handsome, hospitable, humane

really funny to meet a genderless alien and make them your gender out of convenience and then fall in love and now you’re gay. you made yourself be gay.

in most cases (ie the left hand of darkness) there’s some amount of gender imagery that is latched on to to justify the arbitrary gendering. in project hail mary he meets a rock and is like this is a boy rock because i’m a boy too :)

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it's time for me to talk about offleash dogs

5) "Oh but my dog is sooo well-trained, there won't be any problems." Every dog owner who unleashes their dog is convinced of the same thing but almost all of them are wrong. I do not care to find out if your dog is the exception to the rule.

6) It doesn't fucking matter if your dog is well-trained and friendly. If it goes near an impulsive, unfriendly dog on a leash, there will be issues. And if it happens to stumble upon a boar with piglets or a scared horse etc, and you aren't close by, that dog is fucked.

a big part of my attachment to orange hephaestus flight suits is just that i find it the most visually interesting option, but there’s something about the carceral implications. when you have it acknowledged that goddard profits from prison labor enough that it’s practically in their introduction - whether your stay is of a scientific, exploratory, or disciplinary nature… - it does seem like something that would be. in line with cutter’s sense of humor. to have the image of orange jumpsuits as a science fiction standard and all the above-board trappings vs. what it visually signals to someone like eiffel, who is well aware he’s trading one prison for another.

I just love love love that there’s a guy wandering about Dungeon Meshi going, ‘but what are the socioeconomic and geopolitical consequences of this fantasy quest adventure, both while it’s ongoing and after its inevitable completion?! The skillset required to find and kill a Mad Mage is different than that required to responsibly, benevolently and effectively rule a kingdom. I personally must either find a good candidate, somehow make one, or, most likely, take on the whole Mageslayer/King role myself.” Except he doesn’t have the first skillset, and his whole party keeps dying while these highly competent chucklefucks wander past, kill and eat the monster, and save their bodies for the nth time. Kabru would demand to know if Aragorn is familiar with Gondorin tax law. His isekai energy is off the charts, because this is all exactly what I would do if dropped into a fantasy quest adventure, right down to repeatedly dying due to not actually being suited to the genre conventions.