This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

steam repeatedly notifying you that a friend is booting up a game thats clearly not cooperating feels like ur sitting inside and someone outside keeps trying to rev up a lawnmower

it's my birthday and the greatest gift you can give me is reading peak

Getting into Of The Devil is crazy because people will sell it to you on the premise of “It’s toxic yuri Death Note!” And the you check it out and it’s some of the most dense and engaging cyberpunk fiction to be written in the last decade and also it’s like if Death Note was written by someone who doesn’t hate women.

You're stranded on a deserted island with the person on your lockscreen. How screwed are you?

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

It's the brutal simplicity. The acknowledgment that their target is either not worth it or does not require it. The turning off of the higher circuits required for complicated magic. It's reaching for the backup knife when assumed they were completely disarmed. It's biting someone when they have no other movement left. It's the base humanness of it. Before humans had magic, they had fists and rocks. The lack of barriers; magic has an insulating distant effect simply not available in melee range.