I live for Simon going:

I woke up in a place that is not the blood ocean and is pretty nice? I must be in heaven, I won my redemption, nice.

A beautiful angel looking after me? And it is just my type? Lucky me.

Another more weird looking angel that is a singing rock? I will not question how angels work, they are angels.

Are the angels giving a lot of information that seems to explain what happened to the whole universe and somehow they save it? They are angels, of course they know this kind of stuff, duh.

I can stay here as long as I want? I'm staying forever, jaja, I will not reincarnated, oh no sir, I'm staying with the pretty angel for all eternity, thank you.

There are threes and stars and planets? Yep, I'm super dead, but well at least is nice.

Like at some point his mind finally connects the dots, maybe Rocky makes a comment, maybe something breaks the illusion, maybe Grace confess his feelings for him and it is then that Simon realizes that he is not dead, and then all the ashameful things he had been doing -because he thought he did not have to care about something as little as shyness or shame in heaven- come to his mind:

Taking his shirt off whenever he feel like it, because nudity must not be that big of a deal for angels, right?

Just saying any thought he had in his mind out loud: Beautiful angel has pretty eyes, he said it, the rock-angel sing nicely, he say it, he feel like a little bug, he say it, he wanted to know how the pretty angel hair felt, he say it, etc, etc.

Those silly songs he had been singing narrating what he was doing when he was boring.

He naming all the threes and talking to them openly.

Letting the pebbles (who he thought were young angels not ready to angelize) do whatever they wanted to do with his hair, braids, ponytails, bows and just keep it like that the whole day.

Eridian OC teehee this is Calico :3

She (because a majority of calico cats are female, so Grace just Decided) is small enough to fit on Grace’s lap and that makes Rocky mad lol

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

rites of passage

closeups:

1. academia

2. teaching

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?