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the thing about astarion is that i do think that he is COMICALLY his own worst enemy but i also recognize that the reason for that is that he hit a sharp genre shift at 100000 mph. one second you're the hot and kinda tragic but expendable minion of a d&d boss and the next you're the romancable companion in the party. this little man was built to have his lore discovered in a notebook while looting his corpse after you've killed cazador and all the sudden everyone's like hey astarion. do you want to sit by the fire and tell us about yourself :) we all like you and want you happy :) and he's like what the fuuuuck. what the fuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk????

however i do still find him funny about it, sorry man

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it's not a true pet peeve but when certain phrases are divorced from their contexts it does give me a weird little butterfly in my stomach.

like, okay. "hell is other people" is an excellent line from Sartre's play "no exit". it's very short, you could probably read it in an afternoon or two. but the line isn't making a commentary about all people - it's actually specifically about the 3 characters in the play. they're all very bad people who are legitimately being punished in-actual-hell. they are forced into a room together for eternity & have been hand-picked to be as annoying as possible to each other as punishment for the sins they committed while alive.

and that concept is crazy! i don't write fanfiction but imagine what characters would be actual torture for each other! "hell is other people" isn't condemning humanity - it is saying we create hell from other people.

or like - shakespeare's "brevity is the soul of wit"! that is a joke line said by a joke character. polonius constantly talks too much and says fucking nothing of use. while hamlet is having like, the worst year of anyone's life - polonius gives really fucking vague and useless advice, including such popular sayings as: "to thine own self be true" and "neither a borrower or a lender be." when he says brevity is the soul of wit, it is meant ironically for the audience - this is a man who never shuts the fuck up. he himself is not brief, and therefore witless.

stuff like this just makes me wonder like - how many idioms or sayings come from completely different contexts and we just. fogrgot :(

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10 years

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Inspired by a Dropout bit

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"... You're what??"

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No bcus the implications of the Saja Boys are so funny like??? Jinu is the only one we've seen has a confirmed music background so did he have to research, train, style, and manage the group by himself???? Did he also have to come up with the concepts and the marketing or is there like a demon thats rlly good at photoshop? Or if its all Jinu that means he had to teach himself fucking adobe after effects and how to use tiktok. Also how did he even research how to make a boy group was he in the trenches of BTS comment sections??? God the more I think about the Saja Boys the funnier it gets

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kpop demon hunters from the perspective of the fans is so fucking funny because what do you mean the biggest kpop girl group in korea is beefing with and wrote a devastating diss track about a brand new boy band that debuted like 4 weeks ago and only has one song out

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Dude just came into the store wearing VDV cap, a telnyashka and Ratnik jacket with a RU flag patch.

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watch one abandoned house restoration video and you start getting suggested videos like this

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this is in my history book about prohibition in the 1920s and i’m laughing so hard oh my gooooood

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On TikTok, a burly Gen Z New Yorker who goes by “Rizz Carlton” earned outsize attention for a February video that he captioned, in part, “I’ve sent over 1,500 applications and haven’t gotten 1 offer in 2 years … even with a masters degree & internships.” Now, the caption continues, he’s “doing social media to pay the bills.” “Unless you’ve been on a job search the last two years, you do not know how bad it is out here,” a Chicago-based techie named Syd wrote in the caption for a March TikTok that’s racked up nearly 10 million views. “The job market is trash, basura, it’s been bad!” A 24-year-old Los Angeles–based writer, teacher, and comedian who goes by Femcel1836 began sharing dispatches from her “job search hell” late last year before pouring out her frustrations in a January Substack essay titled “WHY ARE THERE NO FUCKING JOBS?” That post went viral, garnering hundreds of comments from like-minded users. One bemoaned that she’d been “suffering through this find a job shit for the past 2 years”; another called this a “crisis” that was even “more severe” than the 2008 recession—otherwise known as the worst financial meltdown of the 21st century. Even experienced workers share the perception that this is the worst job market of their lifetime. “I’ve been laid off before,” Dave told me, sighing as he acknowledged that periods of looking for work are part of having a career. “But it’s never been this hard to just get interest on a résumé. Even during the Great Recession and COVID, there were fewer postings, but it was never this quiet.” If you’re looking for a job right now, it might feel hard to convey people who are happily employed just how rough things are. That’s because the topline numbers about the job market are, for all the chaos in America, pretty rosy. The federal jobs report for April shows that unemployment is historically, persistently low, that jobs are being added almost continuously, and that there are hundreds of thousands of openings waiting to be filled. Even the measured percentage of “discouraged” and underemployed workers fell last month, as labor force participation increased overall.

Gonna be fun with those medicaid job requirements

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Growing up, my brother and I deeply dreaded going shoe shopping. It took hours, especially if it was for winter boots. My dad would examine the stitching, the brand reliability, the temperature recommendations, every piece of information he could get his hands on, and then when he'd finally found the right brand, it was on to making absolutely dead sure they fit properly - he had a particular way of poking the toe of the boot to ensure our foot was where it was supposed to be that always drove me nuts. This was always on a weekend, and it was about the worst punishment we could imagine.

Years later, I found out that he'd spent his entire childhood on the Canadian prairies with cold feet. My grandmother just bought whatever boots looked like the best value, regardless of whether they'd keep anyone warm. They'd kept him from frostbite, probably, but never, ever comfortable.

The reason my grandmother never had a thought about this was because she was buying her kids real boots. There was a sort of magical quality about real, purpose-made boots that meant that of course they'd work, because when she was growing up on the Canadian prairies, they had the kind of no money that meant you just stuffed some newspaper into your shoes and soldiered on.

The last pair of winter boots my dad bought for me was 15 years ago, in preparation for a three-month stint living in northern Quebec in midwinter. They cost $200 then, or something like it. I've worn them every year since, driving out to the remotest locations on the Canadian prairies and never once thinking about my feet.

When I read the Vimes Boots Theory for the first time, it rang a bell that reverberated back three generations.

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cuntrix

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I'm losing my fucking mind at "skelet or some type of a devil shit"