Marjorie Rose

hot take but i still think john and hank still seem like fairly normal, well-adjusted guys who have somehow maintained a level of bland normativity that is somehow both attractive and repulsive to their fans and haters, who have tried, for decades, to rattle them deeper into internet derangement than they are capable of going. and yeah i know about hank green’s ai controversy and this is in direct response to it.

The belief that Amanda Knox owes any deference to the Kercher family and not the other way around is so wild to me and seeing how the British press describes the situation makes me feel very 1776.

I was teaching in China when Knox was first convicted, and I remember one of my British colleagues at the school talking rather blithely about the "foxy Knoxy" headlines he was reading in the press from back home. Gross and bad.

[desperate to avoid the inevitability of death] the moral of rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is never get on a boat or some sort of moving vehicle piloted by someoen else

I had a dream last night that the Decemberists guy put out a new song that was him announcing the band was breaking up, but the song was also his like detailing his future career path, and it was an excruciatingly granular 13.5 minutes of him explaining to us in detail that he was going to become a world renowned marionette maker and like the steps he was going to take to complete this (step 1 was learn to spin flax to make his own cord, step 2 was learn whittling to create his own puppets, step 3 to make his own paints, etc etc. He was going for that vertical slice sort of thing) All the while someone was shouting in the background I DON'T WANNA BREAK UP and WHO'S GOING TO GET MY ACCORDION because apparently there was a custody battle happening for that?? But as it turned out the song was too much of a banger and people wouldn't let them quit and also he had like horrible arthritis in his hands that was preventing him from making the shit so they announced within the week that the band was actually back together and The Marionette Maker's Heart's Desire was like their new #1 hit

i'm generally alienated by the current atmosphere of calling characters "failures" and "pathetic," mostly because i like my characters hypercompetent, but also because i'm really interested in failure in fiction, from crushing defeats to partial wins to pyrrhic victories, and I especially like it when my hypercompetent characters can't or don't win (because the forces against them were too great; or because this was always a no-win situation; because they were outmaneuvered; etc). and so i find it really frustrating to see the character who made it almost all the way, against great odds, described as #cringefail, as though the fact that they didn't actually manage to take the world off Atlas' shoulders means that all their skill, all their work, all their strength, was always comedic, or worse, that they have no skill at all ("they're so bad at things!!") . and most of all i just think it's boring. there's so much more to any instance of failure than "haha, they just couldn't get it done," if we're willing to look.

my real #serious thoughts on how rocky would feel about stratt after learning the whole Everything is that he really really wants to be the "my friend isn't mad enough at the person who hurt them so I make up for it by being 10x as mad as is reasonable" guy, and that's absolutely what he externally shows to grace, but internally he's eating himself alive because he does actually get it. he can only put so much of himself into the argument when grace gets into a weird mood and starts playing "devil's advocate" about his own kidnapping and attempted murder and he feels like absolutely the scum-of-the-earth worst friend ever. what's even worse is that while he can sympathize with grace's story, he can't quite empathize; he's watching grace sleep one night and thinks to himself "...but why wouldn't he just say yes?", followed two minutes later by grace visibly (audibly?) getting one of his regular nightmares about being tackled and restrained. torment nexus.

Guys, I’m not counting chickens or tempting fate or anything but I do have several excellent baby Willie Nelson baby pictures locked and ready to go in a couple days if 🧿🧿🧿

Oohh they had enough technology they weren't bothered by astrophage, and then one day their sun got fixed and those Vulcan who has always claimed there was life on the 5th planet were soooo vindicated