What Am I Doing

Today Crowley and Aziraphale went on an evening walk. Aziraphale thought the street lamps made the red in Crowley's hair stand out in a very lovely way, so he told him so.

This version of the progress flag legitimately looks so nice

Gilbert baker rainbow, huge intersex circle, the design is cluttered but in a good way 10/10

[ID: A version of the progress pride flag with a large purple intersex ring outlined in gold, looping through pink, blue, brown, and black chevrons on the side, which have a base of white. The horizontal stripes are: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. End ID.]

It's happening the morphing into Ohio

Girls. That's the original image. We've come full circle. It's always just been the state of Ohio

scantily is basically the most classic way to be clad

This is iron clad erasure

I need to live long enough for the opportunity to say "the iron in which your argument is clad is scanty"

sorry about the weird half page the first sheet of free paper on my desk was the sheet of tracing/transfer paper I was using for a commission

anyways i'm back into the commission mines, enjoy!

There’s too many valleys in California and they’re all referred to as “the valley” as shorthand so you never know which one somebody is talking about. Is it the Central Valley? Sonoma valley? San Fernando Valley? Yosemite Valley? Nobody knows!

This is why we need to bring the mountains down into the valleys. Level the playing field. Bring the mountain dwellers down to us. Have a completely flat land and some extremely strange cliffs on the Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon boarders. Screw the water problem we drain the Pacific Ocean and keep it all in a big bucket water problem solved and you can drive to Hawaii now

same energy

The one real HRT milestone that matters is the first time a cat steps on your boobs and it hurts

assigned titty at kitty (atak)

Yeah she atak me

official boob post

from "Cherish this Ecstasy" by David James Duncan

And he chose rfk jr as the secretary of health and human services. The rfk jr who has a dead worm in his brain that died in there because rfk jr ate so much mercury that the worm died of mercury poisoning that rfk jr the rfk jr who used his influence to spread anti-vaccine misinformation during a pandemic that probably killed people that rfk jr. rfk jr the king of the nepo babies rfk jr the man who forgot he had a dead bear in his trunk and left it in Central Park that rfk jr who has a law degree and not a medical degree that rfk jr that’s who he’s chosen to lead the department of health and human services that’s the one he’s chosen that Robert F Kennedy Jr. that’s the one. The anti-vaxxer with a dead brain worm that’s the guy that’s the guy who’s supposed to lead the department of health and human services, folks.

If you live in a swing state and you voted against Harris or didn’t vote this is what you were voting for, folks. A dead brain worm without any medical experience in charge of the department of health and human services. I hope you’re happy with your decision. I hope you fully enjoy that dead brain worm.

The reason Trump won is largely the same reason nearly all incumbent governments in the developed world lost. They happened to be in power when inflation was high, even if the inflation had nothing to do with them and there wasn't much they could do to reverse it.

The US actually had the best results in combating inflation out of all developed economies. But it didn't matter. Prices were high and that was enough to swing the election.

That's exactly it.

Metalmark Moth (Saptha divitiosa), family Choreutidae, Philippines

photograph by Vliente Rey

Aww

something about the way watson is immediately intrigued by holmes's character ("the proper study of man is mankind,") immediately begins studying the man like an anthropologist, has a natural inclination to help people, and continues to write and think about Who Holmes Is in addition to chronicling his actual work makes me think that, if the field had existed, he'd have been a psychologist.

something about being a doctor and then transitioning into the exact type of writer he becomes, his concern for holmes, his preoccupation with the unknown/darker aspects of human nature/taboo subjects not often addressed, his innate compassion... lad was writing letters to Freud fr (don't do it watson)

Our cats both sit on top of the recliner near the table when we’re eating dinner. They don’t try to get at the food or anything. They just chill. They’re like oh it’s time for everyone to sit around the table again we will too

The little kitten insists upon grooming me when I pet him. He’s like oh you groom me do not worry I groom you too. Big sandpaper tongue on your arm.

Yes baby that tiny amount of licking you’re doing on my thumb is making a world of difference thank you

He also does this to the teenage cat who you can tell is also humoring him like yes thank you you licked two square inches of my fur in the wrong direction little brother wonderful

And then he immediately fixes his fur the second the little one walks away lol

It never once occurred to me during the original run of Leverage (or during the first season of Redemption) that Eliot’s parents were Black, but as soon as they get to the reveal in “The Fractured Job,” both Spouse and I were like OH. THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

(I would like to expand more on WHY it makes sense, but I need to organize my thoughts and I’m tired. But it really, really does.)

And Keith David was such a perfect choice to play Billy Spencer. The degree to which he and Kane were able to mirror each other’s body language and gestures was slightly uncanny and really helped to sell the reconciliation after 30 years of estrangement and the fact that they still loved each other in spite of it all.

I loved the backstory of WHY Spencer Sr. didn’t want Eliot to join the military, and that the institutional racism behind him being denied the Medal of Honor was explicitly called out.

Also loved how Hardison is clearly having one of the best days of his life at finding out about Eliot’s parents, and how much Billy and Breanna bonded. I’d be so happy to see him turn up again in S3.

Perfect episode, and one of my all-time favorites.

Even though I'm a bit guilty of it myself with my own space opera setting (it's supposed to have a retro aesthetic), it's surprising how science fiction has been so permeated by cynicism and what I can best define as "End of History" thinking that the only thing pop sci fi seems able to imagine is "the future will be the same as today (or even worse), but there will be Cool Laser Guns"

(lately even the lasers have been replaced by regular bullets)

What I mean is that much like it's harder to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, it's easier to imagine our current capitalist system extending indefinitely but now In Space rather than imagine societal changes. Like, this it guys? We're gonna have to pay rent and fight pointless wars and be ruled by corporate suits forever? are we actually gonna have fucking CEOs as we explore the galaxy?

This is it? You can't imagine a better world than this?

Even when sci-fi authors talk about realism, it's usually about how to make ships pound each other harder with missiles, not how about society will evolve in the future, what changes might technology bring to society (the whole point of science fiction in my opinion). It's just Today, But With Lasers. We will still have corporations, nation-states, cops, war, the same society we have now. But Now With Lasers.

anyways, for a good start, read Banks and LeGuin, but there are others, lots more, who dare to imagine what actual futures might look like, they just aren't as well known

it's like if fantasy settings were just perpetually stuck for ages with the same technology and same pseudo-feudal social organization (the same dynasties sometimes!) instead of changing over the centuries like in real life

oh wait