AudioThoughts & Miscellaneous

[tim-official]

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

[tim-official]

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

[bobcat-pie]

[hollowedskin]

[the-dragon-hearted]

It is amazing to me how many people in comics or shows discover a superhero's secret identity and then REVEAL it! Like???

If I found out my nice neighbor who helped me jumpstart my car at the god awful hour of 5am was Superman? NOBODY'S GETTING SHIT FROM ME I KNOW NOTHING!

a) bro can shoot lazer eyes

b) bro is minding his own business, I can do the same

c) The moment I start blabbing I get involved and I DO NOT want to be involved with the day to day life of a fuckin superhero. So I don't know shit, okay?

My lawyer's some vigilante. Sounds like a conflict of interest but what do I look like? A cop? My trash collector is a superhero? Anyway, thanks buddy, have a great one, say hi to the kids for me. I watched my waiter at McDonalds absolutely throw hands with a supervillain. That's crazy, anyway here's a 30% tip in cash. Good luck with those student loans.

Like I am not getting involved with ANYYYYY of that. Uh uh, no way, I don't see shit. I am just trying to make it to the end of the day without being kidnapped, held hostage, tortured, or interrogated and the best way to do that is keep. My. Damn. Mouth. Shut.

[mousegirlheart]

weird how abled people don't want you to have supports because it may Annoy Them. no, you can't have a shower chair, it'll get in my way. no, you can't put subtitles on, im here to watch a movie not read. because the needs of the disabled are somehow lesser than the wants of the abled.

[ro-fromthestars]

"oh but subtitles are distracting to me"... don't you think it's more distracting not knowing what anyone's saying properly

[professorfoglio]

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[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[pentacass]

“Life is grand. You know that. The more experienced a person is, the deeper they go into life, the less black and white it is. And that incredibly interesting shade of grey gets to be played. But within that shade, there are infinite varieties, right? So I think that’s just her. The black is the bad guy, white is the good guy. But we all know the true parameters of life lie in between those two. And Flemeth is the absolute exploration thereof.” - Kate Mulgrew, in “A Shade of Flemeth”

[galwayghost]

Flemeth, Captain Janeway, Red. I love that Kate Mulgrew has a repetoir of badass women who can absolutely kick your ass

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[sunlight-shunlight]

also this is the funniest lore about michel from tme. not only can you put him in a room with solas (i think solas would kill him actually...?). cullen nominates him as a Mentor Figure, i guess in case the inquisition troops aren't getting enough practice at being racist to elves

wild that you can technically have a worldstate where: cullen had his crush on surana, then sends his troops to attack clan lavellan, then hooks up with mage lavellan, and THEN hires a chevalier to train all his guys. and then lavellan can end up married to him :')

[sunlight-shunlight]

i was still thinking about this actually. cullen is also... fereldan... which should make him more likely to not want a chevalier in his troops? but he's fine with it.

so is the commonality between chevaliers and templars basically their ability to terrorize the elves? the templars will go after dalish clans. and the chevaliers having their rite of passage to kill an elf, is sort of similar to a templar's first harrowing assignment... and they all basically have complete impunity in how they treat mages/commoners... does that lead to some kind of understanding between them?

and they're both blond, which could be a factor too, who knows

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

The Princess was so funny for this

[lizardsfromspace]

People still doing "do you think voting can fix this" memes when the answer to the question "when did voting last end an authoritarian regime" is "two days ago"

[hatchetfielddropout]

imagine being hired to retrieve something from a house in the province. it's a small town and you're told the house only has 2 orphaned daughters, and one isn't even ten years of age. you think it's an easy job, so you go there with a bunch of other people, and the fucking supposedly dead marquis of wuan is there (injured but still) and ready to put everyone to their death. not to mention the eldest daughter gets there and she knows martial arts a bit too well. you die in the snow.

[sunlight-shunlight]

pov: you're anders, wandering around miserably and aimlessly after kicking off a mage rebellion that is not going so well. and all your friends disowned and hate you now. and in the midst of your regular nightmares about kirkwall burning, this random elf(?) spirit(?) pops up to give you a curt yet comprehensive 4 hour lecture on insurgency tactics. and then tells you to get to work and stop whining if you think your cause is worth it. which is, somehow, the nicest thing anyone has said to you in years.

pov: you're solas, wandering around miserably after killing your last living friend on earth, and then getting shot at by the last descendants of your people. and you run into this guilt-ridden nightmare in the fade, that reminds you of how you're feeling currently. despite being from this half-sentient human. and so you give yourself (and the human, since he's there too) a pep talk to keep going. it's not like you need friends or happiness, if your cause is necessary to save your people, right.

and then anders becomes the herald of andraste while trying to kill the divine. and then they kiss. do you see my vision?

anyway please vote for solanders while the poll is going 🥚❤️💥

[allisondraste]

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

[audiothoughtsandmisc]

I wish people would chill out. It was never going to be perfect. It's just a TV show, it's not that big of a deal.

[shiningoak]

What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

[scruffylookingpiratecaptain]

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

[hooray4skeleton]

[audiothoughtsandmisc]

Okay so Pursuit of Jade has gone a bit off the rails and the pacings a bit fucked but you know what I'm still enjoying it.

Main problem is it really needed 50 episodes rather than 40.