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Mist Is Just Wet Dust https://topiclords.com/mist-is-just-wet-dust 4e3dc476-6caf-4b98-8895-4a19569c63ae Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Linker and Alexa We discuss variations in vampire stories, anthropomorphism in media, getting a free burger when you join my rewards, Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass, what letter would win in a Royal Rumble, and anti-lesbian vampire propaganda of the 1970s 1:07:45 yes <p>Lords:</p> <ul> <li>Linker</li> <li>Alexa</li> </ul> <p>Topics:</p> <ul> <li>Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol</li> <li>Anthropomorphism/Connection in media</li> <li>Get a free burger when you join my rewards</li> <li>Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass <ul> <li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble</li> <li>Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the 1970s as shown in The Vampire Lovers (1970) <ul> <li><a href="https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Microtopics:</p> <ul> <li>Being American and then being Canadian-American.</li> <li>Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.</li> <li>Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty.</li> <li>3D-printed worms.</li> <li>A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.</li> <li>What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.</li> <li>How office workers goofed off before the Internet.</li> <li>Bella's lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.</li> <li>Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.</li> <li>What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.</li> <li>Using a picture of Cat's Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.</li> <li>Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt. </li> <li>Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?</li> <li>Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.</li> <li>Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.</li> <li>New Money vs. Old Money vampires.</li> <li>Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food. </li> <li>One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone's like jeez, this again?</li> <li>Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.</li> <li>Talking to a computer like it's a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you'd never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like "holy shit they're really mad" but you're not mad, you're just talking to a computer.</li> <li>Apologizing to the table you just ran into. </li> <li>It Takes Two.</li> <li>Following the instructions of the book of love. </li> <li>Creation of personality in moments of friction. </li> <li>Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.</li> <li>Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?</li> <li>We've got teamwork at home.</li> <li>Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.</li> <li>Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward. </li> <li>Chicken stars! They're like chicken nuggets but they're shaped like stars!</li> <li>Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?</li> <li>Naming your rewards program "My Rewards" so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.</li> <li>Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.</li> <li>A word that is elegy to what it signifies. </li> <li>Moments when the body is as numinous as words. </li> <li>Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states. </li> <li>Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads. </li> <li>Vampire jokes! </li> <li>Transylvanian Hounds.</li> <li>Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.</li> <li>The most bouba letters. </li> <li>Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark. </li> <li>Distraction the ref so you can stab. </li> <li>Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip. </li> <li>Whether the ampersand counts as a letter. </li> <li>Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases. </li> <li>The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.</li> <li>Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective. </li> <li>Heteronormative fiances.</li> <li>Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife. </li> <li>The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.</li> <li>Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)</li> <li>Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die. </li> </ul> Lords:

  • Linker
  • Alexa

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being American and then being Canadian-American.
  • Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.
  • Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty.
  • 3D-printed worms.
  • A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.
  • What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.
  • How office workers goofed off before the Internet.
  • Bella's lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.
  • Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.
  • What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.
  • Using a picture of Cat's Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.
  • Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt.
  • Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?
  • Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.
  • Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.
  • New Money vs. Old Money vampires.
  • Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food.
  • One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone's like jeez, this again?
  • Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.
  • Talking to a computer like it's a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you'd never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like "holy shit they're really mad" but you're not mad, you're just talking to a computer.
  • Apologizing to the table you just ran into.
  • It Takes Two.
  • Following the instructions of the book of love.
  • Creation of personality in moments of friction.
  • Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.
  • Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?
  • We've got teamwork at home.
  • Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.
  • Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward.
  • Chicken stars! They're like chicken nuggets but they're shaped like stars!
  • Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?
  • Naming your rewards program "My Rewards" so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.
  • Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.
  • A word that is elegy to what it signifies.
  • Moments when the body is as numinous as words.
  • Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states.
  • Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads.
  • Vampire jokes!
  • Transylvanian Hounds.
  • Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.
  • The most bouba letters.
  • Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Distraction the ref so you can stab.
  • Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip.
  • Whether the ampersand counts as a letter.
  • Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases.
  • The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.
  • Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective.
  • Heteronormative fiances.
  • Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife.
  • The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.
  • Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)
  • Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die.

Support Topic Lords

]]> Lords:

  • Linker
  • Alexa

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Being American and then being Canadian-American.
  • Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.
  • Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty.
  • 3D-printed worms.
  • A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.
  • What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.
  • How office workers goofed off before the Internet.
  • Bella's lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.
  • Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.
  • What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.
  • Using a picture of Cat's Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.
  • Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt.
  • Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?
  • Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.
  • Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.
  • New Money vs. Old Money vampires.
  • Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food.
  • One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone's like jeez, this again?
  • Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.
  • Talking to a computer like it's a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you'd never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like "holy shit they're really mad" but you're not mad, you're just talking to a computer.
  • Apologizing to the table you just ran into.
  • It Takes Two.
  • Following the instructions of the book of love.
  • Creation of personality in moments of friction.
  • Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.
  • Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?
  • We've got teamwork at home.
  • Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.
  • Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward.
  • Chicken stars! They're like chicken nuggets but they're shaped like stars!
  • Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?
  • Naming your rewards program "My Rewards" so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.
  • Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.
  • A word that is elegy to what it signifies.
  • Moments when the body is as numinous as words.
  • Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states.
  • Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads.
  • Vampire jokes!
  • Transylvanian Hounds.
  • Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.
  • The most bouba letters.
  • Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Distraction the ref so you can stab.
  • Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip.
  • Whether the ampersand counts as a letter.
  • Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases.
  • The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.
  • Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective.
  • Heteronormative fiances.
  • Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife.
  • The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.
  • Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)
  • Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die.

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