A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

A man walks into a bar and says "Ow!"

[supreme-leader-stoat]

A man walks into a beam and says "My eyes!"

[supreme-leader-stoat]

A man walks into a pole and says "Przepraszam."

[salt-n-tigers]

Lemme look something up real quick……..

[goulashforce]

I assure you sexual activity is necessary for our shareholders

[thememedaddy]

[tlaquetzqui]

We were still doing this in my town well into the 2010s…

[nostalgicamerica]

[oww666]

Beet juice can help lower blood pressure due to its high nitrate content, which promotes blood vessel relaxation and improved blood flow.

you mean I've been drinking 2 glasses a day of that foul tasting crap when I could have been eating BACON morning noon and nite ?

[junglejim4322]

Something that I have noticed is I know almost nobody my age that goes to a food pantry. I know people who regularly run out of money for food and in general have to eat an unsuitable diet because that’s what they can afford and they still don’t go to a food bank, im not sure if it’s because they’re embarrassed or maybe if you didn’t grow up going you don’t know much about it but if you’re financially struggling I really recommend it. And look into other options for food assistance too like community fridges and gardens and other programs that can assist you, where I live Salvation Army pays for an allotted amount of grocery delivery for low income people every month, in the summer farmers take excess produce to the library to be taken by anyone who needs it, etc. There are a LOT of resources for free food that you can look into especially if you are literally not eating because of your financial situation

[junglejim4322]

Btw if you have dietary restrictions you can often let them know and in many cases they’ll prioritize certain items for you

[realmarysue]

Global map of community fridges

Urban Harvest - global foraging maps

Food Not Bombs Global Chapter Locations (mostly vegan!)

USA - Find your local food bank

USA - Meals on Wheels free or reduced cost food delivery (age usually 60+, check your specific area's eligibility

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[tlaquetzqui]

Cthulhu was vigintillions (10⁶³) of years old, and the only reason it took him that long to place his madness in the minds of men is there weren’t any.

[diversityland]

[diversityland]

"Home Depot murder in Pleasanton, California. Employee Blake Mohs, 26, was shot and killed by shoplifter Benicia Knapps, 33, who also had a toddler with her. Knapps is eligible for parole in 17 years."

[diversityland]

"Marseilles. France. The French port city is now a major narcotics hub. Last year, a 15-year-old was stabbed and burned alive as drugs, violence, and murders hit record highs."

[tlaquetzqui]

“Now” isn’t really the word. Marseilles has been involved in various kinds of smuggling pretty much as far back as we have records of it—the Romans knew it as a very rough place, and it was Greek, Punic, and Gaul before them.

It might currently be unusually bad even for Marseilles, though.

[diversityland]

Newly released CIA documents reveal that during the Biden Administration they identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism”.

[diversityland]

20 black-on-white homicides found in June, 2026 — 22 total, including updates

Zero white-on-black

"No white-on-black homicides were found in the USA during the month of June 2026. However, 20 black-on-white killings were discovered; 22 after the conviction of a black murderer and the sentencing of another killers are included."

[diversityland]

[tlaquetzqui]

I mean…the Mexicans who saw those films 80 years ago are dead now. Probably should have kept showing the films.

[diversityland]

"A loud, smoke filled parade in a quiet neighborhood of Toronto, Canada is revealed to be an Indian pagan tradition, publicly announcing that the daughter's menstrual cycle has started."

[tlaquetzqui]

An annoying way to go about it but puberty ceremonies are normal.

[diversityland]

"Police say they solved the infamous 1985 rape, torture, and murder of Christine Gallegos, 18, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The suspect was identified as Ricky Stallworth, who was dubbed the “State Street Stalker.” He died in 2003."

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[baygeethefirst]

Also serves as a not-so-subtle threat. "We KNOW where to find the rest of it."

[baygeethefirst]

Make no mistake: those of us who are mad about Nolan vandalizing a seminal work of western civilization would've vastly preferred a Greek cast, even one featuring actors unknown to us. We would've preferred more poetic diction, not the "Okay" this and "Dad" that and "Daddy" the other thing. What we would've preferred was actual courage on Nolan's part. A regard for the source material, in other words, instead of a desire to trash and mangle and ruin it in every way possible.

Colman Domingo is set to do a live-action remake of "The Princess and the Frog," an original Disney animated feature. And you know, sure as the turning of worlds, that it's going to be super important not to change the race or gender of any character in that. Unlike "The Odyssey."

[tlaquetzqui]

Also “The Princess and the Frog” is a European fairytale, either French or German I forget. (And the idiots at Disney accidentally made the Russian version, “The Frog Princess”, instead—if she transforms, you’re not in the West any more.)

But Song of the South is authentically African, the Uncle Remus stories it adapts being Black Creole legends originating from specifically the Wolof of West Africa. Br’er Wolf and Br’er Fox were originally a hyena and a jackal. Disney has memory-holed it: why do anything with real African folklore when you can just steal from white people?