#squash really is saying things

[itssquash]

how about you listen to the entirety of the fox confessor brings the flood by neko case and maybe you'll feel better (a whole lot worse)?

[a-vague-yet-menacing-agency]

Once Brennan specified to Riz that Kipperlilly didn't have a scar I knew exactly how all the revivifying would play out. To me it makes perfect sense that Kipperlilly is the only one to stay permanently dead. Not mortalistically, but remember this is a story. Penelope Everpetal and Dayne also stayed permanently dead too. Riz shot off Buzz's fingers. The key thing is Brennan said that Kipperlilly didn't have a scar, she didn't die and then chose Ankarna, she chose to side with Porter first. Similarly to Penelope and Dayne. Where all three of them ultimately still manipulated by other forces using them? Yes. But they fundamentally chose their side because of something they wanted to gain. When Brennan made that distinction between Kipperlilly and the others, it was obvious where that was going.

Brennan wouldn't have crafted a narrative of manipulation just to kill all the Rat Grinders because that wouldn't have been very satisfying, given that we knew so little about them why would we cheer for Ivy to stay dead or Mary Ann? Remember: The cast was only talking about Atonement and revivifying Mary Ann, but Brennan revivified all the others too even though they weren't shown to have a change of heart. This is because, while possibly jerks, the others weren't set-up to be so bad that their perma-deaths would have been all that satisfying.

In contrast, Kipperlily's beef with everyone was front and center and she killed her own party member. If Kipperlilly was going to come back and be redeemed after that it would have felt cheap. Not because of something inherent to Kipperlily but because no one did the work to make that a possibility. NOW, if someone had been in her dreams and putting in the work like Fig did for Rueben, it could have worked. But people didn't put in the works. FANS have extrapolated sympathetic angles for Kipperlilly but the narrative hasn't. Remember Aelwyn's redemption only came after Adaine was exploring it. Thus, since no one explored Kipperlily's redemption, it wasn't "text," it wasn't an angle present in the narrative that would have been satisfying because it didn't develop enough to have a conclusion.

Basically: Narratives have to be set up. Some permanent consequences had to be dealt to the Rat Grinders to feel satisfying given everything they had done to the Bad Kids. Kipperlilly was shown to be the most voluntarily antagonistic, and was the one set-up as having been antagonizing them and so she was the one who had die. If the players had made different choices, thing could have changed, but they didn't and so Brennan merely delivered on what was set up before

[aemiron-main]

Thinking about baby patty 20 dead 40 wounded

[chirpsythismorning]

Hate to be that bitch but…

[magpiesketchins]

✨art✨

[krawdad]

I get that they probably are trying to make the gigantic robot lizard as unscary as possible but who's idea was it to give the alligator fuzzy fleece skin

There isn't a closeup where it's still enough to be sure but that sure looks like puppet/mascot suit fleece to me.

Also since I'm here it looks cool without its skin

Imagineer for scale

[dormarunt]

There's no God, capital G or not, to save me from what I'm about to post later. Brainrot of the highest degree, so much so that I wanted to get an alt AO3 account for this. Complete fever dream.

And only Berlermo in (one of the) themes.

[catharusustulatus]

People getting mad on Twitter about whether or not Robin and Jonathan would be friends. Uh, yeah, they’d be friends, after she’d suss him out (does he treat Nancy and Steve well?) and then they’d talk movies and music and geeky shit all day long. They’d at least have common interests or be friendly. Steve mentioned them all hanging out so he’d be more than down - it seems like Steve wants to be friends with Jonathan too (or at least squash the awkwardness between them, or politely support him since he loves Nancy). I can definitely imagine Jon and Rob debating the symbolism in Evil Dead. But don’t get it twisted, NOBODY will do it for Robin like Steve. That’s her ride or die. That’s her pookie bear, her bestie.

[falled-over]

what are you these days some kind of insect thing

i have a shelf of dead insects in my room that ive picked up off the ground

[milkweedman]

Finally figured out a good way to make non-circular shaped loafs without having a banneton or a specifically shaped proving basket (round loafs can of course just be proved in any old mixing bowl with a liner of some kind). It's an aluminum foil dispenser box and a parchment paper dispenser box, with some parchment paper on top for the dough to rest on, and something heavy (in this case, lifting weights) to stop them from sliding as the dough tries to expand outwards. It does need to have some structural integrity of its own or itll just slowly pour out the sides, but i did get a pretty nice loaf out of it. Might try a baguette next time.

