#samrants

[taurgo]

Like yeah I could nitpick the pjo show to death, or I could respect it for what it's tryna do in bringing the story to a new audience while also rectifying some issues with the original book but imo that energy is best spent on two main criticisms:

1) the episodes are short as fuck so when your trying to exposit in a small amount of time it feels like too much tell vs show

2) the scene transitions are super jarring

[ofcutsandoffire]

I hate when you don't KNOW when a conversation is over like you're texting a lot and then the conversation you were so deeply invested into ends bc the other person suddenly decides it is without any warning or something so you're just left there wanting to talk more but you can't because you know you'll annoy them or make them want to leave you because of how pathetic and clingy you are

[samwrights]

I swear the US is a literal HELLHOLE right now 😤

I can’t believe what this fucking country has come to, nor can I believe that half my family even bothered to immigrate here.

[taurgo]

If we're being totally real, as someone who read the og books and doesn't hold much nostalgia for them, I gotta say the Uglies movie was actually pretty... Decent? Like yeah it's cheesy and it's written like a YA cause it was one of the og YA's but like it's a pretty accurate adaptation, it's cool to see an MC that's not terrible and it was entertaining to see world building that I could only imagine a decade and some change ago.

It's kind of like you got handed a free cheeseburger even though you didn't ask for one cuz it got left out under the heater. Did I ask for it? No but also it's a free cheeseburger.

Also while we're on the subject of adaptations, do you know what I really want to see? House of the Scorpion. That book absolutely wrecked me as a kid.

[taurgo]

Oda could literally draw Yamato with a trans flag in his hand with a speech bubble saying "happy pride fellow lgbts" and 85% of the online op fanbase and subsequent dudebros would STILL do the mental gymnastics to try and muh muh muh their way of using the correct pronouns

[taurgo]

Weird thought #2302: it's an absolute luxury for me to casually enjoy rain. At any other time in history it would be life or death with it's absence, it would shape the paths of cattle or sheep raisers, and getting caught to long in it could be uncomfortable or make you sick. But now we can just thank it when it shows up, run around as it thunders and say goodbye without having to worry about the implications

[taurgo]

Not sure what it is about Gregory Alan Isakov’s music that just drips yearning for something you can’t place but OH MY GOD. It takes me forever to decide if I like a whole album or not but his work with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra is so immaculate like I heard it immediately and just knew I’d love every version of the songs in that track list

[taurgo]

How to psychically communicate to all small business owners over 30 that Facebook does not count as a website for your business