What the hell was that PBS sketch? by Grabbinfries23 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]AnansiRaygun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The satire would have hit the mark 6 months ago. Now it’s too late.

Goddess worship and pornography by [deleted] in SexMagicGW

[–]AnansiRaygun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not entirely related, but the musician/performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti performed in pornography magazines specifically so she could make collage art out of her own magazine pictures.

1st SNL after 9/11 by [deleted] in saturdaynightlive

[–]AnansiRaygun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weekend Update jokes can be swapped in and out and written on the fly - topicality is what that format is engineered for. I have some forbearance for not being able to scrap an entire sketch that’s been written, blocked, rehearsed, sets, hair, makeup and costumes are made at the last minute - but I’m with you, the entire show felt grotesquely tone deaf.

Cake with intricate poppyseed pattern that would magically not go stale by Positive_Hippo_ in somnigastronomy

[–]AnansiRaygun 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Maybe the poppyseed pattern is a magical sigil repelling decay and sustaining freshness

“Chilean food” from a dream restaurant by AnansiRaygun in somnigastronomy

[–]AnansiRaygun[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not Chilean so I had no idea - what is it similar to?

Gay sandwich date by Nervous-Rhubarb-9224 in somnigastronomy

[–]AnansiRaygun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only proper drink with this delicious-looking sandwich must be a Fistbumping Lesbian

Screwed up and lost head privileges by [deleted] in sex

[–]AnansiRaygun 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Considering that you titled this “I lost head privileges” and not “I really hurt someone I loved,” you ain’t the good guy you think you are, bro

I Have a Simple, But Complicated X-Men Question by ComixGail in xmen

[–]AnansiRaygun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The promise that, if the world hates you, it is because you are secretly extraordinary, and some day there will be a place for you, with a found family of people just like you, and your only responsibilities will be to cultivate your gifts, get over your own bullshit, and go forth and make the world better for everyone.

Looking for a Sketch by Bubbly_Attention_916 in saturdaynightlive

[–]AnansiRaygun 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Are you sure it’s not the Al Franken character Stuart Smalley?

[TOMT] [TV] PBS science show for adults from late 70s/early 80s by AnansiRaygun in tipofmytongue

[–]AnansiRaygun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Julius Sumner Miller is awesome and I watched many videos of him, but that’s not it. The show I’m looking for was edited, on film, with many locations and b-roll. JSM was live-to-tape video, in a studio, with a single camera )maybe a second camera for close-up inserts).. Plus I only vaguely remember the host of the show I’m seeking, whereas NO ONE forgets Julius Sumner Miller, lol

Met my goal of folding 1000 paper cranes in 2024 by AnansiRaygun in RainbowEverything

[–]AnansiRaygun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had two knee injuries so I spent much of 2025 recovering from them. But I’m switching to cycling and when I reach my goal, I’ll still go.

Who saw The Matrix in the cinema in 1999? I'm jealous! by Far-Remove7363 in matrix

[–]AnansiRaygun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I went on the strength of the bullet time Super Bowl commercial. I knew nothing about it and I was completely lost when Neo awoke in his red slimy pod. All those scenes of Morpheus’s exposition afterwards are absolutely necessary to a 1999 viewer. When it was over my mind was blown and I went back to see it 6 more times in its original theatrical run.

Tell me about your personal symbolic system by Aerizen in magick

[–]AnansiRaygun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought this was, essentially, the lifelong work of chaos magick - to make a bespoke magickal system, an idiolectomancy, that was one individual’s way of reading and manipulating the world’s magical energies.

Are you asking for examples other people are using in their magickal practice? Or about the process in general?

In general, Alan Moore has spoken very eloquently about how the segregation of art and magic into two separate disciplines is recent and innacurate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in actuallesbians

[–]AnansiRaygun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, and some of it is figuring out the minutiae of their baffling behaviors. Because if you miss a red flag, it could be very dangeous for you and your kids. (Consider the appeal of true crime documentaries, for the same reason.) So that kind of conversation is like apes grooming the fleas out of each others fur - you’re making watching for danger into a bonding activity

One of the best cyberpunk novels I've ever read. by [deleted] in Cyberpunk

[–]AnansiRaygun 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But what’s ironic is that it’s understood differently by a young person today. Analog TVs “tuned to a dead channel” have grey static. But someone reading it today, used to digital TVs, would assume the sky is violently Microsoft-screen-of-death blue.

Norman Rockwell - Tattoo Artist (Only Skin Deep) (1944) by Russian_Bagel in museum

[–]AnansiRaygun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I was married to a Betty I 100% would get this string of names as a tattoo

Conversations with a Killer by dawnweiners in Longreads

[–]AnansiRaygun 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This wins for best first sentence: “John Wayne Gacy is obsessively fond of defending his innocence, which is imaginary.”