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Dr ShinyGoth
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A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
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Ok Lu Xun did not have to snap this hard with Diary of a Mad Man
Now I'm on to another one of their trucks: not only are they unwilling to change, but there already setting me up for they're next cannibalistic feast by labeling me a "madman." That way, they'll be able to eat me without getting into the slightest trouble. Some people will even be grateful to them. Want that the very truck used in the case that the tenant reported? Everybody ganged up in a "bad" man and ate him. It's the same old thing.
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Flash talking to the Trickster: listen, James, you're wearing the suit again. The Trickster looking surprised at his own costume
February 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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A scientist from Futurama: Robot, experience this tragic irony for me. A robot from Futurama on its knees: Nooooooo!
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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WSJ Screenshot: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022 6/23/2022 4:39:00 PMShare This Episode Are Rotisserie Chickens ‘Inflation-Proof’? Inflation is the worst it’s been in more than 40 years. But one bright spot for consumers might be found at the grocery store: rotisserie chickens. WSJ’s Annie Gasparro chronicles the history of America’s love for the quick and versatile meal, and what a "rotisserie chicken economic index" might say about this inflationary moment.
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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This was precisely my worry.
It’s one thing to make art that can be read as indulgent, ill-conceived, and tasteless—it’s another to turn around and make something that’s just boring in comparison
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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This could have been for me specifically!! Alas,

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Wuthering Heights trades transgression for tradition, finding the worst of both worlds Overlong and undersexed, Emerald Fennell's adaptation betrays her audience of edgelords and perverts.
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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A Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin is riding in the car with his parents; Calvin: How do they know the load limit on bridges, dad? Dad: They drive bigger and bigger trucks over the bridge until it breaks. Then they weigh the last truck and rebuild the bridge. Calvin: Oh. I should've guessed. Mom: Dear, if you don't know the answer, just tell him!
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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This is too much power saved in the new draft folder
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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I clicked on it to give Miles his Internet Bux but uh
I ain't reading all that sorry that happened
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Homer Simpson listening to a halftime show on the radio. "Oh I love Great Bunny. They got such a great attitude."
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Declining to act is not virtue!
As critic and writer Arthur Chu told me on Twitter, "The Volturi shatter humans for sport and the protagonists do nothing about it."
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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OED screenshots are magical.
An OED screenshot of the phrase "well hung" meaning to describe a man with a large dick. It goes back to 1637
February 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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It's in Pepys!
Indecent, immodest, impure, obscene. 1668I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty. S. Pepys, Diary 20 June (1976) vol. IX. 247Citation details for S. Pepys, Diary a1677It is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. I. Barrow, Several Sermons Evil-speaking (1678) ii. 75Citation details for I. Barrow, Several Sermons Evil-speaking 1736The smutty tale Of country justice, o'er his ale. I. H. Browne, Pipe of Tobacco 32Citation details for I. H. Browne, Pipe of Tobacco a1774He..puts the women to the blush with his smutty jokes and rude jeers. A. Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued (1777) vol. III. i. 327Citation details for A. Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued 1820Mr. Hunt's smutty story of Rimini. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine vol. 6 629Citation details for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
February 3, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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1.b.1637– slang. Of a man: having large genitals, esp. a large penis. 1637If a man be well hung, hees cocke sure. I. W., Valiant Scot iii. sig. F2Citation details for I. W., Valiant Scot 1680Some stiff-Prick'd Clown, or well hung Parson. Earl of Rochester et al., Poems 16Citation details for Earl of Rochester, Poems 1681As once the well-hung God of old stood guard. J. Oldham, Satyrs upon Jesuits 78Citation details for J. Oldham, Satyrs upon Jesuits 1699He is well provided, (or well hung in a smutty sense). A. Boyer, Royal Dictionary at ProvideCitation details for A. Boyer, Royal Dictionary 1721Of Coglione, Ital. a Testicle, because Fools are said generally to be well Hung. N. Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary at CullyCitation details for N. Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary 1785The blowen was nutts upon the Kiddey because he is well-hung.
February 3, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Sweater's coming along. Now the arm holes fit!
