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You know, I've seen manuscript abbreviations that looked like text-speak, but hand-drawing emojis to stand in for the word ceann (head) in a passage about Cú Chulainn being beheaded is taking that all to a new level

(The line from another manuscript: "Is ann sin d'éirgedar datha aille iongantacha do cheann Choingculoinn")

Manuscript is RIA 23 H 10, Oidheadh Con Culainn, written in 1808.

BREAKING NEWS HE DID IT AGAIN

"a cheann do bheith ar an ngad" but obviously when talking about heads on sticks we should just draw a ☹️ instead

He just keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "ceann" gets replaced with 😐 And a lot of people get beheaded in this text (thanks Conall), so this happens a lot.

"Do bhain an 😐 de" He struck the head from him

FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

Second step is shipping them with whoever they are most likely to become codependent with.

"I'm still kicking" is such a funny way to say "I'm still alive". Like lol. I'm still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.

I love the hagiographies that are like "St. Christopher was 12 feet tall and frost giants helped him build an abbey out of the bones of a giant pig, which were gold"

And then you Google the abbey and it's clearly just French and made of slate rock or whatever.

pig giant bones turn slate and french after a few years

that makes sense

Christmas Tree , November Morning Lower Regent Street - Peter Brown , 2021.

British , b. 1967 -

Oil , 24 x 16 in.

Theyre sending me to da foppish dandys effeminate school for pansy boys

If you see me in a dungeon just turn around and never look back. I gaurantee you nothing in my hoard is even worth it. And I don't want to deal with fighting a bunch of the most obnoxious people on earth (high level adventurers). Please just do us both a favor and like. Go kill a powerful lich or something. Yeah. Go find the ancient lich's evil phylactery. Yeah. Deal with undead or something. Just go home. Just. Go home. Sigh

The more I rotate it in my mind the more I realize any fantasy game (tabletop ESPECIALLY) from the perspective of a boss monster must really fucking suck. The average dnd character is like. The Worst Dude. Imagine having to deal with a full squad of The Worst Dude every week trying to kill you. Its not every week of course, probably years in between guys coming at you, but to a creature that lives for thousands of years it must feel like its every other day!!!! Wow that sucks so hard

The Smash Bros. cast swapping anecdotes about their various evil doppelgangers and Mario getting into an argument about whether Wario counts.

Surprisingly, Mario is arguing that Wario does not count as he has literally never made that connection in his life. You can’t just say every fat italian in overalls is a Mario counterpart, he’s his own person with hopes and dreams. Evil hopes and dreams, but still.

Daisy, meanwhile, manages to argue very convincingly that Peach should be considered her evil doppelganger.

Wario is playing Devil’s advocate because being Mario’s evil doppleganger is great for business. If he was just some guy, nobody would buy Warioware.

@kamenriderhamo i am not going to let you hide this in the replies

I have to confess "your web browser's assistive AI can be instructed to steal your online banking password via prompt injection because it operates with full privileges and treats all text it ingests as equally authoritative sources of user instructions, including the text of web pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been. There really is no one involved at any point in the development of these tools who actually understands what they're doing, huh?

shit's structured like an hbomberguy video

i really dont think the margarine guy is using margarine as code for some other substance, hes either doing a really funny long term reddit bit (lots of precedence for this) or he's your average psycho prepper who got a deal on margarine and didnt work out the logistics first (also a lot of precedence for this). many preppers are basically specialized hoarders and have all the same neurological and psychological problems regular hoarders have in terms of bad decision making, inability to predict or conceptualize physical object mass accurately, etc. imagine making costco impulse purchases at scale and thats how you end up with 2000lbs of margarine and all the associated problems

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis + pointing (and scolding)

hating a popular character is actually much more soul crushing than liking an unpopular character, as someone who does both constantly. liking an unpopular character gives you the chance to be the Number One Character Fan and everybody knows you as the Character Guy and even if the fan content is scarce, you are adding positivity to the fandom. absolutely hating a fan favourite character will have you twisting yourself in knots going yes yes i acknowledge their complexity yes yes i will never ever post hate in the main tags yes yes you're allowed to like them. when what you really wanna do is post about how much character sucks. but you Cant.

actually the real tragedy of Frankenstein (2025) is that the Creature is so visibly young. the dead man whose face is now his was a young man who probably died in battle, and who was not significant enough to afford a decent burial. the rich are laid to rest in their elaborate coffins, but the poor? even in death their bodies are still put to work for the ideals of those who have never fought in battle.

in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character