thrallhouse

youve heard of missionary position. now get ready for MERCENARY position

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

me quietly doing my work in the corner but someone put a post-it note that says "unwilling sacrifice" on my back

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

My knight and I saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe. You look like someone who might enjoy a duel to the death. If you're into it, that's sort of foreplay for us, so -- no pressure! But here's a map, and that big red X in the woods is where we'll be all night ;)

transfems are the lifeblood of all joy in the world

this post posits a utopian world where either of these parties would support feeding schoolchildren, making it a masterclass in "hopepunk"

pain is weakness entering the body

pain is something hurting the body