I'm Convinced If I Suddenly Gained The Ability To Swim Like This It Would Fix All My Problems. Just Imagine...staying

Murderbot, when interacting with anything: thinks in a string of biting asides and sardonic observations in between pondering death, mayhem and carnage. Also Murderbot, when confronted with an even more sarcastic transport ship's snark: You SNARK Miette? You SNARK MIETTE LIKE I'M A VULNERABLE EMOTIONAL BEING THAT WANTS TO FEEL SAFE? Oh OH! Jail for giant hyperintelligent transport ship! etc.

Have you REALLY lost your scissors if you aren't walking around making scissor motions with your fingers in an attempt to lure them back out?

:( I didn't catch that first read. Man, Jod really is just lies on lies.

Jod promising Harrow that her conception by genocide is no one's business:

Jod a few months later casually mentioning it to a room of people including his worst enemy:

In a way that implies Augustine and Mercy at least have already been told? That's just rude.

a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

Me to my friends, every day. If I'm not sassing you, I don't love you.

obsessed with this

when i look up a knitting term, the last thing I want is an ai overview. I want a 60+ year old woman with no understanding of lighting or helpful camera angles who still manages to give the most concise and clear explanation of how to execute purl 2tog through the backloop. ai summary fuck off, where is phyllis?

pirating movies by seeing them in tumblr gifs and basing my own story around them

*somewhat spoilers for Scavengers Reign ahead*

Almost finished with Scavengers Reign, but I don't think I'm going to finish it. I'm...just not really getting why people were so hype over it. Which is kinda sad--I was cautiously optimistic about the promise of good environmental and creature design, which it *does* deliver. And to be fair to the show (and its fans,) my sticking point is that I'm not a fan of "life-is-hard, people are shitty, that's reality" style fiction/storytelling. I want pure escapism and hope--hope that I don't have to narratively pay for with a buncha grim dark feels first. :/

The soundtrack was also generally too tension-ramping for me to enjoy and they didn't really break any new ground on sound-mixing/Foley for the beasts/enviro. (I'm like... "distorted violin bow on something," "tiger rumble," "bull gator mixed with tiger" the whole time. They did get some nice pap paps for the mush patting, tho. 5/5 mushrooms, I would also pap those fungi.)

I just...want the creatures and biological focus of Nausicaä, & Mushishi, & Scavengers Reign without all the attendant storytelling sadness, like can we do that? Can I finally have that some day? (Without the insipidity of shows like Pokemon?) /lu

Dungeon Meshi comes the closest, I think, but the environmental storytelling there is kinda flaccid comparatively. Not a lot of creatures/plants exist on-screen except for the featured ones of the episode, and there are certainly no exotic biomes.

Times like this I think...maybe I'm just too autistic. Oh well.

This planet & its biota were prob the closest I've gotten to getting what I want to see, I just can't take the sad storytelling vibes long enough to enjoy it.

love how when i get a new interest, i’m like “oh god it’s happening again” and i’m stuck like that for about a week until everything explodes and any interest i’ve had prior is completely dwarfed for an unknown amount of time

the nuisance of our language is stunning