“but what if i’m being annoying :(“ everyone’s annoying dipshit it came free with fucking being alive and existing. now go talk to your friends
you’re a living breathing human being on this bitch of an earth and you have wants and needs and take up space and that’s literally fine. if your friends don’t get that you need better friends. there i’ve solved it
It’s occurred to me that Hardison’s style of grifting is exactly what happens when you do it in a TTRPG. Going in with half a plan, appealing to the humanity of underappreciated NPCs, adapting on the fly to cover whatever the fuck the rogue is doing in the background. Pop-culture references that nobody else recognises strung together into a semblance of a character. Peacing out with no explanation once you got what you came for. What an icon.
“do you remember when we were friends? after work we used to come up here, have a drink. watch the sunset” ok gayass. sterling when hes obsessively chasing down his rival, the only guy who matches his freak, and delights in playing mental chess with him. who he used to go up to the roof and watch the sunset with, i guess. like friends
i grew up in a family of left leaning hippies (thank god) but i can’t stop thinking about the one holiday dinner party where my teenage cousin said something about immigrant hotels and needing to stop the boats and there was like. a pause at the table until our grandpa, a very mild mannered man, just went “now where the fuck did you hear that?” Incredible aura. ive never heard that man swear before or since but man did he pick a perfect time for it.
I was at an ex’s holiday gathering when one of his siblings said something about “all of the immigrants ruining the kids’ schools” and their dad, the Sicilian patriarch of the family said “Like the immigrant you’re planning on inheriting money from?” and I have never giddily sat through a more awkward silence.
The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would “ruin the look”, but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it’d be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.
Why couldn’t this have been a one time I dreamt
Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it’s a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.
Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn’t have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.
I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It’s easy to walk away
No it’s not. Didn’t you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.
Hardison and Parker definitely have an ongoing argument over who would get Eliot in the (hypothetical) divorce.
If I didnt have context id think Eliots like their child or something but nooo. Hes the oldest of them and their protector and caretaker. This kis great
For all the issues the wolf reintroduction has caused in Colorado (wolf reintroduction=good, the way Colorado has done it=horrid), the one that I have not seen literally anyone talk about is the fact that everyone with a single goat went out and got a livestock guardian dog, chucked them out in the fields without any training, and just called it good. So now we’ve got a bunch of half feral livestock guardian dogs running around everywhere, just making up their own territories and attacking anyone who wanders through. One attacked my sister’s CAR while she was going almost 30mph a few months back. Imagine if that had been a kid on an ATV, not an adult woman in an enclosed vehicle? When we called the non-emergency number to let them know, the dispatcher literally groaned and said, “not again. Nobody is training these things!”
“Wolves are going to start attacking people!11!” No, bitch, your fucking Anatolian Shepherd is.
Instincts still require training and refinement. You do not want a large, independent-natured dog making up its own rules. You will not like many of those rules.
And some individuals won’t have good instincts and will require extra training, or plain won’t work out.
English shepherds are herding dogs. Australian cattle dogs are herding dogs. My ES/ACD mix dog had zero herding instinct but would have made a decent livestock guardian. He had no desire to chase the sheep. When I *made* him chase the sheep he apparently assumed it was hunting time and bit the sheep. A sharp recall and he was back beside me showing no interest again in the sheep.
#friend of mine’s parents got one of those giant bernese mountain dogs and didn’t really bother to train it #just let it hang out in the yard and do whatever #chill dog but also didn’t understand No or Stop and he apparently did finally attack someone so he had to be kept on a halter (FINALLY) #anyway that was also sort of their approach to parenting well meaning but ultimately no structure and minimal intervention #don’t do this to either children or dogs (tags via @arinrowan because I know way too many people who do this to both children and dogs)
