in 2025 psych, there would be an episode where shawn decides to start using he/they because why not, but at the end he goes back to his original he/him bc he kept getting confused when people were talking about just him and not both him and gus
henry spencer is the type of guy to tell shawn "you're not a disappointment because you're bi. you're just a disappointment. because of, you know, everything else"
Ilya was in Boston learning a form of English that would be of no use to him anywhere outside the state lines
ilya calls something βwickedβ and shane goes through the five stages of grief in 0.002 seconds realizing he still wants to have sex with him
Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
listen I understand why anyone writing a bodyguard au for hollanov defaults to ilya being the body guard and shane being the superstar. but I just think we're collectively sleeping on the appeal of playboy celeb ilya rozanov getting scuffed like a kitten by his deadpan, no nonsense security detail, shane hollander
they're really making scott hunter into a character of all time though he's deeply repressed, he's incredibly lonely, he's obsessive, he's a walking tragedy, he's like if american psycho fixated entirely on wifing up a barista, he longs for domesticity, he gets bullied by twinks and bullies them back, he's walking around sochi going through his own circles of hell because he ruined his own life and absolutely no one knows and on top of all that he's like forty years old scott hunter i would protect you with my life
prev this is too funny to leave in the tags I'm cackling
One of the funniest villain tropes is when there's a character Of Special Skills, which even the villains are reluctant to do business with - not for any moral reasons, but because they're creepy. The kind of heebie jeebies you feel in your bone marrow. Like it's a huge dramatic thing when the villains decide that they have no choice but to resort to going to That Guy for help, and a poor long-suffering henchman is like "ugh, do we reeeeally have to? That guy is... icky. He eats corpses."
And the more major villain that made the choice throws something (may or may not be another minion) at the protesting henchman and goes "I don't care, go get that guy. (I would go get him myself but yikes I do not want to be in the same room with him)."
dean devlin does love putting christian kane in trios but i do enjoy how all three sets of them have different vibes from each other like eliot is parker and hardison's weird traumatized shelter dog who bites people and jacob, cassandra, and ezekiel are feral kittens brought into an animal shelter who bonded so tightly they can't be adopted separately and alex is the stray cat that ernesto and kai found behind the dumpster of the filipino equivalent of a denny's
The giant pinecone I bought on a whim in december has started shedding its scales, which it does by shooting them in random directions at random intervals. Since I bought it with no idea what to do with it and I still have no idea what to do with it now, I decided to save the scales and got a glass jar on my desk right next to the pinecone to gather them. So now I have created the opposite of that japanese zen garden bamboo water fountain thing that makes that regular, predictable, soothing soft bonk sound.
I have an arrangement on my side desk that startles the shit out of me at random intervals whenever I least expect it, with a high-pitched tink! of a pinecone scale making impact with a glass jar.
currently addicted to r/TVTooHigh
some real hits in here
βTo Make a Long Story Shortβ
Stephen Andradeβs wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)
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y'know, the cross my heart job (airport layover) is giving big 'Airplane' energy. I don't know if it's because I just watched Airplane and the heart transplant thing is similar, but they feel alike to me in some way
The short timeline? the "these people aren't the people we need, but they're the people we have, so we're going to solve the problem with them or not at all?"
coming back to it, maybe it's the weather and the fact that the whole thing is run out of an airport crab restaurant, which is the "ridiculous and no one mentions it" air of Airplane
I am using Discworld to figure out how to use Procreate. Also...it was nice challenge to draw just dialogue scene in slapstick way. Ughhh...I would love to spend year or two drawing Feet of Clay graphic novel, I love that book so much x_x ...and I have no job just now...I should ask around...about how licences works or something.... .
y'know, the cross my heart job (airport layover) is giving big 'Airplane' energy. I don't know if it's because I just watched Airplane and the heart transplant thing is similar, but they feel alike to me in some way
The short timeline? the "these people aren't the people we need, but they're the people we have, so we're going to solve the problem with them or not at all?"
