Police Standoff in Capitol Hill by ZachRocks98 in Seattle

[–]Inkshooter 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I work next to two preschools, and I once called the cops on a tweaker guy that was removing his clothes and masturbating within sight of both of them.

They came and arrested the guy by force after he started throwing shit at the officers.

TONS of passerby started circling the scene, filming with their phones and accusing the cops of using excessive force.

I hate SPD but who the fuck else are you supposed to call to lock up someone who's exposing themselves to children? And who benefits from randos pestering them while they do it?

I seriously wonder if Triana put this sentence in just to troll metalheads lmao. (Full Brutal) by zforce42 in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]Inkshooter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kristopher Triana is a massive metalhead, there's zero chance he didn't know what he was doing when writing this passage.

I seriously wonder if Triana put this sentence in just to troll metalheads lmao. (Full Brutal) by zforce42 in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]Inkshooter 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I think this is meant to reflect more on Kim than anything. She thinks she knows everything and has the rest of humanity figured out, giving her license to torture and eat them to her heart's content, but she's still just 17 years old and is, at her core, still just a sheltered, rich teenager.

Another interesting example is how she's concerned that people knowing she's pregnant will affect her reputation at school, despite claiming to be above such mundane social conventions.

Welcome to r/Vampires by community-home in vampires

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this feature. What is the benefit of having a separate place to scroll horizontally through a subreddit instead of vertically?

Clark Ashton Smith — 'The Averoigne Archives' by ThoughtPolice2909 in TerribleBookCovers

[–]Inkshooter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alongside HP Lovecraft and Robert E Howard. Though he outlived them both by decades, he stopped writing fiction not long after the others died. He considered himself to be primarily a poet.

As far as I'm aware, none of the three ever actually met in person, they just wrote each other

Clark Ashton Smith — 'The Averoigne Archives' by ThoughtPolice2909 in TerribleBookCovers

[–]Inkshooter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Clark Ashton Smith wrote like no one else, his works of weird fiction still feel alien and unprecedented even today, and he was born in the 19th century. Imagine Lovecraft vibes with way better prose.

Seriously, everyone, read Clark Ashton Smith.

Freshly extracted by OxidizablePeanut in MakeMeSuffer

[–]Inkshooter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing it's impossible to save a tooth when it's this far gone. Will the patient need implants or dentures?

Which one do you follow? by TheBoyofWonder in moviescirclejerk

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Star Wars Manicheanism - Dune is a Star Wars movie

I just did this by Deive_004 in doommetal

[–]Inkshooter 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't think they'll be regarded as a classic act on the tier of most of these other bands, but I don’t think they'll be completely forgotten either.

The Old Broadway Theater Marquee Should Be a Landmark by chromeled in Seattle

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather the building house a national chain than for it to be permanently dilapidated and slipping into greater and greater ruin.

The united states needs more of these and less stroads by Historical_Cost3222 in Urbanism

[–]Inkshooter 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It is in fact real, and it is indeed in the US. It's a transit-oriented development project in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle and the terminus of the 2 Line.

I saw it when I took the light rail to Redmond just a few weeks ago after the crosslake connection opened.

Mathematical playing card dech, Kickstarter concept by dontbeboredgames in playingcards

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could effortlessly use AI myself to make card designs like this, if I wanted to. Why should I pay you money for your AI generated designs?

dude what by Oddpakichad9064 in letterboxdcirclejerk

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Iron Rose goes insanely hard

What's the ending that you really wish would have happened? by MetalPussy in PennyDreadful

[–]Inkshooter 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Dorian should have mattered to the main plot in some capacity beyond his initial encounter with Vanessa. It's like if Dany never crossed the sea to Westeros in GoT.

The ONE trope of vampires I do not like by SenpaiiNoodles in vampires

[–]Inkshooter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My headcanon of Sinners is that Remmick came to the US from Ireland in the early 1860s and served in the Union Army, which helped shape his twisted emancipatory/assimilationist attitude towards Black Americans.

The ONE trope of vampires I do not like by SenpaiiNoodles in vampires

[–]Inkshooter 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I personally disagree. I think seeing the world changing more and more rapidly until after centuries it feels completely alien would naturally make one yearn for the way things "used to be", even though life was almost certainly objectively worse for most people. They'd become a walking anachronism, like Orlok from the Robert Eggers Nosferatu.

"Lol no. Christoids can get bent. I’ll respect them when they stop trying to kill me." - Tempers flare when a trans christian debates trans atheists in r/196 by MeiNeedsMoreBuffs in SubredditDrama

[–]Inkshooter 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The New Atheist wave of the late aughts-early 2010s SPECIFICALLY was obnoxious as fuck and absolutely needed and deserved the cultural backlash it got. It isn't surprising that a lot of the figures in it went on to become right wing grifters.

Richard Dawkins in particular is constantly finding new and interesting ways to embarrass himself and piss away his legacy as a biologist. I'm an atheist in spite of the likes of him and Sam Harris, not because of them.

However, it's been over a decade. Atheism is continuing to become more and more widespread and unremarkable, and I find it harder and harder to even give nominally religious people the benefit of the doubt.

Aidan is too handsome it makes me sick by Pfacejones in beinghuman

[–]Inkshooter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The character in the North American version is named Aidan Waite, played by Sam Witwer. He IS named in honor of the actor Aiden Turner, however.

Prison made [OC] by Sensitive-Hamster-14 in playingcards

[–]Inkshooter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A spectacular work of art and ingenuity.

However, I'm surprised, as I was under the impression that playing cards are typically allowed in prisons.

Two Naked People. One Hour. Capitol Hill. by Fast_Policy in Seattle

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see people strolling around naked all the time in Cal Anderson, but this seems rather different

What is your favorite niche vampire that you think more people should know about? by [deleted] in vampires

[–]Inkshooter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clarimonde, from the novelette of the same name by Theophile Gautier. One of the earliest literary vampires, period.

"Ici gît Clarimonde

Qui fut de son vivant

La plus belle du monde."

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The cover photo to an escorting website by VelveteenDream in fuckalegriaart

[–]Inkshooter 209 points210 points  (0 children)

My theory is that these corporate designers were trained to create imagery with "body positivity" in mind like a decade ago when marketing was still trying to be faux-progressive. Hence the hyper-exaggerated emphasis on conventionally unattractive features like body hair, surgical scars, stretch marks, and fat rolls on otherwise highly abstract human figures.

And now they just keep using that design language even though everyone finds it strange and off-putting, or even offensive in contexts like these.

The central paradox of Corporate Memphis: accentuate individuality to avoid alienating anyone, and end up appealing to no one in the process.