making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren't virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.

I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there's usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can't get over how the internet "as intended" today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I've ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.

Beloveds, there is a wonderful website that gets rid of all that crap<3

I use the goons with spoons wiki since it also has recipes without all the bs that accompanies them online.

So beautiful was our love, that when people saw us walking past, we were love and art in person. By Anastasia Trusova on Instagram.

on my planet, the barbarian warmongers blorbo and scrunglo were banished to the great pits of eeby deeby by the great warrior glup shitto. and that is why, my friends, we tameranians honor the day by partaking in the ritual of the “horse plinko”.

it is not an evil thing to look at yourself with kindness. your life was never meant to be a punishment

one of my coworkers has these really cute shoelaces and i almost said it to them . i almost said it. i think if i had i would have died on the spot

a bop, a banger, and a jam are all different

but you have to feel the difference in your heart

a bop is something light or something you casually enjoy. you don’t mind it/it’s cute in the moment. 

a banger is something goes hard (some times unnecessarily) can invoke deep emotions. can fizzle out after some time has passed. 

a jam is something that can be considered as nostalgic. it is a song that is a personal anthem, no matter what you are going through you just respond to it. it is immortal. 

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

gshsjb

“One more thing, sir. You told me you couldn’t possibly have been at the crime scene at that time on account of your alibi, that being that you were at home playing your PlayStation 3. Now, forgive me, but if that’s true, I just gotta ask– how could you have been playing your PS3 if the PS3 has no games?”

“Why, Lieutenant, the PS3 is backwards compatible with many PS2 games. I was simply playing one of my many PS2 games at the time of the murder. Surely you are at least familiar with Kingdom Hearts? I’d be happy to show you my save file if it would put your mind at ease.”

“Ah, gee. Kingdom Hearts… Yeah, that one’s a classic. one of the best ones, even. My wife loves that little Sora guy. No, I agree. You’re right, sir. I should’a thought of that. Well, I’ll get outta your hair, then. — Oh, one more thing…

I just remembered something you might find a little interesting. See, you’ve got one of those black models. With the top-loading tray. And those PS3 models are backwards compatible. … but only for PS1 games. Kingdom Hearts wasn’t on the PS1, though, was it? …”

the commander's silly rabbit..........

I keep thinking it’d be fun to write a story whose early/debut antagonist is very Team Rocket-ish; bumbling but affable, seems to have an astonishing number of resources and skills but their raison d’etre mysteriously limited to hassling the much younger protagonists…

…with the single plot twist that they’re actually way stronger and more capable than expected- to the point that they suddenly drop limitations that they used to have fighting the ‘good guys’ against the more serious and powerful villains, and it turns out that a lot of their Team Rocket-ing was actually intentionally holding back- they were being an incremental nuisance to the heroes as a form of stealth mentoring.

It’d lend a new angle to so many traditions of the archetype- being “bad, but not Too bad” and seeming to miss obvious uses of their power that could finish the fight, affable and approachable because they’re actually scanning the heroes to make sure nobody’s actually too upset and overwhelmed to get something meaningfully out of it- heck, possibly even “showing up at the worst time” on purpose because one of these kids definitely needs to punch a pillow but doesn’t know that skill, so venting energy in a ‘useless fight’ works for them.

And it’d also help for an organic sense of stakes- if this ‘early harmless villain’ at one point tries to warn the heroes away from confronting a different antagonist, the heroes push past them and nearly get killed… only for the ‘harmless villain’ to drop in on the ‘more serious’ one and turn out to be a very scary person, before chiding the heroes in the exact same tone that they told you brats that this wouldn’t end well, now, be a dear and withdraw to safety, the grownups are gonna have a talk,

I like how neatly this idea reframes those times when this type of antagonist accidentally (or in this case, “accidentally”) hands the protagonist the key to victory at the last second. “Hah! How can you brats overthrow the Dark Overlord if you don’t even know that Fire Traps can be disarmed by a Water Spell?”

Or like when they debut a plan tailor made to be foiled by some resource the hero acquired just a few minutes earlier in the episode, thus demonstrating the resource’s usefulness and how it might be used in the future–because they were specifically waiting for the hero to acquire that resource to debut that plan.

Yeah! Like, metatextually, the reason why writers sometimes throw these less-serious antagonists at the heroes is literally to train them up against the more dangerous types- to explain how, when the big guy actually gets off his throne, the heroes have already built up the skills to not get instantly obliterated by a person who isn’t going to mess around with them.

So this idea is basically just taking that sense- the ‘warmup antagonist’- and going “what if they were doing it on purpose” which, as you say, just reframes stuff they already tend to do.

(Including the Team Rocket Classic, which is, any time a situation is truly dire, the antagonist rapidly turncoats and starts helping the heroes openly, which is also behavior someone who’s been quietly looking out for them all along would do)

Staying Productive

“AND THAT THIEF OVER THERE”

Majora’s Mask Tribute parts 1-3 by Léo Chérel