Frothing-at-the-Mouth Lad

Can you imagine one of his second-rate villains being a local truant officer who starts chasing him every time he’s out spider-manning during school hours?  Which is super inconvenient, because he’s only out spider-manning during school hours during real emergencies?  And the officer’s superiors start reading them the riot act because they’re a fucking truant officer, how are they finding themselves in the middle of so many bank robberies and mutant-lizard attacks and supervillain fights? 

But they’re too obsessed to let it go, and their cubicle just turns into this ludicrous wall o’ bonkers with maps of Spider-Man sightings and school schedules and absentee reports and everyone’s like “Ha ha, making any progress yet?” and they’re like “Ten percent of the school-aged population is out on any given day, how does anyone in this city even graduate.”

Like, their quest to narrow the pool of Spider-Man suspects starts generating honest-to-god reductions in missed school days because there have been so many case studies and experiments on how to get kids back in school, leading to even more weird accolades because this officer cares and this officer’s a hero and the officer’s just like “I just need to find out who Spider-Man is, because then I can go yell at his parents because he’s not in school” and that’s why they’re no longer allowed to give speeches when they accept rewards for this stuff.

Then one day they put in for a transfer and everyone’s shocked, because they’ve been so good for the city, they’ve really gone above and beyond, but I guess burn-out had to happen sometime, huh. 

Only it’s because the math says there’s no way in hell Spider-Man could still be in school, so there’s no point in chasing him, he can do whatever he wants during school hours.  And that’s what they lived for for so long that now that it’s gone, their heart’s just not in it anymore. 

Then I went to university in a small city, about 150,000. I went to grad school and spent most of my career in the 4th largest city in the country, and I'm spending the rest of my career in a medium city.

So I can talk about the range.

It turns out that people are just people. The people not in any kind of town are like the people in a small town are like the people in a small city are like the people in a big city. You like some of them, you don't like others, and you don't know some of them at all. Some of the folks you know and some of the strangers will stop in a heartbeat to help you, and some of them will judge you and some of them got their own shit going on and don't have time to pay attention to you at all.

There are things that are nice about living out where there ain't nobody, and there are things that are nice about living where there ain't nothing more'n a ten-minute drive away, and there are things that are nice about living where you have to dodge a mass of humanity to get anywhere. You can pick your own strawberries, buy watermelon off the back of a truck, buy tamales out of a trunk, or order food from the restaurant downstairs run by people with an accent. You can get your hands dirty working anywhere, and you can keep your hands soft and clean anywhere, too. You can be alone driving past truck stops under a sky that never stops, and you can be alone on a crowded subway. You can laugh yourself silly stuffed in a car with six friends trying to make it to the liquor store at the county line before midnight, and you can have an unforgettable time with six friends walking from the museum to the deli past buskers and sidewalk artists.

Everybody gets to love what they love.

K.C. Undercover: dark skinned men, light skinned women. the one dark skinned girl is portrayed as mean, apathetic, sadistic, and cruel.

The Proud Family: dark skinned men, light skinned women. dijonay, the only dark skinned girl, is portrayed as "ghetto" and "rachet" alongside her entire family. and suga mama, who can be argued is dark skinned, is portrayed as mean, cruel, and abusive. additionally, trudy, the mother, comes from an entire family of dark skinned people. yet she herself is portrayed as very much light skinned.

trudy proud's family (left) vs trudy proud (right).

The Hate U Give: the dark skinned main character starr on the cover of the book (left), vs. in the movie, where she is played by amandla stenberg (right); a light skinned biracial actor.

nina simone (singer, left) vs zoe saldana (actress, right), who played her in the 2016 biopic "nina".

stagecoach mary (right) vs zazi beetz (left), who played her in "the harder they fall".

ororo munroe (storm, center) vs the actresses that played her in the x-men movies (alexandra shipp - left, halle berry - right). and alexandra shipp, herself, is also colorist.

monster high: clawdeen wolf (right), vs. the actress that plays her in the upcoming monster high live action movie (miia harris, left). it also appears that they artificially darkened the actress' skin for the role.

strawberry shortcake franchise: orange blossom, who was lightened between her 2003 design (left) and 2009 design (right).

Also the Proto Indo-European root for tongue is cursed and needs to be brought to your attention:

I made this at 1 a.m. and I do not regret it

Every single dad packed into the car:

Your husband and all his coworkers:

This, it turns out, is incorrect. It means "not clement", which was not helpful until I learned that "clement" existed, and what it meant, much, much later.

Also, fuck English very much for having both "in-" for "not" and "in-" for "into, within, tendency", so that you can't know in advance whether "inX" means "especially X" or "not X". Looking directly at you, "inflammable".

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In addition, if you are going to be hosting a larger group of people at your home, if you have any equipment issues with anything in the bathroom, it's good to leave a note next to said equipment warning guests, such as a note on the toilet warning "toilet doesn't flush properly unless you jiggle the handle". Of course it's good to give guests a verbal warning as well, but a note is a good back-up in case you forget to warn them, or they forget what you said after you warned them, or in case someone slips into the bathroom without you noticing before you had a chance to warn them.

Of course, a properly stocked bathroom is important for just ourselves and the people we live with as well. However, it's extra important to take care that your bathroom is properly stocked when having guests over.