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Y’all.

Y’ALL.

@reallyneedsalife just shared a video in a server we’re both in and I am. In HYSTERICS.

Theatre kid test: how many sentences into the video are you before you know EXACTLY where it’s going? I got to “we send our condolences.”

One sentence, because I do in fact know how that show opens 😛

It took me a second, but I blame the long Covid. Like I knew shenanigans were about to ensue, but my brain couldn’t quite put two and two together. By the time the videomaker got to explaining the punchline for the non-theatre kids, though, I was laughing so hard I was crying. That poor cast. That had to be a trip.

It took me a few seconds as well since I was thinking they would do a variant on Ding Dong the Witch is Dead and I had to remember but lord I’m surprised the audience wasn’t laughing at that opening.

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

Goose Shit by Evil Mary Oliver Who Lives in Your Head

You do have to be good. In fact, you have to be perfect. Having even one perturbation will disqualify you from going to the grocery store. You are obligated to walk on your knees  for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting, backwards, in underwear made of red-hot puff adders. You can't let that soft, fallible animal of your body love what it loves.   Are you kidding? Tell me about despair, yours, and keep telling me, and don't stop, or you'll completely explode and go to jail, and then hell. Meanwhile the world goes on without you. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of hailstones are beating down on your head, pouring into the buildings and deep gutters, the corpse-laden mountains and the rivers-- did you read that article about the one that turned bright yellow from pollution? Meanwhile the wild geese, hissing and shitting everywhere will not leave your yard. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, you can always get lonelier! And I can help. I call to you like the wild geese, harsh and intimidating, over and over announcing your place-- oop, sorry, never mind, someone else took it.

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

To wit:

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

it's wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this

a vast rube goldberg machine of privacy violations all working together to deliver the most precisely targeted ads straight into my adblocker

Impa's mission (Ocarina of Time)

Wyvern.

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Remembering this friend I had who got really super into Avatar the movie when it came out. Genuinely lost a bit of respect for him after that, although I also felt bad for being so shallow…

like look at this shit:

what the fuck happened?? if I asked you to sketch out the filmography of a director who clearly sold his soul to satan and then satan came to collect, tell me it wouldn’t look exactly like this.

Avatar are the movies Cameron always wanted to make. He didn’t sell his soul; this is his soul. This is his 3.3 million word, forever Incomplete, masturbatory Dances With Wolves AU fanfic. People who resonate with him get obsessed with it, because it resembles their soul too, but to everyone else it is an insane waste of time.

does he seriously think he has four more movies worth of material, I mean what’s he got in mind exactly, another drop ship? alien orgy? the guns are bigger?

Unmute !    

pronouncing “chotto matte” in the Australian manner, it’s gone totally chotto, mate.

I will not overcomplicate my plot

I will not overcomplicate my plot

I will not overcomplicate my plot

Due to unforeseeable events….

The plot is now overcomplicated.

I have lost control of the plot

The plot

He destroyed his outline

Yes

YES

The plot is out

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