Estelle Tells

How long ago did The Good Place end? I liked how TGP ended.

Good Place ended - brace yourself - in January of 2020

This is by far the most popular post I have and I have to say: good, I’m right. Password sharing and ID verification are going to kill the internet. not oooh in 50 years. in like 5 more.

I loooooove getting rejected. People should reject more. It's the "maybes" and ghosting that's just like too much. A firm but polite "no" is infinitely more respectful of everyone's time and feelings. Can we just do that?

You guys know this is a pretty normal human want and not a special accomdation to be saved for people with autism right?

I don't wanna hear one more anglophone complaining that other languages "aren't written how they're pronounced", your language has almost no consistent pronunciation rules and the few there are were obviously written by the devil himself to spite all the real people (non anglophones)

fucking stunning oh my god fuck this guy

genuinely so fucking inspiring

you can kinda tell when a writer has spent a lot of time around kids bc they avoid most of the pitfalls that come with writing children. namely, not giving them a too cutesy or twee voice but making them sound more like extremely weird little adults. kids playing pretend will almost never cutely slot into some romantic scenario for the adults' benefit bc the adults are usually too busy cleaning up or wondering what the fuck is wrong with their child. kids also have surprisingly stringent hangups ranging from very petty grievances to downright chauvinist gender roles, more often than not the result of a tragic education but sometimes far surpassing what they were taught in intensity. what im saying is there's nothing inherently wrong with treating fictional kids as stock characters but it's always quite nice to see when they aren't

“some people don’t deserve redemption” redemption isn’t something that’s deserved, it’s something someone does. it’s making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what they’ve done. we can’t change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about “deserving.”

[Image in the above post is a tag reading “‘redemption arc’ [is not the same as] forgiveness arc”.]

contrary to popular belief i think calvin's adhd is, funnily enough, medicated. he takes extended release ritalin every morning alongside his chocolate frosted sugar bombs. this is because he appreciates being more easily able to focus on his various Schemes, Projects, and Machinations while more effectively ignoring schoolwork

calvin's dad pulling up to the house and seeing the whole driveway covered in a (completed) snowman recreation of the entire terracotta army and he takes a deep breath and greets calvin's mom with "i see calvin remembered his methylphenidate today"

@copperbadge

We are actually starting to see studies coming out now that, in addition to helping kids with ADHD perform better socially and educationally, stimulant medication possibly is helping kids rewire their brains somewhat, so that they are less dependent on medication as adults. It's early days yet and the medication isn't a magic bullet, but it's really interesting to read about. So not only could Calvin be productively medicated, it's possible he could become a functional adult who's still a big weirdo, which is my favorite interpretation of Calvin as a grownup. :)

Chuck Jones is the best counterexample to “the curtains are just blue” because you would not believe the amount of thought and art theory he put into his silly little cartoons