A selfie of me in a half finished sweater
February 3, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Oh dang I was thinking of Chamberlain. I like that one in particular because he declared war on the basis of a failure of the Germans to speak:
This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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The Declaration of Independence. Churchill's declaration of war. If it's for teaching, I've used these Dinosaur Comics:
T-Rex: Performative utterances are things that you can say, and hey presto, you've changed your life and the world around you! You've changed your life with WORDS. Like the Shahadah, this is insane! This is totally insane. T-Rex: Let's do it!! T-Rex: There's simple ones like "I promise to clean my room" (your future is now altered), but there's bigger ones like "I now pronounce you husband and wife": you weren't married before, and now, oh my God you guys, you're totally married! And then there's "I hereby christen this ship 'HMS Sinkytowne'" and "I sentence you to death by misadventure". Dromiceiomimus: Saying "We declare war" is the same, isn't it? T-Rex: Sure is!! Utahraptor: Yeah, but you're only legally married when you sign the paperwork! T-Rex: Well - Utahraptor: And it's the same with christenings and sentences AND declarations of war: they all require paperwork! I'D argue that the performative utterance is just part of the ceremony, and that the real change is made when you sign on the dotted line. T-Rex: Well, I mean... that's just our society? God: T-REX YOU WOULD HAVE EASILY WON THIS ARGUMENT IF YOU'D MADE IT BEFORE THE INVENTION OF PAPER T-Rex: Ah well. I'm still glad we invented paper! God: ME TOO God: OTHERWISE WHAT WOULD THE HMS SINKYTOWNE BE MADE OUT OF T-Rex: Utahraptor was so wrong about performative utterances yesterday! God: HOW WRONG WAS HE T-Rex: So! He was so wrong. T-Rex: And I only realized it after he left! T-Rex: A leader declares war on television, then that's war, regardless of whether he's signed the paperwork yet. He's changed the world just by talking! With sentencing it's the same: the judge tells you your sentence and that's it, and the paperwork is just that - paperwork! RECORDKEEPING. And the same for marriages! The license is just to let THE GOVERNMENT know what's already happened. I was right! I was totally right!! Utahraptor: T-Rex, remember yesterday? You were totally right! Fully and completely. T-Rex: Aw no! Seriously? T-Rex: You're seriously going to rob me of my Comeuppance Satisfaction by admitting you were wrong before I get to point it out to you? You're going to be That Guy? Utahraptor: Which guy? T-Rex: The guy who does what you're doing! Argh! You ARE being That Guy! Off panel: Look, sorry for admitting I was wrong, I guess? T-Rex: That's another performative!! You're tacitly endorsing their existence! I'M SECONDS AWAY FROM MY HEAD FADING INTO A CARTOON STEAM WHISTLE AND GOING "TOOT TOOT." T-Rex: I'M ANGRY BUT I THINK IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME
February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Me teaching my silly little sex films in 2026 amid rising fascism:
The meme of the backhoe digging out the giant boat. It is not your duty to finish the task, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it
January 28, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Me trying to live an examined life using platonic philosophy to punch shadows on the wall
January 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Homer Simpson wearing an insane suit of armor. "The point of Moby Dick is be yourself"
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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The I Like That lady from the Simpsons.
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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A long quote from Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men's Dress of the Twentieth Century. I won't try to write the whole thing it but it says that late 19th century gay man started appropriating the clothes of working class men, including trousers, as an idealized signal of desire.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Depends on how much Chinese culture Eliot got from Pound.
The term fēntáo (Chinese: 分桃), which is variously translated as "half-eaten peach", "divided peach", or "sharing a peach", was first used by Han Fei, a Legalist philosopher, in his work Han Feizi. From this story it became a byword for homosexuality.[160][161] The book records the incident when courtier Mizi Xia bit into an especially delicious peach and gave the remainder to his lover, Duke Ling of Wei, as a gift so that he could taste it, as well.[162
January 27, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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A gaudy watch from the Simpsons: You see this watch? It's jammed with so many jewels, the hands can't move.
January 26, 2026 at 5:19 AM