[itssquash]

i've got such an irrational fear of accidentally Doing a Plagiarism. i have a post in my drafts that i wrote in march and i do genuinely want to post it it's just that the joke feel so obvious i'm consumed by fear that i saw that post somewhere and just thought i came up with it and if i post it everyone will think i'm a joke thief. so what now

[earlyspringtranscendence]

im gonna be blissfully asleep while this happens cause i got class at 830 but we cant keep having branielson lose to chris jericho we really cant. and to that point we cant keep having chris jericho on the show every goddamn week. and to THAT point im not even saying this abt the JAS at large cause as grating as they are i love tayjay im just saying ive kinda had enough of jericho for a while

[grassbreads]

I eat a lot of pasta and unadorned jarred sauce because I rarely have the energy to cook anything more interesting after getting home from work, but today I fried onions and garlic and bell peppers to add to the sauce and I tried a new, slightly more complicated spice mix with them, and it turned out really delicious :)

Thank you Senshi

[wewontbesleeping]

i made such nasty squash the other night and idk if it's bc squash is gross and i've been lying to myself or if i seasoned it nastily

[hoennislands]

Maybe because I am me but I fail to see where Jade was fumbled or deserved better if she really is gone from aew

[inkskinned]

you found out today that a phrase you have used before was coined by an abusive man. this felt like getting your teeth taken out. it made you sick and sad and tired, but not surprised.

bad people tell you to be careful when you talk badly of bad men, that it could "ruin" a life. you had your life ruined by a bad man, not that it ever matters to them. your real life having real consequences is not valued as highly as the potential of his future.

this has always been a frustrating little mathematics problem for you. you've missed school and had to call out sick at work and had panic attacks that lasted for weeks. it stole sleep and food and friends from you. you cried in public, fucked your relationships up. and the whole time: your present has never mattered so much as the great what if! of his future. like - one life (your life) is already ruined, should we really ruin two?

so you live with the consequences and he doesn't, and that's just like, something you need therapy for. you once discussed this with one of your friends over coffee. she chewed the wooden stirrer, looked off into the distance. "once i became a victim, everything that happens to me afterward is automatically less interesting in the eyes of the general public. it is always about him. he changed my identity. to survivor. to statistic. meanwhile this whole time - i am a person."

you learned in college that three out of five of your favorite artists and authors were actually abusive assholes. these days, you are no longer surprised. oh, is that what was happening behind closed doors? of course it was, he was a "genius," and she was just a girl. you are talking about him in art history, so obviously his career was absolutely ruined, for eternity. that's what happens, right? they strike your name from the record and refuse to remember you? nobody really knows her name, but hey. that's what you get for being close to celebrity.

you got into an argument about it, which was a bad argument, because it made you cry. he said what, you want us to just ignore all the things this man did because he made a few women uncomfortable? and you'd balled your fists up and choked on it. later, in bed, you agonized over the response you'd been trying to articulate but never found the right moment to deploy: you are ignoring what any person could do if they weren't being fucking abused. maybe her talents far exceeded his and she was just never allowed to fucking use them. maybe we only see genius in white men because they purposefully fucking squash and silence any other people with talent.

but you'd cried about it instead of saying that, because you are the cost. you are the talent and potential that he took. you used to be brave and smart and clever and unafraid. like a lich, he stole years of your life.

quiet on set made you sad and sick and tired, but not surprised. unfortunately, one of the things he said was true: an entire network of people allowed it to continue. this is not news to you, because you have seen entire networks of people make the same fucking excuses when the same thing or-worse happened to you. and your particular story isn't even in hollywood. it was just a guy. it was still difficult getting people to stand up for you.

you and your friend wait in line for your coffee. like a standup joke, one man turns to the other and says "can't wait for every bitch to come crawling out of the woodwork complaining about harassment. it's another metoo." and you think - oh, that's the network. your boss tucks her hair back and whispers that while your skirt is cute, you're giving the boys the wrong idea. that's the network. when you'd told your "friend" about what happened, she'd said oh you must have misunderstood, that would never happen. and that's the network.

you woke up this morning panting, because years later you still have panic attacks. oh, it's not a network, actually, it's a web. and you, little moth: are you still surprised you're caught in it?