[truquetructruk]

[thisshitaintnothintomeman]

last guy to fuck with me got the shrink ray. still got him in my front pocket just to hear his screams. feed him one cheerio a week

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[lizardlicks]

not without those fire exits I'm not. have fun in your death trap, ladies

[fiollaigean]

how to cover letter:

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[official-olm-posts]

Columbo is incredible but it's also very fun to imagine that the first fifteen minutes of each episode (a Columbo-less melodrama detailing the background, motive, and murder) is the dream Columbo has the night before and the whole episode is him trying not to look psychic

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

God being a writer would be so great if I didn't have to write anything

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Wait I just remembered that ai books exist and the empty spectre of being a writer without writing anything suddenly gave me the urge to eat nails. Post rescinded. I'll write the fucking chapter.

[bonivers]

(girl who is already extremely private) i think i need to Move In More Silence

[twothousandeight]

Crash (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

[feversom]

i only just discovered Tony Stella's art and sad to find out that he just passed. RIP to a creative genius; link to his site because all of his work is just incredible: https://www.tony-stella.com/

[dailycatsblog]

[jackabbot]

on familial violence

half man - 1.05 // educated - tara westover

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

[everythingfox]

Bilingual

[sayhelloanimalfriends]

no music 🐔

[tothechaos]

going into a bougie supermarket makes me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik standing in the russian palace

[tothechaos]

"$12.95 for 8.5oz of Jelly are You Fucking Kidding Me"

[saulwexler]

Hey did you draw that evil feminist caricature to warn men how their wives would act once they got the right to vote? Illustrator: sure did boss. real sexy, just like you asked.

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be funny to write a murder mystery where not only did every single character involved have an obvious motive to kill this mf, they were actually all attempting to murder him first, but the murder attempts all cancelled each other out all except for one. Two people tried to poison him but the poisons just happen to work as antidotes for each other, and instead of killing him only gave him the shits, and due to having the shits he couldn't go hunting that day like he had planned, foiling the plans of the one who had conditioned his favourite hunting horse to panic and bolt at the cue of a whistle, and the other murder attempt of tampering with his gun so that it would have exploded his whole face off.

The whole mystery isn't about who could have done it or how, but who was the one who got lucky and actually succeeded.

[terriwriting]

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of Perhaps We'd Best Leave This One Alone, Watson. There Appears To Be An Excess Of Armed Maniacs In The Vicinity.

[copperbadge]

When I was in high school a friend of mine would host murder mystery dinners once or twice a year. They were the kind you could buy as a kit -- I don't even know if they exist anymore -- and everyone was assigned (or chose) a character, then received a booklet of clues to share. The idea was to spend an evening in a one-shot LARP designed like an Agatha Christie novel.

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.

After we solved it, we discovered that the game wasn't from a kit -- the host had written it herself and meticulously printed out the booklets in replica style of the kits. It was the best going-away party I think I could possibly have had.