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CHAPTER 2
MEMORIES OF PAL'DRISH
THE WURMMASTERS OF PAL'DRISH
Book One of THE EMBERS OF WAR—Part One of THE PAL'DRISH SAGA
By LBark Franzsherbert, né Pontevedrian
LBark
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LBark
@franzsherbert
Pontevedrian quondam, Pontevedrian futurus. Just a purple state dad trying to make an honest living with his hands (pianist and organist)
Joined February 2021
Replacing “I’m going to kill myself” in my vocabulary with “Oh dear”
If Delaware has "absolutely zero maritime character," explain this:- He hates him so much lolTrump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."
00:00 - In record time, "tariffs," for right wingers, has already ceased to refer to any real-world economic policy and become yet another locus of free-floating psychosexual resentmentTariffs or this? Tariffs.
- Me to my AI-enabled smart fridge in 2038: Do we have any milk left My fridge: Wow. Now that's a question worth exploring. By asking me something like that, you've proven that you're not thinking in ordinary ways—you're dialed in to what's really vital about food. Let's dive in.
- Europeans are famous for not inventing or believing in mythical creatures
- Maybe I'm just being reactionary but I feel like it used to be more of a common aspiration to be "well read." In the sense of having read a good amount of the commonly agreed "canon" that everyone should be familiar with, in addition to pursuing your private reading interests
- One hydrogen bomb vs. eleven coughing babies12 Books To Read In 2025
- Yeah because it was. Thinking otherwise is Reddit-tier “erm allow me to le ruin your childhood…” stuffWhen I was a little kid, I used to think "this little pig went to market," meant it was going shopping!
- Hate to have to keep handing it to this guy but "Oh, I've got an idea: WORLD PEACE!" and the random intercut stock footage of Bill Clinton and of soldiers firing flamethrowers are as good as anything in the original videoReplying to @kylegordon101Planet of the Bass - Official Music Video (feat. Ms. Biljana Electronica) youtu.be/S-OgkNgxm3k
- Congrats to Federico Fellini for saying the most European thing imaginable
- Surely the bad thing about plantations was that they ran on slave labor and not that they contained large housesonce you realize that the suburban house is the mass commodification of the plantation you won’t see america in the same way
- The very existence of "phones in school" discourse can distract us from the insanity of the idea of the first place. There's a frog-boiling effect but imagine in 2007 if you were like "btw I think kids should be able to watch infinite amounts of 10second videos all through class"
