I Should Be Sleeping

[beejwatch]

Sometimes an episode is just so stuffed with really good line deliveries theres nothing i can do except put em together in a compilation its out of my control im powerless to stop it. Goodbye.

[dogpuppy]

[cactus-genome]

[obscureau]

personally I DONT think Jane Austen intended for Mr. Bennet to be paying Mrs. Bennet a genuine compliment when he said she was as beautiful as any of their daughters. He seems kind of incapable of paying his wife a real compliment.

BUT

I still think we should have MILF Mrs. Bennet. I think everyone should be like “damn” when they see her and then she opens her mouth and they’re like “oh”. I want them to go through the same process Mr. Bennet did, in a much shorter time frame.

[thestuffedalligator]

Icarus's mother is given a single mention in the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus. Her name was Naucrate, she was a slave under Minos, and Daedalus had met her after he fled from Athens to Crete.

I'd like to think that she knew Daedalus and her son would leave someday. That Daedalus was one of those thundercloud men, too full of fury and mythic power to stay in one place for long, and that a half-Athenian like her Icarus would be safer in Sicily than on Crete.

I'd like to think that she got to see them before they were shut away in the labyrinth. That she got to say goodbye to her son, and that she saw a gleam in Daedalus's eye that meant he was thinking of some terribly clever means of escape.

I'd like to think that she looks out over the sea some days and wonders if her boy made it to the shore.

I'd like to think she doesn't know.

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[today-till-tomorrow]

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

[crap-userrname16]

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

noticing a complete lack of national panic re: all these male teenagers getting on steroids in the last year. curious to know why it's such a problem when I inject hormones

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

#as someone who keeps an eye on this problem its literally insane. #kids are going on steroids and fucking it up so bad they develop fatal heart conditions #peptide companies are selling people any chemical claiming it can do any thing #people are overdosing on drugs that cook you from the inside that fell out of common use in the 80s or smth for being too dangerous #and healthy teens are getting access to glp1s without a prescription

the tiktok word for peptides is "peppers" if you wanna take a peek at the horrors

[wyrhtart]

king of approving when you stand your ground

[thememedaddy]

[creekfiend]

its really darkly funny that so many public figures keep dying "of cardiac complications after a brief illness" like wow y'all are Never ever going to say the word COVID huh.

[cosmictuesdays]

They used to say "complications from pneumonia" instead of AIDS.

[viralfrog]

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "Decarbonized formaldehyde is great. Just wash daikons with decarbonized formaldehyde and they turn white."

"Decarbonized formaldehyde" (脫碳甲醛) is an online phrase used to make fun of people that blindly avoid chemicals. Formaldehyde (H2CO) decarbonized is water (H2O).

[eng by me]

[robertreich]

Hello?

[arrows-for-pens]

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[actualmythicalcreature]

I taught my kid that swear words (important note: this does not include derogatory names for groups of people) are just words that can carry a social consequence. When you are a child, this consequence isn’t on you, as much as it is on your parents, who are responsible for you. As such, parents usually just ask their kids not to swear. Instead of that, I told him to ask me before he swore so I could explain the potential social consequences and we could make the decision together. So far, he’s asked a handful of times if he could swear at Trump while we watched the news. I found this perfectly acceptable, so he got to say “Ｆｕｃｋ trump”. Once when he dislocated his knee, he asked to swear - I said yea, he yelled “HOLY SHIT OUCH” and I asked if it made him feel better, he said it did. Once in traffic someone almost hit us and he asked to swear, I said yes - he said “That guy is an ASSHOLE” and I was like, yeah. 100% he was. He’s never asked to swear at a time that I felt was inappropriate. I have 0 regrets about this parenting decision.

[elfwreck]

(From Mama’s Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes)

[varpusvaras]

I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

[eightbitpale]

I am once again reminded of this image

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[californiaquail]