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Ritsu: “I’m so sorry…”

“I’m really…”

“It’s no use. I can’t move my head anymore.”

Takano: “Onodera,”

*grab*

“It’s fine already. For now, just hurry up and get better.”

Takano-san, that’s not possible when we haven’t even talked yet.

Yet still, you hold my hand so tenderly.

no sadness 2019

no fake love 2019

no hate 2019

no depression 2019

hydrated 2019

full of love 2019

healthy lifestyle 2019

1) We don’t want to talk to you.

2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.

3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?

But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.

And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.

Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?

Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.

EDIT

It was sad when Stan Lee died, because he created a rich universe for everyone to imagine good people running around, saving the day in, but Spongebob seasons 1-3 were closer to my own heart because they really were something else.

They were silly and light hearted, but evoked this sense of being weirdly realistic too.

I mean, how iconic are spongebob memes?

How relatable are they, that screenshots and stills and references to old quotes can create a whole new linguistic communication for teens and young adults? 

Listen, we can joke about memes being trash all day, but memes possess raw cultural energy.

people use these formats to express in easy-to-understand ways their life experiences and even political views.

Memes are a part of people’s lives, nowadays, or at least, the younger generations that grew up in this digital culture that’s taken over their lives. 

And spongebob was just so delightful. 

Had so many memorable moments. 

So many good quotes, and they don’t have to be deep. they just have to be simple. 

“I’m ugly and I’m proud.”

“Is this the krusty krab?” “no this is patrick.”

“We did it, Patrick, we saved the city!”

“The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!”

“the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”

The iconic marching band moment.

am i positive that all of these moments are from hillenburg’s spongebob- well no. I honestly don’t remember. 

but it doesn’t matter, because spongebob is a cultural icon, and the show exists thanks to stephen hillenburg’s wonderful direction.

So thank you, Stephen.