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“You shall not commit murder.”

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

3 for 3: Same.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

They’d make wonderful tabletop paper minis!

I’m def, def a “fingers laced behind nape of the neck, cradling noggin” kind of guy. And, more like staring at the seam between wall and ceiling.

Me: You right

Also me: Maaan... them d4s are friggin caltrops. Stepped-on Lego WISH they were d4s...

When Peter Thiel and Co. get really cracking it'll be all: Save mankind! Be a Robo Cop! Tell those meat-based bio-Neanderthals, you're Terminated! Resistance is forty-nine ninety-nine a month $$$

A monkey with a bright pink, bare face and long, thick reddish-brown fur crouches on a tree branch. Its expression appears somber as it grips the wood, with a softly blurred forest canopy in the background.

A monkey with long, shaggy reddish-orange fur sits on a branch, holding and eating a small piece of food. Its bald, bright red face is expressive and prominent against its thick coat. The background is softly blurred forest foliage.

A monkey with a bright red, bald face and long golden-brown fur perches on the tip of a tree branch, holding a piece of fruit in both hands. Its posture is slightly hunched as it looks down at the food, with a softly blurred green forest in the background.

A close-up of a monkey with thick grey-and-white fur, a small upturned nose, and a prominent tuft of dark hair on its head. It is baring large yellow teeth in a wide, expressive grin. The background is a softly blurred green forest.

monkey with a silly patch of fur on it's nose

monkey with a silly patch of fur on it's nose, making a surprised sort of expression

monkey making a sort of surprised, offended face

A close-up photograph of a dark-furred monkey with dramatic puffed white cheek hair and a tall, swept-up crest of black hair on its head. The animal has orange-brown eyes and a calm, slightly solemn expression. A soft green, out-of-focus forest background surrounds it.

Snubbed nose monkey

Snubbed nose monkey

bearded monkey

Tamarin monkey, dark fur, bright paws

Monkey with moustache

Monkey with moustache

Monkey with moustache

Literally goblins, a thread

The hardest difficulty setting 🫡

COUNTERPOINT: Like, it prolly do burn, tho.

Too true:

Killer:

2nd listen, Elizabeth Taylor:
Really, really like:
I'd cry my eyes violet
(ears couldn't parse it without the lyrics the first time)

Killer:

Knee-jerk, first time listen reaction:

Biggest gut punch so far:
Every eldest daughter
Was the first lamb to the slaughter

(lol at starting with:
Everybody's so punk on the internet
Everyone's unbothered 'til they're not
Every joke's just trolling and memes

And a chorus that almost feels oblique reference to Rick Roll) (complimentary)

To me, Swift’s Father Figure is reminiscent of Pink Floyd’s Have a Cigar and Macklemore’s Jimmy Iovine, with the “deal with producer-as-devil” directly referenced (lol).

What puts this song over the top for me is: the key and vocalization left me questioning if the rug-pull would in fact happen.

Fate of Ophelia
👍👍
(Inversion of what I was expecting from title)

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

My kids love all kinds of quirky (primarily indie) games; Can’t wait to get this in front of them.

Roman Empire as Kingdom of God I can already tell at the outset of this piece that this will be a personal, heartfelt missive with likely limited utility but to a very small audience; But, it's the sort of thing I must get out, a.....

A minister once explained to me that in His divine wisdom, God sent Jesus Christ to the earth specifically during Rome’s rule over Judea, because the Roman Empire was a perfect symbol of God’s own kingdom. [stares off into the middle distance]… (continued at link below)

Co-signed.

Shown all of these to my kiddos. Are there more essentials?

Throwbacks: Krull, The Witches, Hobbit '77

Hellboy (Ron Perlman's, particularly Golden Army), Dragonheart

Bright

Sci Fi: Flight of the Navigator, Farscape, Fifth Element

Reading Guards! Guards! and it has a lot of that energy.

Absolutely incredible article; I’ve been really wrestling with my, and folks, fixation on Euro medievalism, lately.

And, I think… as a consolation, I DO just really, really want a pretty hat.

I am utterly fascinated. How do you align the fronts and backs of the minis?

Photograph: an ancient standing stone that is part of the Scorhill stone circle: a Bronze Age site not far from our village on Dartmoor. (Devon, south-west England)

My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed

I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,

with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.

- Adrienne Rich (from Natural Resources
in Dreams of a Common Language)

REelect, Lord have mercy.