Cleaning the pantry and finding things I don’t recall buying
Spoiler-free, but one thing I really like about Knives Out 3 is that it shows a wheelchair user who 1) needs her chair in order to function, 2) CAN still walk and does so when the pain of it is less inconvenient than moving her chair around, and 3) has to deal with people being shocked that she can walk. A lot of wheelchair users are still capable of some movement and get treated like they're faking when they stand to reach something, so it was cool to see that just casually represented
Also the movie explicitly rejects the narrative that her disability has to be cured or else her life is over! And, in my opinion, Josh O’Connor puts massive scare quotes around the words “cured” and “fixed” in that final voiceover. She learns to live with and through her pain, she picks up her cello again, she gets proper medical care (cf. tape on her elbow), and she makes music. It’s different and harder than it was before, they don’t gloss over that, but she hasn’t been turned into a sad stereotype.
Disability narratives usually end with one of three fates: cure (including superpowers or superprosthetics that compensate for the disability), death, or institutionalization. This one ends with a musician who does physical therapy and keeps making music. It’s such a simple thing, but it’s vanishingly rare compared with the thousands of variations on the other three endings. Incredible.
it's hot enough to fly an egg out there
Me: "Oh, haha, they typed FLY an egg, what a funny little typo."
Video: *plays*
Me:
Just in case you need to hear this, bedtime is not for looking at news. It's not time to watch videos about what's going on; it's not time to catch up or "stay informed". Your job at bedtime is to relax and clear your head and sleep, so that you can be rested and tackle another day tomorrow. That's your only responsibility at bedtime. That's how you serve the world best. At bedtime, relaxing and going the fuck to sleep is praxis.
I hate when people imply America has only just recently become evil. We need to go back to when America was SENSIBLE and NORMAL because I was oblivious to fascism and imperialism
I hate when I go to copy a picture and it doesn’t paste. Do not disobey me.