, and cultural systems of the Eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages, in everything but onomastics and the climate of its setting, than it does to any part of medieval northwest Europe.
it was a confusing time in retail to say the least
People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.
made up words for sustained delusion and it's hilarious to see in action
the same people went from "stuff, we should sell more stuff, coffee makers! in a bookstore!" to "books books more books we don't want to see space on tables OVERFLOWING WITH BOOKS" within a year
okay the funniest one recently was a sequel by the "wealthy barber" guy, which sold like absolute shit (at least where I am), and there was a corporate visit where it was the only book they mentioned saying how much they love it
