Mouse Armor by Jeff De Boer
I love his stated intention behind these projects, ‘Confuse historians’.
BEHIND CONVENT WALLS (1978) directed by Walerian Borowczyk
“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”
No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.
Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.
Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has
The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.
The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.
Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.
You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.
You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.
the tits speak for themselves
[ID: A couple of yellow tits, as in birds, are perched on a podium with microphones in front of them. /end ID]
Great tit (Parus major)
on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.
No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.
“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass
the moral of the story is that a breathable atmosphere is important to one’s general well-being
The moral is also that convenience can come at a great cost and cause your curiosity and problem solving/other skills to atrophy.
ok u kind of ate with that
Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.
in addition: Trying to avoid ever doing these things will cost you in ways you cannot comprehend until you stop and accept this.
More favourite numerical memes:
- Implicit or implicit enumeration of uncountable things (example: taking inventory of the fucks which one gives)
- Suggesting the divisibility of things which are not customarily thought of as able to be subdivided (example: "six whole people")
- Using words that aren't numbers as numbers (example: "one William dollars")
- Technically correct but contextually misleading estimates (example: looking at a group of several thousand things and observing that there are "at least three")
- Incongruous qualifiers for apparently simple sums or tallies (example: she was twenty-seven years old, not counting 2014)
I love all of these, plus I would like to propose two additional, both things that I do on the regular:
6. Comparing a stated number to a somewhat larger number in a context where this adds no information. (example: "I found 50 dollars!" "Wow, that's almost 60 dollars!")
7. Improper use and conversion of units. "I'm turning 21 tomorrow!" "Wow, that's 69.8 in Fahrenheit!"
love when theres a character whose entire existence is spoiler tagged by default. go behind the curtain boy
pretentious moment incoming but why is everyone's idea of fashion so fucking boring these days. why the fuck did my manager just ask me "what's with the scarf". "what's with the scarf" fuck man do I need a reason to wear a faggy little scarf now? you could just say "nice scarf man". what's with your attitude
see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.
sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever
to quote someone who was a genius on bluesky:
America got freedom-fried