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I enjoy that at work I join in conversations about coworkers' partners and say "my boyfriend" but none of them know I'm talking about more than one person. It's like my own person joke to myself that I have multiple boyfriends but don't distinguish between them when talking about them at work.

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Why aren't retractable cords more common? I once had a vacuum with a retractable cord and it was shit vacuum but I dream about that cord every time I use a vacuum.

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Women tend to do more sewing. Women tend to live longer. Coincidence? I think not!

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Watched the Blade trilogy and had some thoughts.

Blade

What I liked:

- Blade is so extra. He does little flourishes and flips and catches shit behind his back. Unnecessary. Amazing.

- They let Dr. Karen be a real character, confused, angry, and determined. She knows she’s not gonna survive without Blade watching out for her but she’s going to watch out for herself as much as possible. Plus, with the exception of how weirdly sexual the scene where he bites her is, they don’t try to make her and Blade a thing.

- Whistler. That’s it, just Whistler.

- The main baddy’s right hand man is a whiny suckup who wears his hair in braids and literally has a line where he tried to turn a surfer dude “with a nice ass” but it didn’t take. He’s annoying but I kinda love that about him.

- Winged skeletons burst out of the vampires during the ritual. Winged skeletons!

What I didn’t like:

- Mostly, the plot 🤣

- Deacon Frost is a shitty antagonist. They never explain why he has any power over the other vampires who clearly look down on him and yet let him live. Why?! They could have resolved this by having him allied with Dragonetti and maybe some others to decode the vampire scrolls or whatever and then betray them but no, instead there’s a scene where Dragonetti is like “you’re not allowed in the archives” and Frost is like “fuck off” and Dragonetti fucks off. What?!

- Why’d they even need Blade’s mom? If they had her the whole time why do the reveal then? And why was she all up on his face? Completely useless plot point and frankly gross.

- Frost’s girlfriend kills one of the pure blood vamps before the ritual starts (the ritual which needed a specific number of vamps) and yet it still works.

Blade II

What I liked:

- Ya boi is even more of his extra self in this one

- An actual plot. They established that mutations are a thing in the first one with Blade and Dr. Karen’s coworker. Also, that vamps would be seeking upgrades. Makes sense someone else is doing research.

- Woot woot vampire tactical team of misfits, fun

- Whistler!

What I didn’t like:

- Kinda a one trick pony. Fight. Fight some more. So you never get invested enough in the characters for the reveals to matter. Downside of the straightforward plot.

- No good female characters in this one. Sorry, Nyssa. but also there were only 2 of you so 🤷‍♂️

Blade Trinity

What I liked:

- They think they’re hunting her, but really she’s hunting them. This whole movie is more about Abigail than it is about Blade and I’m here for it.

- Love a good shoe blade

- His given name is Eric but even the cops call him Blade lol

- Hannibal King is a great addition. He cannot stop himself from talking and it’s great.

- Day Walker vs Day Walker

- Drake basically had no agenda, just wanted to have a sword fight, and I can’t really fault him for it.

What I didn’t like:

- Blade’s attitude the entire movie (based on anytime he bothers to speak) is “you suck. I’m always right” and just, boooo. The literal only time he’s more than a vehicle for killing vampires is when he just gives up after Whistler dies.

- Whistler dies! 😭

- Everyone is mean to Patton Oswald’s character and it’s so unnecessary

- The shower scene is, of course, of the female lead. Siiiigh. (Get a lot of shirtless dudes too but still)

- Kinda ended abruptly. Feel like they were leaving some ambiguity for hopeful additional movie but I always hate that.

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It’s not a good feeling when you sit down to start a sewing project and immediately misplace your needle.

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My wheelhouse is appliqué, but sometimes I venture into patterning for quilts. Tried out a turtle pattern and with many snags along the way I ended up with a finished product:

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this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever drawn lol

please read Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste

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Saying “lemme just get a quick hit” before picking up my cat, smelling her like a bouquet of flowers, and setting her back down.

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What if we kissed next to the plop art?

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Going to visit family and my brother is picking me. The train didn’t have a dining car so we were worried I’d be murderous when I arrived. I’m notoriously horrid when hungry.

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Not me, sitting in the break room at work not listening to music but still with my headphones in so no one tries to talk to me but I can still hear any hot gossip.

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What?! I’m not still thinking about this? You’re still thinking about this!

Kadou and Evemer having a serious conversation about not repeating past mistakes and anxiety.

Evemer’s brain, helpfully: clavicles

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Gremlin puts herself on a pedestal, but her demands for worship are somewhat undercut by the Lebowski poster.

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Me: I painted my nails!

Boyfriend: silver?

Me: the color is called Gunmetal

Boyfriend: oh, so you can do finger guns?

Me, eyes lighting up with realization: YEAH! (I then proceed to make Tommy guns of my hands) dudududududududud

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You know that trope where someone looks at a character and goes "that is a wet sad little man, I should make sure he's eating properly"

Yeah, I need that to happen to me in real life.

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Me while it's raining: I wish the sky would stop touching me.

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I gotta say I really expected there to be some actual cannibalism in this cannibalism arc.