we all know I have no life, so:

i dunno i for one think marvel should hold themselves to higher standards than my smut fic writing where i go "who the fuck cares, i can go back and rewrite older chapters, it's just smut online, no one can stop me"

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

The degree of psychological entanglement people experience for lunatics parasocially is mind-boggling. It is itself a form of illness that needs to be studied and treated. (2/2)

There was a guy in the waiting room at my oldest son's rheumatologist explaining that Trump wanted to bring about worker-owned cooporatives and egalitarian fairness, but the big business interests and the deep state he'd been "forced to ally to" to (re)acquire the presidency wouldn't allow it. (1/2)

I commend your dedication to the spice arts!

I am of the belief all horseradish goes hard.

I got asked out by a dude today and accidentally tacnuked it.

"Hey, did you want to grab a coffee next week?"
"Oh yeah, I could use another friend."
"Uh... I'll touch base later."
"Okay!"

Still got it.

For real, could YOU tell that Bondi and Leavitt were different people?

I'm not doing a bit here. This is a total Michelle Branch/Vanessa Carlton thing.

I love in stuff from longer than 5 years ago were all the performers are aware that none of them are neurotypical but that vocabulary didn't exist yet so it's all "we are all a bit screwy around here" or "the angels were drunk when they put or heads on in the design phase"

I just remembered there used to be a game show where the prize was becoming the lead singer of INXS.

It got TWO SEASONS.

Holly! The plant needs water!

Addendum: Looking sharp, boss.

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

It's weird to watch early MST3K and realize both Clay and Frank are deadbeat dads.

My writing process.

*sits back in chair, long shadows cast across their face*

*takes contemplative drag off of cigarette*

"No."

*push in tighter on their face*

"Make it DUMBER."

I don't "talk too much."

Those are CRUCIAL LORE-DROPS.

Man, you can talk shit about Jonah MST3K as much as you want, but you're fucking wrong.

Edible desiccant packets was the funniest invention exchange ever.

Like, my dudes, if they're failing to put their thumbs on the scale in *Texas* of all places less than 10 months away from midterms, you'll forgive me if I have a hard time cowering in fear of their yet to materialize national-level solution to voters having a say.

The top picture says: kids in the future "in the future everyone will live in the sky" The bottom picture is Brian with the text "if I can save up $30,000 I can move into a shed" There's a picture of a Home Depot shed

I just found out the blinking confused guy gif isn't from a decades-old interview with Cary Elwes.

It's just some guy who looks like Cary Elwes.

I'm so sad now.

The penultimate episode of the 90s X-Men show is so weird. It is so clearly teeing up that Essex is the true main villain of the series... and then it's Graduation Day and the show is definitively over.

That is an episode that only makes narrative sense in light of X-Men 97.

If they like the characters enough, they'll tolerate AWFUL plotting. That's how zombie shows keep chugging along.

Weirdly, you can use TNG for both of these! S3-6 are carried by fun plots. S7 is carried by how much we now love these leads.

The only thing your readers care about is that the plot does interesting things and they like the characters.

If they like the plot enough, they can accept the characters are thin. After all, thinly-written characters are iconic.

This is the first time Scott Adams made me laugh.

Montana Meth Project and modern stuff is scare tactics shit. You can feel how you want about that (I love PSAs as short-form horror content, so I don't care about messaging). But DARE made drugs look FUCKING SICK.

My oldest son loves watching old PSAs with me, and he's so consistently shocked by how comparatively AWESOME 80s media makes drugs look.

Bad people in real life aren't interesting. Bad people in fiction are EXPECTED to be interesting.

That's why "bad people being friends" is one of my favorite tropes. That shit does not happen. Self-interested people cannot feel simple emotions like "good for them!"

I am not an erudite, articulate connoisseur of the arts.

I am a pop guy.

I like big hooks and crowd-pleasing inanity.

This is a problem inasmuch as my WRITING is avant garde weirdo shit.