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Tuxedo Catfish

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evaluated? buddy they keep me in a temperature-controlled vault so they can measure all autism accurately against mine

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · Jan 1

this was my old pinned post on Twitter, Fran Lebowitz is one of the best to ever do it, just the clearest and most powerful articulation of my beliefs about the arts and their relationship with criticism i've ever seen from another person

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On Ballet: Fran Lebowitz and Nick Mauss | Live from the Whitney

YouTube video by Whitney Museum of American Art

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 6h

it's because boomers fantasized about there being no consequences for going off on their boss or or wife w/e, while the millennial fantasy is basically your shitty parents apologizing to you. it'll be interesting to see what gen z does once they're at the proverbial wheel

sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 7h

i think about this tweet a lot

tweet from @arod_twit:

"characters in tv shows are too self aware now! every emotional convo is like "i guess i yelled at you earlier because i never processed dad leaving" no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 12h

Me and who

A screencap of Breugel's Proverbs showing the part of the painting where two people's asses are sticking out the side of an outhouse. A text box shows that this is a representation of the proverb "they both crap through the same hole" which means they are inseperable comrades

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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I get it. It's called Castlevania because it's a metroidvania set in a castle!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 13h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 17h

New poster for "Dorohedoro" Season 2.
Coming Spring 2026.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 1d

I checked and yes, Kojima predicted this in 2008

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 2d

i cant believe the revolution is going to be hoards of people in inflatable frog armor with jerry rigged n99 filtration on their inflation intakes

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

i mean it's a competitive field for sure but with engineers i usually assume they know at least ONE real thing and that isn't at all true of the two groups i just mentioned

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

There's also this whole cross-Fromsoftian thing with survival strategies and the inverse relationship between an organism's complexity and how many offspring it produces, which by reputation is *most* prominent in Bloodborne and of course I can't access that part of the Rosetta Stone lol.

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

the Silver Tears as an effort to create a Lord by creating an infinitely malleable creature, and Marika's ancestry making her uniquely suited to "harmonious" merging with the flesh of others.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

It's also kind of interesting how susceptible dragons are to various forms of energy (especially lesser dragons, who look more like animal chimeras vs. the alien, stone-and-lightning, barely-biological look of ancient dragons), the Eternal Cities' effort to imitate draconic immortality,

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

(On the other hand, ancient dragons are tinged with gold. Although now that I think of it this describes ancient dragons *after they allied themselves with Marika's dynasty* -- I should check and see if Placi himself has the shimmering hints of gold beneath his stone skin like the others do or not.)

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

(I lean towards Metyr because the pairing of Placidusax, a five-headed dragon whose gift of intelligence to lesser beasts is represented by a hand, and Metyr as the Mother of Fingers, both of whom are now crippled and incomplete, is just a little too perfectly symmetrical.)

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

(We have some pretty solid hints about the how/why, at least: Placidusax was mutually crippled by Bayle, and his God "fled." I've never really come up with a personally satisfying answer to whether the God in question was Metyr or the Elden Beast but it almost has to be one of the two.)

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

We're getting way outside the realm of anything I could prove but I think the animal-gods must belong to an era immediately after the dragons somehow lost power and authority and their not-quite-yet-human servants took over; the Demigods of an earlier Age.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

Beastmen -- the lowly servants of dragons -- are described as becoming more human, more "civilized", so fast that they could see it happening and were discomforted by the way their animal nature gave way to something else. And we know that Placidusax was Elden Lord before any human was.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

The animal totem stuff makes more sense when you think about how this stuff got down to the level of mortals in the first place, though. This isn't a setting where evolution occurred on geological time scales, the gods are directly fucking around and reshaping this world.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

There is a unifying principle -- there's a REALLY clear pattern of animal totems. Serpent, Insect, Lion, Bird, Wolf, Moose. It's tricky because there's *also* an astrological element to it where you have solar, lunar, and stellar forces and they're probably just two taxonomies for the same things.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

Rather, just as Marika's empire has its factions and contenders, we're looking at the scattered survivors of an entire world-system that was swept away.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

Generally speaking, the common element in all of these is that they're somehow related or adjacent to Death. Rot, rebirth, fire, and so on. There are tenuous links between the Church of the Bud, Verdigris, the Fire Giants, the Pests, etc. but I don't think they're actually *the same*.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of little bits and fragments in the game that suggest Marika *broke* some older system when she established the Golden Order. The Deathbird / Twinbird, the Ancestral Spirits, the Scarlet Rot itself, the entire concept of "divine elements" that comes up in places.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

okay where was i. ancestral followers. they worship big spooky moose that have plant- or fungus-like growths coming out of their bodies, which are explicitly described as "buds"

there are also incongruous Ancestral Followers scattered around the world map, mostly strangely of all IN the Lake of Rot

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

small brain: pussy galore
big brain: alotta fagina
kojima brain: WHITE BEAVER

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

law has the highest concentration of people who think they know everything, all other disciplines are child's play, and no other form of expertise is necessary outside of computer science

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1d

last common ancestor i guess lol

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