Kal Brass

However.

I looked him up, and geez dude

So the styrofoam motif, is like, a thing he does

But he also does tatted up classical sculptures

And he seems to have a thing about breaking his own work

And other things. Like this marble boat that actually works:

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.

There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.

So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"

So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.

The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."

So I take a few deep breaths.

Then I lie to her.

I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"

She does.

I ask her if she still needs help.

(to be fair, reading itself is an artificial invention, not strictly something our brains evolved to do)

(ergo, it potentially may be the inherent reason why a lot of people prefer video essays)

People naturally filter out a lot of information. If you don't, it's usually considered a serious disorder. People try to find shortcuts. People try to avoid processing writing if they don't have to.

This happens everywhere.

I've also observed similar behavior in people who are very much not American.

It's not an American thing.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

Here ya go

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

- they’re Opawz pet specific dyes. Non toxic made specifically for dogs. Once they’re set and rinsed they can groom themselves normally, they pose no danger to her in any way, no fumes, there’s no bleach involved

- my dog is trained with cooperative care skills, the process is not stressful for her, she gets paid heavily for her cooperation and looks forwards to the opportunity to earn extra snacks with the grooming

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

I used to watch Superfriends 70/80s cartoon, most of the DC animated universe [BTAS, STAS, JL, JLU, Static Shock, Batman Beyond], Teen Titans 03 and even did a long running roleplay with a friend based on TT 03 crossed with Yu-Gi-Oh that turned original over time but it took until WFA that I read fanfiction based in Batman.

I have only read more Batman canon since, picking through arcs I liked the art and plot of or had intrigued me by fanfiction.

Like be so fucking for real right now with this gatekeeping bull.

You wanna know how to be a real fan?

Be happy someone is enjoying fandom, no matter how much or how little canon they have consumed.