This, too, shall pass

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

letters from Medea, salma deera

signed copies in my shop are sold out (thank you!!) but you can read wherever books are found, including your local library <3

Head empty no thoughts just Sanctuary Moon

Even though there was a lot going on in both books, Murderbot did have more than enough time to download a dictionary (especially with it's processing power, and I honestly bet Perihelion has one on board, let's be real), but look at what it says! It says "whatever", and it means it. It knows it can be vague and incorrect (it feels safe enough to get something wrong) and Ratthi and Amena will still be able to understand it. All of this to say, now that Murderbot isn't under the thumb of the company, it absolutely has access to all kinds of education modules that could cover all of this, including a basic dictionary that would be infinitely less complex to download and integrate into it's own systems for reference than a bunch of other things we've seen it do. We've seen it scan soap operas for the right response to emotional moments, a dictionary would be nothing. But it doesn't do that! It shoves aside the education modules and snatches every single soap opera it can get it's data-equivalent-of-hands-on. Education modules? Murderbot says. I don't have room for that, this new serial has 68 seasons and they're still making more. I hope this doesn't come off as ranting at you (you're definitely not the only one rightfully pointing out that it's education modules were shit), I'm actually just buzzing with energy thinking about Murderbot, and you're right that it was deprived of a lot of opportunities. But I love the details that go into it not knowing everything, because it says a lot about Murderbot's personality, and its newfound freedom of choice, and it also demonstrates intelligence versus wisdom. Murderbot is very intelligent, but not always wise, and it has the freedom to exercise that lack of wisdom (that dumbassery, if you will) just like any other being with free will does! Just like I do! Would my life be a lot easier if I stopped and figured out who was holding my student loans? Probably! Am I, instead, reading the Silmarillion? Yes! Yes I am. I'm a dumbass, and so I look at Murderbot and I see a fellow dumbass, and it makes me really happy. Murderbot can choose what it wants to learn now, and what it wants to learn is every single plotline on Days of Our Lives

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

he’s been talking to grace like grace is a slightly idiotic cat this whole time! and that’s absolutely delightful!

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question