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Swift rule (slrpnk.net)
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[-] Dave2 93 points 2 months ago

If you told me this was true I wouldn't doubt it for a second

[-] mearce@programming.dev 68 points 2 months ago
[-] Dave2 75 points 2 months ago

(Doesn't doubt it for second)

[-] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago
[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I understood that reference.

[-] joshcodes@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

I saw this, said wtf, left this post and it was 2 down...

[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

My circle is normal.

[-] uriel238 48 points 2 months ago

This is pretty standard cosmic horror.

The people who touch the heart don't regret their choice.

[-] thecheddarcheese 22 points 2 months ago

is this a reference to something that i'm too uneducated to get?

[-] obre@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

As far as I can tell, mostly just fantasy tropes and the poem by Percy Shelley, a personal favorite

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 20 points 2 months ago

The poem of course referring to the real Ozymandias, who is Ramses the Second with Ozymandias being a greek conversion of the egyptian name User-Maat-Re (or Re-User-Maat, of which the english translation is Rameses or Ramses)

[-] Silentiea 20 points 2 months ago

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[-] uriel238 2 points 2 months ago

It rings of The City of the Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith. Worth reading.

[-] dastechniker@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

it was a bugged cow mangler projectile

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

That's a lot of worldbuilding for one nonsensical comment

Can confirm. I touched it. Am dust.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Taylor-Swift-flavored Peeping the Horror

[-] Fox@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Look upon my rule and despair

[-] sircac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Strong vibes of a certain Pepe Lore animation

https://youtube.com/shorts/9zMEqD1X7kQ

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