Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
We still have Phone Booths in Australia, but they're free for anyone to use. It's made it much easier for people in abusive situations and even modern day slavery to call for help. Or just people who are out of battery, lost their phone, need to call parents, are homeless etc.
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
one of the biggest tragedies of early 2010s tumblr is that the devil (bbc sherlock) took root as the face of johnlock when the guy ritchie films were RIGHT there
Same in theater and acting! The audience doesn't know your lines or what you were supposed to do. Just keep going and pretend you didn't mess anything up. No one will notice.
doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay
Waiting in a parking lot of an Old Navy/Nordstrom strip mall, realizing I will literally never be as effortlessly chic as all these 40 something soccer moms.
I'm a writer. Not an author. To some, this means I'm an amateur, unpaid, I haven't made a living, not a professional, as a writer. Which is true. I haven't submitted my work to some part of the industry and sold my work. However, I'd like to think that I can review and look at bodies of work and go "WHAT THE HELL" about storylines, about movies, television, books, and wonder the showrunner, the author, the storyteller was thinking.
Certainly a lot of fans were thinking that when the final season of Game of Thrones happened. (Oof.) Certainly a lot were thinking that about Lost. I imagine some may have that when the final book of Outlander comes out (I honestly wonder how she's going to wrap that storyline).
(Speaking of Outlander: many called out the writers for chickening out on the finale and you know what: I agree! This will come up later.)
Now... some of you will be going: "Where is Raye going with this?"
Because a lot of The Boys fans and some "Jensen Critical" folks and some "Jensen Antis" have been... unfairly... going after Jensen for the recent season of The Boys. I say unfairly because, look, he's the actor. He's not the Executive Producer (hi Karl!), he's not the showrunner, he's not the writer. He's just the freaking actor.
I don't care if Eric Kripke has a fucking hard-on for Jensen. I do not. I don't care if he's quipped about providing a job for Jensen for the rest of his natural life. I don't care if he thinks Jensen walks on the goddamn fucking moon.
Eric Kripke is the goddamn showrunner. He needs to act like it! He shouldn't have been using the final season of The Boys to prop up Vought Rising like this. He shouldn't be blatantly trying to tie in the spin-off like that--it was wholly unnecessary.
More, he did a crappy job of it. The sheer quality of the show was steadily going downhill ever since season 3. There. I said it. He chickened out in having Soldier Boy de-power Homelander in season 3--that would've been one hell of a gorgeous storyline to see how Vought scrambled to figure out what to do with their Golden Boy, how Homelander dealt with being some ordinary human being for the first time in his life, and so on, as well as how Kripke shot himself in the foot with giving Soldier Boy one hell of a massive power in the first place--and then season 4 was just... a mess. Kimiko should never have been given her voice back in season 5 (I said what I said). Butcher went from being a vengeful husband and trying to rescue Ryan to... whatever the hell happened to him in seasons 4 and 5.
Everything sank and sank fast. And none--and I repeat, none--of it was Jensen's fault! He didn't ask for Soldier Boy to be flanderized in this way! Homelander should never have been made to have been in love with Stormfront (please! There was no way he fell in love with her!), he became this pathetic manchild that whined about everything and suddenly was desperate for Soldier Boy's approval? Riiiiggghhhhtttt.
Again. None--none--of it was Jensen's fault. But somehow, it all was! Because....
Because....
What? Because once upon a time, he fucked up and backstabbed part of the Supernatural fandom? I can understand part of the antis and some of the Jensen-Critical's thinking on that, even if I disagree with part of it. But not the rest.
There is zero evidence that he suddenly somehow made Kripke do all this. None. He has not said a single word about this in any convention panels that we've heard and seen. Not in interviews. Kripke hasn't indicated it either.
Is Kripke messing up by trying to tie in Vought Rising in the final season of The Boys? FUCK YES. That's just bad storytelling. It's about the founding of Vought and shouldn't have much tie in. I feel he should've left Bombsight and V1 and those tie-ins in Vought Rising, not in The Boys. Or wrapped it in one episode in a pretty bow. Not prolong it for episode after episode after episode. Seven episodes with very little resolution for a great deal left to do and bad flanderization for so many characters had me wanting to chuck my laptop at the screen.
Even if Jensen did beg for some importance, Kripke is the fucking showrunner. He should've kicked Jensen and said "Fuck no." Period.
So quit with the goddamn Jensen blame and put it where it belongs: on the fucking writers, on their lord and master, Eric Kripke.
Y'know what, let's go back.
I'm told that Kripke wasn't intentionally trying to tie in Vought Rising to the show. I dug up an interview where he said precisely that. (Dated May 4, 2026.)
We can disagree all we want, but that was Kripke's intention. (Supposedly.) So... was he backpedaling because of the complaints? Because of the rising negativity? A mutual and I investigated a bit. My moot found this interview (Dated May 14, 2026):
Translation:
Is this Kripke doing damage control over all the uproar? The only one who'll ever be able to answer that is Kripke. He's the showrunner. He controls the endgame.
Not Jensen.
Showrunners need to be able to complete the game of chicken. The showrunners of Outlander failed that and chickened out. GRRM of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) has an obvious favorite of Jon Snow and is too chicken to kill his darling.
Writers (authors) need to be brave enough to pull the trigger. Do the brave thing. Do it for the substance. Not shock and awe.
It's as though Kripke is using the satire excuse as a shield for bad writing, among other excuses. It's pretentious, it's superficial and, worse of all, it's lazy. It's like he went the path of ouroboros--he went full circle and ended up embarrassing himself.
Eric Kripke says they "want to go deeper, not bigger"
He claimed he wanted to go deeper instead of bigger. But he didn't go deeper. Butcher was shallow. Homelander was pathetic. Soldier Boy was a shadow of his season 3 self. Kimiko wasn't what she used to be. Hughie and Starlight were "WTF?" Mother's Milk was uncharacteristic. I could go on.
Kripke.
The blame goes to Kripke.
I risk sounding like a goddamn broken record at this point. All of them need to quit their behavior and point the blame on Kripke.
top gun is great because tony scott was like “i want to make a movie about sunsets” and the us navy was like “No you’re gonna make recruitment propanganda for the navy” and val kilmer was like “the studio has tricked me, juilliard trained val kilmer, into being here, so i’m going to portray a closeted homosexual” and tom cruise was like “i’m in a ray bans commercial!”
went to a queer literature collection at the museum of edinburgh and was Not expecting klingon condoms in the hiv/aids section. Seven year shelf life (for vulcans) is my favourite part
woah @vaporousvicariousventi i didn't know that that's so interesting :0 french culture is so beautiful and polite, and i really respect how much they all love their mum <3 it's so heartwarming, wish we could be more like them in this country 🙄
Tu as tout à fait bon, c’est pour rester aligné avec les cousins du Québec et leur très coloré vocabulaire dit de « sacrer » ( ils n’insultent pas, ils ne sont pas vulgaire, ils sacrent, c’est un verbe )
Inutile de faire l’exemple mais pour la cause : esti, tabarnak, colice, chris ( après la mère, le fils … ), ciboire, calvaire, ( et toutes variantes avec saint-quelquechose ie: saint-cimonaque )
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