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i think "turning into a pumpkin" is my new favorite way to articulate the state of things when I am at a function and very overstimulated and it feels like my brain is melting. it's like no i can't be a person anymore i have to leave i'm turning into the pumpkin. the time is up yeah i gotta go. yeah see u later. pumpkin time.
(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN
Seeing people refer to reading a book as Consuming Content really explains a lot about how they talk about those books
not what I thought they was talkin about
has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Donāt Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? thatās pretty problematic of the author
Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.
Honestly tho I think the Stratt situation is the least compelling of the evidence availbale to us, considering she's his boss who may or may not have definitely had him kidnapped.
In the book there's also Doctor Lokken, who is much too professional to be in an enemies-to-lovers workplace rivalry love triangle, but that said... She would definitely have tried to shoot her shot if there hadn't been so many rumors about Stratt and Grace. Fairly sure it's a good thing she didn't. The attraction is so painfully one-sided. Grace has no fucking idea, he's just happy their professional relationship is working out after a bad start.
The clicher for me tho is Annie. Grace has this huge fanboy nerd crush on Annie Shapiro, one of the crew candidates. Like, almost faints when he realises it's the Doctor Shapiro, and is so offended she's Stratt's second choice instead of her first. This is relevent because the Doctor Shapiro is an attractive woman around Grace's age, and he shows no sign of noticing. Nada, zip. She and the other science candidate openly discuss their (very active) sex life in front of him, and he reacts like they've disclosed an embarrassing medical condition.
Honorable mention for my boy Rocky, too, in that while technically Eridians do reproduce sexually, as in through the combination of gametes, they don't have to interact in the process. Sometimes, when two Eridians love each other very much, they will both lay an egg together in the same spot. Then the two eggs fuse together into one big egg, and that's how baby Eridians are made!
Nothing to do with Grace personally, but absolutely contributes to the overall vibe imo
Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
I think I know how this works.
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
The spiritual successor to Miette
Might I also add
May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit
Glad to see weāre all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children
I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.
My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang
Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.
My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang
Me: ksst!
My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!
Me: ok
My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang
Can haz snackytreat
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#the ancient texts
... My reblog was only six years ago!
so far one theme of the 30s for me has been realizing that literally every human being on earth who appears completely cool and collected and together with it at first glance has some threshold past which enough known information about them will shatter that mystique completely. i don't even say this negatively or pessimistically it's just been helpful to keep in mind that we're all like that.
General rules to live by:
You gotta be tough if you're gonna be stupid. You can do stupid shit all you want but you're not going to avoid suffering consequences.
If you can't be tough, you gotta be nice. People can forgive a lot of stupidity if you're polite about it and pleasant to be around.
You can't tell whether you're stupid or not. There is literally no way to know in advance, for absolute certainty, whether the thing you're just about to do is genius or stupid before it either splendidly succeeds or blows up in your face.
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. Theyāre everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, Iām going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
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The Bear Nessiecity
You know what to do.
this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is
are you usamerican
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some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags iām nosy)
big companies selling ad space on their own websites is so weird to me itās like "we have invented: Evil Webrings"
In truth, it's not AI that offends me so much as the insult to human dignity of existing in a system that's hellbent on reducing people to mindless consumption machines
"only a poor artisan blames his tools" is such bullshit, in almost every imaginable line of work the quality of the tools you have access to plays a massive role in the quality of the end product, sometimes in excess of the role played by individual skill! For example, some people have to code in javascript
Interesting to no one but me: The French-English keyboard on iOS defaults to Ā«Ā guillemetsĀ Ā» instead of "quotation marks" even though my system language is set to English. And that wouldnāt even feel weird, except the keyboard button still shows quotation marks; it just produces guillemets. Itās the disconnect between the label and the output.
The thing is, I know the keyboard display can change on the fly, because the button on the far right of the middle row is over there the whole time doing a little dance, flickering between accent aigu, apostrophe, and accent circonflexe based on which one it thinks is most contextually appropriate for the letter I just typed. So theoretically, they could do something similar with the quotation marks, switching it up based on the language around it the same way they do for the predictive text suggestions, but instead they went for the far funnier option: jumpscare guillemets.
