A Phlaming Phoenix

The character Pie’o’pah from Clive Barker’s Imajica has a sort of “third” genitalia which can both penetrate and be penetrated. Through the story, the main character is kind of magically seduced by this, initially revolted, but it becomes a point of personal growth which helps unlock his true potential. It’s a really cool and weird (and long) story with some pretty ahead-of-its time pontification on trans and non-binary identities.

Look around to see if I can rummage up the necessary implements to brew a pot of tea.

This is a literary device called a “bookend narrative.” If you want more stories like that, there’s your search term.

Wheel! Of! Fish!

women are so obviously not sure about the situation but they are not done with my partner

Hah, I love this track, but kind of ironically. It’s fun when it comes up on shuffle.

White Pony is accessible and everyone knows it. Around the Fur has the best snare I’ve ever heard recorded.

With polyamory, Brokeback Mountain is a light hearted comedy about some queer friends who like to escape to the woods sometimes.

I’ll even accept “joolry”.

It was used by Hilary Clinton to describe Trump supporters. A “basket of deplorables” I think was her term.

Do you recommend a particular instance?

Yeah, that was the dominant form of music distribution at the time.

So you haven’t seen, for example, Cowboys From Hell by Pantera or Weathered by Creed, then? I don’t think Vs is a particularly bad album cover, especially by comparison to those. The photography is fine. Maybe it’s not your average Hipgnosis cover, but it’s ok.

Vampire Survivors is so much better than it has any right to be. It’s a great way to kill time if I have my Steam Deck around.

Hrm… The Matrix definitely still looks good, except for the CGI machines that chase after their ship in the back half of the movie. Still, I would argue that Fight Club is at least as relevant still, since it describes a lot of how we got to our present social and political situation.

Thin crust, heavy sauce, mozz, pepperoni, jalapeno, pineapple.

Custom built. Right now we’re running around the Nebalich area. Before that we were investigating a million-year-old tree in Ephremon infused with nanobots and the nefarious religious leader who sprung a cult up around it.

I’ve been running a Numenera table for a few years. Love it.

It means what you’re building fires a projectile. The instructions are warning you not to shoot your eye out.

I did this swap recently as well, on Fedora. I had to do literally nothing, as the drivers were already available and installed. I uninstalled akmod-nvidia to tidy up, but I suppose even that wasn’t strictly required.