Mitochondria and Bunnies

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[mitochondriaandbunnies]

The whole "fear of a tumblr implosion" thing made me think maybe I ought to collect and offsite some links to places I may be found, so I made a StrawPage. There's not a lot on there yet other than links but I'll continue to play around with it.

[half-eaten-deodorant]

Napoleon in the background tasting a rock 😭

[thejewellerybox]

Blackberry & Mouse brooch by Bill Skinner

Hand-painted field mouse with gold-plated feet and tail, holding a faux pearl blackberry. £70

[agentbluefox]

“I know what your problem is.” “Is it that easy to tell?”

[agentbluefox]

Several things to appreciate here:

this guy just straight up PLUCKS HIM UP into the air like he weighs nothing

Napoleon just going with it, stunned into silence

the fact that Napoleon never takes his hands out of his pockets through this whole ordeal

[agentbluefox]

Two more additions because I feel they are important for the record

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[dankxsinatra]

[radishforest]

For a little while I was making these dudes (I called them sneefters), but they kept breaking or falling over in the kiln. Maybe sometime I'll try some more that are sitting like the strawberry & crying ones.

[potterspatch]

dinosaur dig bowl, handmade ceramic

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[daytimemin]

KOSA UPDATE 7/10/26: THE SENATE RETURNS FROM BREAK SOON

I got this email from Fight For the Future and it is really helpful in communicating where we currently are in the fight against the KIDS Act and KOSA.

We should be using this time during the Senate's break to be calling, spreading the word, and doing everything we can to push back against these harmful bills. The return from break around July 15th, which is when Cruz said he wanted to consider the bills. So please, call while you can.

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Awesome alligator carpet at the Chloe Hotel in New Orleans.

https://designpulp.net/wanderlust-new-orleans/

[birdandmoon]

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

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i’m going to start a fashion line called FAKEGEEK and its sole purpose will be to produce tshirts that will piss off nerds

[h0ggan]

Ripe bear season

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S1E12: Little Prince

Bits and pieces of a good episode mixed with Rich People Heroin Drama.

GAYETY HAS A SEQUEL. GAYETY 2, HOMOEROTIC BOOGALOO

I have mixed feelings about Little Prince. I think it tells a similar story to Milk Run in a lot of ways, and Milk Run is a really stellar episode and this one is... fine? There's some really good bits (and actually, the little bits of physical comedy in this one are utterly delightful), but every time we go back to Sad Rich Boy Mark and his Awful Rich Father Mark I kind of check out.

Trudy is barefoot on the streets of Miami as this episode opens and like. I get it, girl, I get that you're trying to sell being a junkie, but maybe. Maybe don't do that.

A young Giancarlo Esposito makes the Surprised Pikachu Face when Gina and Trudy pull guns on him.

Rico dives on Sonny as soon as they enter the room with all the dealers, which is very sweet of him, but also like, facing drug dealers is your actual job, so also maybe a little bit of an overreaction

All of this is happening to the tune of Relax by the apocryphal Frankie, which is a song that was banned in its original form from radio because it was too much about gay sex and also banned from MTV in its original video form because it was too much about gay sex

What are we trying to say here, Vice

Also the working title of this episode was apparently White Bread and that kills me dead

When they arrest Mark, Tubbs seems to start playing good cop, except that he's very obviously being sincere. As a character, he has a real soft spot for kids, and is always trying to look for ways to get them out of whatever trouble they've gotten in. Sonny sees him doing this and immediately stops his usual Asshole Cop Who Makes Prison Rape Jokes schtick, looks at Tubbs for a long time, softens, and gives the kid a pen. He's clearly a little ashamed over his prior aggression, and follows Tubbs' lead on just. Y'know. Trying to be a good person.

