He's just checking his email.

I think my favorite thing in Marie Kondo's work is the section in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up where she talks about branding and labels contributing to visual clutter.

She explains that if you go through the whole tidying process and still feel cluttered and anxious in your own home, one thing that might help is looking around to see how much visible text and logos there are in your home. It can make you feel like you're constantly being advertised to, which makes you less comfortable in your living space, because you're basically in a showroom.

She suggests taking labels off of packages, storing items in different containers if you can, and making sure you take every purchase out of its packaging when you bring it home.

I think about that advice a lot when capitalism starts to get to me and I feel like I'm never gonna escape. Taking all the branding and advertising off of things has genuinely helped make my home feel more like my home. Peeling labels off candles, storing envelopes neatly on a shelf in a plain box, putting flour and sugar in canisters instead of leaving them in the bags, creatively covering logos on my tech...it all helps so much. Like, goddamn, it really made me realize just how much we are constantly being advertised to even when we think we're not.

Something something Cerrit getting the HDYWTDT on Vespin. Something something Colin getting the HDYWTDT on Cauliflower/the Avatar. Something something sometimes you're just some guy and you're in combat and you're damn good at combat and the shifty-ass plotters and schemers who have called you friend while working around your morals are dropping and you just gotta Do The Thing, because everything is fucked if you don't.

And you succeed.

been catching up on the children’s’ adventure of worlds beyond number and got extremely emotional to realise that aabria and lou still say “come on provolone” to psych themselves up

I love this, though, because my favorite thing about Superman is he isn’t Batman. I love Batman too, but Superman isn’t a dude who decided to live his life in pursuit of a vendetta against society when he was eight and then just did nothing for the next two decades but get super jacked, become the world’s greatest detective, and memorize every strategy used by every winner in every field of competition in history. Superman is a very good-hearted person who knows how to bale hay, use AP Stylebook, and break meteors into manageable bite-sized pieces by hitting them real hard. And I’m not saying Superman isn’t smart. He’s a bright guy, he’s just not like, one of the celebrated geniuses of the DC Universe. The best thing about Superman is he is basically a normal dude who happens to be orders of magnitude stronger than anyone else. Normal dudes have brain farts. Normal dudes are presented with a life-or-death situation they have less than four seconds to resolve and make a decision that is not optimal. Normal dudes aren’t typically asked to rescue a child from a 10,000 ton machine bearing down on him at 85mph, but if they were, they would probably sometimes panic a little and do dumb shit like ruin a train when they could have just whisked the child to safety.

I think sometimes Superman makes the wrong decision, not necessarily to the result of extreme catastrophe, but something like this, where everyone is standing around clapping and cheering and the kid’s parents are weeping in gratitude and they want to pose for a picture for the 6 o’ clock news with Superman and the conductor, and in the crowd someone is like “Why didn’t he fly the kid out of the way?” and rather than rolling with the fact that the emperor is naked his friend just says “Shut up, Drew, it’s Superman.”

And then, because I also love Batman for very different reasons, I imagine that later on the same day Bruce Wayne gets a phone call and Clark Kent is like “Hey, Wayne, I uh, need a favor.”

“Do you now.”

“Yeah, I, uh, kind of owe the Union Pacific Railroad $60,000.”

“Oh, and why’s that?”

“Come on, don’t do this to me. It was all over the news.”

“I’m prepared to write you a no-strings-attached check for the full amount on the condition that you explain your entire thought process from beginning to end.”

Anyway, that’s why I like Superman.

I think this is very accurate. One time a tree fell on me in the forest and while it would have made more sense to simply jump to the side and avoid it my idiot brain went through the fight-or-flight options and apparently chose fight, so I reached out my hand and caught the tree, then dropped it on the ground beside me. Ended up fracturing my wrist and wondering why the fuck my brain thought that was the best option for survival. I don’t think people are good at really weighing the optimal choices in moments of crisis. 

I love it when media implies that Wizard is a species. I love the idea of a hominid whose place in the ecosystem is to kill shit with lightning.

since the secret that the FDA blackmailed Colin with is that he is the grandson of Lucas Fontina, I guess you can say that Colin was......... grandfathered in

Burning Matches Pt. 2

Adaptation

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This was all written like. Directly after Into the SpiderVerse came out and kind of ignored the ending bumper with Miguel because I didn't know what was coming. So! We're going to say this is an alternate universe of an alternate universe.

Not like it's out of the question LOL

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            Peni Parker was smart. She had learned how to hack into a mainframe when she was six, and she had been making her own mechanical suits since she was eight. Her father’s death had catapulted her headfirst into the role of pilot at nine, her main motivation for creating those suits fading with the sudden realization that the one that she wanted to pilot them would never be able to again. But there was something else that probably made her more dangerous and more efficient than anyone believed she could be:

           Peni was adaptable.

