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i had a strangely touching dream where my mind was parasitized by this frankly scary/gross looking weird immobile alien worm thing, but it meant me no harm and only wanted to get to experience life through me

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I remember so little from the actual series. I was very young when I read it lol

But I do remember that one time Rachel had an allergic reaction to the crocodile DNA in her body and had to basically live birth an adult crocodile in a school restroom. What a cool and child friendly book series.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997 - 2003) - 6.05, Life Serial

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"Every time they come together, it has enormous power, enormous meaning."

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Aishwarya Rai in "Albela" (dir. Deepak Sareen- 2001).

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HELLYCAT!!!

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What We Do in the Shadows 2014, dir. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement

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If you're using gen AI because "you want to make art but don't know how/can't learn/it's easier/whatever"

You don't want to make art.

You want someone to make art for you, but you don't want to pay or exchange anything of equal value for it, and also you want it right now, in whatever style you fancy that moment, and in whatever quantity you want. You're greedy and entitled and it is just that simple. You don't want to make anything.

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Carrie Fisher photographed by Lynn Goldsmith, 1980

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defiance, personified

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The last time we were on a long flight, my wife and I invented a game we call "Little Guy."

You start a game of Little Guy by saying, "I'm gonna hand you a little guy." The little guy is some kind of baby animal you are imagining. "Oh," she might say in response, "Okay," and hold out her hands for it. I will then mime handing her the animal. This provides some clues as to the little guy's size, weight, and general ungainliness.

She then gets to ask questions about what kind of little guy this is, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE OR SPECIES ARE ALLOWED. Qualitative questions, or questions about his behavior, are the only ones permitted. She can ask "Is he soft?" or "Does he seem nervous about being held?" or "If I put him in the bathtub, does he seem okay with that?" or "Would he like a lil grape?" or "Is he the sort of little fellow who would wear a vest in a children's book?" but not "Does he have fur," "Is he a reptile," "Is he from Asia," etc. Some questions are in a grey area so you have to follow your heart, but the point is not to identify the animal as fast as possible: the point is to guess the animal purely based on vibes + how he would act if he were in your living room right now.

And I'm not limited to yes or no answers! If she asks, "Would it feel appropriate to see this little guy in a propeller hat?" I can reply, "Oh no, he has a gravity to him. A bowler hat would be a more appropriate hat." Or if she asks, "Does this little guy have protagonist energy?" I can say something like, "he probably wouldn't be the main character in a children's cartoon. He'd probably be the main character's ditzy best friend who's always eating sandwiches, or something."

We're big Twenty Questions to kill time in a waiting room people, but Little Guy is more about the journey than the destination. It's got a different kind of sauce that's nice if "killing time" and "lowering anxiety" need to happen hand in hand.

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the death of 8tracks made you all so bad at making playlists i fear. good ship or character playlist is max 16 songs and devastatingly perfectly crushingly curated. it should make sense musically, if not across the playlist, then at least from song to song. GRADIENTS of genre. think about this before you make a 200 song ship playlist that includes both maroon 5 and mitski. Think on it

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Severance, 2x03 “Who Is Alive?” // 2x07 “Chikhai Bardo”

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Thinking about how despite the fact that he doesn’t remember gemma mark s is LITERALLY born out of his love for her. Like he loved her so much he was CHOKING ON HER GHOST (!!!) and created a new version of himself who didn’t have to remember losing her. It’s a super fucked up subversion of loving someone to the point of creation; I love you so much I created a version of myself that never knew you. And he still feels it down there he just doesn’t know what it is!! What the fuck!!!

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Does anyone remember AOL zine culture back in the late ‘90’s-EARLY 00’s? They were mailing lists, basically, about various fandoms. It was pre-photoshop, so graphic design was basically fancy ascii art in cute colors.

If you sent emails to too many people at once, you had to beg your parents to call AOL and give you an exception to mass mailing.

I loved that my computer was so old I couldn’t run any AOL past 4.0, which meant that I still had the ability to get HEX codes for any color since AOL 5.0 only let you choose basic colors.

Found a bunch of old e-mails saved as HTML files so I could use those sweet, sweet colors & it brought back a LOT of memories.

I remember having a music themed one, where I’d send out ONE mp3 a week, because it took a whole hour and a half just to upload one song.

This was even pre-livejournal days for me. I’m glad I’m still friends with one person from those days, if not I’d have thought it was a fever dream because I’ve never met a SINGLE other person who remembered this.