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This is my supplementary web drip | Slowly decaying along with this site for over a decade, slowly burning up with this planet for more than twice that | Pronouns whatever, on the internet nobody knows you're a statue
Reading the wikipedia entries for minor Batman villains is like, “Mr. Sparkplug was introduced in 1969. He wore a rectangular costume that resembled a sparkplug, and had power to make electrical outlets stop working. After the Infinite Crisis event, he was reimagined as a serial killer with a fetish for electrostimulation. He had a cameo on Batman the Brave and the Bold where the Joker shoved him into a locker. In the New 52, the Riddler killed him and hung his costume over the mantlepiece as a trophy. He is now on the Suicide Squad.”
do they make a shorthand word for, like, that style of argumentation that you see in ancient aliens? that thing where it’s front-loaded with a lot of bad assumptions, and legitimate sources are mixed in with speculation. and it takes 45 minutes to debunk two minutes of it because there’s so much going on.
the shorthand i use with my friends is “ancient aliens artistry” but, yknow, I have my doubts that that’s an industry term or anything
Just been informed that the thing I’m referencing here is a false premise fallacy. The more we all know.
Everyone knows about the cards that tell a story through multiple illustrations, but an often underlooked genre of card are the ones where it’s two different artists collabing
Case in point, these Charizard and Mewtwo VSTAR cards by Oshiyama and Gossan that depict the same battle but from two different POVs. that shit slaps
I’ve been on a White People Expedition Diary kick recently. I see why Lovecraft was fucking obsessed with this as a framing device, they are insanely compelling.
July 17th, 1884: “Food supplies are low. The Dutchman has eaten so many dog livers that he is now hallucinating from vitamin A poisoning, which is a thing that can happen apparently.”
July 18: “We kicked that faggy Austrian botanist into a ravine. Lmao. Had a lovely bath.”
July 19th 1884: “The Dutchman has been confined to the sled. We have sacrificed our belts to restrain his movements, lest we lose another Austrian to his Poop Madness.”
July 20th 1884: “The men are demanding I leave behind my bathtub. I will not.”
