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My biggest claim to fame is that Roger Ebert quoted me in his essay "Win Ben Stein's Mind".
rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/wi…
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Steve Evenly Naked
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Steve Evenly Naked
@impossiblebones
Patriotic atheist and coalmine canary. Detector of bullshit and offender of sacred cows. You’ve been warned. Pronouns are normal/sane.
Присоединился Ocak 2011
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@Andrewnsnyder If God has rights, then where do those rights come from?
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“In The Lord of the Rings, the conflict is not basically about ‘freedom,’ though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour.”
- Tolkien, Letter 183
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The reason you can't cast Snape as black is that Snape is an uncool sniveling little dork and no one is going to buy that an attractive black guy is an uncool sniveling dork
Hogwarts Files@HogwartsFiles
This shot looks good—but all that attention to detail risks going down the drain with Essiedu as Snape. Severus Snape, as written in the original books, is unmistakable: a gaunt, sallow-skinned man with a marble white face, skin the colour of sour milk, a hooked nose, greasy shoulder-length black hair, and cold, penetrating black eyes that give him a perpetually bat-like, shadowy presence. His very appearance is meant to evoke unease—someone who seems to glide rather than walk, wrapped in billowing black robes, embodying bitterness, austerity, and an almost gothic severity. Snape isn’t just any character—his physicality is deeply tied to his personality and narrative weight. He is described as pallid, withdrawn, and emotionally guarded, with a sharp, intimidating demeanor that reflects years of inner conflict, resentment, and secrecy. Every detail, from his hooked nose to his curt expressions, contributes to the way students fear him and the way readers perceive him as morally ambiguous. @HBO @wbd @StreamOnMax @jk_rowling @Caseybloys — if Essiedu is indeed part of the show, hopefully you’ve taken fans’ concerns seriously and considered placing him in a different role. Snape is too iconic, too precisely described, and too central to reinterpret without losing something fundamental. Fans aren’t asking for perfection—we’re asking for fidelity to the character as written. Please #recastsnape with an actor who more accurately reflects the original depiction from the #HarryPotter books.
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@JeremyTate41 There is no reason other than Christian fan fiction to think any of those things happened on March 25.
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Today is March 25th, the day J.R.R. Tolkien chose to have the One Ring destroyed.
Why? In Catholic tradition, this is the date of:
•The creation of Adam
•Abraham's sacrifice
•The conception of Christ
•The crucifixion of Christ
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@Pathfinder4545 @_OKJ__ This is a very typical response for authoritarians and moral relativists. It’s completely inadequate for those who like to ask ‘why’.
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@impossiblebones @_OKJ__ That is false.
Adam and Eve knew that what they were doing was wrong. They had been told.
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The story of the fall in the garden of eden is an incredibly stupid story.
It’s like a father who puts their child in a room with a venomous snake, then tells the child not to touch or go near the snake, knowing fully well that the child has absolutely no understanding of the consequences of touching the snake and then seriously punishing the child and all the child’s descendants that have absolutely nothing to do with the initial event, for being bitten by the snake.
And then calling the father all loving and good.
No story ever written is more stupid.
Divine@that_girldivy
Start a problematic discourse:
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@kenzietuff I think it’s worth doing to correct the mistakes of Chris Columbus, but not if they’re just going to make all new mistakes.
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I have a bias as a millennial who attended book releases, but I just don’t understand the need to remake Harry Potter at all. I’ve seen people say oh it’s for the new generation but… just read the books and watch the existing media. You’ll never create that magic again, why try?
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I absolutely LOVE when conservatives think their favorite fiction is on their side.
It never is.
Tom the Wanderer@tomwanderer
This is so legitimately disrespectful to Tolkien and his legacy. I’m irate. Firstly Colbert is a poser, he may know the names and the years but he fundamentally misunderstands the message and the core of the story as it doesn’t align with his worldview, thus the very soul of this project will be tainted with themes antithetical to Tolkien’s work. Secondly, these are ideas Tolkien never would have even wanted. You can argue with The Hunt for Gollum that it’s at least just telling stuff already in the novel. But a whole new secondary adventure, when his appendices and his manuscripts in HoME already explain the lives these characters lived, and peaceful ones at that? Absolutely not This is a blatant disregard for lore, sure, but more importantly this is a disregard of Tolkien entirely. Disgusting.
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I dont care about this show, but I do hate racist shit. If you cant be immersed into a show because of the color of the actors skin, fuck off with that racist shit.
Severus Chud@SeverusChud
I’m sorry, but this is just ridiculous. Race swapping Snape and most of the students, including Hermione, completely kills the immersion in HBO’s Harry Potter show. Snape was written as a thin, greasy haired man with a pale, sneering face. Turning the story into one about racism destroys its internal themes, and ruins the story. This show was over for me the moment it chose tokenism over staying faithful to the books.
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@LeighFetter1 @JeremyTate41 You just proved my point, dope yourself.
