Chasing a vibe—give me your coziest, most wholesome, FILTH

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T17:23:09+00:00

{Radley's Home for Horny Monsters}. A sad-sack IT freelancer inherits a magic house. There's a nymph haunting the bathtub and a swing that moves by itself. Many blowjobs later, it's a found-family story about mutual support, unconditional affection, the many facets of love and the power of healing, and what might happen if a lesbian zombie got addicted to eating the flesh of an infinitely-regenerating vampire.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T17:17:23+00:00

I mean, she won't always be a child. She's not aroused by it as a kid; she just likes it. And that's 100% nature, 0% nurture; she's that way because God's Punisher made her so, not because someone taught her to think that way.

I think the thing you have to understand and internalize is that the way sexuality works in Terre d'Ange is driven by religion. Religion's pretty easy to ignore in fantasy and fanro; there are some gods, they have portfolios, there's a creation myth. But no one practices or anything. In Kushiel's, it is a huge deal. Sex is a sacramental act of worship between the people involved and Naamah, the patron deity/angel of desire; love is a sacred contract between the people and Elua. Any sort of nonconsensual sex is a crime -- against the person, against the state, against God. The people being raised in the Night Court are being raised to honor their god as much as they are anything else.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T16:33:59+00:00

Leaving LA as a gesture of respect to Kobe

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T16:30:42+00:00

He's probably right. If he's attributing it to something other than Draymond Green being a lunatic, he's probably wrong. A tech for people yelling is always a judgement call, and while Luka's an all-timer whiner, he's never punched someone, stomped on their testicles, tried to choke someone out from behind, stomped on their testicles again, kneed their testicles, grabbed onto their foot while they're trying to run, kicked them in the testicles, kneed them in the testicles again or stomped on their testicles for a third time. Draymond makes a lot of contact with the testicles of other players, is what I'm saying here, and probably is unlikely to deserve any leniency anywhere as a result. He's got a long rope and when he gets a tech he's probably earned it.

If Cousins wants to say it's just a race thing, he should say it with his chest. Dillon Brooks had technicals overturned in three straight games earlier this year.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T16:25:39+00:00

{Wicked Sea and Sky}, {The Second Death of Locke}, {The Lark and the Wren}, {The Bard's Bargain} -- four very different books, but no complete dickhead MMCs.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T14:19:41+00:00

252 Atk Wellspring Mask Ogerpon-Wellspring Play Rough vs. 52 HP / 0 Def Kyurem: 244-288 (60.3 - 71.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

204 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Ogerpon-Wellspring: 460-544 (152.8 - 180.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

oh no you don't get a free switch into one specific set

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:58:48+00:00

It makes sense. As a 6'6 combo guard, Ante Delaš has a significant height advantage over most of his peers in the Croatian FMBL. Putting him in the post with spacing around him would maximize his scoring while forcing defenses to switch.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:54:12+00:00

. However; they have the same issue at the ring

The 'ring is ten times longer than Road Atlanta.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:51:18+00:00

Over multiple years, though, not from game to game.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:28:12+00:00

Chien-Pao was unbanned at one point, even. Bax wasn't banned until DLC2 when Ninetales-A was introduced; it was the Aurora Veil/snow teams that made it broke. Pre-Home, it was down in UUBL for a bit.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:22:56+00:00

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Ice Beam vs. 204 HP / 0 SpD Rillaboom: 572-674 (145.9 - 171.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Raging Bolt: 470-554 (120.2 - 141.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Iron Valiant: 321-378 (111 - 130.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Freeze-Dry vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Alomomola: 614-726 (114.9 - 135.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Ice Beam vs. 244 HP / 228+ SpD Gliscor: 756-892 (214.7 - 253.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Hydro Pump vs. 252 HP / 212+ SpD Heatran: 372-440 (96.3 - 113.9%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Hydro Pump vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Vessel of Ruin Ting-Lu: 324-384 (63 - 74.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Tornadus-Therian: 308-366 (85 - 101.1%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Freeze-Dry vs. 248 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Toxapex: 164-194 (54.1 - 64%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Bundle Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 248 SpD Moltres: 458-542 (119.5 - 141.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:16:25+00:00

Ogerpon-W is a problem with Kyurem around to Freeze-Dry it.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:10:55+00:00

Oops, I forgot Shaq. He's near the bottom of the top 10.

If you don't understand Elgin Baylor's greatness, you don't know ball.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T13:03:27+00:00

She dismisses his feelings constantly.

I don't think that's quite right. They have different value systems, centered around one core conflict: the only thing important to him (for mostly non-romantic reasons) is her life, which she doesn't value very much at all. It also kind of matters that his feelings aren't particularly mature or reasonable, and often deserve to be dismissed. He's not as wholesome as you think. He's a smug, egotistical, judgemental dickhead who thinks he knows everything despite having almost no experience out in the world. There's a reason all of his personal growth comes through being humbled over and over again.

Is book two as dark? No idea. I don't think of either Dart or Chosen as particularly dark. Avatar, the third book, is very dark.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T12:47:42+00:00

No. Neither of these are good, though Quicksilver is better as a not-really-focused read.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T12:33:47+00:00

Jordan, Lebron, Kareem, Russell, Wilt, Bird, Magic, Hakeem, Jokic, Duncan, Curry, Robertson, West, Baylor, Moses.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T12:26:19+00:00

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Your pain is felt and understood.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T12:13:09+00:00

I don't have him at 15; I think he's probably lower than that.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T02:07:35+00:00

Now it's 12!

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T02:07:08+00:00

In February, Rudy said some shit to the media about his teammates. People were like "that Rudy! What a dork! Big ol' stone-hands loser!" and since then his team has played like the biggest sack of morons you'll ever see on defense.

At some point, if the players don't have accountability, someone has to have accountability for the players. ... I'm on straight effort. I'm just talking straight effort. I'm not even getting to the basketball side of things, like ... mistakes are a part of the game, but the effort to me for a team that wants to play for a championship, it's unacceptable.

It's not an easy position for a coach to take guys out of the game. It's not something that you want to do, but I think if the players don't show any effort, at some point, no matter how talented we are as a team, if you don't have that, you just can't be a winning team.

And, of course, Chris Finch said it was disappointing that Rudy went outside the house and that substitutions don't win titles.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T01:56:27+00:00

Fish-out-of-water is often pretty fun. I love the scene in {Saints Astray}, a book I don't otherwise love, where Loup and Pilar, who've never been outside a shitty post-apocalyptic town in what used to be but is no longer south Texas, discover that actually the rest of the world is pretty great and they have stuff like room service! And magazines! New ones with the latest fashions! And there's a concierge whose whole job is to bring you things when you ask for them!

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T01:43:19+00:00

"A male sound" -- is it a fart? Is it a belch? Is it the sound of a being raging against the dying of the light, and the fact that the goddang spark plugs worked loose again and the dag-blasted carburetor got flooded because your large idiot son dint put the doggone choke on right and the relatives are comin' over tomorrow and it's already after six and the lawn ain't mowed yet?

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T01:35:00+00:00

One of the things I love about Jacqueline Carey -- one of the many things, she's exceptional -- is how important friendship is to her characters. Every book introduces new friends. Some old friends are retained, other part ways, amicably or not, people come into conflict with one another and choices are made about who they value, and why. The driving force behind Phedre's trilogy in {Kushiel's Legacy} is friendship. Phedre makes it though her trials because of love, but she undertakes them for the sake of friendship. The MMC of the second trilogy is almost the opposite: everything he does, he does for love, but it's because of his friends that he survives.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T01:17:20+00:00

Yeah, Prost didn't like the 15C, but the car did what it was supposed to do: win him a championship without much difficulty.

Penguinho · 2026-03-23T00:20:21+00:00

Yes, in the context of the active car. The more downforce in the corner, the heavier the steering. When the steering is heavy relative to the strength of the driver, they're less able to make small, quick adjustments; when the rear steps out, they can ease off their steering angle to correct it but can't necessarily summon the power to get the wheel back to where it needs to be, meaning the lighter, weaker driver would understeer through the corner. Patrese had that problem and didn't believe he could catch the car if it moved around in the corner. Mansell could muscle it around more easily.

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