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She's perfect in every way, I don't make the rules.

Insane whiplash that two of my favorite characters that I love dearly are both the sweetest and coolest woman who ever lived, who I would date IRL if I even had the REMOTE capacity to be in her league ever, she's too cool for me, I wouldn't stand a chance LOL /j 🤣...and the impulsive little shit who tried to kill her that belongs in federal prison that I would fight in a Waffle House parking lot lmaoooo. What a life 😭💀🥀 /silly /aff

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Not to yap about jwcc's most hated guy at noon on a Tuesday during my lunch break, but I was watching S4 again the other night for references for my Kash shitpost and I feel like gabbing my opinions about him and how Darius dealt with his bullshit so here we go.

I honestly did not find Kash to be very intimidating compared to how manipulative and cunning Daniel was. (maybe I'm biased because Daniel's covert narcissism and manipulation tactics remind me HEAVILY of one of my family members that traumatized me, but I'm not unpacking that right now, this ain't about them lmaooo). An opinion that will get me sent to directly to hell same day shipping, but I honestly enjoyed Kash and his cartoonish villainy and loser ragebaiting because he felt very plausibly real. Frankly, I think he wouldn't be tough shit at all if someone just took his iPad and locked him outside the compound, he'd just be an angry child throwing a hissy fit until the raptors got him. Please don't beat me up y'all, me liking him is not that serious lol, he is just a loud, angry iPad kid to me and I enjoy how pathetic he is and how he pretends that he isn't. I enjoy a loser asshole character who sucks and is someone I feel I could easily ragebait and get on their nerves if I could lmaoooo. Don't get me wrong, Kash was absolutely a violent and horrible person and I'm not AT ALL an apologist for the shit he did, I don't think anybody is, and I don't doubt he could throw a mean punch if it came down to it, but it was immediately clear to me he had no intentions of ever getting his hands dirty directly and only ever used his tech to do his dirty work. I feel like as much he threatened Darius, he never directly planned to lay hands on him (yeah yeah also because it's technically a kids show and they wouldn't allow it, but I digress, it still makes sense for his character tbh) and it was always entirely indirect actions and threats, for example, claiming he'd feed Darius to a dinosaur or sending the BRADs and raptors after Mae to make it look like an accident. All indirect actions to avoid direct accountability and if he ever did anything more intense than crashing out at his desk he'd always have the BRADs do it for him.

I feel like as scared as Darius was to be in that situation, he actually picked up on this about him and knew he could tease Kash here and there and get under his skin just enough to hold his own without risking a left hook and seemed more annoyed with Kash than completely afraid of him. I feel like he knew Kash didn't have the guts to actually hurt him directly himself without one of the BRADs to do it for him and would instead take his anger out on his inanimate objects he threw around the room like the immature child he is. Darius kept it just casual enough to piss him off and remain kind of chummy and not push him too far to make him actually take measures to have him killed. Darius handled him extremely well especially given he was 12-13 and had no experience dealing with anyone like him before as far as we know. He kept calm, didn't give Kash the fear reaction he wanted from his intimidation tactics and knew just the right buttons to push to keep the upper hand, feed his ego and keep him civil, or as civil as Kash could manage to be. I don't doubt Darius has some lasting trauma from the whole ordeal, but he handled it with incredible skill given the circumstances.

Kash to me was all bark and no bite. I have had similar people in my life who would tear apart and destroy inanimate objects if it pissed them off and yell or get in my face and make a big scene but would never lay hands on me at any point in the years and years I knew them and it's literally like watching an adult child throw a temper tantrum and becomes far less intimidating over time because you know they’re literally just a weenie and don't have the guts to actually hit you because they don't want to face the consequences of doing so. They're destructive, but only to their own detriment. They don't like being held accountable. They think flipping out like a psychopath will be enough intimidation to get what they want because oftentimes in the past it has worked on others and they will try to find other indirect ways to cause damage or have someone else do it for them entirely to avoid any direct accountability coming back to them. By remaining calm in that situation, they lose the power they thought they had over you by acting crazy and Darius did a genuinely good job keeping his cool for the most part and it worked very well to his advantage. If Kash didn't have the BRADs, I don't think he'd have ever had the guts to try and kill anybody, like actually, because he'd be too afraid of getting caught or looking bad. It's all about the ego.

Judging by how surprised he looked to see Mae's torn up coat, I don't think he'd ever actually killed/tried to kill anyone before then and was shocked and satisfied that it worked and could be easily played off as a tragic accident to avoid getting in trouble with Daniel for being impulsive and I think it put him on even more of a power trip going forward and gave him a false sense of security with how he treated Darius and when he eventually attempted to kill Daniel twice because he got away with it once and thought himself untouchable. Though he was quickly disappointed when the false egotistical narrative he created in his mind came back to bite him because he wasn't the smartest person in the room like he thought he was. Before then, Mae even said herself that he was a “harmless blowhard” so I don't think he'd ever actually done anything that serious up until that point and kind of got off on it when he thought it worked and it made him feel powerful.

