For The Whimsy And Entropy

the chain reaction a single yawn can cause

the sense to recognize something that looks human but is not quite human (uncanny valley)

getting songs stuck in their heads

the urge to sneeze but being unable to do so

not being able to breathe from laughter sometimes

the reactions caused by tickles

acting fairly casual about pain in their most vital body parts (head)

Now Ryan.

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU ME⁉️⁉️⁉️

yeah for me its like cheese tastes way too much like cheese. kinda like its pretty over powering if you dont add it to something else or if i eat it not all at once

It just tastes weird and I don’t like it :(

Except for Parmesan I could never hate you. I will stuff you into my mouth straight from the bag

And with Back and Fourth arguments I just get so done with it! If the person itching for a fight is so desperate to have the last words I’ll let them have it, they won’t change my mind that way. You gotta find the reason why you’re going back and forth first then we can both talk (same goes for me) bc we’ve figured out why the communication was not happening!

WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU ME⁉️⁉️⁉️

yeah for me its like cheese tastes way too much like cheese. kinda like its pretty over powering if you dont add it to something else or if i eat it not all at once

It just tastes weird and I don’t like it :(

Except for Parmesan I could never hate you. I will stuff you into my mouth straight from the bag

And with Back and Fourth arguments I just get so done with it! If the person itching for a fight is so desperate to have the last words I’ll let them have it, they won’t change my mind that way. You gotta find the reason why you’re going back and forth first then we can both talk (same goes for me) bc we’ve figured out why the communication was not happening!

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].