strangeexclamations replied to your post: Thoughts on Avengers: End Game
girl, we have such different feelings about a lot of avengers stuff but I totes agree with you re Natasha’s death and the writers clearly not knowing what to do with all the ladies besides, like, grouping them together at one point in the big battle in like pseudo girl power
LOL I wondered what your feelings would be - if you and Josh ever get the chance to meet up in person someday you can gush over mutual Cap feels. ;) But yeah, that pseudo girl power was fun in the moment - though we were laughing because on the way into the theater before the movie we heard a group of guys talking about “the uber feminist scene” and so when that happened were were like THAT WAS IT. But yeah... honestly, as much as I enjoyed the moment itself, it was super annoying because it was really just a form of fanservice given how awful they treated all the women in this film.
21. is there a song you can’t handle listening to, even though you like it?
El Scorcho, Weezer. A boy put it on a mix tape for me approximately 84 years ago and it is mix tape 101 for “I might like you or maybe I just really like this song–have fun figuring this out.” If you’re out there Micah–please go fuck yourself for laughing in my face when I told you I was going to a Dave Matthews Band concert. I was 19 and very dumb and let a pretentious dude tell me what music to listen to because I very much wanted to make out with him. (I did, and then it immediately fell apart SHOCKER)
26. what do you think about genderbent ____ (insert someone here)
I am 100% behind genderbending everything, as my WIP novel will tell you. If anyone has any good recs for Austen genderbent, please let me know because I would read the crap out of that. Now I’m wondering if a genderbent Emma would work and I’ve made the executive decision that it absolutely can.
30. what instrument do you wish you could master?
Piano! If only to play Claire de Lune or basically any Debussey. All I can really play is Heart and Soul and everyone can play that!
I love coworkers in love, fake married/relationship, oh no we have to share this bed for the night, mutual pining, confined space and enemies to lovers
Least favorite: anything with unnecessary melodrama. Not super into mistaken identity or anything too focused on sad stuff as character growth.
2 of yours were answered so here’s a snippet of My Fair Brody:
“You know what would really sell this adorable fake moment in our fake relationship?” he asks.
“What are you thinking?”
“You can totally say no, I won’t be offended.”
“Run it by me first, so I can weigh in.”
He pauses, looking at her. “A fake kiss. Pop the coat collar and we can totally fake it, no tongue. I promise.”
Henrietta swings her arm a little more as they walk, thinking about it. “I’m ok with that, I think. But you would owe me.”
“Owe you what?”
“I’ll figure it out later.”
“Ok. Operation Foggy a go?”
“Do your worst.”
Henrietta pops the collar of the coat, giving them coverage. Eli smiles at her, then leans down, because he’s so stupidly tall. All she can think about is how long his eyelashes are, and how his hand has suddenly closed in on her cheek. She closes the gap between them by getting up on her toes again, brushing her lips just barely against his mouth. They hold the position for a few seconds, Eli dropping his hand to her neck. It’s warm on her skin, and then–
“Oh my god, get a room!” snickers one of the choir girls from up the block.
They pull away a bit awkwardly and start walking again. Henrietta squeezes his hand.
“I think that was pretty convincing, right?” she asks.
Eli looks ahead at the sidewalk, and at the black and dark expanse a few blocks down that can only be the Pacific Ocean. She can’t read his expression in the shadowy gap between street lights.
I ride or die for Celestial Seasonings in all of the Sleepytime varieties, though I am currently drinking their Mint Magic and it has a unicorn and a wizard on the packaging, bless. OG Sleepytime has a Jane Austen quote on it soooooo... they are catering to the Teresa demographic very well
halloween: if you could dress up as anyone/ anything and pull it off absolutely flawlessly, who/what would it be?
My work is having a Halloween party and I have no idea what to dress up as. I did make a raccoon tail during my unemployment crafting fugue state last year, so I want to say trash panda would be the perfect costume for me!
As for people, I have no idea.
scarves: if you could only wear one outfit for the rest of your life what would it be?
My uniform these days is jeans, chucks, dark top, gray sweater. I have 3-4 gray sweaters in various knits and my favorite is the duster-length one with pockets from Old Navy. I work with a bunch of cosmetologists who all wear back so monochrome/neutral is kinda my jam lately, though I’d love some lavender sneakers for a pop of color. I have questionable taste, probably
Hamilton’s “Battle of Yorktown” is pretty stunning—I remember being blown away (heh) in the theater by what the choreography achieved and how perfectly it tied into the music and the production.
“That feeling when your apartment floods for the second time in two...”
Oh no! :( I hope everything gets worked out somehow (and that maybe the rain lets up a bit)!
@strangeexclamations replied to your post “That feeling when your apartment floods for the second time in two...”
Oh nooo!!!
Hah, the sad part is that all the flooding isn’t because of rain (though it feels like it sort of - hence the gif) - it’s a combo of clogged drains and being the bottom apartment in a stack of three.
(I should preface this all by saying that it is through God’s grace that I’m working from home most days right now, so the damage caused by all of this has been relatively minimal in the long run.)
(This got slightly long so I put it under a cut.)
Two weeks ago, I was working at my desk when I heard a suspicious “glub-BLURP” sound from the kitchen sink disposal, and I was immediately like, “...well, that didn’t sound good.*” Especially considering I was hearing water draining through the pipes from the dishwasher in the unit upstairs. (This happened while some dramatic song was playing on Spotify, too, so the panic/dread was even stronger.) I go into the kitchen to discover warm dirty dishwasher just gushing up out of my sink. I had some large (aka gallon-size) mixing bowls, so I started filling them up and then carrying them over to the bathroom and tossing them into the bathtub so it wouldn’t completely flood the kitchen. It took a good half-hour of bailing water (and later having to re-wash all of the clean dishes that had been stacked next to the sink, washing the kitchen floor, and the bathtub) before the crisis was averted and I was able to calm down enough to call the HOA and get a plumber over to come and clean out the drain.
Today, I heard some weird rattling and water sounds coming from the laundry room, and so I open the door to find hot water* (and it was super hot) gushing out from a drain in the floor; since the apartment is at a slight angle, it had spilled over into the bathroom and started soaking into the carpet in the bedroom, since it’s all connected via a hallway. So I grabbed every single towel we had on the shelf in the laundry room - which was like a dozen huge towels (several of ours plus several the landlord had provided for us) and another 15 or so hand towels and washcloths, and just threw them onto the floor to try and start sopping up the water. I could still hear rattling, so I ran upstairs to the neighbors to find out they were replacing the water heater and had dumped all the hot water from the old one down the drain in that unit’s laundry room... and yep, you guessed it, that drain system was also backed up (and was simply not ready for 40+ gallons of hot water to come down), so it came bubbling back up in our laundry room like the water from Hades.
Luckily they had a shop vac, so they came and helped suck up a bunch of the water (they had to empty the container FIVE TIMES) while I picked up all the heavy-ass water-logged towels and dumped them in the tub - because they’d shut off the water to our building to replace that heater, so I couldn’t start washing them all - so they could at least drain out into the tub. The landlord brought a fan by to help dry up the carpet (which is still going), and we called the plumber again. The same guy came again and was like, “Long time no see.” He proceeded to pull out a ton of nasty crap from the drain (and took it out to the dump immediately, which I was grateful for because it was rank), then got it all cleaned and working again, and even fixed up our toilet, which had been running a bit.
As he was leaving, I was like, “No offense, but hopefully I won’t be seeing you any time soon.” He laughed.
So anyway, I’ve been doing a lot of unexpected laundry today, but on the plus side, it’s been a long time since my bathroom floor has been this clean or my towel shelf has been this organized... so I guess it’s basically forced spring cleaning?
*There were a lot more expletives said in both of these moments, I confess.
