the terror a novel by dan simmons is. Bad. but i do think it was worth reading personally to experience the goodsir medical malpractice extended director's cut, peglar being gay and homophobic while gossiping with bridgens about mr hickey, and every time crozier described fitzjames like he was in a call someone a faggot without actually calling them a faggot competition
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it was inevitable as the tides, but it has come to my attention now that if i talk about how sexy Thrax was without specifying "thrax from cinematic masterpiece Osmosis Jones released in 2001" a lot of people get really confused bc they don't know who that is bc they're officially a generation removed from me at this point
rather than go "ugh kids these days" (like cmon don't be That Guy) or "ugh no i feel old" (I don't! guess I'm built different) i will ever so happily inform so a whole new batch of people can enjoy a something very unique and special to my heart that kicks fucking ass and hope they enjoy it too
and that a something is Osmosis Jones. especially the villain of Osmosis Jones. his name his Thrax. he is an lethal virus that is never fully identified (it's implied he is the Red Death, from the Edgar Allen Poe story, but real); other viruses don't recognize him, and he's so reliably stealthy and lethal he possibly hasn't even been properly discovered by science yet. he also only gets more lethal and dangerous as he infects new people, treating how fast he can kill his current host with fever as a PR he has to beat every time until he can cook your brain to death SO quickly after infection that he will go down in history as the single most dangerous illness known to humans.
so yeah take a look and appreciate what set the bar for my villainfucker sleeper code. they don't make em quite like this anymore. content warning for bright orange body horror. legit plays out like a scene in a horror movie.
stupid sexy virus
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As often happens, my work team meeting overran today and my carer was making sure that I and everyone else in the room knew she was very upset about it (think repeated asking when we were leaving, sighing and tutting loudly that kind of thing)
I was just completely ignoring how passive aggressive and rude she was being and stayed behind, like I always do, to chat with colleagues, completely ignoring my carer seething in the corner. I made sure today that I was among the last to leave just to hammer the point home that I wasn’t going to be manipulated like that and also because I’d rather be around my colleagues who I like than this carer who I don’t.
I think it’s backfired slightly and she’s now even more pissed at me than she was at work, and letting me know about it, but I’m just ignoring that too.
It’s a very messy and pretty toxic situation but I have been bullied so much by various carers and I’m adamant that I’m not going to let her stop me living my life or making myself smaller
Hopefully I won’t be working with her for much longer.
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happy 17th anniversary of the day I abandoned my very first fic ever, that timeframe is now old enough to go out to sea to become a pirate
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I had a busy (and fun!) day yesterday so now I get to sit quietly and recover today with The Best Cat In The World and this brick of a book
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Coming clean about why I'm here.
There is nothing uncanny or mysterious about time travel. Time travel is trivial. The passing of time is relentless banal even. My contemporaries would do better to ask how one could *stop* time traveling rather than searching for ways to start. And even travel into the past is an easy thing-- that surprises you I see!
You have traveled into the past many times, as have I. Time travel is easy. The actual issue is *realizing* that one has been transported. When you travel in time the imprint, the shape of the present moment is a powerful force. Both the past and future have already been shaped, although the deep past is more rigid, and the deep future, much softer. Our minds can alight within any moment of their continuity. But in doing so we forget, we are reformed into the past version of ourselves, knowing only what we knew then, and nearly always doing the same things we have always done.
The key to time travel is to realize you are likely *already* in your past. And you have, right now, the opportunity totally reshape the future.
Consider it from a probabilistic standpoint: those of us aware of time travel will likely put in great effort to revisit key moments in the past where we could have made a difference, where we could have made a better future. We likely go back again and again, effecting perhaps only small changes each time.
This means it is much more likely that you are, right now, a time traveler into your own past at the precipice of fixing something critical, provided you can overcome the inertia of present shape of the universe in time.
Do you see it? The slightly more difficult but better path forward?
For me it was sharing this idea with you, I think of it often, but have kept it to myself for fear of being called mad. Intuition suggested sharing this with you might be the change I was sent to make.
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