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[lesbiancolumbo]

Top 5 Columbo Facial Expressions

i couldn’t narrow this down sorry

[harveydont]

I think you’ve talked about it but I forget: how does your Bruce/Batman keep his facial scar from linking the two personas together?

I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT.  And the one thing is that I just wanted it to be there, and I wanted it to be bigger, so I made it bigger.  If Clark Kent can have his thing of untraceability then Bruce can have his.

That aside, my logic is all public appearances Bruce has a simple latex prosthesis  that I never draw (another to file under: i don’t want to).  Most of those have pretty good durability for eating, drinking, etc, considering a lot of it is film set sfx grade stuff.

[tami-taylors-hair]

Is couples therapy really that much of a relationship red flag, or is it just so in combination with other significant flags? My partner and I have been together for 6+ years are mostly pretty solid, but it’s been nice to have a third party with professional relationship training to help us navigate rough spots.

Oh no, I’m a big proponent of couples therapy, and I even know some folks who started their marriages off by incorporating it in from the start, which I think is great. With that particular example though, to me it’s a red flag if one of the parties is especially young and it’s a short relationship and the therapy is being presented as a quick fix for behaviors that suggest incompatibility. Obviously I don’t know these people, they’re celebrities in a gossip column, so who knows. 

I also honestly think everyone should be in some kind of therapy, but as someone who specializes in adolescents, I’m uncomfortable with couples therapy when the two partners are at two different stages of development. Yes a 21 year old is technically an adult, but there’s still a few more years of baking left for the brain, and therapeutic strategies should address that. That can be difficult when the other partner is a fully developed adult. It’s why joint therapy with parents and children is difficult, and that’s a relationship where power and developmental differentials are supposed to be present.

Anyways, like I said, I don’t know these people, but I think young women need to be more comfortable just breaking up with men when they’re not working out. 

Couples therapy in general is great though, and I’m glad it’s productive for y’all! 

[harveydont]

FINE i’ll READ HOMESTUCK

please don’t. it sucks and it’s not worth it.

[brainstatic]

Speaking of job automation, it's been wild watching the whole Theranos debacle these past few years bc in phlebotomy we kept hearing for the past decade or so about how our jobs were on the verge of being automated/made obsolete and then BAM.

It’s also weird that our Secretary Of Defense was on the Theranos board and very much part of the scam, but we’ve decided not to care because we hope he’ll stage a coup if things got bad enough.

[brainstatic]

oh man, do you have any more of those "what an attack ad on Bernie might look like" ideas? I want more glimpses into this alternate universe where he went through the same level of shit that every other dem running for president had to go through instead of getting the kid-glove treatment, it's so refreshing.

I’ve gotten a couple of these asks, lol. Sure, why not, could be fun. 

The commercial opens on a young couple, around their late 20s or early 30s, looking very tired and standing in line at the DMV. The camera cuts around their exhausted expressions and the slowly ticking clock. The colors are desaturated, the tellers all have indifferent looks on their faces, it’s all miserable. They finally get to the front of the line, the teller coldly hands them a ticket with the number 272 and tells them to have a seat. They plop down and look at the electronic board that says “Now serving number 36.” They sigh and look at each other. The clock spins around, the hours pass, day turns into night. Finally, the board calls number 272. The man stands up first and grabs his wife’s hand. The camera zooms out and reveals that she’s extremely pregnant. As she struggles to her feet, the camera zooms out a little more, and we see the room filled with doctors, nurses, gurneys being wheeled back and forth. It’s not the DMV, it’s a hospital. The colors return to the screen, bringing the whole scene to life as a nurse leads the sleep-deprived couple through a chaotic throng of sick and injured people. Voiceover: “Bernie Sanders’s big government healthcare plan wants to turn your hospital into the DMV. Bernie Sanders: wrong for our health, wrong for our future.”

Is it profoundly dishonest? Totally! Welcome to actual negative campaigning.

[larkandkatydid]

aw man I looked up the bad blood book bc i completely missed the drama until you talked about it and it sounds amazing, but i'm leery of the Men Writing About Women thing. like i know she hijacked the "sexism in tech" narrative to try and shut him up but that doesn't automatically make me trust him enough to wanna risk $14. is he cool?

I’m not actually outraged about his take, because he does focus more on the genuinely terrifying NDA system and remains pretty neutral on what exactly motivated Schultz, Kissinger, Mattis, et. al, to trust her, except for making the gender-neutral theory that they truly believed that she could secure their legacy as men who saved lives.  He also passionately rejects the benevolent sexism and good old fashioned racism behind the bullshit theory that Sunny Balwani is the real mastermind and not another rube. 

But I will eat my face in public if they secure a screenwriter who isn’t a woman and ideally Gillian Flynn.  I want someone who sees her as a Charles Manson, with a cult leader’s eyes that could hypnotize an evil old man who used to rule the world....if she’s Tracy Flick at all, it’s as a mask that ridicules the short-sided imaginations of men. 

[brainstatic]

Re: the "real-life assassins don't need to be trained in killing just look at [assassin of famous assassinated person]", yeah they killed the person, but we know who they are and how they did it. I mean I know Nat and Bucky and such aren't "realistic" but isn't the whole idea of well-trained assassins that we never even find out the person was murdered, or at least never who by?

The assassins-trained-from-birth learn skills like martial arts and dual-wielding pistols, these are not covert methods of murder. Like I said in the post, they don’t learn any special skills that would allow them to escape.