I'm ems.

literally just managed to watch Sinners (2025) holy shit. none of you were exaggerating about how incredibly absolutely good this film is

what i love about these looks at the end of the movie is that they show that despite becoming a vampire, stack is still connected to his community. he hasn't frozen in time the way that remmick did; he fits in seamlessly to the world because he hasn't forced it to bend to his nostalgic view of his past. what is he doing with his eternal life? we don't know, but just from the outfits we can tell that he and mary aren't alone

I am printing these words out and gluing them backwards onto my forehead

There is so much love from Ollie to Qifrey, and regardless of the tone of it, there will always be the tragedy that happens, yet the love keeps going.

It's also fun to have conversations with "people with too much money or desiring money cause so many problems, so we could make the world better by eliminating money" guys and you start asking basic questions about how product and service creation and distribution would work in their system and they quickly end up reinventing money but calling it something different.

In the Wayfarer Series, the human refugee space stations don't have money (they can do this because they're relatively small and socially organised and basic essentials are provided to everyone for free, so it's not really a big deal if a barter fails or is inconveniently labyrinthine) and that system's started failing in later generations because they've become exposed to societies that do use money. The instant somebody who uses money shows up with exciting things to trade, money itself becomes a valuable barter good (you can trade it with those foreigners for cool stuff). And once you've got something convenient to carry and store (physically or digitally) that only has value in barter, and everyone knows of its value in barter (how much cool shit the foreigners will give you for the coin), the local unofficial adoption of the coin is pretty much inevitable even if you somehow haven't adopted some other stable item as a local barter currency in the meantime.

I know we've moved far past this point, but my historian ass needs to emphasize that so so many people got killed over cows. When the most valuable thing you own is an animal that can walk off, shockingly enough there's a lot of incentive to sneak in and convince your neighbor's cow to leave with you and similar incentive to violently prevent it.

I was going to mention the Táin if no one else had.

#getting into a d&d group is a cool way to meet new people and subsequently hear their insane political views#^someone who played d&d in servers with strangers in high school

when an artist draws fem versions of male characters but makes them skinnier smaller and less muscular................im not saying this is illegal but when their heart will be put on a scale it ain't gonna be lighter than a feather

stop calling your own work slop

stop forcing yourself to disengage with what you love because a layer of irony makes it more comfortable. admit you care and let yourself feel good about it