#but in SO many movies and tv shows

[clamorybus]

its insane how my small town of <10,000 is more diverse than the majority of hollywood productions that are set in major cities

[freitag1607]

1.05 / Battle of the Labyrinth

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[arielluva]

never drawn their movie designs before :3

[ksturf]

a tribute to the one and only david keith mccallum [19.09.1933-25.09.2023 ∞]

[im-just-as-sane-as-you]

From this:

To this:

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[valtsv]

so weird being an eldest sibling who can't relate to most of the "eldest sibling memes". not the being a surrogate parent against your will to your younger siblings and being expected to set the bar for success in everything you did, i did have to deal with that, but all the jokes about how you were the only one resembling an actual normal human being in your family and your younger siblings were like imps sent from hell to torment you. because out of me and my brother i was the devil sibling. he didn't like to bring his friends over to our house because they were scared of his creepy sister who would stare out at them from the windows with her horrible dead shark's eyes and read books and watch shows on tv with photos of real life decomposing corpses and diseased rotting flesh in them that would give them nightmares.

[lazy-toad]

Enjoy this meme I'm so tired

[roomwithanopenfire]

the way there are so many snowbaz edit ideas just floating in my brain but i'll never be able to make them because there's no movie or tv show

[pomegranate]

MOVIE TONIGHT!!! EP OF ALL TIME

[griddlebait]

I just finished Crimson and Clover (over and over), and I'm very nearly at a loss for words on my adoration for this chapter.

You've *clearly* used some sort of dark alchemy at chapter's end to transform a block of words into an hour long episode of prestige lesbian television drama inside my mind. It was the final look at the mixtape that did it, I'm certain. Very well done

thank you so much! i really appreciate hearing this - there's a lot of moments in sckl i try to give a somewhat "cinematic" feeling and that chapter was definitely one of them

[horrorlesbians]

Ive ran out of interesting things to watch online, would you have any movie or show suggestions?

tv- sharp objects, the terror season one, true detective season one, hannibal, channel zero, house md, iwtv, dexter, bojack horseman, crazy ex girlfriend, fleabag.

horror films- this list is basically every horror film i enjoy

[echo-stimmingrose]

I know this is a very unpopular opinion, but god I hope they don't play fucking poker face in the Lotus Casino scene.

[rotisseries]

rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't