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hi

@yourmomsballsinmymouth

english is not my first language I like many things I can't remember now, those are the one I can. I'm currently relistening to wolf359 summarizing and translating tma I watch d20 on occasion, I like comics, I like fiction podcasts. currently with a clown obsession. maybe I'll upload my work/ocs idk
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So, a funny thing happened on trigun twitter

(amazon link where its 50% off as of May 8th: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time/dp/1534430997/)

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Update, “this is how you lose the time war” is now #21 on Amazon’s bestseller’s list

(semi-related note but I too have now ordered the book)

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another update: Amal El -Mohtar wrote a small article on her blog (https://amalelmohtar.com/i-tried-to-title-this-post-for-twenty-minutes-and-failed/), one which contains the words “[…] and the upshot of it all is that corporate marketing people at Simon & Schuster now know the name Bigolas Dickolas.”

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Further update!

Time war has reached #7 on the amazon bestseller’s list and is still discounted!

In addition:

I know it made it up to #6 at one point. Being a pre-existing fan of both Trigun and This is How You Loose the Time War made this especially enjoyable.

I’m just going to add some more Twitter screencaps I pasted into the groupchat.

The producer of Trigun Stampede. (No word from Nightow yet, I checked.)

A literary agent. To be precise, the agent of at least one of the authors of Time War.

Slate, posting their article about the whole thing.

A frenzy of mutual adoration and signed hardcover offers.

Other authors want in on the Bigolas Dickolas goodness.

Dongwon again.

Saw this on Twitter and HAH.

Bigolas Dickolas is now Alexander the Great.

And finally, the forecast is good for a livestream of Max and Amal watching Trigun.

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Ok but like why are they trying so hard to get ppl in the office

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my thoughts on why they want everyone back to the office:

  1. the companies don't want to give up their valuable office real estate assets and need to justify keeping them.
  2. they have to justify the existence of a lot of middle management people who are otherwise useless.
  3. more control and surveillance over their employees.
  4. people working from home and having more work/life balance and time with loved ones is dangerous to the corporate status quo. they don't want you thinking too much or realizing life is more than just mindlessly working in order to buy things.
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Utterly obsessed with the implication here being that workers aren't going back to the office because they'd rather work in a living room and not because they just don't want to be in the officd

When I was a kid, my grandfather would sometimes sing a song. It had a maudlin little tune and had to be sung as dramatically as possible - and the entire lyrics were just "unshaved and far from home" repeated over and over again...

Anyway that's Jonathan Harker rn

This reread of Dracula is really cementing for me how unfair a lot of criticism of Jonathan Harker is. No, he doesn’t immediately know he’s in a vampire novel, but he does immediately figure out he’s in a bad situation and takes only a day or two to realize he’s imprisoned and going to be killed.