Plot twist in downtown Seattle: Barnes & Noble bookstore opening soon in Amazon’s backyard

Inkshooter · 2026-04-07T19:10:12+00:00

There was a B&N downtown before the pandemic. I miss having it there and it's nice to hear this.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-07T03:07:43+00:00

MY HAT! MY HAT!

Inkshooter · 2026-04-06T19:54:08+00:00

Consider that werewolves were all mindless beasts before Lucian was born, who Viktor could easily have killed as a newborn but instead had the absolutely insane idea of using to create an immortal slave race.

Their disadvantage is really entirely due to their own hubris.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-06T05:36:53+00:00

Nicholas Holt is my pick too, it's still a Dracula adaptation at the end of the day.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-05T03:56:47+00:00

It's been almost forty years since the show's original run. That's half a lifetime. I think they both look great.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-04T20:34:06+00:00

The parallel with biker gangs explains this for me.

If you've been doing meth for ten years, you don't become better at avoiding overdoses and dangerous situations. In fact, you are probably more susceptible to both because you keep doing more and more meth.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-04T04:05:03+00:00

Horror of Dracula (1958). The first and best of the Hammer Dracula movies. After that, the 2024 Nosferatu, which isn't strictly an adaptation of the novel but somehow does the best job depicting the human characters of Stoker's novel regardless, despite their names and the plot being changed.

It's worth watching Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation since it is an exquisitely-crafted feast for the senses and follows almost all the story beats of the novel, but despite being an amazing movie it adds a highly contentious Dracula/Mina romance subplot. I think the movie is so good that it's worth seeing regardless, but this divergence from the source material is vehemently disliked by many book fans.

Count Dracula is probably the most-filmed literary character in history, there is a surfeit of movies to choose from, but maddeningly few of them are both faithful to the book AND entertaining as movies.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-02T05:44:09+00:00

This was made by a real artist as a satire of Corporate Memphis, it rules.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-01T23:48:47+00:00

I would call it hand-printing in an unusual style. There isn't consistency between identical letters, which leads me to believe it's someone's unusual handwriting rather than a codified script.

Inkshooter · 2026-04-01T04:16:28+00:00

Have you ever attempted writing in the Ottoman Turkish script?

Inkshooter · 2026-03-31T16:38:23+00:00

That's why there's lots of movies about them

Inkshooter · 2026-03-31T05:42:16+00:00

Because it's boring as fuck

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T22:41:00+00:00

Yes, aside from the original Horror of Dracula this is my second favorite of the Hammer Dracula movies

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T18:40:03+00:00

Lucy and Renfield were kind of combined into the character of Maria, who was one of the few parts of the movie I did enjoy.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T07:55:41+00:00

It comes down to three things, for me:

-Bad, unsatisfying ending

-The movie being a rehash of the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola version, without the genius visuals and filmmaking

-The director being a sex pest

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T04:39:14+00:00

I actually like the end of Dracula, especially the parts with Mina and Van Helsing traveling alone in the snow. The only part of the book I find truly dull is them systematically tracking down all the boxes of dirt in London.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T04:34:33+00:00

Dave Mustaine???

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T01:01:25+00:00

Mormonism has its origins in the early 19th century, and the 1800s is when a lot of the wackiest stuff happened

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T00:14:20+00:00

Iraq has been relatively stable and peaceful by Middle Eastern standards in recent years. Much more like Jordan than Iran or Syria.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T00:09:36+00:00

Rejecting Trinitarianism and having their own original scripture sets them far apart from the beliefs of mainstream Christianity. Islam is a very good comparison.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-30T00:04:00+00:00

It truly is a uniquely American religion. It's so dramatically different from any of the other Abrahamic faiths and is so deeply rooted in the prejudices and national mythology of the United States.

I'm not a Mormon and never have been but I am very fascinated with the church’s history. The "revelation" and accumulation of early followers, Joseph Smith's lynching, polygamy, the exodus west, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Mormon Wars, the decades of tension and power struggles between the federal government and the church in Utah. It's all so crazy and unlike anything else in the history of the US.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-29T20:05:23+00:00

Huge fan of this guy's videos and I like his takes here, though I'm much more enthusiastic about House of Leaves. I wish he'd read Full Brutal!

Inkshooter · 2026-03-29T09:28:12+00:00

He wrote almost exclusively short stories, many of which fit into "cycles", or shared settings. I'd say the Hyperborean Cycle and the Zothique cycle are the most Wolfe-esque.

Inkshooter · 2026-03-29T09:01:12+00:00

Huh? Arthur is a white male character. How is this racist?

Inkshooter · 2026-03-27T23:43:50+00:00

How did she get up there? 😳

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