I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together
Examples:
- guy at work “Yes, and -” ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff
- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the “- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*” as loud as possible
- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names
- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change
- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler’s questions like we were on Letterman
The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing
one subtle and under-appreciated aspect of buffy as a show is the ridiculously funny and compelling justification the writers pulled out to explain why school wasn’t canceled when a guy died and how incredibly quickly the grieving process goes for every person in town, which was that given that sunnydale was on a hellmouth, death is as natural as breathing to the residents and thus not something to uproot your life for.
which, first of all, raises so many more questions, like: why does nobody move away? why are people unwilling to accept the existence of vampires when they’ve been surrounded by supernatural activity for years? it’s such a ridiculous way to retroactively explain abnormal behavior and yet despite the logical issues it presents it’s also a very satisfying explanation, somehow.
because, second of all, the utilization of this justification is goddamn hilarious 99% of the time. cordelia asking if xander is going to fifth period immediately after he tells her the world is going to end? oz casually mentioning that the school newspaper has an obituaries page? snyder’s easy acceptance of the fact that the previous principal was eaten alive by wild dogs? the uncanny nature of it produces comedic gold.
but it’s more than funny, it’s.. actively engaging, somehow? maybe because the continued existence of these background children in a world where everything is out to get them obviously caring more about school and their love life than impending doom works really well in conjunction of a story that basically tells you straight up that high school is the real monster? maybe because there’s something uniquely intriguing about the idea that every single day people get murdered or disappear or transform into giant phallic snakes, but your life just keeps happening and you’ve gotta deal? maybe because this unnatural universe just spices up buffy as a show, i don’t know. regardless, it’s something i really appreciate about the show that flies under the radar most of the time.
somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I’m not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
one of my favorite things about witch king is that it starts with the classic fantasy trope of “a wizard awaking an Ancient Horror from a Secret Creepy Tomb, attempting to use it for their own ambitions but accidentally unleashing Terrible Power”
and then the ancient horror turns out to be just some guy who got kidnapped and stuck in there for like, 6 months so he’d be out of the way for a big political summit. like, he’s powerful enough that getting him out of the way required a Secret Creepy Tomb designed to hold Ancient Horrors, but it’s not like he’s been locked there for centuries because of his Terrible Power (as I initially suspected). no, this was literally just to interfere with a political alliance
Just had the absolute worst ever shift at work I think I deserve 1 billion dollars in compensation
Nevermind my day has been fixed
The reviews are in
I need you all to know that he was stanced exactly like in the first pic for like a solid 10 seconds waiting for me as I walked up the driveway and did not start walking towards me to collect his pets until I crouched down
Concept: a woman is holding hands with a robot, and the woman is wearing a shirt that says “I like my women like I like my keyboards” on the front and “mechanical” on the back, over an exploded view of a cherry mx brown keyswitch.
The robot’s shirt says “flesh lover” in the old recaptcha distorted text style. The back has “select all the squares with the cutest girl” and a 3x3 montage of photos of the woman currently holding her right hand.
obligatory Gee, I sure wish robots were shoving their lesbianism down MY throat!
“But WHY won’t you cut all the parts that I don’t like out of your art, so that I, a bigot who hates what you are, can enjoy what you produce in selfish unenlightened comfort, in between bouts of crusading for people like you to be forced to cut all the parts that I don’t like out of yourself? How MEAN.”
I was looking at seagull stickers for my instagram story and I came across seagulls saying supportive things like “You matter! <3” and that’s the first time I’ve gone “He would not fucking say that” over an animal. These birds are fueled by spite. They would yell slurs if they could. Not even the right ones. A seagull would call an old lady a faggot they don’t care
It would be great if someone could compile a list of the indie film and tv companies that are actually complying with union demands, and link to their websites.
The only one I’ve seen anyone talk about is A24, the studio that produced Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): https://a24films.com/
Please add to this list!
Remember, the strike is only against companies that refuse to negotiate. Companies that agree to the unions’ demands are exempt from the strike, and supporting them supports the actors and writers they hire.
me wearily opening twitter: please show me just one nice thing for once
twitter: baldur’s gate 3 lets you fuck a bear
me: you know what? good enough
you know for context initially you weren’t able to fuck the bear but people were so horny over the druid npc (who for context in his normal form is an unreasonably jacked and friendly elf) that the studio threw up its hands and said “fuck it you all are calling him a bear let’s make it legit” and then they showed the vampire twink character getting fucked by the bear on stream and got banned. there’s also a toe sucking scene in the game that they used for promotional material. it’s also got some of the best character writing and encounter design in any RPG I’ve ever played.
I would like to point out the 0.5% not voting for Willie is roughly 124 people. Which is such a small number compared to the 24,556 who voted for the groundskeeper.
According to the comments a good percentage of the 0,5% might be misclicks as well
ETA: also for all the ones who don’t know who groundskeeper willie is dw the man is a working class Scotsman who fights wolves and bears bare-handed. Your vote is in good hands
I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -
Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.
Hi, that is the most metal addition you could have possibly made to this post
For every fathom you descend into the ocean the pressure around you increases. By five fathoms down you’re experiencing two atmospheres of pressure. At about ten fathoms, a human can no longer survive on their own, and must have supplemental oxygen to continue their descent. With specialized diving gear, we can go to perhaps 60 fathoms under our own power. By that depth, even the clearest waters are dark. Perhaps one percent of visible light remains, mostly in the blue range. The water is blues and greys around you, shadowy like the last minutes before nightfall. The water below is darker still, impenetrable. But life still lurks beneath you, in the untold fathoms of the darkest sea, in an environment so hostile even our machines struggle to reach them.
I’m trying something different with this one! If you’d like to see a longer edit with a little more nuance and extra demonstrations, you can find it here.
I’ll be posting more long videos to my Youtube when I can, because I’m trying to get them to officially recognise me as the originator of the videos!
But also, as always, there will be bonus tests and cut content on Patreon this week. Any support is greatly appreciated as it helps me make more videos!
