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Behold! Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 7h

"Now give me my Noble."

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gail7.bsky.social @gail7.bsky.social · 10h

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 9h

How is this "breaking" when she accidentally announced it last Friday?

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

For that matter, if Dracula had just done his business transaction with Jonathan and sent him on his way instead of taking him prisoner and making it blatantly obvious he was going to kill him, Seward and Van Helsing would probably never have put all the pieces together and figured out what he was

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

Adaptations usually try to fix that by giving Dracula a specific reason for targeting Mina, but in the novel the entire plot is just carried along by a series of coincidences

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, that doesn't fix that the Demeter just happened to run aground in the town where Jonathan's fiance was summering with her friend who had been courted by a doctor that runs the hospital next door to the house Jonathan sold to Dracula

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

Anne Rice wrote about vampires because writing gay porn wouldn't have been profitable

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

"Dracula needs to feed every night, he likes young women, and he's been watching us and Mina for months. Let's leave her alone and unguarded at night while he's literally next door and one of the inmates here is actively worshipping him."

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

I always ALWAYS skip over the songs when I read LOTR

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

And homophobia. Gay men are always either pedophiles or "lol buttsecks" and lesbians are psychotic and evil

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

"Dracula" relies on too many coincidences to move the story along, Dracula and the protagonists both sabotage themselves multiple times, and a major plot point was rendered scientifically implausible just a few years after its publication

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury is either a brilliant attempt at satirizing American exceptionalism, or sloppy writing with bad characterization and a story that makes no sense

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

He learned something that it never occurred to him to think about before (that Abraham is pronounced 'Avraham' in Hebrew), thinks he's the first person to ever discover this, and is trying to show off how smart he thinks he is by repeating it over and over

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't heard that name in... well, let's say IT'S BEEN AWHILE

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

Wayward son my carry on
Peace there'll be done you are when
Weary lay your rest to head
More you don't no cry

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes, bringing about the destruction of western civilization by eating a food invented in (checks notes) Texas

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

Why it's almost as if people who want right-wing propaganda will just watch Fox News instead of a hollowed-out husk trying to be Fox News Lite. Great job, Paramount!

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

"I wasn't sure which number you wanted"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 5d

@washingtonpost.com May I suggest you change your masthead to "Democracy Dies In Groveling Sycophancy"?

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Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · Sep 14

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7d

A summary of the current GOP plan on the shutdown:

1.) We are actually the stewards of healthcare (ignore your premiums, plez)

2.) If the democraps don't open government, we'll ruin our own voters lives.

3.) *vague heavy breathing sounds from Stephen Miller's office*