Organized Chaos

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

SILENTIUM is a solo-narrator horror fiction podcast following Vatican linguist Father Tommaso Lanza as he investigates deaths for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis, a secret Church institution studying an impossible language that manifests at the moment of death.

This podcast made my horror enthusiast's little heart thump with joy when I first heard it. The way it does eldritch horror by mixing it with catholic and body horror is simply delicious. The mystery behind this otherworldly 2000 years old language, and what this institution is hiding, is intriguing, and the episodic stories are even better.

Episode three has to be my personal favourite: A small girl in a convent is believed to be a saint after a halo appears around her head. Except the halo isn't made of celestial light, but of something far more tangible and horrific.

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

Horror Podcasts

Archiving job ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky)

Civil service ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky) (into the multiverse)

John Doe and the Sad Pathetic Wet Cat of A Man: The horror podcast you didn’t expect to become a musical

The weirdest radio station you’ll ever listen to

The all-American toxic yuri road trip

Dracula Daily got an audiobook in podcast format!

Carmilla got a Dracula Daily style audiobook in podcast format!

Video Games

This mountain unlocks Double Jump and self acceptance unlocks Triple Jump: a trans allegory

Plot twist: the moth IS the Lamp

Plot twist: Grandma’s got issues and the void won’t help

The Blocks that shaped my childhood

I fell in a hole and now I have to save the world with the power of friendship

I don’t know if the power of friendship is enough to save the world this time, guys

In space, no one can hear you sob from this heart-wrenching bittersweet lore *banjo noises* *harmonica noises* *oboe noises* *drums* *alien piano noises* *whistling* *eerie elk noises*

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest 2: where’s my owl sister?

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot 2: Now With More Puzzles AND More Robots!

What if the aliens were fish?

What if the aliens were Arctic fish?

Why is the ocean Blood?

Oh hey this game PointCrow is playing has a really cool art sty- JONATHAN SIMS????

Crab Game with the funniest accessibility feature I’ve ever seen

Who knew making lines out of blocks was goated with the sauce?

Books

Hey why does this house have an extra room in this movie that doesn’t exist?

Quincy Morris: Vampire Hunter

The OG lesbian vampire story 💜

The Greek gods owe child support

The Egyptian gods sure do love possessing people

The Roman gods owe child support

The Norse gods owe child suport

Apollo finally pays his child support

Stop sending children to war because Sandwich said so: a tale in five books

Stop sending children into the arena: a tale in three books (plus two prequels)

This 13-floor London apartment building is fucked up and haunted

The prospective princess to revolutionary scholar pipeline

Movies

This cool Swedish cult can get you out of your toxic relationship with just nine human sacrifices!

Why are there sex aliens in a mansion in Texas?

Why is the movie so much better than the board game?

They were never skeletons, were they?

Damn, these vampires are really desperate for blues music

The most wholesome idiots you’ll ever see travel through time

A lesbian horror trilogy set in 3 different time periods? Sign me the fuck up!

Oh my God, Regina, you can’t just walk in front of a bus

Silence! I’ve made my decision. Bring back the dinosaurs.

Maybe the giant floating allegory for nuclear weapons in the sky should stay hidden

Apparently the local forest spirit provides free babysitting services! Yippee!!

My son’s best friend may be a magic fish but at least he has a friend his age

Maybe we wouldn’t be killing the planet if nature fought back.

These bathhouse spirits really need to unionize

YouTube/TV Series

Sonic but Funnier

The haunted house of drag

That one Really Big drag reality competition show. You know the one.

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also throwing rocks at people and also wind blasting people and also throwing water at people and also fire blasting people and also-

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also dragons

Saving the world with the power of lesbians

Mark and Ethan’s Excellent Adventure

Plays/Musicals

Fuck Capitalism, Become Trees

Trying to fit in as a lesbian alien is super fucking hard

Fuck you Dad, I’m running away to the woods because you banished my cousin

Sorry Horatio, I vengeanced too close to the sun and now I can’t make it to date night

Let’s be real, the ending is Friar Laurence’s fault.

Am I making an ass of myself or is it just the fairies in the woods?

So… who’s coming back to life?

Wednesday Addams comes out as straight

Your Honor, he deserved It

Your Honor, her perm is intact and therefore her lies are not

Fuck Around and Find Out: Fairy Tale Edition

Don’t ask what’s in the pies

Child laborers unionize: The Musical

The Greek gods owe child support: The Musical

I said wait for me, why’d you ruin it?

Racism and classism ruined the love story and the Gods actually felt bad about it

Unpopular opinion: The musical is better than the movie (Green Edition)

Saving the family business with the power of drag

We’re poor artists in New York City in the middle of the AIDS epidemic, of course we can’t make rent!

Hey maybe sex ed is a good idea, actually (ft. some Absolute Bangers)

A British murder mystery: Now with Clowns! And an absurdly small cast!

Oscar Wilde, you glorious bastard, you’re right. It is important to be Ernest.

Working on Broadway can be a nightmare sometimes. Let’s tap dance about it!

The Greek muses can roller skate?

This fandom doesn’t realize that you can sympathize with a character’s backstory and also acknowledge that he’s a creep whose sense of entitlement towards the female lead literally drives the whole plot forward: a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love, Death, and Sand Worms

Tall Tales and Terminal Cancer

It’s not easy being green in Oz

Unpopular Opinion: The musical is better than the movie: edgy high school satire edition

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink: The Musical

Henry VIII sucked. Wish we knew more about his six wives.

Never mix telekinesis and hardcore Christian parenting

Starkid Specifically

The best parody of the worst author’s work

Joey Richter as himself and Joe Walker as his penis: The Musical

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Sequel?

Bug wants to be human (big mistake)

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Finale

Fuck IP laws, We’ve got Marvel AND DC characters singing and dancing!

It’s all Jafar’s fault… or is it?

Star Wars interpretive dance battle and pod racing tournament

Dysentery is, like, the least of our wagon party’s concerns.

The Scooby Gang peaked in high school

Live Chorn Reaction

CONSUME THE BLUE GOOP BECOME ONE WITH THE THEATRE KID HIVE MIND

Capitalism kills. Beware Black Friday.

Guns don’t kill people, vengeful zombies kill people! Your gun cannot stop him.

The first one is a horror movie, Late Night with the Devil starring David Dastalmachian as a 70s late night TV show host one Halloween night on his last chance to finally take the #1 spot from Johnny Carson. I do have to caveat this one with the note that I did not know at the time I saw it that some of the station interstitial were made with AI.

The second is The Usual Suspects, and honestly the less I tell you about it the better. It has the proverbial star-studded cast (including a very young Giancarlo Esposito) and is kind of a heist movie and kind of a thriller and very much a story about stories.