it's paul time

It’s honestly amazing to me how the Try Guys story remains ongoing. Sure, it’s still new and all, but it just feels like there shouldn’t be THAT MUCH MORE to it.

Yet, it keeps gaining layers.

For instance, consider the tone-deaf SNL skit. Where they make fun of the three men who removed their co-owner for having a long-term affair with one of their employees; as though that’s not a serious workplace violation, misconduct of behavior, and abuse of power that opens their company to several different lawsuits. 

It’s amazing how many people don’t seem to understand that it’s bad for a company to have someone onboard who puts the business in that kind of danger. Ned’s actions also put their company under some heavy financial strain and negative public scrutiny – which again, bad for business.

The skit treats the remaining Try Guys, like they’re overreacting and even insinuates that this affair was just a one-time kiss, thus downplaying the whole “boss having a long-term affair with an employee” thing. 

How dare these three men hold their former friend and co-owner accountable and protect their company from his actions. This skit turns them into petty, greedy drama whores, who are only upset because he didn’t tell them first about the totally innocent “kiss.”

As well as the weird tone - that because they do silly and stupid things for people’s entertainment that means that they can’t be taken seriously nor are they running a real business. Which weird take for SNL to have, like that’s an especially weird for them to have. 

Or at least that’s one of the vibes I got from it. 

Basically, the skit doesn’t make fun of the man who made so much money selling how perfect his marriage was and also apparently stupid enough (despite going to Yale) to go out in public and cheat on his wife with an employee. 

Which is odd, considering the many ways SNL could’ve gone about this scandal; even NBC’s twitter got in on the joke of “I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship.”

Now is the skit all that shocking? No. Especially considering some of SNL’s other skits and especially their own problems at the workplace with things of this nature.

However, it gets so much juicer and arguably even more telling, because apparently one or two of Ned’s friends from Yale are writers on the SNL staff.

Like what?

And this also brings back to light a lot of the sexual misconduct and assault SNL has enabled and it’s just…

In a twisted way, I’m curious to what the next layer will be.

How will this story mutate next?

Ianthe awful nasty girl Tridentarius

saw this tweet and thought of them

I was so fucking torn between these two answers

Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

A short comic inspired by Finnish werewolf folklore in which it is many times the wedding couple and/or the entire wedding party that is bewitched to turn into wolves by a resentful guest or family member.

Was in a fenhawke mood

the L on his hat stands for Lesbian

pal pal palpatine, star wars’ greatest love machine

$4 Jewish wlw fantasy with happy ending! On Gumroad PDF and Kindle (also $12.49 paperback). Cover art above by Caroline C and Jane Dominguez.

Here are some reasons to check out my book The Olive Conspiracy:

-Lots of queer “found family” warm fuzzies -In fact, this book has SIX queer women characters… -Plus a token dude who spends a lot of screen time as a lizard and a Dragon Dad (father of the heart, anyway) -Book starring Jewish characters who get to be happy -TWO f/f couples who stay together and alive throughout the book -A rescue kitten -A mom witch -A baby princess with two moms and two dads -Lesbian farmers! (see back cover, above) -A warrior woman and a wizard who are in love because he LIKES her MUSCLES -who amongst us does not want to be ruled over by a neurotic, altruistic, deeply intellectual femme lesbian queen who fidgets (see her hands with the scarf in the cover art) -oh right and she’s also chronically ill (multiple food intolerances) and it shows up a lot in this one, especially in the flashback to when she was a teenaged princess

I hope this appeals to some of you! If you like the book, thank you in advance if you feel like sharing this post  (｡◕‿◕｡)

I bought and read the short story anthology set in this universe and, as a result, I’m definitely intending to read the main series of novels. Go look! There’s a dragon! And so much queerness! And it’s unapologetically Jewish while very accessible to gentiles like me!

I think the first novel is The Second Mango, if you want to start at the beginning.

I love this channel this guy just reviews and picks different locks in a very unbiased, low energy way and every time he gets one open theres 100 comments of people just roasting the hell out of the lock

lockpicking lawyer if anyone wants to look

This video is exactly as amazing as the title suggested it would be, oh my god.

it’s even better because the first method he shows takes five seconds

https://twitter.com/DavidJuurlink/status/1129811903776198659

We deserve autonomy.

I support right to die legislation and I’m glad this woman was able to die on her own terms. I can only hope that will be an option for me if and when I need it. I don’t agree with the people saying that the doctor ‘murdered’ her… to suggest that she was a victim here is to ignore her ability to make choices for herself.

genuinely kind, good characters are just as realistic as unkind, cruel ones

Also, whilst I’m on this topic. Kind characters can also have equally complex motivations and be just as deep as unkind ones. 

Instructions for any Superman writers.

fantasy video game locations include the ocean, the mushroom forest, the misty moors, the mystical machine land, and Ancient Egypt

sci-fi video game locations include the dilapidated city overrun with alien fungi, tentacle forest, OSHA violation building, spaceship corridor labyrinth, giant nest of alien eggs, desert planet with worms, and Ancient Egypt

This is so, so important you guys.

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

So grateful for the historical memory and the long view on a phenomenon many of us have come to late, and/or take for granted.

And this is why AO3 generates twice its goal amount in just a few days: they are irreplaceable.

Updated for 2019 ^^

(There, now it’s really updated for 2019. ;__;)