I definitely clock him as having some kind of personality disorder or something along those lines given how unstable he is, that he probably had meds for and just stopped taking them because he liked how powerful he felt without any regulation on his emotions and couldn't stand to look inwards to actually heal and instead chose to become worse lol but that's a theory. Not to psychoanalyze this dude that nobody in this fandom even gives a second thought about, I'm like maybe 1 of probably 3 people who actually enjoyed his stupid ass at all and I really don't think the writers even thought that far or cared as he was kind of a two-dimensional villain in writing, but I always enjoy analyzing the deranged freaks from the shows I watch to try to figure out wtf this guy's deal is whether I enjoyed the character or not. Kash pissed me off severely but I think that's why I enjoyed him lmao. I always gravitate towards characters who are annoying as hell, I don't know why that is 💀. I do also think Sammy should've been allowed to get at least one solid punch in and knocked his ass clean out, I hoped and prayed it would happen, but alas, I'll have to draw it myself lollll. Daniel is about to be next on the villain analysis chopping block whenever I get around to it, it's just Kash hours right now unfortunately for everyone involved lol. Insane how I couldn't deal with writing a 1k word essay for University, but I can write one analyzing and yapping about the fandom's most hated guy that I unfortunately enjoy for some reason lolll. Absolutely bonkers and incredibly cringe of me, but alas we ball. ✌️

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In my mind I imagine the evil cubes have the texture of a Lucky Charms marshmallow and I have the intense urge to eat one. I know the cronch would scratch an itch in my brain.

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Idk who needs to hear this, but blaming Glitch for the fandom potentially being disrespectful about spoilers for an early release is bonkers. The behavior of the masses is literally not their fault. The fandom is not their employees. If they had released it in theaters at the same time as the free YouTube release less people/nobody would even go and the theater wouldn't even bother hosting it at that point. This is not the first time an early release like this has happened and it's always up to the contractual agreement they have with theaters when it gets released because theaters are dying right now from lack of traffic so it's up to them how it works. Glitch literally discussed that this morning also. This is not unheard of at all and "boycotting" an indie company because you're afraid of POTENTIAL issues within the fandom POTENTIALLY being disrespectful about spoilers which is entirely out of their control is fucking ridiculous and immature, I'm sorry. The fandom is not their employees. The issue is people in the fanbase, not the creator. This is no different than if any other movie came out and you weren't able to see the premiere because it was sold out and had to wait a week or two to get into the theater or you wanted to wait to see it with a friend on a weekend they didn't have work. The timeline of the wait is exactly the fucking same, this is no different other than in format. Idk why it's so hard for people to wrap their minds around that. I understand being frustrated and worried about spoilers, but I just don't understand why we're "boycotting" a small indie company for an issue out of their control and not large corporations like Disney for their morally questionable corporate shit they've done as well as their nostalgiaslop live action bullshit we're all fed up with, but that's none of my business I guess. 🙄

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In other positive news, I was able to meet up with this paleontologist I know yesterday at my local fossil convention and he invited me and any friends I want to join me to do volunteer work in the fossil lab he works at with his team on the other side of the state and teach me all the lab processes of fossil restoration and I'm absolutely going to take him up on it soon, I'm absolutely STOKED!! I am desperate to do fossil lab work and actually do real paleontology work other than just reading and writing. I'm hoping that I can make good connections and get my foot in the door to eventually do it for museums and stuff in the future. It would be an absolute dream to be involved!!!! I'm so excited!!!! Here are some of the fossils I bought off him last year and yesterday haha. The top is a Gorgosaurus libratus radial bone (my favorite dinosaur <3) the other two are teeth he found and restored himself. The Tyrannosaur tooth is likely Gorgosaurus, Albertosaurus or Daspletosaurus as those are the three tyrannosaurs of Judith river, but it's hard to fully ID some tyrannosaur teeth if there's no definitive bones around to be positive so it's one of those 3 guys, all who are favorites of mine anyway haha. 😆 The difference in coloration are due to where the teeth were in the soil and the type of soils in the area. The allosaurus tooth was deeper in the ground and the tyrannosaur was closer to the surface! It's super fascinating to me!

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Coworkers convinced me to go with them to Cici's Pizza after 14 years since I last set foot in one. I am regretting my life choices. My stomach feels like a bag of gravel.

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Went on a sidequest today! I spent like 6 hours in the river sifting for fossils and then walked up this creek and found a couple more nice ones and a modern skeleton of something, idk what, it was damaged and it was kinda yucky so I left it alone. A herd of deer ran through the creek while I was down there and scared the hell out of me but I apparently scared them too and they all stared at me before hauling ass. It was honestly super majestic, the creek was gorgeous and a herd of deer in the dappled light made it even better haha. It was beautiful out today and I am so damn tired. My arms hurt from carrying my heavy equipment for nearly a mile through the woods and back and shoveling all day lmaooo. I didn't find a lot of big stuff today but I did find some cool smaller things I'll show you all later. Cut my finger tip on a piece of glass also lol. It wasn't deep or bad or anything, just stung and bled like crazy for like two min but it's fine now. Glad my tetanus shot was up to date 🤣 I am so excited for a hot shower.

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My coworker wanted me to bring her a couple cherry shrimp from my tank for her tank today and she forgot to tell me she swapped her day in the office last minute yesterday for a meeting she has tomorrow so I just have a bag of shrimp and moss on my desk that I took on a random field trip today for no reason. 🤣 My other coworkers and my boss are extremely delighted by them and keep stopping by to see them. It's so funny to me.