As hard and as ruthless as a rose petal

it’s so fucking funny that the beginning portion of the phm movie pretty clearly shows that grace has always been interested in and is also Not Normal about aliens (see: dissertation, classroom absolutely decked out with space stuff, very sweetly saying “welcome to earth” to the petrova line sample + how hyped up he gets when he realizes they’re cells) and then as soon as he gets the opportunity to meet an intelligent extraterrestrial life form he goes no thank you and hits da bricks

i like the thought of working with kids making grace gentler/more regulated/better with people in his life outside of work (yknow, relatively), and i think his not-swearing thing can be used to support that. however i also like the thought of him being patient with his kids at school and then still being a hotheaded asshole with adults and i think this is also supported by. well, much of the earth arc. and in my beautiful mindscape these are both true

Under the rotting linoleum, she finds old gods.

Hon had better be wearing her respirator old gods are NOT good for the lungs

Unpopular opinion: I think the fact that most pride flags are just colored stripes is a good thing actually. They're far more useful, semiotically, as "color palettes with inherent meaning" than they are as fabric rectangles. Normal laws of vexillological design are not really relevant here when "actual flag" is a low-frequency use case.

stratt gets to her monthly scheduled half-hour for "feeling things" and lets herself descend into cheeky little bitter envious frenzy over not having the coma resistance gene markers. oh, to not have to face the rest of her life on earth and be locked away helpless while everyone starves, and instead just wake up, work for a single month more, eat the best food available, fix everything with her own two hands, die in satisfied peace, and be remembered with reverence. she's just getting into a proper spiral about how grace has this opportunity but can't even seem to comprehend why this would the most beautiful thing and why, why doesn't he? does he not care? about the world, about me, about himself? what's wrong with him? he has the capacity to care, I've seen it, it's there, but he refuses it. why won't he do this for all of us? if I could just reach into his brain and fix-- and then her alarm goes off and she has to go to her next meeting.

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

every time a website describes "appetite suppressant" as a feature of a type of food, i kill another hostage

"nuts are an appetite suppressant!" BECAUSE THEY ARE FOOD. YOU ARE LESS HUNGRY BECAUSE YOU ATE FOOD.

DISCLAIMER: if you or your selected victim have a nut allergy, consider throwing rocks instead. I love you.

if by tie dye shirt you mean the shirt he’s wearing under the kimono, it’s ilyukhina’s cat shirt from the karaoke scene!