#;; kicks sand

[forged-in-kaoss]

Episode 110 vs episode 1100

[trashyspud330]

I dont like him but I cannot deny, really fun villian

[gunsatthaphan]

😭😭😭

[notbecauseofvictories]

One of the more interesting things, as I slowly read my way through the Discworld series, is how specific they are.

No one else could have written the books I've read except a person living through the latter half of the 20th century. No one in the 1850s or the 1950s or the 2020s could have told jokes in quite the same way, on topics as diverse as shopping malls, rude earthworks, Morris dances, sword and sandal movies, movies in general, computers, academia, quantum, gender and changing expression of that gender, etc. It is in some ways a sort of artifact of the late 20th century---largely because that's when the books were written, but also because I suspect Pratchett was a collector of shiny facts and liked working them into his writing.

And of course, I grew up with the same references (or, at least, was reading Pratchett at the right time to figure out what he was referencing) so it works marvelously on me.

Which makes me wonder....what's the 21st century equivalent? Is there a writer out there who trenchantly and amusingly referencing tiktok? Is that even possible in the modern understanding of lit? Are there writers who manage to integrate facebook intelligently and cleverly into their prose---not as 'found media' (which is fine, but not what Pratchett is doing) but describing the human experience of being on facebook, and how that connects with the whole experience of being human at all?

[pitchburgh]

Hot take as we approach the Yankees-Dodgers World Series:

Teams with high payrolls are not automatically Bad Guys.

In fact, speaking as a fan of the chronically underpaid, perennial cellar-dweller Pirates, I'd say the opposite is true.

If you're mad that the Yanks and Dodgers "bought" their way into the World Series, I feel you. I loathe capitalism deeply. But underspending is much more of an issue than overspending.

MLB generated over eleven billion dollars in revenue in 2023, and it's projected to be even higher for 2024. The boys deserve a big slice of that!

There's no virtue in the kind of penny-pinching, self-pitying bullshit pageantry that is so often typical of small-market ownership. As of 2021, every single owner was worth at least 400 MILLION dollars, and most of them were worth 3-4 times that. Eighty percent of them are billionaires (including Pittsburgh's very own scum-sucker joke of an owner, Bob Nutting).

News flash: the vast majority of "poor" teams can afford to expand their payroll, especially after almost 50% revenue sharing. Every single team is profitable. They choose not to spend competitively. They choose to treat the team as an investment to line their pockets. They choose to come up short.

I can't fault the best players for flocking to teams that will compensate them properly; and I can't fault fans of those teams for enjoying a superior product.

I'll leave you with this: we oughta be dragging cheapskate owners into the street instead of acting like high payroll teams are somehow "cheating."

Good luck to the dodgers and yankaroos. May the best blue team win 🫡

A quick addendum - This is all under our current system. I'd like to see it get overhauled, of course. But this is the world we're living in for the 2024 World Series.

[stump-not-found]

Heh Stumpy. A continuation of my previous ask where i threatened to duel you, but earlier in bill and fords contract he stated very clearly that in times of crisis ford would let bill take over, is the end of the last chapter that? Ford has decided to kick flip it into the closet dimension and now bill gets to kick sand into preteens eyes?

i hope he gets to kick sand in their eyes . he deserves it

[summercosmos]

Kendra lifted a beautiful circlet out of the water, wrought of a metal like radiant silver and inlaid with pristine gems, including a large white jewel in the front. The details were exquisite, the circlet formed by multiple strands in a perfect simulation of woven vines. Kendra knew instinctively that she had never held an object nearly as valuable.

My crown, the Fairy Queen explained.

the colors look so bad on mobile omfgggggf👊💥 anyhow. this is one of my favorite scenes out of all the dw books!

[gunnrblze]

‘Operation: Sand Viper’ moodboard

[doodlingleluke]

Throwback

[raptorrobot]

and so it begins . if War by Heaven Pierce Her has 0 fans i'm dead

ultratober prompt list

[stars-mischief-archive]

finally finished it so! here's the ref sheet if you guys want it hehe

[hehearse]

are you taking song suggestions bc Constellations by the Oh Hellos is sooooo orv to me

juuust a tad evil huh. every good intention huh. certain someone's sacrifices and his happy ending. hm.

[enbysiriusblack]

"james bullied severus" are you trying to tell me you never had the experience of a mortal enemy that stemmed from a stupid, childish reason? a classmate you had such absolute beef with that you and your friends and him and his friends would prank each other and fight each other and call each other names??

[goatpaste]

TUSK TUSK TUSK

id drawn act 1 a hundred times so lets give act 2 a whirl hehe ^^

[l-art-stuff-l]

rohini voice surely this time everything will be absolutely perfect and not have anything minorly inconvenient or embarrassing happen

rohini by @official-sonic-team

version without the stars because i’m proud of the galaxy stuff

[alinasteelcrest]

You can run away with me

anytime you want.