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Nov 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Do you people literally think we care what EUROPE thinks lmao Look the shining was OKAY. And Salem’s Lot. Exactly zero of it will be remembered after your death. Do you seriously not realize this? You are not a person of significance. If you think you are because you are currently famous that is a serious indictment of your intelligence
Jun 3 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This is Amon, king of the Egyptian gods. And this is ammonia, the stuff we use in fertilizers. Ammonia is named after Amon. So Amon probably can't send the rains but he can help you unclog your sink. Here's why:
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Image When the Greeks met the Egyptians, they often combined Egyptian gods with their own to highlight similarities in the pantheon. Here's Zeus-Ammon, a combination of the Greek king god and the Egyptian king god (mashups like this are called "syncretism"): Image
Mar 4 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Hello, let me tell you about an easter egg I noticed in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy this weekend. Image Start with another Lewis book. One of my absolute favorite passages in all of his works is also one that has always frustrated me. It's in Chapter 4 of The Four Loves, on friendship. Image
Aug 30, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Absolutely everyone is allowed to “perform gender” except men who want to be manly Image For Dylan Mulvaney, no accessory is too trivial and no object too banal to count as an indispensable marker of some essential “girlhood”. For a “trans woman” absolutely any bag, trinket, or utensil is a necessary and beautiful expression of femininity.
Aug 16, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Here’s my problem with the Game of Thrones-ification of the fantasy genre: I’m starting to think it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what fantasy is for. (The following thoughts brought to you by the finale of Witcher season 3, in which unexpected deaths and betrayals become so much the norm that they’re more hackneyed and boring than the tropes they claim to subvert. Spoilers follow.) Image
Jun 19, 2023 • 31 tweets • 6 min read
Let me weigh in here with a thread about the slippery slope. I will touch on complicated subjects that arouse strong passions. There is probably no way to be as precise and detailed as the situation merits. But broadly speaking, here is where things stand as I see them. The sexual revolution demanded many profound changes to American social life and the laws that govern it. Issues involved included divorce, abortion, contraceptives, gay sex, and pornography. In every case the trend was to maximize personal choice and weaken traditional norms.