A life without whimsy is a life misspent

The Creature 🤩🤩🤩🤩

One of my parents' new cats is not interested in laps, but she did sit on my dad's lap for a while when he sat in Her Chair. So I sat in Her Chair and sure enough, she graced my lap for like 10 minutes. However I could not tell if she was enjoying the lap experience at all or merely tolerating me as an additional layer between her and Her Chair. I received a definitive answer a few hours later when I happened to be passing by the chair and she zoomed over and hopped onto it in a posture I can only describe as defensive.

I got a paragraph in and went, "oh, fuck you."

Chorus: THEY CANNOT STAND THE PARODIES OF "MODERN MAJOR GENERAL!"

Book Rocky is so, so chewy because he's this deeply logical genius who doesn't let his emotions make choices for him (or so he tells himself, because it ends up being very easy to find a cold hard reason to do most everything he does), and doesn't like to linger on what he's been through even though it keeps making its way into casual conversation, and is so blase about experiencing the closest thing to hell his home planet has probably ever heard of but also so clearly traumatized and terrified and haunted but there's still the mission, and there's still the possibility of getting home with a solution so he has to keep himself together and be level headed and calculating and he does that. he does that very well. But then there are moments, like Adrian and the oxygen and Grace missing their timings and the leak and the tunnel and realizing that one of them has to die, where it slips, and he breaks, and he can't make it make sense it a way that's detatched from him and his pain and his fear and his love, and he acts on them. And it nearly kills him every time, because he should know by now that space doesn't care about anything but logic, but he forgot that for a moment among the blaring alarms and the deafening pound of Grace's heartbeat and the searing smoking cold and the silence and the silence that was all he knew for so many years, and it doesn't matter that he's been holding everything together for decades, because one mistake is all it takes, one bad risk, one terrified impulse, to undo everything.

#HE'S LITERALLYYYYYYYY HOLDING ON BY THE TINIEST HAIR BUT BY GOD HE HOLDS IT#and the counterweight to that tension is loyalty and duty and the counterweight to that tension is guilt and SHAME!!!!#cataclysmic amounts of shame if he ever actually let himself lose control#guy who recoils from open displays of sympathy. guy who would snap “don't PITY me” if he was holding himself this👌much less in check#GUY WHO CANONICALLY PUNCHES WALLS IN ANGER. IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT BOOK ROCKY PUNCHES WALLS IN ANGER

8/5/2020

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

He did her right

One of the hottest controversy of the month

I’ve seen this post a bunch and never once did I consider a scenario where it wasn’t about a woman.

HE *DID* DO HER RIGHT!