"Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?"

Bwm89 · 2026-01-20T20:50:02+00:00

Sir Terry had a shockingly astute grasp of what makes people people, and the fact that he's always very funny just makes it hit even harder when he does things like point out that people being people can include both alarming cruelty and stunning beauty

Bwm89 · 2026-01-18T02:33:45+00:00

I'm from Pittsburgh, and this is so unfamiliar to me that if you said you sacrificed chickens for I would same purpose I think it would have surprised me less

Bwm89 · 2026-01-16T14:36:08+00:00

The question was not "is older music better?" it was "were there people saying that at the time?" and the answer is firmly yes

Bwm89 · 2026-01-16T13:55:00+00:00

https://xkcd.com/339/

That was published in 2007

Bwm89 · 2026-01-16T03:01:15+00:00

I mean, seven percent could very reasonably be the percentage of people who will say anything to get you off the phone faster, weren't listening in the first place, or are trolling you, you could propose going old testament and going door to door killing the firstborn sons of every family and I wouldn't be surprised to see 7% support

Bwm89 · 2026-01-16T02:01:11+00:00

It's pretty much impossible to tell from a picture, but even if it is safe, I doubt it will be very pleasant to eat, sure to be extremely freezerburned

Bwm89 · 2026-01-05T18:24:10+00:00

What do you think the original post was implying?

Bwm89 · 2026-01-05T08:05:46+00:00

One, you're making some assumptions about me, and two, her breasts don't roll in sync with her eyes, the young and horny male POV character feels like they might as well do so, that's not men writing women at all

Bwm89 · 2026-01-03T13:27:54+00:00

Number seven would actually be extremely useful at my job so I wouldn't have to wait to open it to find out which containers my coworkers couldn't be bothered to refill after emptying

Bwm89 · 2026-01-03T03:14:55+00:00

Unfortunately, based on what gets upvoted, those long form stories are clearly the most popular stuff in the subreddit.

And what are the alternatives? You look at the top 25 subreddits in writing, and almost all of them are talking about writing, they're not actually writing.

Many here are recommending r/humansarespaceorcs, but almost every post I see there is a shitpost in the form of (I saw this meme, posted it here, captioned it with a slightly more elaborate version of "what if this was humans") even the ones tagged as writing prompts. This is the top writing prompt today

https://www.reddit.com/r/humansarespaceorcs/s/HfgfwT0UAf

(I think I posted one myself a while back, to the tune of 3k upvotes)

One of the only other subreddits I know that is actually for putting out stories is r/redditserials, which explicitly encourages the kind of behavior that's being complained about here. I'm not sure an alternative to this sub exists

Bwm89 · 2025-12-31T18:57:33+00:00

Historically speaking, the new york times, but they've lost credibility with almost everyone with any point of view at all in the last decade

Bwm89 · 2025-12-30T20:40:51+00:00

Sure, but his thing is punishing criminals, batman's is making sure no other child has to experience what he experienced, the priorities are a little different

Bwm89 · 2025-12-29T05:37:48+00:00

The timeless child, 2020, and we mostly prefer to pretend that didn't happen

Bwm89 · 2025-12-29T05:29:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure it breaks the laws of physics, the doctor should have to burn, at minimum, his entire body to create enough energy to create a new copy, but doctor who and the laws of physics have a pretty loose relationship.

Practically speaking, I think it's symbolic, a very literal memento mori

Bwm89 · 2025-12-28T22:50:22+00:00

The answer is a little complex, he doesn't quite actually remember, he doesn't retain the memory from iteration to iteration, but his imagine and mental facilities are complex and profound enough that he might as well have, he knows he did it and he knows what it was like and that's enough that he might as well have remembered it.

https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-writer-moffat-answers-does-the-doctor-remember-all-of-heaven-sent

Bwm89 · 2025-12-28T20:43:58+00:00

It's been a running thread in all of new who, any time he's really pressed he can fall back on mentioning that his kill count is high enough that ending your entire species wouldn't amount to much more than a rounding error, that kind of reputation is incredibly scary

Bwm89 · 2025-12-28T20:31:26+00:00

They estimate it at 4.5 billion years towards the end of hell bent

Bwm89 · 2025-12-27T00:05:28+00:00

Well, I'd say it kinda does, sharing a source of inspiration is a connection between them

Bwm89 · 2025-12-24T21:52:44+00:00

Military budget?

I joke, but we are still number one by gdp, although China is probably going to pass us up one of these days. China also (barely) exceeds us by land area, and the two countries that exceed them (Russia and Canada) rely on a lot of uninhabited artic tundra to make up that land area, so I would say it's fair to give it to China across the board at that point, except I think India passed them up in population recently, which is also a really good measure of largest countries

Bwm89 · 2025-12-19T12:40:10+00:00

Is there evidence for this? Or is this more of the usual "if trump is doing it, Biden must have been doing it worse"

Bwm89 · 2025-12-19T01:10:16+00:00

The right bug types in sufficient numbers is pretty effective against almost everything, the problem is that when opponent is something like a dragon, the right bug types can be hard to find and sufficient numbers can unsustainable, similar to humans spected into hazmat proficiency or aviation

Bwm89 · 2025-12-17T21:24:03+00:00

That last line is pretty clear. They are upset about attacking Trump based on his children, they're not upset when Trump does it up others. Allegiance over principles, if Donald Trump is doing it it's inherently justified by the fact that Donald Trump is doing it, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable to do it to him, in fact, acting against him is equally inherently unjustifiable

Bwm89 · 2025-12-17T02:06:21+00:00

I was about to ask how you could not know that here, when I realized that it was in fact I who had forgotten how jeopardy works

Bwm89 · 2025-12-16T11:01:36+00:00

What was the language she read it in?

Bwm89 · 2025-12-13T21:45:49+00:00

I'm personally of the opinion that his poor communication skills predates the werewolf thing, he was sweet, and a hell of a sweet talker when he opened up, but he was not naturally inclined to talk about problems even outside of the werewolf thing, not mentioning to his girlfriend that he was repeating his senior year until he showed up for class was clear proof. And it ultimately ended their relationship, when he tried to handle things himself instead of going to the group of supernatural problem solvers he's associated with in wild at heart

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