a series of bats

people act like this college shit is hard but i used AI to generate me a medical license and have bee ndoing surgery on newborns for 6 months

ocd has you disinfecting your phone and also scrubbing your skin until it falls off

enjoying the response to this post being a mix of "i'm glad my contamination ocd isn't this bad" and "people DON'T disinfect their phones???"

i have to do the dishes tomorrow or they will throw the book at me

i miss the dishwasher so much. he was everything to me. but i got up at 6am and washed all the dishes, cleaned the litter boxes, fed the cats, put away laundry, and vacuumed. no one need anything for a sec, i am convalescing

buster keaton and fatty arbuckle were doing 4th wall breaking meta comedy that poked fun at conventions of story and cinema in cheap gag reels in the 1920s. charlie chaplin was breaking character to address the audience in the 1910s. movie characters have been acknowledging audiences since basically the invention of the medium. so yes I do expect writers and directors to do a little more for credit than discover the concept 100 years later.

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth