there are few fictional characters i hate quite like i am coming to hate bruce wayne
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there are few fictional characters i hate quite like i am coming to hate bruce wayne
soul shaken to his knees he's got the same old racket and a new disease and he won't take it on his neck he's talkin' red hot whiskey, he's got no respect
a restless kid wants to use his hands he's got a real quick trigger and some new demands he grows up fast and he grows up real and when he comes around he finds there's no more steel --
I spent most of my childhood expecting to live alone as an adult and I'm very glad I was wrong but it IS nice to have the house to yourself for a few hours so you can blast the same song eight times in a row because it makes you think about The Character
There are a lot of songs that are musically absolute all-timers but whose IRL context makes them really... really. I have yet to find one more so than Amy Winehouse's "Rehab.'
if we HAVE to be stuck in... this..., though, I do enjoy the grim solidarity of normie-sounding retirees offhandedly referring to the administration as "these douchebags"
profoundly troubling to have people ask "hey, what's going on with RFK Jr? can we still get vaccines? is there gonna be a new covid vaccine?" and have to be like, well, here and now you can get vaccines and beyond that your guess is as good as mine
oh man, I will admit that while I rarely miss things about twitter, I do miss the chaos of getting online and finding out JCO is posting but not knowing if she's doing some lightly incoherent racism or delivering two to the chest and one to the head of some right-wing weirdo
it was specifically the level of fed the fuck up, so, uh, definitely an honor but one I dream not of
got compared to sister micheal from derry girls
(....that is to say: fucking-the-verb comma right)
HE'S GOT.... IDIOSYNCRATIC PRINCIPLES. (we're about halfway through.) (also he and Zechs were 100% fucking right.)
avery's got me watching gundam wing
treize khushrenada is the kind of guy to work at a tech company and not bat an eyelash when they start making missile systems but then resign over genAI
if you didn't read the text then clap your handsđź‘Źđź‘Ź if you didn't read the text then clap your handsđź‘Źđź‘Ź if you didn't read the text and now we do not have your meds cuz that's exactly what we said then clap your handsđź‘Źđź‘Ź
My toddler must’ve turned on speech to text, but honestly a lot of posters do need to hear this.
(but it was started by a fan of his, and the fic + movement both played a role in the cult happening.)
.....on the other hand the cult with four deaths isn't mentioned on the Methods of Rationality fanlore page either so who knows what I don't know about the Snapewives. (IN FAIRNESS AND TO AVOID ACTUAL LIBEL: the cult with the body count was NOT started by the actual MoR author.)
I gotta say, though snapewives appear to consist entirely of people I would find profoundly exhausting, a cursory glance over this article does not land on any links to police reports! so they, uh, got that going for them
was snapewives linked to a specific fic because if so a THIRD cult has entered the chat, it was andy and then methods of rationality
update I mixed up two different Harry Potter fanfics that have started cults
somehow ended up discussing the one paper which cites T. Kaczynski* (*Better known for other work.) and also informing multiple people in the group about the Harry Potter fanfic that has started multiple cults
tabletop going well
"Hit 'em where it hurts -- the wallet." "Does a wallet contain nerve endings?" "Well... in a very real sense, dollar bills are the nerve endings of the economy." "And in another, more real sense, no."
me to every self-checkout machine: I'm better than you
nothing has made me feel better about momentary stupid awkwardnesses (nonsensical "you too," can't find cardreader, etc) than working retail and seeing how common and universal it is
I do stewed pork with apples? might only count as savory to my sweet tooth, but: apple, pork, potato, onion, honey mustard, cinnamon & nutmeg, little bit of water (the juice from the apple does a lot). brown pork, grill onion, dump everything in a stockpot and fuck off for several hours.
also. best dog representation I've seen in a while.
movie theaters are good bc we saw the new Superman and we sat behind an elegantltly dressed and coiffed 50-60 year old woman who whispershouted "YES!" repeatedly during the "I'm as human as you are" speech
probably the funniest use of wplace i've seen so far
I am going to fight Jim Balent in a Denny's parking lot
sometimes a fic with an US character and a US setting has been buzzing along happily for many chapters of comfortably US English and then a character takes some paracetamol
show a little faith, there's magic in the night / you ain't a beauty but hey, you're alright / and that's alright with me --
OH. YIKES
that makes perfect sense to me honestly, you have an entire week to forget. but yeah I'm sorry it's money making this call :<
fair enough fair enough. ....how do you get sauce on a very tall ceiling in the first place??
someone down the block is blasting Fleetwood Mac's Dreams and I'm gonna need them to either turn it down enough that it can't be heard down the block or up enough that I can hear it properly
stand on a table??
Serious answer: I genuinely believe I'd be a really good fiction editor if a few things had gone differently in my life. Non-serious answer: in the magical alternate universe where I have athletic ability, I'd be an AMAZING wrestling heel. I could be SO fucking obnoxious and bitchy on purpose.
lord knows there's a generous sufficiency of white boys in bat outfits, but my GOD, this one is adorable. you get Little Cameos If I Can Find An Excuse awarded to you. (assuming I ever feel sufficiently grounded to write shit, anyway!!!)
me a week ago: okay, back in the 90s there was some random Bat-auxiliary called Jean-Paul Valley?? but it looks like he hasn't been relevant SINCE the 90s so I don't have to care about him me now: WHO THE FUCK?? GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO BE THAT CUTE??
![Comic panel of Batgirl / Cassandra Cain (in costume) and Azrael / Jean-Paul Valley (not in costume, with giant dweeby duffle) talking in the ruins of Gotham. Dialogue as follows: JPV: -- Since we'll be working together, maybe you should know something about me, Batgirl. It is okay to call you that, isn't it? CC: [panel of pointed silence] JPV: Sorry, I should have remembered that you don't talk. Anyway... when I put on the Azrael suit, something happens to my mind that affects my body. I become really powerful... and kind of mean. That's the part I don't like, the meanness, but it seems to come with the territory. Without the suit, I'm just Jean Paul Valley. Pretty unmean guy. If that's a word. Un-mean, I mean. [indicates bag] The suit's in here. I won't put it on till I have to, and I hope that I don't. Have to. I'm babbling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnpwaprdfrynybdp4ly4yfdd/bafkreiefhagc5p7cil7doi6fc7b724y5peeteesy5oa2truy77fzj5sbfm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
oh it'd make sense if it were a rock. but I cannot see a rock, or anything BUT the ferret, for the life of me
DC comics writer: okay, so we've got THE MARK OF CAIN. not the actual Biblical one, but it's the callsign of an assassin, real scary guy, so we want it to look as ominous as the name, okay? DC ARTIST: you got it, boss! [draws a ferret who's not getting paid enough for this shit]
earnest but tactless psychic
everyone spends way too long going down a blind alley of assuming these are Space Bedbugs. patient zero turns out to be Clark who is so used to being immune to Earth diseases that he forgot he is not in any way immune to Bugs Standing On Him.
actually I should never have got into comics bc I start craving shit like "The Justice League vs The Normal Terrestrial Bedbugs"
I have no idea what's going on in the DCU I just took approximately eight seconds to decide she is the coolest bat
[banging pots and pans together] PUT ORACLE IN IT
I have measured out my life in phonetree songs.
laughed so hard I couldn't breathe so POWERFUL text from your sister
I just want to know what not to drink out of
since when have we got a water cooler
are they at it AGAIN? STILL?
significantly more oil painted and marble sculpted nudity than i expected in this book i brought to work to read on my break
Local man, great believer in picking on someone your own size, DELIGHTED to be a very specific other man's size.
several hundred years after the events of this series, some interdimensional researcher is going to discover there's like thirty thousand pocket dimensions that each contain exactly one furious carnivorous rabbit
(we hit pause RIGHT after she got hit by the hippo, so, no idea what the followup is going to look like, but the show has a, uh. vividly solid track record of treating unwanted sexual attention as horrifying even when it's from a hot anime waifu.)
re:zero is, I say with complete sincerity and complete seriousness, a good show. (there was also not any literal sex / statutory rape, it was a fight scene, but the imagery and framing was INCREDIBLY clear.)
"I wasn't expecting such a somber approach to a vampire being crushed by a hippo." "After deflowering a fourteen-year-old weretiger!" "Yeah! Like, if you told me an anime did those things, I'd assume it was, like, whatever Jojo's is doing. I assume that's the plot of Jojo's, I don't know!"
sadly hidden by the library sticker: that is No Man's Land VOLUME *ONE*.
