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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

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tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

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for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

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i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2

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girl shocked to discover that inaction can have consequences too

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Computer. Iris by the goo goo dolls. Loud enough to kill.

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I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna do the dishes!

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tell me something soft

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horsey :)

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It’s definitely not “do whatever you want bc nobody cares” it’s somewhere between “people don’t care as much as you think they do” and “if you want to truly do what you want you have to not care about how much other people care”

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Gatekeeping is so good and important

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I just started watching Trauma Dump with Lou Wilson, and Y'all, it needs to be said, this is GENIUS.

Trauma!Lou is the inverse of Host!Vic on VIP. He's unserious, glib, flippant. He's dedicated to creating Sick Rad Dope Fun Mental Health Content. He's a Walking Facade of Party Energy, approaching the deeply personal process of self discovery with no sense of transparency or gravitas whatsoever.

Anyone who's seen Lou in anything - Dropout, Crit Role, WBN, even Kimmel - knows he's a damn good actor and a magnetic personality. This project tests our understanding of Lou and asks us what we think we're seeing.

Vic said in an interview (which I can't find now, unfortunately) that they've encountered people who believe Host!Vic is the real Vic, and they have to explain that just because a character has their name doesn't mean it's Really Them. VIP is improv, but there's two comedians bouncing off each other in that environment. By contrast, Trauma Dump is also improv, but Lou's the only actor on set. Paul is, presumably, just doing his job. (unless he's an actor playing a therapist, but that's a whole different level of meta I'm not equipped to dig into here.)

The premise is awkward in its own right: Lou says he wants to get profound, but then dodges like his life depends on it. Paul is certainly taking the situation seriously; he's not sure whether he's meant to find Lou's behavior funny or not. It's tonally bizarre in a way that rhymes with VIP but also subverts the expectations of improv. You can already see the confusion in youtube comments, two hours or so after the stream. "This whole thing is a bit, right?"

This bit's game, to borrow a term from improv, is the gap between Lou and Paul, and How Lou works to maintain the gap while Paul works to close it. How much of Trauma Dump is Paul using his expertise on a fictional character, and how much of it is actually catching The Actor Lou Wilson off guard?

Actors put pieces of themselves into the characters they play; their perspectives and experiences. It's part of the mechanism of acting. Therapists remove their personal biases and feelings from their work environments; it's part of the mechanism of therapy. With these facts in mind, where are the lines? Where does Lou Wilson (sick rad awesome fun PTSDTF bro) end, and Lou Wilson (Actor and Human Person Who Exists) begin? We genuinely don't know, and that's what makes it an incredible soup of funny, scary, surreal, and magnetic.

I really, really hope this turns into a series.

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“it’s circus work.” not to me. not if it’s my monkeys.