just a bag of beans

the thing about Ringo Starr is that it sounds like he's using a stage name but I know exactly enough about The British and their names to know that there's an okayish chance that it's real, and that if it's not his birth name then it's probably like. John Welpley Shuggs. and I'm about to go find out which it is.

Richard Starkey... not Dick Starkers...

july being tomorrow for the love of god this cant be happening.

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.

it’s so funny that cops will say they ‘do not have enough resources to investigate this case’ and then pull you over in a brand new squad car. you’re getting 40% of the municipal budget and complaining about being underfunded and blaming a lack of training when you accidentally shoot your coworker. you’re decked out head to toe in new state of the art riot gear but you can’t be arsed to use any of your budget on solving crime or making your colleagues better at not killing people.

I think police departments have a large scale embezzlement problem. we’ve had a couple of notable cases of law enforcement engaging in fraud but I’m pretty sure this is a bigger issue. because who is going to investigate them? the cops?

Making King Arthur English was so evil of Thomas Malory. English King Arthur, replacing the invading Saxons with Muslims, erasing Galehaut and Lancelot’s relationship that was the foil to Arthur and Guinevere’s relationship. I hate this guy so much. It’s crazy he was in jail for treason or attempted murder and not locked up for writing criminally bad English fanfiction. And then his shitty dicksucking English monarchy propaganda piece became the defining Arthurian work for 500 fucking years. I hate this guy more and more the deeper I get into Arthuriana.

I think ianthe is a lesbian but she would fuck augustine if he asked and they'd both have a bad time. she's also definitely fucked babs at least once and they also had a bad time

the arm thing was the best sex she's ever had in her life and that's why she's like that about harrow

there are some movies where people will be like “I think it needed more female characters :/” but I think the lack of female characters makes complete sense because this is dumbass guy behavior. this is a fool’s plot that the average woman would have handled better or totally avoided. the hubris of men was a core element of the film. not that women cannot be blinded by their own hubris but there is a reason guys are more likely to die in bizarre freak ‘accidents’. I say this as a man. it’s why horror movies with a final girl make sense, a 22 year old guy would be sooooo certain he could take the slasher in combat and die badly.

in a misogynistic society, men are taught from birth that they should be able to dominate others automatically, they often develop the false impression that they are untouchable and capable of defeating any threat. women are repeatedly reminded that they can be harmed and told it is their fault if they are harmed, that makes them more likely to be risk aware and risk averse. again, I’m not saying women cannot do risky things and make boneheaded choices, I’m just saying that it makes more sense for a bunch of men to go on a failed expedition and start killing each other. because they keep doing that.

it’s why the horror trope of the wife repeatedly telling her husband there is something wrong with their new house/they are in danger and the husband totally discounting her worries makes so much sense, similar things happens in real life every day