Then, after Mark is picked up by his lawyers, Sonny has a straight up temper tantrum, and then blatantly changes his tune on the behavior we witnessed only a few seconds before. He straightens up, affects a tough guy attitude, and tells Tubbs it was a "nice touch" by "playin' good cop." Tubbs admits he wasn't "playing," and we know Sonny knows that, because he changed his own behavior in response to it. However, he can't admit that he was also trying to be kinder and more understanding, because he's embarrassed about his outburst and pissed off that his case got pulled out from under him. Sonny has to lie and pretend he's heartless here in order to make any of this acceptable, and he swallows that lie for the rest of the episode.

What, really, is polo

Why do we get like 3 straight minutes of it

Sonny follows Mark around at the polo match looking genuinely predatory-- he looks at Mark like he's a target, not a person. There's remorselessness behind his decision-making here-- he's doubling down on being "the bad cop," and he's so desperate to catch the high level drug dealers that he's willing to destroy Mark over it. (Or, perhaps more accurately, he thinks he's willing to destroy Mark over it.)

The little bits of physical acting as Trudy walks Sonny and Rico around the station cracks me up-- Gina, very gently rolling her eyes as Sonny sits on her desk, Sonny, gesturing like an elderly mobster as he's asked to stand up again, Rico deeply bored. It's cute.

All of the bits with Mark are just so soap opera-y

"I've never noticed.... how white this house is"

"I'm sending you to rehab" / "That's like sending me to jail! I'm not going!"

"Why can't you ever see things from my perspective" / "IT'S TOO DEPRESSING"

*rips shirt off crying to reveal wiretap*

It's fine it's fine it's fine that's all fine writing and not ridiculous melodrama right right right

Trudy attempts to tell Sonny and Rico that you really just can't send Old Money to jail because Lawyers and Rigged System and they're both like : ) : ) : ) but what if we can

Gina resting her chin on Trudy's shoulder so they can both look through the camera is too damn cute

There's a scene where Rico buys a hotdog in order to talk to a hotdog vendor about what he may have seen near a suspicious warehouse, and then immediately throws it away after leaving. I think this is, hilariously, the first indication we get that Tubbs is a vegetarian. Because no one has actually said the V word yet, though, the scene mostly just makes Rico look like a fussy snob who wastes food.

"I thought that being a Jorgenson was enough, something in our blood. Above it all. Above the law." Wow that is uhhh. That is a real blunt thesis re: the power of wealth, there

And then immediately after he says this, Mark Sr. starts crying about how he perpetuated the cycle of abuse and should probably have told his son he loved him or something

I really can't with the Marks Soap Opera

After Mark Sr. is arrested and Mark Jr. disappears, Tubbs starts to ask Sonny if they did the right thing. Sonny blinks, pauses, and lies baldly: yes. It was the right thing. It was "good, routine policework." Both of them know this isn't true, and the worst part is: in the grand scheme of Miami Vice, this episode actually is pretty close to "good, routine policework." They arrest the top guy. There's no bloody shootout. The law... kind of works?

And yet: it's still a lie, and it's the same lie Sonny tells Rico at the beginning of the episode, and the same lie he tells himself at the polo match. The system is corrupt, being a cop means propping up that system, and there will always be collateral damage, even in the cleanest of cases. The thesis of the show is right there from the very beginning-- it should come as no surprise that by season 5 these two men realize that the only moral option is to quit.

Also I am 99% certain that the implication was originally supposed to be that Mark Jr. died of an overdose or something, because there's like a 2-second coda after this conversation where he... gets in a Jeep? And some very obvious dubbing in post where Sonny says something corny like "Maybe now... he'll have a chance." I mean, it's nice that he doesn't die, but he was probably intended to.

This:

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

When I decided to clean up my initial analysis of Little Prince, I wasn't thinking I would have a ton more to say because it's not up there in the high echelons of good Vice episodes. However, I had glossed over a bunch of it in my original accounting, so I did end up having more to add. In particular, I feel like there was more to dig into about Sonny's reaction to what was going on in the episode.

Miami Mini-Analysis: S1E12 Little Prince

Bits and pieces of a good episode mixed with Rich People Drug Drama.

It's still not the episode you should show to people to convince them Vice is good, but there's more depth than the Ridiculous Marks Soap Opera aspects might initial imply.

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble