thoughts of jules

logged back in after 5 evr again... this time bc rif is dead

[bigtittygothmom666]

[trollprincess]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[trollprincess]

Me getting slammed with notifications on this post in particular:

[headspace-hotel]

Americans will drive 15 hours, why the hell wouldn't we take a 15 hour train ride.

[deadmomjokes]

Bro I did the driving for 4 days running to get across the country. (And it sucked every mile of the way!) You think I wouldn't pay money to sit back in the lap of not-having-to-do-the-driving luxury and get all the way there in a quarter of the time it took me to do it (miserably) myself? That's vacation time babeyy! You can't read, sleep, or do your small lap-crafts when you're the one driving. Let the landspeed torpedo do the driving and the world is my dang relaxation oyster. And you mean I get to look out the window and actually see stuff while I'm at it? As a bonus? And I get to stay on the ground? You'll never catch me flying or driving again.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

[pusheen]

[jamradio]

ModCloth's Memorial Day email preview says "Ask and Tell"

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

january was five months, february was normal, march was about three weeks, and april so far has been about twenty minutes.

[jamradio]

Diet soda with extra steps

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[monstermonger]

oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[animentality]

[jamradio]

Me: (realizing the popsicle I took has cream in it) Oh it'll be fine, it's not very big.

My body:

[pusheen]

[yutoda-mn]

There's a growing subset of various fandoms when books get adapted to movies or TV shows that I have seen online that will complain about a book to screen adaptation not being faithful to the book and it's often in a case where I thought the adaptation was pretty dang good. (E.g., People We Meet on Vacation, Disney Percy Jackson, Off Campus) And I just want to know what such people's baseline or expectations are. Because I think I'm coming from a place of having watched the Eragon movie as a kid and the Percy Jackson movies as a kid and knowing the feeling of deep disappointment of a screen adaptation literally being a hallucination of a plot that has nothing in common with the books. So I guess maybe I just have a low bar but for people who didn't think those previous examples were good adaptations, I'm genuinely curious what book to screen adaptations you hold up as exemplars. For me, my exemplars are The Fault in Our Stars, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, the Murderbot show, the Hunger Games, Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby, 2005 Pride and Prejudice, etc. I've also enjoyed People We Meet on Vacation, Off Campus, Disney PJO, Bridgerton, The Host, Warm Bodies, Austenland, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, etc. And I have been *let down* by the Chronicles of Narnia after the first one, PJO movies, Eragon, The Hobbit. I think my main thing is that I don't need my screen adaptations to be identical to the book, but they do need to capture the same essence or spirit.

[jamradio]

The Witcher 3 is a horse girl game. You can't change my mind.

[catasters]

[jamradio]

Me, in late grad school, excited about my h-index going up by one (still in the single digits though)

Curiosity getting the best of me and looking up a friend's h-index (who is in the same field but different sub-field and a few years ahead of me but still early career)

[catasters]

[jamradio]

He's HELPING