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@impossiblebones @JeremyTate41 He was an atheist you dope. He became a Catholic.
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The single most insightful person about modernity and enduring truth over the past century is GK Chesterton, a 300+ pound British journalist with bad teeth.
He was only right about literally everything.
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@eldivine I find it fascinating that the first word God says is “Let”, and the Constitution “lets” me say you’re an idiot.
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I find it fascinating that the speed of light is the universal constant, and somehow the Bible says that God’s first command was “Let there be light”.
Like think about it, if you were Moses trying to invent a religion from your imagination, there was nothing intuitive about that as your starting point 5,000 years ago.
Consider that people were thinking the sun revolves around the earth even as late as Middle Ages.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
Did you know🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away looking at Earth today would see the Roman Empire.
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Am I the only mom who gets annoyed by how ugly the illustrations are in modern children's books?
It's like they put effort into making them look horrible and depressing. Why?
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On YouTube there are videos of why habitation on Mars is impossible. Kraus explains it in 25 minutes. But people told Columbus travel to India was impossible.
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I think travel to the Moon and Mars should be pursued because it could shake western man out of his slumber. The doomers have some pretty compelling arguments - but it was expansion that opened the western imagination which created the modern world.
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@jakonrath Most mathematicians don't know their asymptotes from a hole in the graph.
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@jakonrath But what if "beautiful" is just a euphemism for "just like every other book out there"?
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Your baby is ugly.
It's your baby, so naturally you love it. Friends and family will still fawn over it and never admit it is ugly.
But strangers will not peek in the stroller and proclaim how cute it is. Most strangers will ignore it completely, or take a quick glance and say nothing. A few mean ones will tell you the truth, but not in any constructive way.
You need people in your life who will tell you the truth.
Not to badmouth your baby, but to tell you your book sucks.
When you write a book, naturally you love it and are proud of it. You don't immediately see the flaws.
If you can get your friends and family to read it, they will likely sugarcoat their comments because they don't want to hurt you. Or maybe they don't know how to help, because they aren't writers.
Praise is like candy. We love it, but it isn't good for us.
You need to seek out people who can point out the flaws in your book, and explain why.
Find a crit partner, beta readers, and/or a writing group that can tell you your baby is ugly. And, more importantly, give you tips on how to make it better.
That's how you learn and improve.
And, naturally, this is just an analogy. All babies are beautiful. All books are not.
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Chuck Norris didn't die. He chose to go to the Underworld to roundhouse-kick Death in the face for all eternity.
When he decides eternity is over, Chuck Norris will return.
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@MattWalshShow You want to do something about fakeness, Matt? Why don't you stop pushing fake remedies on your show?
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Everything is Fake Now — And it’s Worse Than You Think
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 00:30 Opening
00:55 - 39:21 Everything is Fake Now — And it’s Worse Than You Think
42:00 - 48:51 Truck Drivers Were Found Unable To Speak English And Understand Road Signs
50:57 - 01:13:13 Chiming In On The Viral X Post From Pastor Trevor About His Wife
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@impossiblebones @TierZoo Venus has a buttload of CO2, I don't think they would run out before Earth freezes over and humanity goes extinct.
Earth's entire biosphere (plants, animals, bacteria, etc.) contains an estimated 550 gigatons of carbon. Venus's atmosphere contains 125 MILLION gigatons of carbon
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Project Hail Mary review:
1: Best movie I've seen in quite some time
2: I wish I vibed with the Rocky/Grace humor more. I've not read the book since 2021 but from what I remember, I felt like the bulk of the comedic lines were between Grace and Stratt, not Grace and Rocky. Grace and Rocky had a more serious friendship in the book. Movie rocky feels like he is teetering on the edge of Big Bang Theory humor at times.
3: I was bummed we didn't get to watch them nuke antarctica
4: Them leaving out relativistic explanations for Grace not aging and Rocky having extra fuel was frustrating.
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@impossiblebones @orsonscottcard The only way to win in the publishing world is not to play the game. Check out @jakonrath's blog on self publishing. You need an editor and a cover artist. You don't need a publisher.
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“How can I get a quick start on writing a new book?”
Embrace cliches. You don't have time to develop your characters or milieu, or set yourself any challenges as a writer. Getting crap on paper is your primary goal. Still, try to do a good job of writing — snappy dialogue, quirky minor characters, a compelling dilemma (to which you already know the solution).
Writing better takes a little longer. Invent more deeply. Complicate your storyline. Disguise your use of commonplace tropes. Your goal was to start quickly — but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to create a positive reading experience.
As for the topic? Choose a character who suffers greatly, undergoes great challenges, and doesn't die. Set her in a milieu that you know well enough to write without much research. Create a few characters who do not just exist for your convenience, but have agendas of their own. Give your main character a reason to keep going despite all dangers and risks. Give your main character a job. Even if she hates her job, we need to see her working.
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