pun is better than derfect

A lot of people’s idea of “California” is just Los Angeles and also I think specifically the rich parts of Los Angeles

As a European, my idea of “California” is honestly just. Warm America. With beach? I think?

There’s cold rainforests and snowy mountains there

What's funny is "warm America with beach" works pretty well for about 20% of US states, California just mostly isn't one of them.

Man, all the other dialogueless-indie-platformer-where-you-walk-from-left-to-right-as-things-get-increasingly-fucked-up protagonists get cool intros. All busting out of glass tubes and falling from the sky into huge piles of corpses and such. I just wandered on screen looking vaguely lost.

Sure, but spare a thought for the lady whose day started with falling into a huge pile of corpses and went downhill from there.

I think it’s mentioned in HtN that thanergetic conversion of a planet kills everything down to the microbes so it’s very possible that rot simply doesn’t happen in a normal decomposition-style way (I don’t think the ‘bad way’ that harrow’s parents are in is ever actually elaborated upon) and the closest thing I can think of to rot is actually the Ninth Zombies from the end of NtN

It's interesting that in GtN, most of that language is reserved for Canaan House itself--it's rotting all over the place.

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

When folks talk about male characters who are difficult to gender-bend while keeping their whole Deal intact because the deal in question is specifically About Masculinity, they're usually imagining a character who embodies some sort of sober commentary on the nature of patriarchal violence or whatnot. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to picture what a thematically coherent girl version of Flex Mentallo could possibly entail.

If the core of Flex is "mysticism grounded in 1920s US advertising," I propose Listerina Bridesmaid, for whom cleaniliness is the source of all power.

The idea of advertising construed as a form of occult ritual is a big part of it, yeah. Then you've got the culture of male body worship, institutionalised child abuse as a mechanism of enforcing patriarchal value systems, the paradox of being expected to bend one's every effort toward the successful performance of heterosexual masculinity while simultaneously being forbidden to acknowledge that you're doing so because if you need to try that makes you a faggot (which might not come across very clearly if you're only familiar with the TV show version of the character, but the queer-coding of the comic book version is pretty stark!), plus all the MK ULTRA shit on top of that.

When folks talk about male characters who are difficult to gender-bend while keeping their whole Deal intact because the deal in question is specifically About Masculinity, they're usually imagining a character who embodies some sort of sober commentary on the nature of patriarchal violence or whatnot. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to picture what a thematically coherent girl version of Flex Mentallo could possibly entail.

If the core of Flex is "mysticism grounded in 1920s US advertising," I propose Listerina Bridesmaid, for whom cleaniliness is the source of all power.

The idea of advertising construed as a form of occult ritual is a big part of it, yeah. Then you've got the culture of male body worship, institutionalised child abuse as a mechanism of enforcing patriarchal value systems, the paradox of being expected to bend one's every effort toward the successful performance of heterosexual masculinity while simultaneously being forbidden to acknowledge that you're doing so because if you need to try that makes you a faggot (which might not come across very clearly if you're only familiar with the TV show version of the character, but the queer-coding of the comic book version is pretty stark!), plus all the MK ULTRA shit on top of that.

When folks talk about male characters who are difficult to gender-bend while keeping their whole Deal intact because the deal in question is specifically About Masculinity, they're usually imagining a character who embodies some sort of sober commentary on the nature of patriarchal violence or whatnot. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to picture what a thematically coherent girl version of Flex Mentallo could possibly entail.

If the core of Flex is "mysticism grounded in 1920s US advertising," I propose Listerina Bridesmaid, for whom cleaniliness is the source of all power.

Unpopular opinion but literally not one person in the world should have their human rights violated

If one person's rights can be waved away, so can yours

yes, even those people.