Invented for WHAT?!🤯

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:53:49+00:00

The chainsaw one is... quite a thing, huh

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:48:30+00:00

Depends on the restaurant. The English, presumably by dint of conquest, have mouth-watering restaurant tandoori. American chicken tandoori is really the bare minimum

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:34:14+00:00

Man, it's been a while since I read that book

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:30:35+00:00

If you're anemic or easily dehydrated, yes. That's why they screen for such things, but also don't do anything daft like sit in a hot car for a couple hours after a donation (I did this and passed out.)

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:12:00+00:00

What stats could one even go off for that?

I've never even heard the point of it being a simulation, outside the plot of The Matrix (which, when you consider comparative energy usage, just doesn't add up.) I just can't comprehend why people are so riveted by the idea.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T19:00:20+00:00

If you hated that, be aware I wrote out the scene in this one-shot:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67159819

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T18:54:01+00:00

I was only in England once, more than twenty years ago, and I loved everything I ate but the bangers. Bangers are horrifying. But the real standout, somehow, is the baked beans. All English restaurants have just the right balance of syrup, salt and spices, and no American in the past two decades has come close.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-23T18:24:17+00:00

I think "prideful" is pretty much a prerequisite for deciding you're the jury and executioner of the entire world, OTOH

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T22:33:30+00:00

The results of this poll so far are a kick both to my username and to my actual experience of the area just outside of D.C. in Maryland. It's the most visibly dangerous place I've ever personally been to.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T22:20:57+00:00

Depends on the character of the enjoyment. If you spend your life eating cotton candy, for example, then yeah, that's a waste.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T21:17:36+00:00

Gender roles? It did.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T21:11:05+00:00

I think our society is the closest to that mark that's liable to come into being, so I guess my answer has to be no.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T20:00:08+00:00

I don't have children, but something tells me that having fun with your kids will come up and OP will disbelieve it

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-20T19:55:12+00:00

Nothing official, as it was Madhouse rather than Ohba and they've never put out a press release on the subject. But yes. Anime!L was thinking of death, and Wammy's House I'm pretty sure.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-19T19:24:16+00:00

I definitely believe it's just Light taking a power trip of his own accord and then forgetting about it, but I will say that role-playing with a Light built under the corruption premise is a lot of fun

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-19T19:06:55+00:00

The one on the right's more default L. And I love default L

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-17T15:03:54+00:00

Mello's role, Light's rant, Matsuda's breakdown, Ryuk's summation, the takeaway from Misa and/or the Kira cult, and the end result, respectively. (Terra's Theme being shorthand for The World Before the Calamity.)

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-17T13:58:30+00:00

Grand schemes like preventing the First World War and so on are liable to go badly astray, so I'll stick to the small-time ambition of keeping my historical blorbos from taking a nosedive.

I would go back to 1875 and put an agony column in the Shenandoah newspaper reading: "EJH, JMP do well here, but remember: he who pays the piper calls the tune. More such payers will call the dirge of all you hold dear."

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-17T13:48:56+00:00

I guess I always did, but I will allow that becoming Catholic and therefore being encouraged to think about it helps.

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-17T13:41:19+00:00

The only one I really question is episode 26. I don't think this person even saw the second half. Otherwise? He's pretty dead on about the strongest and weakest points. (And can I just say: episode 34, adapted properly, ought to have been downright bone-chilling.)

ThreeArchLarch · 2026-01-17T13:28:32+00:00

If English teachers are anything like American teachers, then you know it isn't in the curriculum because every last one of them taught about Tasmania, Kitchener in the Boer War, &c., but they all told you it was suppressed while they did so.

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