Holy fucking shit yall I just wanted to meet Cassandra Cain. (Cat for scale.) (Well, cat present regardless.)
oh that's quite bad
this question gets to Jason who has never thought about it and he's just like. 🚬 I just wanted to kill the Joker.* *(selective memory).
somewhere in Gotham is a drug dealer who is like. "okay so I sell Adderall to some college kid and their ??sibling?? asked me if I can get them puberty blockers, is. is the Red Hood going to shoot me for that?"
when they ALSO have no bookmarks it's just like. well. okay. guess I'll starve.
incredibly good, incredibly /practiced/-feeling longfic on a mostly empty account always makes me absolutely froth with curiosity. WHO ARE YOU. DO YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS FOR EVERY FANDOM. ARE YOU MOSTLY AN ORIGFIC WRITER. WHAT. if you did as a first attempt I'm gonna have to run away to sea.
in a train car with the entire northwestern theater department ama
DO ITTT (disclaimer: Cost Of Living)
not really relevant to the political discussion here but a friend who worked at a school mentioned that this phenomenon led to interracial divorcees playing a years-long tug-of-war via their kids' demographic forms
if you write an explicitly specifically bisexual character as exclusively gay then I hope a bird shits on you every time you wear an outfit you like
multiple people complimented how obviously I am not wearing a bra, a compliment it is appropriate to give a stranger in basically this context only
to be clear, this is not us AT the parade, this is us IN the parade
Fuck it, you all can see my face for a hot second
clicked a VERY INCORRECT button and
but also it does sometimes do this and like maybe that's not wavy hair actually
sometimes I will leave my hair alone for a few days of being a slob and then when I look at it again it has 1) giant fucking ringlets, and 2) a tendril making a break for the stratosphere, and I'm like. hm. maybe I should look into some of the terrifying curly hair witchcraft. and then I don't.
Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen.
someone I just called for work related reasons had a voicemail that was "please leave your name, number, and favorite superhero" and I think you know I complied with that request
lrt: of COURSE kids raised on american girl grew up to go hard
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
having pets does sometimed put one in a situation of "oh no i feel SO bad..... but also this is the funniest thing in the world"
no one's filling out the fucking paperwork for that if they can POSSIBLY get out of it.
pharmacy things you may not want to know: if you have a CII medication, Adderall or hydrocodone or whatever, and a pill fell on the floor, there is a 199% chance that the staff were like ".....no it did not"
the thing is that in real life, I am pretty damn opposed to guns in like 80-90% of circumstances (and most of that 10-20% is the result of growing up in deer-hunt country). but in a setting full of magical sci-fi bullshit? there is NOTHING funnier than a character pulling out A Normal Glock.
But like just rearranging these is not gonna help
and hopefully that will help! I've never actually lived in one place long enough to really need to do that, before, but the entropy has built up kind of a lot
I realized that the reason I'm struggling more to keep up with cleaning lately miiiight be related to how putting anything away in this kitchen is a process of frustrated cramming, so I've been trying, one cabinet at a time, to pull everything out / purge / sort
signs I am perhaps an adult: just said "yeah, I think we need to get a spice rack" in tones of serious strategic consideration
MMMHM. like, I figure this is more like a mythology than a conventional canon, it doesn't mean every Batman is like this, but UHHHHHHHHH. NOPE. THAT'S. COOL COOL COOL I NEED A THEMED HAT AND A RAY GUN, I'M BECOMING A BATMAN ROGUE.
(apartment building basement, I have no authority over, vote in, or idea what they are supposed to be doing down there.)
I think the contractors in our basement are conducting a Napoleonic naval battle
I don't think your kid being a legal adult makes it even remotely acceptable to end an argument by backhanding them to the fucking floor, actually!
[pokes nose into comics for two seconds] bruce wayne is now my enemy i think
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
anyway I hope the person with the rack so magnificent that I went "godDAMN" at twenty fucking feet feels beautiful today.
I feel like there's a category of compliment that like.... might very well be flattering information to have, but beyond all certainty would be extremely creepy and unpleasant to RECEIVE. so the appreciation just has to go out into the universe and you hope it cosmically becomes good vibes.
Hooooooly shit Chicago people if you can get to the Edge Theatre's "Medea, Medea, Medea," do so. Brutal, layered, unflinching, exhilerating.
Okay yeah Damian Wayne is exactly that funny.
![Jon Kent: What the what? Dude, who exactly ARE you to these guys? Shadowy hooded assassin: He is the pinnacle of the line of Al Ghul. The bringer of blood. The hunter of men. The Demon's Son is a child with the demon's touch, carrying a million deaths in his hands. Damian Wayne, MASTER of deceit: [punting him across the room] You have me confused with someone else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnpwaprdfrynybdp4ly4yfdd/bafkreifahznyqnjftfqzoqbenlqc6qnbcen666bbadwa327j4yp3ymnism@jpeg "Click to view full size")
oh is it specifically the typographical em-dash -- as distinct from using the double-hyphen the way I just did -- that's considered an AI 'tell' (because it copied off us who use it). that is a hilariously convenient time for me to stop using smart punctuation for unrelated reasons.
okay am I just. bad at navigating the internet now. is there a way to get goodreads to let you browse an archive of reviews a person has written when that person is also an author?? bc I CAN'T FIND ONE