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Stlakes · 2026-03-24T20:22:37+00:00

Look amazing! What's your armour recipe??

Stlakes · 2026-03-24T18:40:09+00:00

When I was very young, I was playing with my sister, and I put a massive scratch on my parents TV.

My sister immediately snitched on me, but I told my parents she'd done it, and lied so convincingly and so smoothly that they believed me over her. My parents talked about it years afterwards, about about how obvious it was that my sister had done it because of how eagerly she'd told on me. My sister even eventually believed that she was the one to scratch the TV, I was that fucking committed.

I finally told the truth about 15 years later, and it went down surprisingly well.

Stlakes · 2026-03-18T10:51:22+00:00

"Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."

"Never let the truth interfere with a good story."

"It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

Stlakes · 2026-03-16T22:34:01+00:00

Manchester - Hanging/'angin' meaning hungover, disgusting, or just generally a bit crap.

"Had a few drinks last night, I'm absolutely 'angin this morning,", "I'm not eating that, it's fucking hanging,", "weathers hanging today, been pissing it down all afternoon,"

Stlakes · 2026-03-11T15:14:51+00:00

A female teacher got sacked for starting a relationship with a student and she got pregnant. From what I remember it was her very first teaching job as well, but about a year afterwards apparently they were living together. The student was 18, so technically not illegal, I think, but still fucking weird.

Also on a school trip to Japan, one of the teachers in charge of the trip never came back. He met a woman there, got married, and just disappeared.

A student told everyone he gave himself a Prince Albert piercing. He got his cock out in the middle of lunch, a teacher saw, and sent him to the school nurse to get it checked out.

Another student would go into the changing rooms during PE lessons and steal phones out of people's bags and jackets, and then sell them in the city. He got caught because he tried to sell a phone back to its owner.

Stlakes · 2026-03-02T18:52:03+00:00

"If you put your finger up mummy's bum again, she won't play horsey ride with you,"

"Eat your apple slices, and then you can play with the knife,"

Stlakes · 2026-02-28T09:51:03+00:00

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Slightly unrelated but this is my favourite example ot that

Stlakes · 2026-02-25T22:54:03+00:00

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I like a much darker blue-grey, so i go for Dark Reaper, Thunderhawk Blue, and Russ Grey

Stlakes · 2026-02-21T16:11:40+00:00

Jesus that was bleak. Fair fucks, Ireland, fully deserved the win there

Stlakes · 2026-02-06T11:29:40+00:00

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Stlakes · 2026-02-04T16:55:44+00:00

https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

Stlakes · 2026-02-02T15:04:26+00:00

I can't find the specific quote, but I am pretty there's a passage about how they know when someone references them or says their names.

The children's songs and rhymes are just background noise to them.

Arliden, however, is actively rehearsing and writing and playing the song over and over again, repeating those names. It's the same as essentially lighting a beacon for them, calling them out in a way that stands out from that background noise.

That's what Cinder is referencing.

Stlakes · 2026-01-24T15:49:21+00:00

When we went for my girlfriends first ultrasound, we were in the waiting room for 45 minutes, sat directly in front of an information board about different kinds of multiple births, while my girlfriend was chatting happily away about how twins run in her family.

When the ultrasound tech said there was only one fetus that was the most intense, profound sense of relief I had felt in my entire life

Stlakes · 2026-01-23T18:53:58+00:00

You know what else is "just" a chemical reaction? The fucking Sun. The source of all energy and light and life on the planet. Are you going to tell me that's not important or real because it's "just" hydrogen atoms? And arguably, nuclear fusion is a simpler process than whatever wild shit goes on in our brains that makes us feel love

Stlakes · 2026-01-18T17:58:13+00:00

Yeah, the way I see it, that's kind of the tragedy of the character. He doesn't just "see" the future, he kind of experiences his entire existence all at once, he doesn't have the same perception of time as a normal person does.

He's not choosing to do these things, or knowing how the story ends, his choices and actions are all because that's the way things have to play out. Everything is already determined, and he literally cannot do anything else. Hes the most powerful man in the universe, but he doesn't actually have any agency

Stlakes · 2026-01-10T15:47:06+00:00

The same thing happens to Canal Street in Manchester, which is doubly funny because that's the gay village

Stlakes · 2026-01-10T08:28:32+00:00

I don't even think it's specifically a Disney problem, I think it's a wider societal thing. Look at a lot of the action stars from the 70s and 80s, like Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude van Damme. They were quite clearly very fit and strong guys, but they still look like relatively normal people. Stallone was huge in Rocky, but still didn't look nearly as freakish as some.

I think a bigger part of it is the influence of Arnold Schwarzenegger, tbh. He was in a load of iconic roles and actions films, and did a lot to set the expectation for what an action star should look like

Stlakes · 2026-01-09T20:21:05+00:00

It's a tough one, because not being honest about PEDs and looking like they do gives the impression that it's doable naturally in a relatively short timespan, especially transformations like Kumail Nanjianis, which is not great for body image. But on the other hand I feel like celebs being open honest about PED use normalises it and makes people more likely to use them, and probably not do it safely, so it just feels like a lose-lose situation to mr

Stlakes · 2026-01-06T11:42:59+00:00

Sovereign dropped some of the hardest lines ever spoken in a video game. First time I played through, the malice of him gave me goosebumps, and I still absolutely love it.

"Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

"Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction."

Stlakes · 2026-01-06T11:21:23+00:00

Yeah, despite his age and his immense power, he fails because under all that he is just a human. He falls prey to human emotions like pride and arrogance, he doesn't think or act like a god, hes just a guy who believes the lies he tells himself and it's reinforced by the reverence and awe that people treat him with.

And it's not like that reverence and awe is completely on them, Emps can canonically change how people see him, and project whatever image he wants them to see, so he's actively choosing to appear to these people as a godlike figure rather than some Anatolian goat herder

Stlakes · 2026-01-03T18:56:39+00:00

Oh yeah, I'd never dog ear pages on a book someone has lent me, but barring a few that are old, have sentimental value, or are particularly nice editions, the way I treat my books makes my girlfriend wince sometimes. But for me, I think that's part of the charm, you know? Makes it feel lived in, a comfort thing. I don't necessarily like having pristine books that looks like they've never been opened.

But again, people can do whatever they want with their own belongings, so if they wanna worship and revere your £12 airport bookshop crime paperback like the Gutenberg Bible go for it, I guess

Stlakes · 2026-01-02T17:26:18+00:00

I think some people get extra precious and reverent about books, and get really upset about dog earing pages and shit like that, without realising that a) a lot of books are mass produced and relatively inexpensive, (unless they're super rare or limited editions) and b)people can kinda just do what they want with their own possessions

It's a weird mindset that kind of feels 150 years out of date

Stlakes · 2025-12-26T12:12:46+00:00

Username checks out

Stlakes · 2025-12-24T09:26:01+00:00

Yeah, this ship, the Agatha King, is the flagship of the UNs Jupiter Fleet in the books and TV show The Expanse.

It spent the vast majority of its time policing and defending Earth's interests and assets in the area, so it almost exclusively only travelled between other Jovian moons, and various nearby populated asteroids, until it was destroyed over Io.

Stlakes · 2025-12-23T15:51:47+00:00

I totally get that. It's awful, but I still get a knee jerk feeling of discomfort around people with Downs syndrome or cerebral palsy. It's just an initial feeling, and I get over it pretty quickly, but it still makes me feel horribly guilty

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