There's "committing to the bit" and then there's whatever the fuck Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster were doing on television every week from 2006-2014
Mountie on the Bounty, Part 1
(Stacked Rewatch/Timestamp Roulette Art Challenge)
Oh dear, a two-episode Sunday and it's evening already! I would love to spend more time on MotB, but I got stuck doing something else today and don't want to be left behind in the stacked rewatch schedule - I'll just have to squeeze that Part 2 sketch out later tonight (managed to do this in between and around cooking and eating dinner). Now I'll head out for a while - it's a lovely early spring evening with blackbirds singing - and then it's back to these guys.
Fraser's life is littered with impermanence: his best friend gone, his apartment burned down, the town he grew up in flooded. But that doesn't mean everything is lost. Sometimes you need to try reaching out for things for them to meet you half way.
S4E08 Good for the Soul coda/fancomic
Call of the Wild, Part 2
(Stacked Rewatch/Timestamp Roulette Art Challenge)
He doesn't know yet that he's getting his happy ending after all...
This one took about an hour and a half I guess?
(Officially, Part 1 of Mountie on the Bounty also belongs to this week of the stacked rewatch, but I'm leaving the whole of MotB for next week.)
also, its sister tweet:
How could you forget:
Had to add this gem
Pouring one out for Poison Junior.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."
I did this to help illustrate a point I'm making in a different post, but I feel it's relevant above and beyond that specific context.
Ao3 authors will literally post under any fucking circumstances