I'm not about to argue the finer points of Southern culture with anyone, because I can accept that I was born and raised in the hot flames of a dumpster fire, but I'll tell you gotdamned commie Yankees one thing: I'd rather be dead in the hallowed halls of a Cook Out than alive in an In-N-Out
Y’all know I’m a bona fide SoCal Girl and I don’t see what’s wrong w this cookout menu? Can someone red pill me?
TROUBLEMAKING FRONTIER PREACHER
MANICALLY AMBITIOUS CON ARTIST
EUROPEAN NOBLE FAILSON
DOOMED FRONTIER EXPLORER
somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman
but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything
What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.
I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode
My favorite gag is mixing up the distinction between oft confused terms. Like, oh no, it's quite simple: stalactites have hit the earth's surface but stalagmites are found in space. Meteorites can be distinguished by their round snouts and asteroids by their sharper snouts. Oh, and remember: crocodiles hang from the ceiling. It's alligators that point up from the ground.
ALTMe, in the summer heat, taking 2 points of fire damage every second: aeugh aeugh aeugh ough eough ough eaugh
reblog to kill god faster
quick before his health bar resets & he switches to his second attack pattern!
reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck
her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...
i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.
fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving
![A series of tweets by Twitter user @Bitterstaff (John Bickerstaff) from May 19, 2023. The first tweet links a Deadline.com article with the headline "Disney to remove dozens of series from Disney+ and Hulu" while Bickerstaff comments, "They gave us six months. Not even. This business has become absolutely cruel." His next tweet says, "Before you say tax write-off: these shows have already been released and so can't be a tax write-off. And in the case of Willow, they own the property outright. The only conclusion is that this is to get out of paying residuals. During a strike." His third tweet says, "And look, eternal streaming libraries are not sustainable. We're all going to have to adjust to that at some point. But to spend [REDACTED] on a show and then disappear it six months later is just bad business."](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7df9f38bb103e786b7072bfcef05895d/05e1dae71154f3c4-d6/s1280x1920/e8380867ca8e68f3f8afd994a8157916eaa79879.png)
ALTon the announcement that Disney+ is removing a plethora of shows and films from its service, please read these tweets from Willow writer John Bickerstaff. this is not a tax writeoff like Batgirl, because these projects have already been released. this is a move designed to cut off financial support in the form of residuals, and break the spirit of the strike. here is the deadline article that lists the films/shows that will be removed.
as always, donate to the entertainment community fund, vocally support the WGA online and irl, or join a picket in a major US city if you can. let them know they can't keep getting away with things like this.
Sharing another longer comic I made for The Nib back in 2016, since they'll be shutting up shop at the end of this year. This piece was such a great excuse to dig deep into the world of sail-powered cargo! I particularly loved talking to the team behind Ceiba, who are now years into their build and documenting the entire shipbuilding process along the way.
rdr2 is such a special game to replay because. god. the whole thing is a ghost story. the gang is dead before they even reach colter. everything that tears them apart - the mistrust, the friction, the loss, the lack of place and time - it’s there from the beginning. before the beginning. papered over by a veneer of love and care and family but when the last of it leaves they’re all just. gone. scraps of newspaper headlines faded in the sun and wooden grave markers that will rot and fall back into the earth. if you’ve played rdr you know what happens to these characters. you play your first playthrough of rdr2 knowing you’re hurtling towards an inescapable end. you play every one thereafter knowing the end has already come.
This text hurt me so freaking much. In a pleasant way.
