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Wario Fact!

You can’t get rid of me. After humanity crumbles under its own hubris, after nature retakes its rightful home, after the sun dies and swallows everything whole, I will remain, Wario will remain.

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once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

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Okay, this is probably obvious BUT: I just saw a post about the baby goat in Severance, Emile, and it was talking about sacrificial lambs and it got me thinking "why goats? sacrificial lambs are sheep" Which is a question I've been asking since the first season.

But I think I know why it's baby goats and not baby sheep. Because a baby sheep is a lamb, but a baby goat is a kid. And I think season 2 and Ms. Huang and Salt’s Neck have done a pretty good job of demonstrating how Lumon is built on sacrificing kids.

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go my tennas. eat my gifs

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Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

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So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:

A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.

What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”

After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”

This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:

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Is this how the Spamton and Tenna divorce went down?

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Feed the robot.

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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Damn bro....

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what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

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guardian angel

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"Fictional high school that's basically a miniature university because the author doesn't actually remember what high school was like" versus "author who really wants to write a high school sex comedy, but doesn't want the cast to be underage, so they invent a university that inexplicably operates like a high school".

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was referring to a book i own and i said “i have it on book”

is it so over for me