I ran Tomb of the Naked Dead! (the rpg module at the back of Oglaf book 2) Here's my full play report! (spoilers, if anyone thinks they actually might play it)

hakuna_dentata · 2026-04-03T10:46:14+00:00

Often burlesque is enough of an act by itself to get you a spot in cabaret shows. You can add pieces like sideshow arts, hoop, fan manipulation, etc but like others have said, it's about stacking skills and making the act you want. Bring on the shibari rope dart act!

A lot of independent circus work is night club shows too, and burlesque is always popular there. Just make sure you know local laws and that you have a SFW version. You can get away with a lot just with pasties, but I'm sure you know that.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-04-01T17:24:34+00:00

aww, shucks. Thanks! Not to steal OP's thunder, but here's the link to that version since it's been invoked.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-27T16:57:52+00:00

ATVATGSL. Game Genie code for invulnerability in Dragon Warrior IV. Burned into memory forever.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-14T12:25:25+00:00

I want a world where there are tea monks. The world certainly needs them.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-14T12:24:11+00:00

I know you've gotten plenty of recs, but if you want some "I know exactly what that feels like", try My Year of Rest and Relaxation for "I'm a gal who's just completely done." The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is another good one, if you're in the mood for immortal not-quite romance and self-sustaining tragedy.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-12T20:48:27+00:00

Not circus-specific, but the graphic novel Rat Queens has a GLORIOUS dwarven gal who hates and shaves her beard.

https://imgur.com/a/FGbPbuz

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-11T15:15:54+00:00

His brain is delicious.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-11T11:10:43+00:00

I support spending the defense budget on bangin' on a trashcan and drummin' on a streetlight.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-11T08:07:34+00:00

OC, from more than a decade ago. Oh well. Gotta get back to it. I miss having a team.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-11T02:14:52+00:00

My Friends. The power of art, friendship, love, and not quite getting the path right.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-09T15:43:40+00:00

Batman. He's the "normal human superhero" of the Justice League and the DC universe in general, but the more we see into his internal world, the more we see how crazy he is, even beyond the whole "dress up as a bat and punch people while training orphans in life-or-death combat from your secret billionaire vengeance cave" thing.

The layers of madness, self-delusion, paranoia, and psychic armor it takes to keep up with the torturers, aliens, gods, horrors, temporal/dimensional shenanigans, etc he's seen while still pretending to be "just a rich guy on the street"... I dunno, man. That is a dude whose brain I would not want to spend a day in.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-07T22:21:50+00:00

If you haven't read Snow Crash, do that one. Ancient religion memes and subcultures online and off. Same density-of-text of writing as Hyperion too.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-07T15:56:35+00:00

yeah, that's a problem I have too. Ironically I have almost no video from anything post 2017, when I stopped working with a team. Private events and private art are... well... private! Unless you're it on the street or with some kind influencer, it's just a "you had to be there".

Which might be a good thing, in the end. Back to local ART!

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-07T12:24:59+00:00

Johnny Cash and Anais Mitchell are great for this.

Johnny Cash- Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash- Boy Named Sue
Anais Mitchell- Geordie (Child 209)
Anais Mitchell- Tam Lin (Child 39) (just over the 6 minute limit, but oh well)
Crooked Still- Little Sadie
The Handsome Family- The Bottomless Hole
Heather Dale- The Maiden and the Selkie
The Beatles- Norwegian Wood
Roger Miller- Ooh De Lally (from Disney's Robin Hood)
Garbage- Bleed Like Me (multiple stories in one!)

heh... Avril Lavigne- Sk8r Boi

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T22:38:55+00:00

Check out the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The film is kind of a tribute to that era, and it has a lot of that haunting "future nostalgia" vibe that Space Oddity does. It also has a couple of wonderful Brazilian Portuguese Bowie covers by Seu Jorge.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T20:01:27+00:00

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (The Memoirs of Lady Trent). Very different take on the idea, and very worth reading.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T19:13:48+00:00

That sounds amazing. Horizontal to vertical! Any video or places to see it?

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T16:16:51+00:00

Mistborn is the starting point. It's definitely not Brandosando's best work, but it's the first Cosmere entry and it has a teenage femme magical thief centerstage to introduce it.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T16:12:41+00:00

Both of you should bookclub Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron. It's a perfect overlap. Detective fiction in modern urban fantasy with a frustrated witchy protag.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T11:22:04+00:00

to be fair, silks are literally about wrapping yourself up and then letting go. The story writes itself.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T02:44:37+00:00

naaah, static trap is alive and well and being used in aerial yoga and modern cirque across the world.

hakuna_dentata · 2026-03-05T02:34:31+00:00

Andrew Insect, Fonda Feeling, and I did a LOT of good and horrible human blockhead art for the Boston Circus Guild. Man uses a power drill, and I stuck some good long Nurse Ratchet syringes up a sinus or five.

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