Rabbit Cube

Harry Du Bois?

I know a boss fight arena when I see one.

this post has been popping up in my notes again and yet still nobody seems to have noticed that i accidentally referred to percy shelley as mary shelley’s wife

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

Hell yeah moon holiday

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

moon day is 20th July!!!

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!

Reading the dev notes for Mina the Hollower has been a pretty stark reminder to consider the practical reasons for creative decisions. I was all "okay, but what are we really saying by making the protagonist a mouse", and then the devs are like "yeah, the main reason she's a mouse is because GBC-style sprites are tiny and her bigass ears make it easy for the player to tell which direction she's facing".

(To be 100% clear, I'm not saying that there's no symbolism in play there. The initial episode in which Mina breaks Thorne's siege on Lionel's manor is blatantly playing with both Androcles and the Lion and The Lion and the Mouse, which are often conflated in popular culture into a composite tale in which a mouse pulls a thorn from a lion's paw – the characters' names alone make that much obvious! It's just very funny that the decision to make her a mouse came first for completely unrelated reasons.)

I just saw the world's freshest baby in Panera bread. Like that thing was JUST out of the oven. I've heard of being wet behind the ears but this baby was wet behind the everything. It was still damp.

"I hate the commodification and commercialization of creative works that are just ticking boxes and saying buzzwords to-" you mean genre? we've been doing that forever it's called genre. how come we throw rotten tomatoes at 'cozy sim' or 'dark romance' but not noir or sci-fi or fantasy? I'm asking this question in earnest because to me it just seems like "if it's an established thing it's genre and otherwise it's Stupid Twee Bullshit"

Syllable count is so faaaake. (I am looking up Double Dactyl poems and have repeatedly run into “oh I see if I squash this into one syllable it works” but like the difference between saying a word as one syllable vs two syllables is not concrete. To me anyway.

I have a really acute sensibility for syllable count and stress, to the point where it feels physically slimy to have to go back and reread a line to make it work, but it's interesting to me how strictness about rhyme and metre is most strongly associated with written poetry, since the reader needs to reconstruct it smoothly in their head without ever having heard it recited. Meanwhile, though, the actual successor to the popular verse of the past is not written poetry at all but hip-hop, which has far more latitude to bend these strictures because it's received as a canonical performance to which the transcript is more like a libretto. There are so many metrical cheats that work elegantly if you deliver them with intention, but seem clumsy to someone reading blind!

Regarding?

the fact that this is a way words can get made. dictionaries making up fake words with fictitious etymologies and people taking years to catch on

oh this is like how mapmakers would add fake towns to their maps so they would know if people copied them instead of doing their own surveying

Well yes, but usually people don't make those paper towns real after being told they're fake.

idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great

Happy horse on mars day

The cool thing about death note is you could feasibly explain the basic premise of it like the mechanics of the note and also L and lights weird homoerotic shit and you would have a pretty good idea of what the entire plot is like without ever having to explain the terrifying floating clown monster

in a normal year I think we'd have talked more about the fact that recently there were 17 earthquakes in a single day apparently centred on Area 51