don't @ me

the narrator is operating under the constraint that they can only use words "god" has already spoken, "god" is aware of this and says the 'Time flies' sentence on purpose in order to give the narrator the pieces they need to voice their complaint; "god" has constant access to the narrator's thoughts, and answers them as though they're having a conversation between equals, but clearly absolutely dictates the terms under which the narrator can speak. it becomes obvious as the scene continues that the narrator is silently screaming and that the request being denied may be a request for death, but is at minimum a request for some acute suffering to be stopped

Madame Director: “And this is my butler, Davenport”  All three boys, pointing dramatically at Magnus’s “If found, please return to Davenport” shirt: “EYYYY! :D” (note: there are exactly six copies of that shirt in existence.  Davenport has a matching shirt that says “I’m Davenport”  He doesn’t wear it anymore)

Carey: “I didn’t know you had a sibling, Taako.”  Taako, wearing his third favorite “I’m the cool twin” shirt (the one with glitter but no rhinestones): “What are you talking about I’m an only child”

All three of them show up to training wearing identical shirts with a photo of the entire Starblaster Crew riding a roller coaster screenprinted on the front.  Neither rollercoasters nor photography exist on this planet.

The boys try to convince Kravitz that they aren’t death criminals.  It’s hindered by the fact that Merle’s shirt says “I’ve had a lot of ideas, and only 50 of them killed me!” with the 0 repeatedly crossed out and replaced with increasingly higher numbers

“I'm such a simple guy and I don't need much to make me happy. It sounds a bit odd, doesn't it? 'let's sit on the ground and tell sad stories'. Maybe there is a slightly nostalgic quality to the way I live.”

Too often "the world is literally burning" rhetoric tips over into "humans are the virus and will always screw up the world," ignoring the fact that other cultures have consistently managed to find ways to live in the natural world without destroying it.

It reduces the worst of western racist capitalism to "human nature" and not a specific system of exploitation that has clear beneficiaries and a very specific logic that ignores whole swaths of human history, biology, ethics, morality.

"Humans have always been this way" absolves many of even attempting to come up with solutions that would make the future moderately bearable.

@ cis lesbians if you’re not protecting trans and nonbinary lesbians then what the hell are you doing??

It's almost time, fam.