tanadrin
@tanadrin.bsky.social
I also poast at tanadrin.tumblr.com. Fiction, worldbuilding, and other nonsense at tanadrin.de. Aurë entuluva!
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>find new habitable planet
>they're blasting out radio signals
>oh boy i can't wait to discover alien life with brand new inscrutable cognition
>they're fristonian predictive processors
>they're all buddhist
>all their stories are the hero's journey
>mfw it happened again
>they're blasting out radio signals
>oh boy i can't wait to discover alien life with brand new inscrutable cognition
>they're fristonian predictive processors
>they're all buddhist
>all their stories are the hero's journey
>mfw it happened again
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
>find new habitable planet
>they're blasting out radio signals
>oh boy i can't wait to discover alien life with brand new inscrutable cognition
>they're fristonian predictive processors
>they're all buddhist
>all their stories are the hero's journey
>mfw it happened again
>they're blasting out radio signals
>oh boy i can't wait to discover alien life with brand new inscrutable cognition
>they're fristonian predictive processors
>they're all buddhist
>all their stories are the hero's journey
>mfw it happened again
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Lload-bearing tweet for me and no one else
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lload-bearing tweet for me and no one else
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honestly i don't know why they decided to remake Annihilation so soon
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
honestly i don't know why they decided to remake Annihilation so soon
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Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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The Imperial Century
The year is 1955, and something has gone terribly wrong in history.
The high water mark of national liberation movements and a world governed by the principle of democratic self-determination came at....
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November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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i think i like the idea that the always-round-Earth version of the middle earth legendarium is the "true" history *and* that the roundworld history is very underdeveloped, bc it implies both that the history we have is inextricably bound up with later (mostly human) myths and legends
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
i think i like the idea that the always-round-Earth version of the middle earth legendarium is the "true" history *and* that the roundworld history is very underdeveloped, bc it implies both that the history we have is inextricably bound up with later (mostly human) myths and legends
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Community justice sounds great until you think for literally one second about how communities that aren't intentionally organized around liberatory ideology and opt-in only function.
it's actually good for violence to be a monopoly. it's good for it to be under direct political control and judicial supervision. those are actually significantly better than the alternative, which is that I personally have to decide if I am going to shoot the guy carrying an axe down the street
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Community justice sounds great until you think for literally one second about how communities that aren't intentionally organized around liberatory ideology and opt-in only function.
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I think Star Trek endures because it encompasses all of the fundamental storytelling archetypes: Man vs man. Man vs self. Man vs computer. Man vs sexy lady. Man vs cave. Man vs God. Man vs lizard. Man vs tribunal. Man vs Abraham Lincoln. Man vs ghost. Man vs boss. Man vs doctor. Man vs rock. Man vs
September 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I think Star Trek endures because it encompasses all of the fundamental storytelling archetypes: Man vs man. Man vs self. Man vs computer. Man vs sexy lady. Man vs cave. Man vs God. Man vs lizard. Man vs tribunal. Man vs Abraham Lincoln. Man vs ghost. Man vs boss. Man vs doctor. Man vs rock. Man vs
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
its also silly to complain about tolkiens plate tectonics bc plate tectonics was discovered after lotr was published. continental drift had been discarded until like the 1960s bc wegener didn’t have a plausible mechanism for his theory
only huge dorks complain about tolkein's unrealistic plate tectonics. yes mordor is shaped like a bigass square but maybe thats because mordor's mountains were not formed the way mountain ranges in our world are
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
its also silly to complain about tolkiens plate tectonics bc plate tectonics was discovered after lotr was published. continental drift had been discarded until like the 1960s bc wegener didn’t have a plausible mechanism for his theory
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AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
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i don't mind if people hate Tolkien, i just wish they would hate him for the right reasons
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
i don't mind if people hate Tolkien, i just wish they would hate him for the right reasons
honestly the other angle you could go with the orcs is kind of a disability one? the idea of the "mongoloid," the way 19th century race science and the stereotypes in the society tolkien grew up in associated intelligence and criminality and class.
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
honestly the other angle you could go with the orcs is kind of a disability one? the idea of the "mongoloid," the way 19th century race science and the stereotypes in the society tolkien grew up in associated intelligence and criminality and class.
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a few years ago i made one of these "choose your future" things. we got bigger fish to fry than the future lately. choose your political economy of desire
May 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
a few years ago i made one of these "choose your future" things. we got bigger fish to fry than the future lately. choose your political economy of desire
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my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
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This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
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