Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

my theory is that they originally intended harry potter to be spooky halloween because witches and trolls but quickly realized that the source material was to limpidly vacant to actually pull that off

tired: is nightmare before christmas a halloween or christmas movie

wired: is harry potter and the sorcerer's stone a halloween or christmas movie

my favourite christmas movie is harry potter but if you haven't already seen it don't

live soft / die hard

IT’S EITHER PUP PATROL OR FOOTBALL IN THIS HOUSEHOLD

there are only two kinds of media: the stuff they loudly market to adults and the stuff they loudly market to kids. there are no others

authors note: by the way all these women characters have boobs

when they type (no pun intended) after clearly intending a pun

« other regions of the area »

popcorn… and cum

anyway SA people must have really liked this nobody who just died they can’t seem to stop talking about them

at least homestar runner fans are just “homestar runner was cool” and not “homestar runner was the single most culturally influential thing ever on the internet”

people who have spent time on 4chan 🤝 people who have spent time on SomethingAwful

vastly overestimating the actual impact of the website they were on

let me just stop code execution partway through this function, jump up a few scopes, and magically resume, that sounds like a good, reasonable way of organizing a program

the kinds of people who complain that javascript should throw more errors are the kinds of people who do not understand just how much trouble you can get into with javascript code which throws errors

“hey KIBI, what cursed JavaScript practice are you invoking today?” throwing and catching errors

’tis the season of your hands always being fucking cold

Today (11 November) commemorates the signing of the Armistice of Compiègne to end the fighting of World War I; it has become known variously as Remembrance Day (in the British Commonwealth) and Veterans’ Day (in the United States) after World War II extended its scope beyond simply recalling this single event.

The methods of warfare deployed in World War I were ecologically hazardous and severely disturbed the topsoil of the places where fighting occurred, leaving the poppy as one of the few plants which could still flourish there. The poppy thus came to symbolize the massive damage and loss of life which resulted from contemporary methods of warfare, and in fact had been growing in association as such since the Napoleonic Wars.

The patriotic poem “In Flanders Fields”, written near the beginning of the war when patriotism and morale were still high, was used after its conclusion to popularize the Remembrance Poppy as a patriotic symbol, particularly via the following stanza :—

« Take up our quarrel with the foe: / To you from failing hands we throw / The torch; be yours to hold it high. / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields. »

Consequently, the poppy (and the observance of 11 November in general) has been reappropriated in recent times, from a symbol which recognizes the death and catastrophe associated with contemporary militarized conflict, to a symbol which upholds said conflict as necessary and worthy of veneration.

The KIBI Calendar resists this slippage of meaning, and recommends that we instead spend this day reaffirming our commitments to ending global conflict, and to opposing colonialist and militaristic endeavours such as those which led to the need for a signing of an Armistice in the first place.

what makes this especially ironic is this is a pokémon fanserver