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Nate's attitude towards the victims in the wedding job has so many fun layers once we find out his dad was the fall guy for the irish mob.

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

not a hot take by any means but nobody fucks with the library enough

not just for the genuine physical library but like. you know that you can use Kanopy for free with a library card right? it frequently has new films but also a huge collection of non-U.S. films and classic movies. I watched A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and But I'm a Cheerleader in the same day. you can stream essentially any music and a ton of TV shows on Hoopla? both have smartphone apps. and it costs you nothing. I'm currently streaming Kehlani after listening to a Glenn Miller Orchestra compilation album while I did chores this morning and the first thing that pops up when you open the app is the new Olivia Rodrigo album. The entirety of Dr. Who is available on there rn. I have an audiobook checked out that I listen to in the car. my neighborhood branch had a conservation scientist come in with live bats and gave a free all ages lecture about them. most library's have museum passes you can rent with your library card for up to like 4-6 people. get a freakin library card

Stephen King rightly gets a lot of shit for frequently having his characters think and speak in pop culture references that only make sense if you spent your formative years in 1970s Maine, but I feel like articulating that particular criticism on Tumblr is something of a glass-houses situation.

Like, yeah, King will have literal space aliens making pop culture references that only old men from small-town Maine would plausibly make; however, I have seen the kinds of novels that people who spent their twenties on Tumblr write, and there is also a very definite sense of time and place.

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

can we focus on the gnome for a second

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

these are the people i have to share a highway with

WHAT IS THE POINT OF INVENTING FAKE PEOPLE IF YOU CAN'T GIVE THEM TRAUMA?

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

anyway i looked at that radfem's blog some and the conclusion i have come to is that basically every single queer issue is bodily autonomy with a different coat of paint on it and radfems, who are in theory big on bodily autonomy, oppose this because they're dork losers with no principles or critical thinking skills. which does line up with my pre-existing expectations of them i will say

Kris is canonically agender and transneutral actually.