           When given the information that the only one that could use her father’s suit was her, Peni had gone with it. She had allowed the spider-half of the SP//dr CPU to bite her, and in turn she had gained the arachnid’s presence in her own brain…and she had also gained the ability to use the mech. Peni had taken to it like a fish to water and had been operating the mech successfully for five years. She had learned how to use the SP//dr’s own abilities and make them her own, she had learned how to hack those same mainframes when bullets were fired at her, and she had learned how to go with the flow when under constant pressure. It was why when the world suddenly changed around her in a way that pulled her into a swirling vortex of color, she didn’t panic, she instead sought to gain information.

colin and karna being foils of each other in a fucked up little entanglement with deli as they both had to rely on violence and bloodshed to survive the horrific world they were born into and karna is like 10+ years younger than colin so even though she’s grown beyond her years, she still sees the world and wants it to rot away but colin already felt like that. and then grew up and realised that no, he didn’t actually want that he actually just wanted a better world for himself and for people like him. and maybe karna will one day feel like that but she can’t because she’s stuck in this weird too mature and forced to make adult decisions for her age/arrested development where if she truly thinks about what she really wants - puts her blade down for a second, she’ll probably die. so. yeah 

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Tears. Spicy spicy tears.

When your friend has so much himbo spirit he rigs himself a gaydar to be a better wingman.

my man here m a d e his own gaydar. he. he fucking. he made a gaydar. he made a gaydar, thought this through and put together a system specifically to find gays. he made

One of my favorite things about the fight between Colin Provolone and his father is just how childish Colin becomes. One of the reasons him hissing "I'm gonna be your final problem" is so stellar for me is that it is just so unbecomingly petulant. It's very teenager of him despite him not having been a teenager in decades.

He sees his father and, immediately, every single impulse he has is to be a difficult and frustrating child. His father tells him that he was always difficult, and Colin digs his heels in even more. He's going to be a problem on purpose. He is going to be annoying for his father intentionally. It's a little immature, justifiably and wonderfully so.

His rage is very visceral, and one part of it—of many parts, it's a very big and complex emotion—is the messy fury of a hurt child. He's spent so much of his life in fear of this man and under his control; one of the things that sets him off into a rage is seeing his father wield power over others, and Colin circles around violence and fear in even interpersonal ways.

It feels as if there's some part of that rage he is filled with when he sees his father is an old, primal anger that he was never allowed or able to have when he was young. He becomes sharp-tongued, and bad-tempered, and ill-mannered, and irritable. It's such a change of pace from someone who, even when he was much more fearful earlier in the campaign, was very even-tempered, and collected, and grounded. It feels like an anger that finally has space now that he is no longer constantly afraid; that a terrified child is now an angry one. That kind of rage is just so emblematic for many, those in their youth still and now in adulthood, with controlling and abusive parents.

Generally, beginning back in episode 3, Colin feels like someone who is full of a lot of rage that he has not had the space to feel because so much of his emotional carrying capacity has been devoted to fear. It's genuinely really cathartic to watch him be so incandescently angry, especially in a way that can come across a little childish.

Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham," containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago

King Gilgamesh ruled in the 27th century BC and did not have his lover Enkidu die in epic poetry to have people act like being gay was invented 4500 years ago.

birds can be gay which means dinosaurs, do you see where I'm going with this.

I had this work friend at my previous job who was gay. Lovely kid, from a kind of traditional family.

He hadn't told anyone he was gay, because he was scared of being judged. But... thanks to the resident lesbian, he was outed to everyone without his knowledge because she clocked him and asked everyone about it while he was off work.

Everyone then put the clues they'd noticed on their own together rather than what they were doing beforehand, that being remaining blissfully and politely unaware of how his variety of behaviours linked back to him being gay.

Had I already clocked him? Absolutely. But I should not have been told about him, before he chose to come out to me.

This pride month, remember that even in the most accepting of environments, even if you personally feel comfortable being out where you are, that doesnt mean someone else around you is too. Do not assume that someone is comfortable with everyone knowing, or that everyone knows.

Because we might not have known. That person might not have told us yet. We might have been politely ignoring the signs because we didn't want to assume.

It's not your place to tell everyone someone else's business.

It’s funny to me that I’ve met people named Grace, Faith, Patience and Chastity. It is so funny that Puritan names have survived so long and are still so popular if you take a step back and think about it. She’s getting Starbucks today and accusing a townsperson of witchcraft tomorrow.

AND DESTINY, I’ve met so many Destinys.

Nobody even chooses the COOL Puritan names like Punishment, Humiliation, Refuge, Relief, Obedience. And it’s always girls getting Puritan names nowadays. When am I going to see a baby boy named Submit To His Will.

Thats the name of an ex-fundamentalist kinky gay if ever I heard one

kinky evil former Puritan vampire

i found out i had a quaker cousin from the 1600s named Wrestling. as in, from the torah, Jacob’s wrestling with an angel. She also had a brother named Repentance and one of her sisters was named Fear.

Absolutely losing my mind over Love, Patience, Fear, Wrestling and fucking Jonathan

In the Defense of Saw Gerrera......

Ever since I've rejoined the fandom few years ago, my blog gets notice for a lot of pro-Jedi arguments and sentiments but I don't always get the time to talk about another character in the franchise who gets grossly mishandled by fans: Saw Gerrera.

A lot of fans like to prop up his character as a showcase of "extremism" that makes the Rebels not the quissitessinal good guys and vindicate the Empire, giving them a legitamate reason why they do what they do.

Today, I'm going to call out some things I believe are important to remember about the character.

I’m so obsessed over Yussa being revealed as trans immediately after the reveal that he fucked around and got his soul trapped in the astral plane with the sentient mind-eating city. Like he is trans and content in his identity which is fully acknowledged by the world at large! Unfortunately he is also a wizard and there’s not much we can do to help him with that