JT Smithling

@jtsmithling

Hasbeen scientist, wannabe writer, occasional metalhead. What the critics say about me: "Nihilistic, sharp-edged" "Unnecessarily vulgar"

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JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Jun 20

I know you joke, but "patriotic rocks" actually on sale was literally one google search away. Screenshot from Etsy. Low on stock, only 3 left.

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Apr 27

Today I learned that the Internet Movie Database has 1-10 rating scale for all movies. Except one. For Spinal Tap - *only* - the scale goes to eleven. This makes my middle-aged metalheart happy.

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Mar 8

My Vikings? Lost.

Screenshot of a 1993 platform jump video game, The Lost Vikings. The scene has grass-covered platforms against black background, a waterfall, a blue dinosaur enemy and a pink snail, and the three viking characters you could switch control between. The read-bearded smallest viking was good at jumping, the yellow-whiskered one could shoot and fight, and the yellow-bearded bog one could block with shield. Game consisted of movement/fighting puzzles that required collaboration of the three.

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Feb 13

And here it comes, Sleepless Empire! (How fitting. It's midnight here.)

Cover image for the Lacuna Coil album Sleepless Empire. It depicts a white raven skull viewed from above, on a black background, and the skull's forehead has cross carved into it.

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Jan 20

Fuss about book or film spoilers is performative nonsense. Change my mind. Re-reading GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Nothing is lessened because I know the story. Every page is *better*, heavier, more meaningful than on the first read, because I now know the sorrows and heartbreaks ahead.

Still image from the scene in Game of Thrones where Ygritte dies on Jon Snow's arms. Isn't every moment of their time together better fiction when you know how it will end? How does knowing that "spoil" anything?

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Jan 5

Here's a bird named Southern Blue-Eared Glossy-Starling, map to Blue Round Road, and receipt for Round Sweet Treats. If dragons existed, I'm fairly sure the field guide to dragons would name the green one among the genus of largest dragons... Green Great Dragon.

Composite picture of a Southern Blue-Eared Glossy-Starling, map to Blue Round Rd, Alabama, and receipe for Round Sweet Treats, as examples of names where the so called adjective order rule does not hold.

JT Smithling@jtsmithling· Jan 5

I go to TV adaptations anticipating disappointment, but the new Dune Prophecy series is really, really good! Superb casting too: the Harkonnen sisters are very immersive because the young vs old actors uncannily capture the same vibe and visual resemblance too is close enough to be believable.