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Oh, leather is absolutely a thing.

But it’s a subculture of a subculture.

It’s like saying, “Why don’t we call all car drivers Tesla Enthusiasts? Because they seem to like them very much.”

Every day I don’t give 110 percent in exchange for… the same amount of paycheck.

Because it’s not about the leather.

Edit: Yo, a user from a kbin (mbin?) server! I don’t see those around too often.

Username checks out. 😑

Not a show, but a book and a movie adaptation: Interview with A Vampire is actually about Anne Rice’s daughter.

I was a sad, broken and despairing atheist when I wrote ‘Interview with the Vampire’ [in 1973, after the death of her daughter from leukaemia]. I pitched myself into writing and made up a story about vampires. I didn’t know it at the time but it was all about my daughter, the loss of her and the need to go on living when faith is shattered. But the lights do come back on, no matter how dark it seems, and I’m sensitive now, more than ever, to the beauty of the world – and more resigned to living with cosmic uncertainty.

Vampires are the best metaphor for the human condition Here you have a monster with a soul that’s immortal, yet in a biological body. It’s a metaphor for us, as it’s very difficult to realise that we are going to die, and day to day we have to think and move as though we are immortal. A vampire like Lestat in Interview… is perfect for that because he transcends time – yet he can be destroyed, go mad and suffer; it’s intensely about the human dilemma.

You did it!

That’s cold.

OP’s like It’s only tragic if we were banging.

They’d use that money to turn it back into twitter.

*Parks my car cross-wise in front of yours, blocking you in.*

Yes. They technically are.

I want to be a fly in the wall for that conversation.

A fly with a bucket of popcorn.

They colluded to say I lost

I retroactively absolve of your sin. Those two girls absolutely were being toilets.

JD Vance sounds like one of those kids that jumps out of tall grass to challenge you to a Pokémon battle.

Is this a real and stupid, non-functional set of stairs?

Or did someone create a cool/definitely impractical staircase where the second flight is on hinges and you lift it up to access the middle floor?

(Edit: I say this because the second flight looks like it’s made of wood and maybe not entirely fixed to the floor.)

And phone area codes.

I browsed the global feed for a few minutes every day and, if I saw something I like, I followed.

After a few weeks, I had a feed.

Now, most of my discovery is when someone I follow reposts.

If I ever get bored of my feed, I can always trawl global again.

How normal are we talking?

Like: “Happy New Year, dear. I cheated on you on Christmas with Sarah from Finance. How is your affair with Fyodor in Marketing going?”

“Oh, Fyodor is so last year. They fired him because he was too loyal to his husband. I went with Peter in Accounting. Here, he bought us cupcakes for our anniversary.”

I saw a college student walking with an umbrella in plain daylight.

My first thought was, “That’s a bit dorky. Is this guy cosplaying a Victorian lady?”

My second thought was, “You know what, it’s hot as hell outside. You do you, my guy.”

Me for months when the oven clock is off by an hour because of daylight savings time.

Newpipe works fine for me 90% of the time. What do the forks add to the experience?

I think there’s at least two layers to horror.

There’s the universal something-in-the-dark-scary-noises layer of scary. And there’s the culturally specific that-something-is-definitely-a-vampire layer of scary.

The Ring was scary to me without me knowing anything about Japan.

Everyone can enjoy them, but the home team gets bonus content.