In fact, I wanted to put “Burner culture” on my memespace map, but was flummoxed by the fact that it would have to be connected to essentially all other groups and memes.

In 1962 the Esalen Institute, a retreat built on hot springs south of San Francisco, started running classes designed to help people realize more of their “potential,” through activities like roleplaying, primal screams, and group therapy.

A similar case: there must be a world where your arm transforms into a blue tentacle, even if this world has an incredibly small amount of amplitude.

Original Male Dog (OMD): Fic will sometimes feature an OMD (almost never an original female dog).

To get something out of the way: Werewolves.

Cusps consist of horns, made up of coarse materials, connected by a curved embayment that contains finer particles.

Remove the broken-off spines by using cellophane tape or a commercial facial peel – and call your doctor.

A compact metric space is always Polish, but many Polish spaces are far from compact, or even locally compact.

“It got so hot that we realized we were living in our own personal hell,” said Mr. Perry, who now blogs about bitcoin-mining equipment.

From The Allworlds Catalogue by Walter Holland, describing a hypothetical world that works by the logic of mainstream Hollywood movies:

… there exists something called “magic hour” right around sunset where the light is just perfect and everything really heart-tugging and/or dramatic happens then, invariably, making the afternoon commute in Los Angeles an absolutely surreal fucking nightmare.