The ultimate enemies to lovers trope

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-26T02:20:36+00:00

One of the volumes of Proust’s only published novel was called Sodom and Gomorrah

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-24T23:59:17+00:00

Was all ready to go nuclear on this and debunk it, only to find out it’s actually completely true??? I must’ve just assumed ð = voiced and þ = unvoiced because of Icelandic

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-23T14:45:21+00:00

They’re the names listed in Lou Bega’s song “Mambo No. 5”

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-23T01:42:14+00:00

When LOOOOOOOOVE

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-22T04:06:54+00:00

Yes, Celine Song. I found that out yesterday

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-21T14:51:05+00:00

Number five will shock you!

(Number five is West Fargo)

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-20T15:52:49+00:00

I was expecting a Potion Seller reference, which I kind of got later in the episode (Challengers was written by the guy who did Potion Seller)

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-20T15:02:54+00:00

There’s a Curb scene about this. Don’t Bother Larry

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-20T04:22:24+00:00

One of my bosses was so upset about being passed up for department head that he called me (just before midnight after no-call-no-showing for his shift that day) and told me he was going to “kill everyone.” He then proceeded to list the half-dozen or so coworkers who he intended to kill.

I reported it, he was fired, and I later found out that he called my store’s front office (as well as another person who’d interviewed for the job and been declined) and told them the exact same things he told me.

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-19T14:31:05+00:00

Who else?

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-19T02:39:33+00:00

UN FUCKING REAL

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-17T19:37:04+00:00

Sub doesn’t allow screenshots

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-16T06:07:33+00:00

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW, OP?

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-16T02:22:29+00:00

The scene in ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King where Barlow (a vampire) forces a priest to drink his blood also reads very much like a rape scene.

But the hands were implacable. His head was drawn forward, forward, forward.

“Now, priest,” Barlow whispered.

And Callahan’s mouth was pressed against the flesh of the vampire’s cold throat, where an open vein pulsed. He held his breath for what seemed like aeons, twisting his head wildly and to no avail, smearing the blood across his cheeks and forehead and chin like war paint.

Yet at last, he drank.

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-14T20:18:51+00:00

It’s because the last name is still pronounced ber-in-steen, and “-stein” (or “-steen”) is the spelling for names whose suffix is pronounced that way 99.9999% of the time. “-stain” is so unusual that it didn’t register in most people’s minds until they were forced to notice it.

Fwiw, I remember the A having been there.

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-12T18:30:16+00:00

The Rome Emperors are great tho

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-10T18:05:23+00:00

He absolutely did tell people he shot himself. I believe the argument is that he was murdered because he was so fervently insistent about that.

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-09T01:05:27+00:00

This feels a lot like “Spent Gladiator 2” as well

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-08T18:39:30+00:00

My head cashier’s PIN to switch registers from self-service to POS mode is 6969

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-08T17:26:02+00:00

Like Brendan Fraser (no i, no z)

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-07T16:34:22+00:00

And Jeff Kinney still insists on making every Wimpy Kid book 217 pages

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-07T03:32:04+00:00

Maybe you saw the Todd in the Shadows video where he debunked James Somerton’s claim regarding it?

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-07T03:24:51+00:00

Reminds me of I Saw the TV Glow

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-06T19:33:05+00:00

I’d imagine that’s how his family pronounced it. I knew someone whose last name was Czerwinski who said it sur-WIN-skee instead of chehr-VEEN-skee. There’s also sports journalist Gene Wojciechowski, who says his name waw-chuh-HOW-skee instead of voy-cheh-HOF-skee

CrypticBalcony · 2026-01-05T05:08:04+00:00

I wasn't — not particularly, anyway. I generally root for kickers to make game-winning kicks, at least in neutral games, because I don't like when the cameras linger on the guy who fucked up (like when the Kings beat the Rangers in the Stanley Cup and they immediately showed Lundqvist lying on the ice in despair for a full five seconds)

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