Edogawa Ranpo.

*if America was the one doing the colonizing

Au contraire!

You choose the timing and means of death. Hug someone, choose “time: at the end of a long and fulfilling life, means: peacefully and willingly, full of satisfaction and peace and contentment”.

Don’t feel bad.

I was the computer kid when I was young but I’ve fallen all the way off and am fine with it.

What is it with you and historical salons?

Ah, no; you see, historical salons were not websites but instead actual places!

Than*

You forget that the Midwest is always a few years behind, and that goes double for the heavily rural Midwest 😉

What’s more, the height of the moment was more of a plateau than a peak.

If you were actually “escalated to HR” for this and terminated, wouldn’t you have a pretty strong wrongful termination case?

Growing up in Christian Fundie Hell during the height of the Satanic Panic was certainly an experience.

My partner at the time loved Zelda: Wind Waker. They had the poster for it and all, but had blacked out with a sharpie a screenshot on it of one of the dungeons because it was called Temple of the Gods or something.

Hope.

He got researched by me.

Billy Corgan!

X4 mentioned 👀

One other person mentioned it but I’ll put Tom Goes to the Mayor out there too.

I feel like if you didn’t grow up in the rust belt or some other dead part of the USA without anything but public access TV, a lot of the humor is lost on you.

But for those few who did…it was nice to feel seen.

Tripping The Rift 💀

Now that I haven’t heard in ages.

Would you like to see something strange and mystical?

The old Brad Neely stuff is really special.

I think doing the serialized China IL broke him somehow…but the old stuff is some of my favorite media. There’s just such charm to this neurodivergent harmless manchild main character.

That one was perfection. Rowntree is a really good artist in any medium.

Oh, I remember that one! I think I still have it…