Simon Christiansen

@simonchris

Interactive fiction writer. Normal fiction writer. Poet. Contact Juggler. Author of PataNoir, Death off the Cuff and AlethiCorp. He/him. #dkgame.

585 Following1,364 Followers750 Posts

YouTube YouTube Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and simonchris.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· 26d

This is the funniest shit.

TheLaurenChen on Twitter: "Just saw The Odyssey.

Sadly, the woke casting is far from my biggest issue with the movie.

The film opens with Travis Scott, the rapper, as a bard.

Within the first minute, we also see Elliot Page as a Greek warrior. There's also an oriental and Indian warrior, too. And more black people.

So in the opening, there are more genders and races on screen than minutes in the movie."

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· 27d

Drill still killing it on Threads for some reason.

Dril: i don't care if he's a senator or not, demanding proof of life is a really fucked up thing to do to a family that just experienced the death of their loved one

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· 28d

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 13

Sam Neill requested that the patch on his Australian uniform in Event Horizon should have the Union Jack replaced with the aboriginal flag because that's how he believed it would be in the future.

Sam Neill wearing a space uniform with an Australian flag featuring the aboriginal flag instead of the Union Jack.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 11

The scene from Web of Spiderman where he reveals that he voluntarily publishes retractions when a negative Spiderman story turns out to be false is also one of my favorites. He is biased, not dishonest.

Page from Web of Spider-Man #13. Jonah decides to run a story showing Spiderman in a positive light.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 9

This strip is set in 1940s Russia, btw.

Terrible Sinfest strip. I envy the blind.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 8

No one is safe.

Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan
·
12h
Well, this is an unfortunate plot twist in my move to Chicago, but you all deserve to hear it.

On Monday, I was laid off from my game development job.

Leaving us stranded in Chicago, about to sell our Texas house, but unable to afford the dream home we were about to close on.

Lin
@CB12313
·
11h
It's a tough business. That sure happens a lot. You'll find something on your way to the next thing. At least you got out of Texas.

Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan
I know. It just stings because as a slot machine developer, I was always in one of the more safe, corporate subcategories of the games industry, kinda shielded from the ups and downs of the more volatile sectors like mobile and console gaming. But slot gaming isn't immune.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 5

This went viral on Threads but haven't gotten a single like here. Are people on Bluesky not watching Sugar?

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 3

Omg, episode 3 of Sugar!

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jul 2

Hannibal Lecter in the book has some weird ideas about trans people. What tree are you?

"Let's see... our hypothesis is we're looking for a male who will test differently
from the way a true transsexual would test. All right--- on House-Tree-Person, look for
someone who didn't draw the female figure first. Male transsexuals almost always draw
the female first and, typically, they pay a lot of attention to adornments on the females
they draw. Their male figures are simple stereotypes--- there are some notable exceptions
where they draw Mr. America--- but not much in between.
"Look for a house drawing without the rosy-future embellishments--- no baby
carriage outside, no curtains, no flowers in the yard.
"You get two kinds of trees with real transsexuals--- flowing, copious willows and
castration themes. The trees that are cut off by the edge of the drawing or the edge of the
paper, the castration images, are full of life in the drawings of true transsexuals.
Flowering and fruitful stumps. That's an important distinction. They're very unlike the
frightened, dead, mutilated trees you see in drawings by people with mental disturbances.
That's a good one--- Billy's tree will be frightful. Am I going too fast?"
"No, Dr. Lecter."
"On his drawing of himself; a transsexual will almost never draw himself naked.
Don't be misled by a certain amount of paranoid ideation in the TAT cards--- that's fairly
common among transsexual subjects who cross-dress a lot; oftentimes they've had bad
experiences with the authorities. Shall I summarize?"
"Yes, I'd like a summary."

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jun 29

Spider-Noir in color is incredible, if you haven't seen it yet.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jun 22

I don't see the point when this is already perfect.

Cover of GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade By Jeff Koke. Based on the original game by Mark Rein Dot Hagen. Steve Jackson Games.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jun 16

Here is the crab thing from the newspaper strip adaptation, which predates the movies.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· Jun 14

If I was a Scientologist, I would restore vintage e-meters in my garage. *Slaps case* "This bad boy can operate so many thetans."

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· May 30

TIL, there is a 19th century steampunk version of Frankenstein called Frank-in-Steam.

fifteen stage productions adapted Frankenstein. The title of one 1824 production—Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay—parodies the full title of Shelley’s novel; at the time, steam power was as potent an icon of modern industrial technology as were the automated looms that Luddites raged against from 1811 to 1817, their campaigns peaking from the summer of 1816 to that of 1817, precisely when Shelley was writing her novel (O’Flinn 1986, 196). In Frank-in-Steam, the play’s protagonist, a student in debt, learns of the death of his antagonist, a bailiff named Mr. Snatch, and cannot resist the opportunity to reanimate the corpse—rather unwisely, since the bailiff remains, in his undead state, as bent on collecting the student’s debt as he was in life. Ultimately, the student kills his monstrous progeny by pushing Snatch into a steamboat’s boiler (Forry 1990, 186). This play also parodies Peake’s Presumption, not only by capitalizing on the growing popularity of stagings of Frankenstein but also in one important detail—by not staging but instead narrating its climactic steam-boiler murder scene, thereby denying the audience a technical spectacle that Presumption had led it to expect of these stagings.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· May 27

I read these posts in order and thought you were talking about people freaking out on the subway platforms.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· May 11

The perfekt book doesn't exi...

Cover of "How To Hang a Spoon" by Joe Martin, showing pictures of people with spoons stuck to their faces.

Simon Christiansen@simonchris· May 10

TIL, polo players clone their horses, so they can ride the same horse over and over. Cloning is banned in horseracing but not in polo, for some reason.