Quotes of the day

"Guns!Explosions!That smell of fire and fear!Gentleman, there is nothing better,nothing on earth. What sport would war be without it?They say that the age of Sigmar was the age of heroism. Don't believe a word of it!These are the days of glory my friends!The time of blackpowder and steel! May it last forever!"

-Reported last words of Master Gunner Augerich von Mettleblicken

"What are you gonna do, stab me?

• Stabbed man

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatly wrapped lies”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

23:49 - lissahearn: I have a fedora.

" And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses."

Anything you seek can be found here, in the groin

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike

A watchfire brings strength. Breathe in the heat.
In the eternal path, armoured against life.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lMX9HDJh-Q">The men of Neurosis</a>

"Another day nearer the battle,
So drink up my lads and look brave,
'Cos every day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave."

• A warriors' song of the Imperial Guard

"I'm scared that if I stop all at once, the cumulative hangover will kill literally me."
-Sterling Archer

Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world!

--Thea von Harbou, Metropolis

"Treat everybody like its their birthday." -Kid President

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

"Oh, they have the internet on computers now!"

• Homer Simpson

It was never a fair fight between fundamentalist Christianity and D&D. One was a dangerous system full of dark mysticism and threats to warp a young mind beyond repair, and the other was a tabletop RPG
.-Poster shadowling on an article from the io9.com website.

"'Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent,''Trivia dominates our conversation and increasingly our airwaves. And war is an enticing elixir. It gives us a resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble.' One of the many, intertwined motives driving men to the battlefield has been the tedium and pointlessness of ordinary domestic existence. The same hunger for intensity would compel others to become monks and ascetics."
-The New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges

Izgil tazara
Zanshith kemetha binmal
Telakh suluna
--dwarvish haiku about end of winter--

Moon rises
Young bird sings beautifully
Smith-hammer falls

-The Dwarrow Scholar

may the force be with you

“I have a bad feeling about this.”-Every Star Wars character ever, prettymuch.

"I torture all my friends. It's how I show love." - Crowley (Supernatural)

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.

Lucille Clifton

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

-Miranda July