Harry Tuffs

@skelicopter

Story machine with keys for fingers. Writer & developer of A House of Many Doors, writer for Sunless Skies & Fallen London, writer for Over the Alps. (he/him)

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    9 Sep 2018

    Fun fact: Ever wondered why it's called The Iliad? Because Ilium was another name for Troy, and the -ad suffix was used to mean "The Story of." This means that, if you translated the title, The Iliad should actually be called Troy Story.

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    16 hours ago

    We talk about millennials lagging behind in household wealth, but I don't think people fully comprehend how far behind they lag in building up housing wealth in particular. In 2019Q4 Fed DFA data, the millennial generation holds approximately zero net real estate wealth.

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    May 20

    my plans 2020

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  4. May 21

    When I was younger I had bizarre, vivid nightmares (& occasional lucid dreams). Then I had about three years with zero dreaming at all. Was starting to wonder if I was ever going to go back to the old "weird dreams" years. Well, turns out all it took was 2 months of lockdown!

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  5. May 21

    I'm starting a change dot org petition to convert trillions of tonnes of CO2 into oxygen so we can have giant dragonflies again (stopping global warming as a side-benefit)

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    May 21

    I want to share with you the astonishing thing I've just read. During the Devonian period, plants grew no more than around 6ft high. But mushrooms grew to 20 feet. I'm now picturing a mushroom forest with an understorey of plants. If you painted it, they'd call you a druggie.

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    May 20
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    This is basically allowing people to spread misinformations and hide the truth without the fear of someone correcting them. Worst idea i’ve ever seen.

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    May 18

    2) SPOOKS (1930) Maybe my favorite ending to anything ever, this wonderfully absurdist Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon closes with a hilariously random non sequitur. The “boop-oop-a-doop, that’s Oswald” is the perfect capper.

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    May 18

    7) A SWISS TRICK (1931) In this mad masterpiece with Tom & Jerry (not the cat and mouse, the two hoboes who preceded them), we learn that eating swiss cheese has dire consequences.

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    May 18

    10) RIDE HIM, BOSKO! (1932) One of the most unexpected endings in cartoon history, in which the animators literally give up on this Looney Tunes short. An early meta gag.

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    May 18

    12) SILLY SCANDALS (1931) This early Betty Boop cartoon ends with a totally out-of-the-blue burst of psychedelia, set to the Rudy Vallee hit “You’re Driving Me Crazy.” The movie JOKER should’ve ended like this.

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    May 18

    Thread of the top 20 weirdest endings in old cartoons. 20) HA! HA! HA! (1934) This uber-bizarre cartoon climaxes with Betty Boop unleashing laughing gas onto the live-action world, with hilariously disturbing results. I love the way the inkwell’s haunting death is drawn.

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  13. May 19

    my plans 2020

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    May 18

    the only hthing i dont like about the movie "Baby driver" is the "Baby driver" himself. it is odd that he would be called that

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  15. May 18

    Had a dream that I was in Pixar’s Cars universe, and the cars had started wearing huge signs over their windshields/eyes saying “DON’T LOOK INSIDE ME.” Dream ended when I discovered that every car had a human skeleton behind the wheel.

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  16. May 18

    We know how to solve most existing problems. But the solutions are scary. They require a lot of money, effort, co-operation and sacrifice. So instead we've devoted vast resources to creating new problems that are reassuringly intractable.

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    May 15

    Prince Oleg of Novgorod was told his favorite horse would kill him, so he sent it far away. When it died, he thought he'd beaten the prophecy. He visited the bones and kicked the skull, only to be killed by a snake underneath. I had to draw this himbo. Big moment for him here.

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    May 14

    You can see how small Tom Hardy is here by the size of the spring onions he’s holding.

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    May 14

    May's Exceptional Story is The Ballad of Johnny Croak, by ! A string of permanent murders strikes London. Who is Johnny Croak, the urchin with the lethal crossbow? What’s his connection to Mr Fires? And what's with all the frogs? Subscribe:

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    May 14

    The only flattening of the curve they give a shit about

    Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all
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  21. May 13

    What is a man? A miserable little pile of secretions

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