I Just Really Love Shadow

one of the best parts of making up increasingly wild and specific aus with a friend is sending them posts like "this is sooo blorbo in torture chamber au number 15" and they reply back like "YESSS btw have i told you about my latest idea for how to torture them even more" and you get to enjoy a little snack and kick your feet with glee

now that's a friend indeed

"Ignore the long Elmo" no I don't think I will

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

if you have to rely on specific scripts or turns of phrase to socialise that's totally fine, but you must NOT reveal them to your friends while slightly drunk. it's like showing how the magic trick works, you can't do it in front of them afterwards

i like dogs a lot but i can never remember the differences between breeds (apart from the few types i've actually owned/interacted with). but i know people looove their dogs and love talking about their dogs, so whenever im talking to a dog owner i'll ask what breed it is, and no matter what breed they say i'll say "oh! i've heard they have a really nice nature :D" and they always go YESSS THEY'RE GREAT and start gushing about their dog and we have a nice conversation and i build social credit with this person. anyway i told my friends about this script a few weeks ago when slightly drunk and now every time we're in public together and a dog goes past they turn to me and ask "does that one have a nice nature?" im in a hell of my own making

Sometimes I'm like "Ryland Grace is important #representation for those of us whose dissertations are kind of stupid and bad" and while I am mostly joking, I'm serious when I say it's actually really important to me that he was not proven right. His theories about non-water-based life did not pan out and were never vindicated. ("The Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots" is also clearly in support of this argument, it's not a standalone argument about life in extreme temperature ranges, it immediately registered to me as part of the "you are being limited by your reliance on imagining water-based life" argument, Eridians living at superheated ammonia temperatures does not really "prove him right".) Like obviously you can't prove a negative, of course - there's no way to know if there is or isn't some other non-water-based life out there - but he was not proven right. He was not vindicated in the Eyes of Science. And he keeps discovering cool new things anyway. You live and you learn and you're not always right and That's Fine. Your life is what you make it. You don't have to be married to the One Big Idea you had in grad school. And sometimes you're not right the first time but that doesn't have to be the end of it all for you. Sulking about it does not make you happy or fulfilled, exploring new things makes you happy and fulfilled. And there are always new things to learn. Moving on, exploring new things and being open to new experiences, that's the way to live.

i fucking love when halloween music is just surf rock with a ghoul laughing in the background

i love me some scooby doo ass music