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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield-A woman has her wife suddenly reappear after having been missing for 6 months on a submarine expedition. While she's initially happy her wife's now strange in ways that aren't fully explainable by trauma
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I remember the 8 foot tall bit, but I remember him being intentionally vague on his methodology, and with the emphasis on alchemy and creation of life I read it as him building a homunculus by some undescribed process rather than reimbuing dead tissue with life
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If I remember right, in the novel he wasn't even stiching bodies together (only researching them) but he was working at a larger scale to be able to make the details easier
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The time a girl tried to netflix and chill with me by putting on Antichrist
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bird real 🙂‍↕️
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Love a Stellar's jay
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Lana Del Rey logging on
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Big if true
September 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
No. That's crazy
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
😔
September 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Not sure, but I blame Australia
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
But you can let them know what I look like
April 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It was the "matter of mechanics" bit. Surely you're not above a bit of pedantry
April 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It's a contraction of "you all" so the apostrophe should be exactly where it is, replacing the dropped letters
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
That's wild
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Big gun
February 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I wish it was easier to listen to that song though
February 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The very next song is much worse, and starts when a doctor, on being asked if he would agree to perform surgery on an anonymous wealthy client goes "I just do surgery, I can't make him not evil" (and yes, the bottom surgery doctor uses "he throughout the entire song)
January 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I honestly think it's bigger crime is its utter thematic incoherence. This is also somehow one of the better songs
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I like to use mole bitters instead of angostura
October 14, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Fingers crossed on that
October 14, 2024 at 5:38 AM