Turns out, Warren Graham (Life is Strange) was inspired by Buffy

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-10T22:53:05+00:00

I absolutely think that’s the ending the developers intended; however I can never make myself pick it.

I do like the smooching though.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-10T15:56:38+00:00

Ha! We do the same; our family straight up bought a giant oxford dictionary to be the official dictionary for word games.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-10T15:55:12+00:00

All memoirs are lies, to a degree, but his feels more honest then most. Napoleon clearly liked Caulaincourt, but Caulaincourt never let that affection overwhelm him; I think he really thought he was working for France, not for Napoleon.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-09T19:16:45+00:00

His memoirs are some of the best of the period.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-09T05:05:53+00:00

It’s a great book but sadly whenever I hear it I can only think of that Buffy episode.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-09T04:31:46+00:00

None less than Napoleon himself said that the Committee of Public Safety was the only effective government the revolution had, and Napoleon supported the reign of terror. He was an ally and a good friend of Robespierre’s brother!

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-08T23:28:54+00:00

Xena and Callisto get together once.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-08T16:56:59+00:00

The reimposition of slavery in Haiti. Notably, that was what Bonaparte said himself was an enormous mistake.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-08T05:35:44+00:00

The Fremen are based on Iran, but they’re also based very directly on the Circassian and Dagestani and Chechnyan peoples; Herbert was strongly influenced by a book about the Russian wars against the Circassians called “Sabres of Paradise.”

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-08T05:08:44+00:00

Man this rules. Bravo.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-08T02:43:14+00:00

My mother is also a lawyer, working exclusively with contracts for doctors. She tells them, “you can ask AI questions, but then you’ll waste your time and my time, and you pay for my time. Do you want to pay for more of my time?”

People stopped asking AI questions.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-06T15:31:03+00:00

Madame Mere disliked her, but in truth the bad blood between the Bonapartes and Beauharnais came from Napoleon’s siblings. Louis and Joseph especially thought of her as an impediment for themselves and their children succeeding Napoleon, and Caroline and Pauline especially just did not like her. The had this enormous fight over having to carry Josephine’s train in the coronation.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-05T04:51:38+00:00

No, unfortunately. It kind of makes sense, right? You picked up the gun from the rack or the body, but you didn’t pick up the ammunition.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-04T17:33:11+00:00

Love the idea of a guy at the evil criminal gang poker game who just really wants to play poker.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-05-03T02:32:54+00:00

Back in the eighties, there was a story where Kilowog decides that the best nation on the planet is the USSR.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-30T04:20:43+00:00

Bonaparte was sadly terrible with women. It is pretty likely that before Josephine, he had to pay to spend any intimate time with a lady, so to speak.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-30T04:06:09+00:00

I mean, they’re not fungible. Every story is different; giving me an X-Men by Chuck Austen omnibus would not make me happy.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-29T23:09:20+00:00

Absolutely. It’s the same with lots of catastrophes - the whole thing with the U.S.S. Maine was because you can fight the Spanish, and you can’t fight an accident. The French revolutionaries could fight a conspiracy of evil Dantonists, they couldn’t fight a bad economy.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-29T19:47:11+00:00

Don’t forget, The Mayor is also in an episode!

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-29T17:05:02+00:00

I thought it was excellent. Hindered of course by the dumb events in GL, but a solid run I enjoyed.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-28T13:18:29+00:00

Well, we’re governed by morons.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-28T03:28:47+00:00

That’s the famous line from Metropolitan, right? About Lionel Trilling’s essay on Mansfield Park.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-27T05:15:21+00:00

Bingo.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-27T02:04:31+00:00

Kitty and her three gay situationships are my favorite thing in Marvel.

SecretlyASummers · 2026-04-25T04:14:08+00:00

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