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[TheLobster]

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They're all fake!

What a legend! He got on TV, he could’ve had fun and some hearty laugh with the hosts about the silliness of his supposed “movement”, but no: he keeps it up all throughout, completely straight-faced, fields the questions without corpsing, and even manages to make serious point about media freedom and censorship.

Amazing role model. Every conspiracy theorist should aspire to be like this guy.

 

[SimonDoom]

I think it was Jackie's bird opinion that raised the red flag.

 

[EdwardsOtherSide]

H.P. Lovecraft was even more classist than he was racist.

No matter how much textual evidence you provide, people get really belligerent about this one.

 

[SimonDoom]

The best ten year period for popular music was 1966 to 1975.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

I think it was Jackie's bird opinion that raised the red flag.

She only said she didn't like the duck, which was a little daffy.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

The best ten year period for popular music was 1966 to 1975.

I don’t know, 76 to 79 had some really cool stuff (and some gloriously goofy videos).

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I think it was Jackie's bird opinion that raised the red flag.

Try to silence me all you want people, but I will continue saying it LOUD and PROUD:
American coots are the devil. They can fuck right off with those wacky ass feet.

 

[SimonDoom]

H.P. Lovecraft was even more classist than he was racist.

No matter how much textual evidence you provide, people get really belligerent about this one.

I'll throw some logs on the fire. HP Lovecraft is way overrated as a writer. He has some cool, macabre ideas, but his writing style was antiquated even by his day, turgid and wordy. He didn't employ dialogue that well, or often enough. He overused the odd device of a story within a story, i.e., the main character, who experienced something horrific, would narrate the story to another person, who narrated it to the reader. This created a sense of distance between the reader and the action, which dilutes the immediacy and the horror. It also tips off the reader that the main character survived, so it's a spoiler.

I had never read Lovecraft until a few years ago, but I'd heard for years about Chthulu and the man's impact on horror, and I was disappointed.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Try to silence me all you want people, but I will continue saying it LOUD and PROUD:
American coots are the devil. They can fuck right off with those wacky ass feet.
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What is it with all this anti-feet talk lately?!

That's it. I'm starting a foot-fetishist support group!
#FootRights!
#FootLoversArePeopleToo!

 

[Robin_Starveling]

Miller’s Crossing is the Coen brothers’ most overrated film. Comic-book-level characters, stilted dialogue, and they totally botched the ending. Sure, it has some striking cinematic moments, but if not for that haunting musical theme and Byrne’s deep Irish eyes, I doubt anyone would still remember it.

The Man Who Wasn’t There is their best.

 

[Erozetta]

Dead categories:

I know there's a lot of lamentation about Letters & Transcripts, Reviews & Essays, Celebs & Fanfic as well as Chain Stories being dead categories, but I think I found a deader category.

There are stories there over two months old that have barely cracked 600 views. Mine are among the most viewed in September. There are currently two entries on the new list.

I'm thinking this is a category that could be culled, save a little on storing audio files, and no one would ever even notice. (I'm talking poetry with audio, I forgot to trim the simple audio one out of the image.)

And the controversial opinion is the idea of outright removing a category instead of adding one.

 

[StillStunned]

I know there's a lot of lamentation about Letters & Transcripts, Reviews & Essays, Celebs & Fanfic as well as Chain Stories being dead categories, but I think I found a deader category.

Toys & Masturbation seems to be a black hole for reader engagement. "Sweet Dreams, Poppy" is the only story in that category for the past month that has more than three comments.

 

[Erozetta]

Toys & Masturbation seems to be a black hole for reader engagement. "Sweet Dreams, Poppy" is the only story in that category for the past month that has more than three comments.

I mean, everything in that category is still getting over 1k views for the most part.

Most in poetry with audio for this month haven't even cracked 100 views. There were 14 total entries last month. And many don't even have a single comment.

And I checked the ones for this month, there are four entries, one with 100 views, zero comments on any of them.

 

[Lifestyle66]

The Literotica admins have recently changed the author's homepage, archiving older items.

My last story posted to Loving Wives hasn't received ANY new comments and the rating remained static for the last three months. That's unusual, since the number of views continues to increase at a rate of about 20 or more per day.

Is it possible the Literotica admins are making other changes to the site which impacts comments and ratings?

 

[Erozetta]

The Literotica admins have recently changed the author's homepage, archiving older items.

My last story posted to Loving Wives hasn't received ANY new comments and the rating remained static for the last three months. That's unusual, since the number of views continues to increase at a rate of about 20 or more per day.

Is it possible the Literotica admins are making other changes to the site which impacts comments and ratings?

Possibly, but I don't think that's at play in this category. This is the all time top list:

https://www.literotica.com/top/Poetry-With-Audio-46

Two entries with 9 and 14 votes.



And the 30 days and 12 months top lists have zero entries.

 

[SimonDoom]

And the controversial opinion is the idea of outright removing a category instead of adding one.

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But why would you do that in this case? The listenership for this category may be small, but it won't be served by another category, so if you get rid of this category you're screwing over a distinct group of readers. That makes no sense.

 

[Erozetta]

But why would you do that in this case? The listenership for this category may be small, but it won't be served by another category, so if you get rid of this category you're screwing over a distinct group of readers. That makes no sense.

The content could always be merged with audio, which has a larger listener base.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

What is it with all this anti-feet talk lately?!

That's it. I'm starting a foot-fetishist support group!
#FootRights!
#FootLoversArePeopleToo!

Bird feet are not real feet.

 

[NuclearFairy]

All of Santa's reindeer are girls!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Congrats to the tawny frogmouth, Australia's official Bird of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/tawny-frogmouth-2025-australian-bird-year-winner

 

[Erozetta]

Congrats to the tawny frogmouth, Australia's official Bird of the Year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/tawny-frogmouth-2025-australian-bird-year-winner

Looked them up and my god if there were ever a bird to embody 2025 this is it.

 

[SimonDoom]

Bird feet are not real feet.

I could have used those feet back in my swimming days.

 

[SimonDoom]

The greatest musical work of all time is Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

The composition was completed around 1859, and the music is way, way ahead of its time. It sounds weirdly modern for a work of its day, but the music is also lush and romantic and beautiful.

It's not the most "fun" opera. Dramatically, not that much happens, and all the action is drawn out interminably. But that forces concentration on the music, and the music is sublime.

It features what's often called the most famous chord in music -- the atonal and unsettling "Tristan chord" in the amazing prelude.

It's highly erotic, about doomed love-- a man and woman who fall in love with each other after unwittingly drinking a love potion.

The ending, Isolde's great aria "Liebestod," means "love-death" in German, and to me it sounds like the musical rendering of a sexual climax.

Kind of like a very long musical rendering of a Literotica story, with much emphasis on the buildup.

 

[StillStunned]

It's highly erotic, about doomed love-- a man and woman who fall in love with each other after unwittingly drinking a love potion.

I had a professor at uni who called bullshit on the love potion idea. Basically he argued, "You've got a beautiful lady and a handsome knight crossing the Irish Sea at sunset. Who needs a love potion? You could serve them milk and they'd fall in love."

 

[Statius]

What is it with all this anti-feet talk lately?!

That's it. I'm starting a foot-fetishist support group!
#FootRights!
#FootLoversArePeopleToo!

Hey! There's plenty of foot fetish sites and probably threads. We anti feet people should be heard too!