#the road with no return

[commentgoblin]

It doesn't matter how, but I just stumbled across a Russian rock opera based on the Witcher and I don't know what's happening but the music is cool.

I do not speak enough Russian or know enough about the Witcher to know if it's a good story or not but it sounds neat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[hedgehog-moss]

I say this with genuine care for you and all your creatures: You gotta get a real fence. One of these days someone is going to get out and it’s not going to end well. You do not want that kind of guilt on your conscience and you definitely do not want to deal with the kind of assholes on this site who will spend every day reminding you of it.

I do have a real fence! I spent 2 years building it. It was a big investment of time and money; people who've followed me for a while will remember what a long and gruelling process it was. It involves 2-metre posts, wood crossbars at the top and bottom, and solid wire netting which I spent hours and hours tying to the crossbars every 10cm (for hundreds of metres of fence!) so Pampe has absolutely no room to fit her head anywhere.

It's a marvel of modern engineering and Pampe has never managed to jump over it or break it on her own, but sometimes things happen to fences—last time it was a boar that ran through the netting, today it was a large branch that fell on a crossbar and broke it. I actually went to investigate before dinner to see what was wrong and if I could patch it up quickly tonight and repair it tomorrow.* I usually check the fence for damage after a storm but there was no storm this week, just some wind...

When Pampe gets out it's not because nothing is done to keep her in her pasture but because my fence is not made of pure titanium and Pampe is always quicker than me to detect any damage. She escaped twice this year, one time because of the boar hole, and once via a gap in the still-incomplete living fence I'm trying to grow, but then I made a better temporary fence in this area and she didn't get out again. I think the last time she got out before that was when I let the llamas graze in my neighbour's pasture (with his permission) for an afternoon, and his fence isn't Pampe-proof so it was a game of constant vigilance, which I lost. If I sound breezy when I write a Pampe escape post it's because I know she doesn't go very far, she goes for a stroll in my woods then comes back. The road near my house is a small road between villages where cows frequently wander about—you're much more likely to run into a cow than into my llama!

* Morille accompanied me when I went to inspect the fence earlier and had a wonderful time with the string I was trailing behind me :)

[davidtennan-t]

at one point during the Christmas special I randomly remembered oh yeah fourteens probably binging a Netflix series or dusting his living room

[mobydyke]

a house is a home but a house is alive but a house is a prison but a house is a graveyard but a house is a caregiver but a house is an emancipation but a house is a monster but the house loves you and the house will not let you go

[nelkcats]

Ghost Train

It was no secret that the trains in Gotham were damaged, whether it was from all the explosions that flooded the city on a daily basis or the fact that the rails were broken wasn't completely clear. At that point, what was once a train station was nothing more than an empty place used by some homeless people to sleep.

Or that's what it was supposed to be, because while the station was damaged and underneath the city, it was actually active. It just had another kind of train, a slightly more interesting one.

In Danny's defense, he was extremely bored and there was an abandoned train station he could use to play with. All it took was calling in a favor from Technus and a fully functional ghost train connected the Infinite Realms to Gotham.

The ghosts, of course, used this for fun. Fighting each other, chasing each other, celebrating, having concerts. It was a way to go to the human world without anyone causing trouble for them, not that anyone was paying attention anyway.

Or at least, no one was supposed to be paying attention, because Waylon was dumbfounded at the sight. He had escaped to the old rails when he had no other choice, his sewers were compromised and he needed a way out. He didn't expect to walk right into a party, or be offered a sandwich with a smile instead of a shout.

He could also observe a clearly glowing train and the fact that everyone there was glowing. They could be metas, or another completely new creature, but Waylon didn't care, they gave him food and he wasn't a snitch.

[secretarysong]

unrelated to the art but i think Zuke isn't necessarily a singer or an all-out karaoke person HOWEVER. In his head there's a very small list of really specific songs he'd cause a scene over of his own volition & his favorite is Perpetual Fool by Spacehog

[cataclysmictide]

I Love You, That's All

The Louvre - Lorde/Edgar Degas/The Creation of Adam - Michelangelo/Art Heist, Baby! - @otrtbs /The Gathering Storm - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky/The Last Great American Dynasty - Taylor Swift/The Louvre - Lorde/Unknown/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/New Year's Day - Taylor Swift/Margaret - Lana Del Rey/Unknown/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/New Year's Day - Taylor Swift/Ships in a Storm - Ludolf Bakhuizen/Interior with the Artist's Wife Emilie Heise -  Carl Holsøe/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/Half Return - Adrianne Lenker/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/My Tears Ricochet - Taylor Swift/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens/Unknown/Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss -  Antonio Canova/Bigger Than The Whole Sky - Taylor Swift/Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs

[horygory]

Twin Peaks (2017)

[mia-townie]

Important take aways from the new blog post

They have been on the road for two years and have been solving supernatural mysteries all over the country

Gaston has grown up and is now heavier than 60 pounds and tall enough to lick Jack in the face when standing. Gaston is also apparently acting as a service dog (or as close as you can get without formal training I guess) which I absolutely love!!

Gaston also has a Bunch of spirits in him that originally came from Rosa (and seeing how Jack tried to use the trigger phrase for the Dark God during the timestop that could mean the Dark God is now in Gaston (or that the Dark God is still in Rosa))

One of said spirits (namned Sergeant Pupper) calls Jack "Papa" and calls Jerry "Uncle Jerry" which isnt really vital information but something I think is very cute

There is some strange man who can stop time, who has meet Jack before ("good to see you again.") and who seems to know something about Jack's future- more specifically that Jack is going to die before he reaches whatever destination he thinks he needs to go to

Jack's go-to move is to throw whatever is closest at the enemy's head and tbf we already knew this but I am continuously impressed with Jack's perfect aim

Jack's second go-to move is to go for the balls (another example being Jack grabbing Spencer’s ball at the end of vol 4)

Something is pulling the gang back towards the town and they are probably (maybe? possibly?) returning there in the next blog entry

Honerable mentions: Gaston violently hates Troyal Garth Brooks, the gang has visited Lucy (from Code Green) and Claire (from Bedside manor), and they mentioned the Snake's Paw podcast (!!)

[dengswei]

@asiandramanet creator bingo — parallels

road to high&low (2016) koisenu futari (2022) episode 5 the blood of youth (2022) episode 14 eye love you (2024) episode 2

[croszukis]

arber arrival 🤠 03.28.24

[write-it-motherfuckers]

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The dog sniffed round for an instant, and then with a shrill whine of excitement started off down the street, tugging at his leash in his efforts to go faster. In half an hour we were clear of the town and hastening down a country road.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[aparticularbandit]

I'm gonna say this, and I hope it doesn't come across poorly, but.

I don't want Wanda to show up at the end of the series.

The series has not been about Wanda. She's a cursory artifact who caused Agatha's curse and is Billy's mom, but neither of them actually want her back. (Not right now, anyway.)

The story hasn't been leading to that. There's little narratively to prop that up, and it will feel like...like exactly what people were accusing Billy of doing. It would make the show suddenly about Wanda coming back - it would detract from everything else that's going on - and I don't want that.

I like Wanda a lot, and I hope she does get to come back at some point, but not here. It doesn't feel right for this story. It doesn't fit.

Tommy and Nicholas, yes.

But not Wanda.

[gandalf-the-fool]

[baejax-the-great]

If the Blight is defeated, does this mean we can reclaim the Deep Roads now