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Rinnaul


I do nothing of merit. On occasion, I give the impression of being creative, but this is a deception. I am merely derivative in clever ways.

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  • 207 weeks
    Dropping in to try and find some art

    So my hard drive bricked back in the fall, and I finally replaced my computer with the stimulus money. But I don't really have a good way to try and recover the stuff that was on there, so that sucks.

    But, I was hoping for some help in finding one particular bit of pony art that I haven't been able to dig up again since then.

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  • 233 weeks
    a brief summary of my life the past few months

    June 17: I wreck my car.
    July 5: My cousin I grew up with dies after an extended illness.
    July 26: Neighbors threaten to sue us over payment for repairs they did on a shared driveway, wind up paying them over $1,000.
    August 15: Dropped my phone and busted the screen.

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  • 240 weeks
    Welp, that's just... everything fucked, I guess

    So back around June 20, I wrecked my car.

    Then back on August 28, the tires on my wife's car got torn up hitting something on the road, and we wound up needing all new tires.

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  • 241 weeks
    I don't think my cat likes my work

    So it's been a struggle to write anything, for various reasons, but I *was* trying to get back onto Legacy Ch 4 not long ago.

    Then today I was sitting at the table and started hearing faint tearing noises from behind me. I turned around and discovered that somehow my rough draft had wound up on the floor and the cat had done this:

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  • 259 weeks
    Random Encounter

    This was a fun moment. Choppy cause I had to remove a bunch of game speech commands and the usual bit of racist shit-talking.

    Also this was before I found out Scribbler did another reading of my stuff. I would have probably said that instead of RCL.

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Oct
21st
2015

Wherein Rinnaul Asks A Stupid Question · 11:03pm Oct 21st, 2015

Do you ever wonder if the song Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band exists in the world of Harry Potter?

What would wizards think of those lyrics?

Comments ( 3 )

Meh... I am partial to this one

Unfortuately, I've never read Harry Potter.

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The joke here is that, for Potterverse wizards, the words "avada kedavra" are the incantation for the killing curse, which is powered by hatred and instantly slays the victim. Thanks to its use in wizard wars and duels over time, non-magical humans picked it up as "abra cadabra" despite the secrecy surrounding magic, and, like in the real world, it became generic "magic words".

So just imagine when the Steve Miller Band sings "abracadabra, wanna reach out and grab ya", you knew that the words really meant "I WILL MURDER YOU WITH HATRED".

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