metacritic review of Conway's Game of Life
10/10
Life continues to be life
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
whisperdal-deactivated20230131
metacritic review of Conway's Game of Life
10/10
Life continues to be life
youse are sleeping on the FUNNIEST part of the Bastille scene imo
so after being threatened with beheading, and severely finger-wagged at by Crowley

this prissy little bitch

REFUSES to give up his frills

you expect him to wear that hideous black tie, do you???? is he not suffering enough with the peasant’s hat smothering his perfectly tousled curls??? goodness gracious
just look at that ‘’I dare you to say something about it.’’ look on his face i’m gonna dlkjdlkfjsdg
nothing, not pain of discorporation or Crowley’s disapproval, is going to stop this ICONIC hoe living her best life
2 years later this is still hilarious to me like aziraphale might care very deeply and sincerely about people sometimes but if you get between his crepes and his frills better hope there isn’t a guillotine in the immediate vicinity RIP french dude
I’ve often thought that it would make sense for the paperback publisher of Discworld (Transworld) to pick out a few of the books, those with younger protagonists and coming-of-age theming in the mix, and put this selection of five or six out in different covers to live in the Teenage or YA section of bookshops and libraries.
London Midland & Scottish Railways travel Ad. poster for Rhyl, Wales featuring holidaygoers in bathing suits swimming and diving (c. 1930). Artwork by Septimus Edwin Scott.
elizabethan-memes
comput3rage
Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
Explain?
OK, so one of the big debates in Macbeth involves the scene in which Lady Macbeth talks Macbeth into killing King Duncan. People debate strenuously over whether it’s a scene of Lady M pressuring her reluctant husband into it, or whether it’s a scene of her sensing, due to their emotional intimacy, that this murder is something her husband secretly wants and has partially internally decided to do, and is arguing him into it in order to help him give himself permission to do it, in the same way that people see their loved ones wavering over the dessert menu and jump in with things like, “Go on, get the cheesecake, it’s your birthday!” Readers and scholars disagree strenuously about this - we even studied an incident in college in which two 18th century illustrators attended the same performance and happened to draw the scene the day after, producing two images that advanced opposite interpretations even though they’d seen the exact same actors do the exact same performance. It’s a big deal.
In the same way, the Baby, It’s Cold Outside discourse is about whether this is a song about sexual harassment, or whether it’s a woman singing about how she wishes she could spend the night with the guy she just had an excellent date with if only the neighbors wouldn’t talk, and him responding, “Stay, baby, it’s cold out! No one could expect you to go home in this!”
I really don’t know (baby stab his side)
King Duncan’s a bro (baby cut through his hide)
I like him a lot (That decrepit old sot?)
This plan ain’t so great (But what a king you’d make!)
The guards might worry (Darling, do it in a hurry!)
His sons will rush the door (So knock them on the floor.)
I’m not such a knave (Bash his head with a stave)
But I’d be a good king (Now you’re starting to think)
The dukes might all talk (But their chatter means naught)
Say, love, what do you mean (You’d make such a king)
I simply must go (baby cut through his hide)
There’s a war on you know (baby cut through his hide)
But what of his wife? (And what of his life?)
It feels like bad luck (But that don’t mean much)
I’ve got a bad premonition (And I’ve got a mission)
But that’s just superstition (My love, you’re a vision)
The witches said I’d rule (If they lied they were cruel)
So baby let’s stab
Stab his siiiiide!
Murderbot 2.0 in Network Effect:
It is a beautiful day on a lost colony contaminated by alien remains and you are a horrible killware
gibberishquestion
you know what i irrationally dislike? when something is in italics and a word within it should be italicized so it’s written in normal print. i know there’s nothing else that can be done but it disrupts the flow and fills me with rage. i’m not playing pretend with you that’s not italicized
yamisnuffles
Patreon request for something with scarves (with bonus for something seasonally inappropriate), so I threw Crowley into more or less what I was wearing yesterday. In my defense, it was 70F out.