Kelly St. Clair

good boys (and girls)

2025-07-27T18:30:42Z

Last night, before bed, I revisited one of my favorite stories in the so-called "Humanity, F* Yeah" subgenre. But my waking realization this morning, helped along by the note someone else left on it, was that many of the traits we admire and would like to imagine being known for among other species are the ones we share with dogs - loyalty, resilience, fierce protectiveness, selfless love, etc.

So really, "DFY".

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the hottest take (not mine)

2025-07-21T19:39:21Z

> The Lion In Winter (1968) is the greatest family Christmas movie.

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"boomer shooters" my ENTIRE ass

2025-06-08T07:11:54Z

You know what Boomers shot?
BB guns.

Video games weren't even invented until they were in college (Spacewar, 1962, MIT), and DOOM was first released as shareware in 1993, 30 years later.
Those were our games, damnit.

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I guess they both count as "classic" shows now

2025-05-15T06:36:58Z

I am sometimes tickled by how much Blake's 7 anticipates (and/or influenced or inspired) the dynamic of Farscape.

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I can be a /little/ evil, sometimes

2025-03-20T18:58:47Z

| You son of a bitch, why did you have to remind me of that? ["that" = My Screw Up, aka That One Scrubs Episode]

Treatment is simple. Go to Panucci’s Pizza, get slice, pet dog.

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the first selfie

2025-01-25T14:24:09Z

Hand outlined on a cave wall:
"I was here. This was me."

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artist erasure, 1910 edition

2024-11-29T23:14:26Z

TIL that neither Rider nor Waite actually drew the famous tarot deck that bears those names: Rider was the publisher, Waite the (male) academic who came up with the designs, but the illustrator was Pamela Coleman Smith. And now I'm annoyed that I didn't know that before, and that the last and arguably most important of those parties didn't/hasn't gotten more credit.

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Obi-Wanted

2024-04-23T02:52:25Z

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Hearing this a lot lately

2024-04-21T21:58:17Z

"My dad used to do/have/play/watch that..."

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"You are go for undocking."

2024-03-16T04:25:07Z

50+ years ago, I left the mother-ship and began my own journey around the sun, though we still shared an orbit for many of those years. It's cold and lonely out here sometimes, but I carry on the mission in her memory.

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WICK: the Vengeance

2024-03-06T06:22:13Z

Found elsewhere, reposted without comment:

I saw a theory online that I'm fond of where essentially, John Wick isn't an action series so much as it is a fantasy series, with Wick being the protagonist who managed to extricate himself from the world of the Fae at one point but is brought back into their wars by his actions to deal with the assholes in the first movie. The reason it gets more and more ridiculous and unbelievable (if it were a gritty action film with logic and rules), is because it's actually high fantasy faerieland. That's why everyone he meets also happens to be an assassin, and Central Park is full of assassins, and you have comic levels of damage soaking and ridiculous weapons.

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[coh] 20 Years

2024-02-25T22:22:29Z

Happy anniversary, Paragon City. It's good to be here.

Also, this finally gave me the nudge to take another look at the issue that's plagued me with Kallisti Wharf, and now Echo Plaza; it seems the maps and/or textures were screwed up by the Paragon Chat/Titan Icon experiment, back in the day, and clearing those out and doing a mostly clean reinstall - keeping only my costumes, power customizations, UI settings etc - did the trick. It was great to finally see Statesman Plaza as it was always meant to be.

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ye meddlyng children

2023-10-08T19:24:49Z

(from tumblr)

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to Infinity, and Beyond!

2023-08-05T04:20:39Z

from yet another forum post:

I feel like a good way to describe the Infinity Engine games is like this:

Icewind Dale is a new GM who mostly read Gygax's original DM guide and is mostly just trying to kill you and shake you down for money. The players filled out the sheets but none of them are RPing.

Baldur's Gate two years later... The DM knows the setting, does all the voices, has more minis than a Warhammer addict with two mortgages. The players all have detailed five page backstories written and the DM is building them all into the campaign.

Planescape is another two years later. Nobody gives a shit about setting. The players are trolling the DM, the DM is trolling the players. This guy's a Teletubby. That one's just a head. Oh you're a human fighter? That's boring. Yeah but I've died like a million times and keep reviving with no memories. Oh that's cool you find your own severed finger in a pickled egg jar and eat it for +1 dexterity.

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"They don't even answer the door, they just point the bang."

2023-07-31T15:38:53Z

For my waking-dream this morning, my brain served up a little of the old cyberpunk (classic Brit flavor, so heavy on the "punk"). One memorable bit was the above quote, regarding the sort of reception a particular community gives unwanted callers. A few gun turrets tracking you tends to get the message across, and when that doesn't suffice...

