rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts
Consider that, to Eridians, a pumpkin covered in peanutbutter has to sound like some insane weird fetish thing. Rumours that Rocky's cradle-snatched alien trophy wife is now requesting food-stuffs that are covered in other messier foodstuffs does not improve either of their reputations.
Grace's enrichment now includes translated excerpts from Eridian gossip mags, because Rocky finds his reactions hilarious.
im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.
can i be an overly woke hater for a second? i REALLY don't vibe with the idea of alastor seeing rosie as a mother figure.
like ngl, i find it really fun in fics and stuff, especially as an oedipus thing, but as an actual interpretation of the show... my black heart just cannot.
strap in for an interpretation of radiorose through a black lens:
rosie calls him an animal, says he's part of her zoo, and understates the racism of his era to just "so much", his murderous retaliation and bloodlust born of trauma as being "a bit naughty". she calls the powerful whites in jim crow deep south usa "yuppy".
what the actual FUCK is she talking about "yuppy"??? if her implication is that these fuckers were getting by on generational wealth, that wealth is from literal slavery... but she wants to whitewash that down to a modern term, so far removed from it. kay.
and is 'young' ever even a thought when you look at those mfs?!!?!?! or is the first thing you notice how they look like they wanna fucking kill the young buck 💀?
and this idea that he 'got mistaken for a deer'...
SAYS FUCKING HER????
unless the guy explicitly said it out loud, that's a such a shark jump to a conclusion. whatever the reason is for him getting shot, it's that alastor's humanity went unrecognised, just as it did every fucking day in life. but rosie literally thinks of him as interchangeable with an animal. she genuinely thinks that it's that easy to 'mistake' a human being for an animal. and she's fucking pissing herself laughing IN HIS FACE about it.
also can i tell you guys, there is another meaning to "buck". and yeahhhh, it's a racist one. from alastor's time period.
a buck: a racist stereotype of black men being dangerous predators to white women, used to 'justify' lynching. and rosie thinks he's easily mistaken for a deer. she makes a joke about alastor sexually preying on charlie in her first fucking scene???? and ohhh isn't she always going on about how he's such a "charmerrr", meanwhile, people are up on velvette's stream calling him greasy. why does she have to make her slick little comment on his asexuality? man, NOBODY else gives this much of a shit about his appearance and sexuality in the show. i don't even think vox cares this much 💀.
and alastor feels the need to dress up in his pink little valentine's number and bring her a bouquet of roses just so that she'll serve him as owed.
also she says that alastor could learn some manners from charlie. what????? alastor is one of those dapper ass "manners maketh man" types, to the point that we were all SHOOK when he said "fuck" for the first time. but rosie thinks alastor needs to better know his place, that he's rough around the edges, that he's a fucking animal, looks like a buck and that's exactly why he died... kay.
cracker.
"i'm not your pet, you lousy cracker," it was on the tip of his tongue. hypocritically, perhaps, but entirely understandable besides that. she is suffocating, and this is how he sees her.
slavery's over, there's no jim crow in hell, and earth has moved past it, but alastor fucked himself into having to eternally call this woman his master.
alastor's ultimate goal is to have fun. he was legally not allowed to party just wherever, however, with whoever he wanted to and with the dignity he deserved. he was forbidden from taking the kind of pleasure out of life that any human being should've had the EQUAL right to seek.
and he explicitly told rosie that was what he wanted – to be free to have fun as he pleased. but she just continues to dehumanise him and keep him on an immortal leash.
he's pissed at himself for getting wrapped up in this. that's why he doesn't even argue with her framing of things, because at the end of the day, it was him who did everything he could to bring this on, bastardising and appropriating black spirituality to do so. he's the one that fucked it, and ended up with rosie instead of a deity of vodun, an orisha, his black ancestors, or literally any entity that would come to aid him in the struggle.
he wants to be treated like a fucking human being. he wants to make good on the fun he lost out on because society failed to recognise his right to live his life.
and i'm supposed to think he sees this woman as his mother.
allegedly alastor was a momma's boy, so he LOVED his mum, right? and this woman dehumanising him and very happy to remind him of that is on par with his flesh and blood, womb for the growth, milk for the nuture, mother?
when he really needs rosie's help to fucking heal the gash in his fucking CHEST, put there by the greatest powers that be, she calls him an animal, and tells him to fuck off... this resembles the mother he adored so much? who is also presumably in HEAVEN??
unless the show goes out of its way, this headcanon is NEVER running in this house, i hate to tell ya.
maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.
you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.
a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.
every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.
the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.
some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.
you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.
A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index
there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.
I love going trough the notes every time bc there’s always someone in the notes insisting we’re all mean and that you can just wear thick dish gloves over your fake nails as if I wouldn’t assume you’re going to Patrick Bateman my ass if you walked into the bedroom with claws and yellow rubber gloves
Imagine being Lucifer, known as the most powerful being in hell, and despite not being able to harm sinners you don't really TELL anyone that.
And so you come out of retirement to help your daughter and try to use your clout to help her, only to meet the two most obnoxious sinners in a ROW who immediately just clown on you. And you can't even DO anything about it.
Like this man literally showed up and tried to throw his weight around only for some radio deer to dump a piano on his head, and then when he tries AGAIN some fucking television makes fun of his hat.
AND THEN YOU GET KIDNAPPED AND REALIZE THEY FUCKING KNOW EACH OTHER.
I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.
#IM SORRY THEY DO HOME FUCKING WORK IN ANIMORPHS??????
Yeah they're students. If they don't keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they're like "okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it'll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we'll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others' houses. It's gonna have to be done at the last minute because we've gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now."
These have been out of print for an age, and the authors have given their blessings to share the PDFs. Here's everything, including companion/side books and the non-canon Alternamorphs books, in reading order:
All of the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate, as well as the other books set in that universe. I got them here. I am not the one who collec
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
I'm sorry to let you know that 100,000,001 (one hundred million and one) is divisible by 17 and because of that, so is every 16-digit number that is four digits repeated four times e.g. 1234123412341234
