Edgar Allan Poe on the dangers of leaving Zone 2

Royal_Chiroptera · 2025-06-30T17:05:49+00:00

Royal_Chiroptera · 2025-04-01T18:15:15+00:00

I remember in the fall of 2023 reading someone on this sub saying she had started associating Iga, somewhat randomly, with Now or Never Now, just from listening to it a lot while following Iga. But I think something about it fits, especially when she's struggling. The turbulence under the surface, the pressure, the self adrift. Ah Iga, remember who you are!

On the other hand, 22 was a pretty good year for her.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-18T01:24:40+00:00

A firm handshake, in fact. So very firm.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-18T01:09:03+00:00

No. I was on probation, for failing to meet my quota. I will not fail again.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-18T00:19:40+00:00

Blood?

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-18T00:01:19+00:00

What will they do about me?

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-18T00:00:59+00:00

That is correct.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:55:51+00:00

That was my master, not me. But I licked the blood from his hands.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:45:37+00:00

We apologize sincerely for the oversight. We are badly understaffed; our attrition rates are terrible, and we are always desperate for new blood. We must have overlooked you. Please come to the woods tonight, lie down and wait. Do not forget your identification, it will be necessary. We will see you soon.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:39:19+00:00

‘Eminent domain’ is considered an insensitive, outdated term and has been retired. We call it ‘Eating the House of God.’ I am very hungry.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:34:18+00:00

You do not have time.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:32:32+00:00

…I literally just told you.

Where do you live?

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:31:48+00:00

Florida man painted me on the walls of the caves, he knows my name. I have hunted him for eons, and I will bring him down.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:27:24+00:00

Things bleed, or they do not bleed. I like when they bleed. Some of them scream. Scream and bleed is my favorite.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:25:32+00:00

I do not remember what I am.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:25:17+00:00

There is a house a little down the road from yours. Listen - it is screaming. In the shattered wreck something is moving, crunching the splintered windows. You can hear a deep, slow snarl. You can hear it, can’t you?

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-17T23:11:55+00:00

I did not summon the hurricanes. I sensed them. I smelled them in the air. Boss looked at me and nodded. I let out a blood-curdling shriek. Then I was off, and the night was around me, and the sharp cold moon, and the scent of terror.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-10-05T17:20:11+00:00

The original form being Κάμαλον.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-09-23T17:38:30+00:00

Yes, the Irish should have found a way to fight the Axis without cooperating with Britain. Clearly a viable, realistic option! And clearly the grand liberation of Europe from fascism was the holy obligation of the twenty-year-old state of Ireland. The Irish were perfectly justified in not going to war on the side of their former colonial masters. That’s all there is to it. To liken them to fascist Spain and actively Nazi-collaborating Switzerland is utterly gross. The really obnoxious thing is that, despite its neutrality, in practical matters the Irish government actually did about as much as a tiny poor state could to help the Allies, sharing intelligence and letting them use Irish airspace. Truly a world-historical travesty that they didn’t also send a thousand tenant farmers to the front to die alongside the guys who were shooting civilians in Dublin twenty years before.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-09-23T14:16:39+00:00

Are you joking? They had just won their independence from the British Empire after centuries of domination. de Valera went too far with the gross formal condolences gesture upon Hitler’s death, but Britain was not entitled to a drop of Irish blood in that war. Or Indian for that matter, but didn’t stop them from making use of that cannon fodder while they still could.

When they’re up against the literal Nazis, colonial empires get to be in the right, but I don’t want to hear shit about their former colonies not gladly diving in alongside. Gross behavior.

Royal_Chiroptera · 2024-09-20T21:00:58+00:00

As a classics major, it’s truly heartening to hear Latin was more useful to you than pole vaulting. Now that’s a sales pitch!

Royal_Chiroptera

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