3/19/25

Just got an ad for Temu that says if I order today, I can get my order before Christmas. Like, yeah, I sure hope so.

Out of context quote

"Men don't draw Team Fortress 2 fan art. Only women draw Team Fortress 2 fan art. Men drag the models around ragdoll style in GMod. This is an example of sexual dimorphism in the human species."

I have this pet peeve where I absolutely hate it when cartoon animals never act like or reference the animal they are ever in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't even have to be a big thing. Like, if you have a character who's an anteater and you make a 150 episode series with him, and in one single episode he's eating a stick of celery with raisins an peanut butter (colloquially known as "ants on a log") then that's enough, that's something. But why ever make them animals if they're essentially humans in big animal onesies?

I remember the movie Fritz the Cat, based on R. Crumb's comics. Ralph Bakshi didn't want the characters to act like animals at all, even a little, to the point where he changed something from the original comics to fit that vision. There's one scene where Duke the crow saves Fritz from falling off a bridge, and he does it by flying. But since in the movie the crows can't fly, because they're just humans in crow suits, he has to do it a different way. That's the kind of shit I can't stand. Like it was THERE and he took it out!

Sometimes I think the writers of the shows forget that they're writing for animals, or that scripts are written for humans but then sold to shows where the characters are animals. Like, there's this episode of My Little Pony Tales that irritated me, too (only playfully this time.) MLPT bugged me anyway because the ponies were always bent into awkward human shapes, sitting like humans and holding things in their hooves somehow. I liked how Lauren Faust made it a point to adapt the world to how a pony might build it, instead of forcing ponies to fit in a regular human world.

Anyway. This episode of MLPT was the old "kid thinks they might actually be the child of royalty," where the king and queen are looking for their lost daughter and Patch fits the description given, and she was adopted when she was little so there's a chance this is possible. The description of the Princess is that she has pink hair (not mane, hair!) yellow eyes, and a birthmark on her hoof (side note- Patch's birthmark turns out to be just paint and, like, did she just never look at that hoof before? How could she think she suddenly had a birthmark? Silly pony.) It turns out the real princess is another orphan who wasn't adopted, but they didn't know it was her because she'd dyed her mane blue at the time.

But, like… When you're trying to identify a pony toy, what are the first three things you notice? Isn't it mane color, body color and flank symbol? Patch and the princess are both pastel yellow, true, but Patch has a patch on her flank and the princess has a rose. And this is G1, so ponies are born with their symbols. The king and queen would have known what color she was and what symbol she has. Not to mention, their carriage is pulled by Clydesdale horses who never speak and might not even be sapient. You know, like a human king and queen might be.

So when I turn on, say, Bluey to keep me company and the kids do things like bark or wag their tails when they get excited, it makes me smile. It's such a little thing. Side note, I also like when Bingo asks Mum, "How do animals without tails know they're happy?" and Mum doesn't actually say the answer, because kids will hear that and get excited because they know the answer, and when little kids can answer questions that grown-ups don't it makes them feel good. Smart thing for a kid's show to do.

me reading physical books: "if this book doesn't completely change my way of thinking about the world around me I will consider it a complete waste of time. i must come out of this experience a Changed Woman."

me reading fanfiction: "i don't care about PLOT i don't care about THEME i care about MEN KISSING."

Christmas story time!

One time, when I was an early teenager, my church asked me to be Mary in the Christmas Eve nativity play. It was a simple play, basically I would come down the ausle, give a speech telling a small part of the story, and then sit down in the stable set. Then Joseph would come down, tell the next part, and take his place in the set. One by one, all the important players would come down, tell their part of the story, and then pose in the set. As I went first, I had to sit down, still, for nearly the entire duration of the play.

As soon as I sat down, I suddenly remembered the joke in SpongeBob where Patrick was mad because he couldn’t see his forehead, and I spent the entire play trying not to bust out laughing.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Those who do not, have a good day regardless.

All right, so I was at this reception after a funeral service a little while ago. Everyone was leaving, the staff was cleaning up, but the adults were doing that thing where they have to make the rounds, say goodbye, then get sucked into a conversation for like twenty minutes. You know how they do? And there were a few kids trying to keep busy, but they were so full of energy and so bored from the long memorial service and then the long reception with no kid-friendly activities and stuff that one of the kids was running around wildly while he was waiting. I mean literally bouncing off the walls. He hit the walls and changed directions. This kid had so much energy and he was driving everyone crazy.

So I was like, you know what, my dad's doing the same thing as the other adults, I'm gonna take one for the team. I intercept the kid, check out what shirt he's wearing, and say, "You like Minecraft?" And boom. Suddenly he's standing in one place telling me everything about the Minecraft world he's building. But it turns out that Minecraft isn't his favorite game. No, that honor goes to Roblox, because of course it does. Suddenly he's off to borrow his dad's phone, because he HAS to show me this Roblox game he made.

He told me, "It's called 'Jump Off a Building and Die.'" (or something to that effect.) The game was, you're on the top of a building, you jump off, and your character dies. That's it, that's the game. You then respawn at the top and can do it again. He did this like five times for me.

I love the things kids make. They're so uninhibited. Pure fun diluted into its basic form.

I can hoagie down on the fast train to the mainframe.

Apparently my mom's grocery list is being ghostwritten by Ponyo

low effort shitpost from TF2 comics 7 and the Simpsons.

According to some file dates on my computer, I first got into Team Fortress 2 on 12/19/22. The second comic came out the day after my second anniversary with TF2. That feels incredibly surreal.

This ship came to me in a dream and I'm making it everyone else's problem.

no talk with me i angy