Heracleum Mantegazzianum

for all the complaining ppl do about online ads i almost never see anyone put the blame on whos actually responsible: google. the vast majority of ads uve ever seen on the internet went thru the ads by google service

The reason why McConnell is currently ambiguously dead is because KY law was recently amended to state that a vacant senate seat must be filled by a special election, but previously, the duty to fill a vacant senate seat was by appointment of the current governor. The present KY gov is a Democrat, and has the means to challenge the special elections rule in the state supreme court, under the argument that it is unconstitutional to governor's power as outlined in the KY state constitution. So given the risk of a Dem appointee who would become an incumbent to challenge, or a special election race in the middle of the Mamdani Endorsement DemSoc run on congressional seats, McConnell will remain in quantum superposition between life and death until there is no longer a risk of his republican power being challenged.

Out of nowhere YouTube recommended an episode of a cartoon called “‏blame it on hugo!” where the characters travel back in time to meet Victor Hugo and ask him about Les Misérables.

I recently described my second novel's (early) plot outline to a friend and without giving too much away, it's a horror-romance about a woman whose lover is slowly transformed into a dangerous monster due to forces outside of their control. She wrestles with her fear and love, how useful her monstrous lover is in their current survival situation, how dangerous her lover could become, and ultimately at the end of the story decides that monster or not, this is a person that she loves and who loves her back, and goes back to save them from a horrible death.

I'll add an obligatory addendum here which is that I don't think this is an issue with My Friend, who I love, but with the current Media Climate. Subtext is being scraped out of everything, readers and audiences aren't being asked to Think For Themselves or ask questions or mine meaning in the (mainstream!!!) art they're interacting with. I know from personal experience with pitching my first novel that publishers and agents are anxious when story elements are left deliberately ambiguous or without closure. Television shows and films are being written with dialogue that is overly literal, where characters say their thoughts and plans out loud to each other over and over again. Theatre revivals of old shows are having lines changed or added in to clarify what characters mean or how the audience should feel. It is not a flaw in the reader to internalise the structure of stories - that's how canons come to exist! It is, however, critical that storytellers resist this erosion of subtext and overly-precious need to police people's Interpretations of the work.

And Yes, of course I left out a lot of classes of people who deserve anti-doctor guns. Disabled people, trans people, people of color, etc.