Vorpal Coil

Was describing herself as a living doll before doll fiction was a whole thing linktr.ee/vorpalcoil

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The urges and sensations of sexual reproduction are well known, but what about asexual? Does mitosis feel like stretching out fully for the first time after living one's whole life in a box?

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This novel is rapidly becoming "what if PKD wrote a cultivation story" and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing yet.

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I've never seen this "CinemaSins", but hear the name regularly invoked to chastise those who stray from the moral path of media literacy. I suspect it to be some kind of folk devil.

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I've been meditating for 2.5 years and I still haven't even brushed against a jhana state. I've read so many guides and tried all their methods, but no matter how many hours of sitting I do nothing works. It doesn't feel like my brain is wired for this.

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I want to write novel series about psychic powers. Parapsychology became passé just as neurology actually began understanding the brain, there's so much untapped potential. Consciousness is a pressing topic in the world today, and telepathy is a perfect thought experiment.

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One could build an entire conception of esper (I want to bring that term back) abilities essentially by listing every neutral structure, brain wave pattern, and neurotransmitter, and declaring that they can be activated or suppressed individually, but expressed in esoteric meditation terms.

[vorpalcoil]

I want to write novel series about psychic powers. Parapsychology became passé just as neurology actually began understanding the brain, there's so much untapped potential. Consciousness is a pressing topic in the world today, and telepathy is a perfect thought experiment.

[vorpalcoil]

People used to be possessed by fox spirits and the like, but that doesn't happen anymore due to the vaccine. Trace amounts of cold iron in childhood shots prevent fairy infection.

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Backrooms (2026)

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Backrooms was enjoyable whenever it was about exploring weird rooms and struggled when it had to deliver on characterization and plot, save for that dinner scene, which felt like a meeting in the Black Lodge.

[cryptotheism]

Have you studied enough alchemy to synthesise The Dialectic Material?

I've got an ingot of pure context on my side table

[vorpalcoil]

Thinking through the implications of worldbuilding is great fun as long as you don't tie yourself up into knots over it. Some people have just convinced themselves that it's always bad as a kneejerk reaction to a subset of fandoms getting dogmatic about it.

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The bag is almost empty… time to eat the pfinal Pfeffernuss.

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"Cortisol", "dopamine", everyone casually throwing around words even neurologists barely understand like they're the new bodily humors. I'm putting the names of neurotransmitters on a high shelf until everyone's ready to play with them responsibly.

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"You don't hate X enough"

Don't you try to launder your anger issues through me.

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CRTs have a specific look to them that older games were often designed to optimize for, but that's not necessarily true of modern pixel art games and they're not inferior for it. People have taken a fact about past art and made it into a false limitation for future art.

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"I didn't see you at the club"

Well I didn't see you at the

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Rewatched Lady In The Water for the first time since it came out and I am vindicated in my belief that it was always a good movie. People were only convinced it was bad by critics who review-bombed it because they felt like it attacked them.

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Yes, the names are silly, but that's superficial. The critic character is (spoilers) killed, and critics interpreted it as a threat to them because they poorly reviewed Shyamalan's prior film – a petty reason to treat an engaging and sincere film like it was The Room. The other criticism was the director played a secondary character prophesied to write an important book, seen as self-aggrandizing – but not only had he always played a minor role in his prior films, but it's a movie in which everyone has a magic destiny, that was the premise.

There are aspects of the film that could be better: the dialogue is stilted at times, and the cinematography could have done more with color. Yet criticism focused on matters external to the craft and experience of the movie itself, refusing to engage with it on its own terms.