Rewatched Dragonheart for the first time in years today and yeah no, fuck everyone on the internet in the early 2000's who tried to convince me this movie is bad, it fucking whips ass actually. A solid winner of the Creech the Truck Monster from Monster Trucks Seal of Cinematic Adequacy. I wish they made fantasy movies that looked and felt like this still, it's goddamn comfortable is what it is.
"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.
Iain M Banks: What is a weapon? What does it mean to use a weapon? Can a person be a weapon? Is there a difference between using a weapon and being a weapon? Is this difference meaningful? What kind of person would choose to be a weapon?
Also Iain M Banks: Here's a sapient starship with a scat fetish.
imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard
wing chun, the martial art that shows you what to do if you’re at the market mincing pork with two cleavers and some other bastard with cleavers tries to start shit, or you’re navigating your riverboat downstream with a bargepole and some other bastard with a bargepole tries to start shit, or maybe he has cleavers and you have a pole, or you have cleavers and he has a pole, or even (worst case) neither of you have cleavers or poles and you just have to slap fight your way out of it, either way wing chun definitely has your back in these common situations.