The Phantom Link
For the majority of my relationship with Jasmine, I’ve taken to just sending her links to things that I liked or otherwise wanted her to see for some reason. She affectionately called this “junk”, as in “oh, you’re junking me again”, and consequently our private Slack channel wherein I send her links is called #junk. Anyway, it was only relatively recently that I figured I could do the same to a slightly wider audience, so here you go.
“Witzelsucht” - “. . . a set of pure and rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations.”
“Uchchaihshravas” - Hindu mythology is probably my favorite mythology, and only part of it is the fact that it includes things like seven-headed flying horses.
“Medjed” - Egyptian mythology is also good, though I feel like Medjed manages to fail to represent the goodness of the Egyptian gods while nevertheless being good in a very different way.
https://twitter.com/meetissai/status/1092340791232552961 by meetissai - Please look at this person’s works.
“Uncleftish Beholding” by Poul Anderson - An essay written in a hypothetical version of English called “Anglish”.
“Men Writing Women” via Reddit - The way an unfortunate number of men write female characters is sad, funny, and infuriating all at once--especially, I’m sure, if you’re a woman. This Reddit (is... is that how you refer to specific partitions of the website? (ah, Jasmine explained to me it is called a subreddit)) has several examples of this fact, as well as opposing examples of how to write women well. As a male writer, I fully intend to not be so ridiculous (and I think I’m doing all right so far).
“New York City Bus Simulator” played by Vinesauce - A classic.
“I Built an Unethical Zoo Where Nobody Is Safe” by Let's Game It Out - This video is by a guy who plays video games (generally of the sandbox variety), wherein he causes as much chaos as possible. Jasmine discovered this YouTuber kinda randomly, and we’ve been steadily going through his videos, laughing all the way. The video I linked is among my favorites (of the ones we’ve seen so far), but I definitely recommend giving the rest of his stuff a look if you like this sort of thing.
“Is Forces of Destiny Good?” by Jenny Nicholson - If you follow my Twitter, you may have seen me mention this video already. Jenny Nicholson makes insightful and hilarious videos on YouTube that Jasmine and I both watch, often but not exclusively about Star Wars. This particular video, I feel, is an excellent example of how she can talk about something I know basically nothing about and still make it interesting and funny.