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okay, fair

2023-07-30T06:32:59Z

> Spock has so many daddy issues he could be a Mass Effect squadmate.

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no man is an island, post-apoc version

2023-07-23T16:38:14Z

great (IMO) forum post, quoted here in its entirety:

Prepper culture is basically just an insane fetish. They desperately want the world to fall apart so they can do whatever they want, so they view everything through that lens and thus the world is, paradoxically, always on the verge of falling apart. They watch the news in a constant state of sexual frustration as the world stubbornly doesn't die, relieved only by thinking about how great their personal kingdom is going to be or by buying some insane new prepper shit.

If the world falls apart, all their little bunkers and buckets of survival food and bullets and guns won't matter for shit. If you want a moderately decent life, the number one most important thing will be other people, not driving them off so you can be god-king of your pathetic little plot of land. Doesn't matter worth anything if you have an actual belt-fed heavy machine gun with a million rounds of ammo on a turret with a pillbox protecting your place because if a hundred people band together and want your stuff, you're fucked. All they have to do is keep you awake for a couple days, then walk up and bash your head in when you pass out from exhaustion. In the meantime, the rest of their group is out doing farming and hunting and fishing so some parts of the group can focus on things besides growing food. All you prepped was a great storehouse with possibly a nice food bonus. If you want prep anything of actual value, start piling up books on medicine, agriculture, etc to make sure that it isn't all lost when the internet goes down.

And nobody has enough time to be usefully expert in everything you want for a decent life. Even just to get back to say, 1800s-level living, you're talking farmers that specialize in animals, farmers that specialize in crops, fishers, specialists to convert those products to food/clothing items, the specialty trades for wood/stone/metal crafting, doctors and vets, and the organization to administrate it all. So even a small independent community is going to need on the order of a couple hundred adult specialists, plus their families. Even if you have the skills to make it as hunter-gatherer, you're going to die relatively young and probably from something stupid like a bad cut or a dental cavity.

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I may have to try this

2023-06-04T07:03:00Z

Seen on Twitter:

WRITING ADVICE:
If you're scared of the blank page just puff your body up and make the page think you're very large.

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a series in many parts

2023-05-04T04:26:24Z

> Almost done moving books....

> obvious euphemism

> Well actually I'm a librarian so I'm never done moving books. Also why is it almost 80 degrees in here?

> Get out of there, the manga you boxed up is forming a critical mass of sweaty teenage crushes

> At this point I’d be fine with the manga killing me.

> 99% sure this would get you isekai'd

> A Shelf of Manga* Fell On Me And Now I'm The Hero!
> *It was roughly half of One Piece.

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1903 - 1969

2023-04-28T05:32:21Z

This is your semi-regular reminder that we went from "box kites with lawnmower engines" to "putting people on the fucking moon" within a single human lifetime.

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vodvodvodvodvod

2023-03-25T00:15:24Z

an STO fleetmate who's also a veteran of SW(TOR) rp shows off some of their scars:

[Beskar] is immune to all things, including but not limited to: blasters, lightsabers, lightning, malfunction, blunt kinetic force, asteroids, the consequences of one's actions, asteroids, the criminal legal system, sith lawds, the vacuum of space, the total obliteration of the concept of time, revolution of the proletariat, and negligent slip and fall from the lack of a wet floor sign.

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remember when TV went off the air at night?

2023-02-20T11:05:02Z

I just thought of and watched/linked a video of something that originally aired back in the early 80s.
And then I realized that thing is now older than television itself (as mass media) was when I first watched it.

going to bed now.

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so very true

2022-12-31T22:33:34Z

A lot of books really require an audience with a life experience greater than that of a middle schooler to be appreciated.

For some reason those are the ones that get assigned in English class.

(credit to moniker at the Penny Arcade forums; no link because it's in a temporary holiday section that will be closed in a few days)

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This Kelvin scene just came together for me

2022-12-04T00:20:08Z

"Sometimes it seems like everyone knows about this other Jim Kirk. The man I could have been, the things I'll do or should have done. All my life I've lived in my father's shadow, his legacy, and now I'm also living in my own. Do you... do you have any idea what that's like?"

Spock merely raises an eloquent eyebrow, and after it sinks in a moment, Jim nods. "Touché."

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[coh] Not The End

2022-12-01T08:08:00Z

Ten years ago, tonight, the live servers shut down.

And ten years later... we are still here.

*raises a glass*

To Paragon City, the City of Heroes.

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