Furby Apocalypse

every time i watch the sixth sense i can't get over the choice to give lynn and cole a siberian husky puppy and then treat it like it's a low-maintenance adult household dog. as if that wouldn't be an all-consuming aspect of their daily lives. have you ever been around a husky? a puppy no less? but it's supposed to be an unremarkable background aspect of their lives and the movie's plot. we see it only a few times and it's completely unsupervised and causing no problems at all. they leave it home alone all day unkenneled. toni collette is like "i work 2 jobs and someone is hurting my son please god help me" and bruce willis is like "how can i help this family?" and of course the plot tells us the problem is that cole is nine years old and sees ghosts. but the truth i know as the viewer is that a husky puppy in their philadelphia apartment would be tearing their fucking lives apart.

m night shyamalan asks us to not only engage in a world where ghosts are real and a child can see them (okay I'm with you), but in a world where an overextended single mother with 2 jobs and a tormented son has a 12 week old husky and it's not an issue. it's not contributing to their problems at all (you've lost me)

Random old finnish folklore I recall reading: The reason you have to close someone's eyes after they die, or cover their eyes with a cloth if you can't, is because the spirit of the newly passed is still in the body and even though it can't move the eyes anymore, it can still see. You must avoid making eye contact with the dead body, because the soul of the newly dead is scared to go alone, and is looking for someone to come with them. If you lock eyes with the corpse, you will be the next to die.

...So is the second corpse still hazardous, then, or are they fine since they have the first one for company?

I must confess I don't really know about the more exact details of the undead buddy system.

Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness

You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

"Hey there pepperhead, legal isn't super exited about this tweet"

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

I work at lush and these little bitches come all naked in a big box and we have to put their blankies on one at a time

Happy belated Mother's Day to all of the Lush employees swaddling extraterrestrial fetuses in the soap nursery.