creeping thing that creepeth

Ruben: everyone call ruben stupid and it true! ruben barely even literate! ruben finally finished reading ulysses, but ruben can only identify surface level themes like religion and nationalism and can't comprehend deeper ideas like the "remorse of conscience" that make james joyce's novel a modernist classic! ruben so dumb, it make ruben sad! at this rate, ruben will never be able to match wits with smart brother niall!

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

If you’re a Non-Muslim and you see a Muslim praying in public, could you please not pass in front of them?

Okay, but also: if you see a Muslim praying in public and they have something in front of them, like a purse or a bag or something like that, you can pass in front of them, but pass in front of that object.

we got a plumber in to unfuck our fuckass apartment dishwasher and I HAVE to tell you guys that his phone ringtone is "Entrance of the Gladiators"

You know? I have the theme song to "Death In Paradise" as my ringtone, but it checks a lot of the same boxes as this does: