Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

nature was like you can all be healthy, happy, and productive, OR some of you can learn some really sick guitar riffs

what makes humans different from every other species on the planet is that some of them grow up to be welbalanced individuals, but the species is actually designed for a significant portion to instead grow up to be absolute sickos

teddiursa is really cute

being good at writing also means being able to appreciate to a greater extent the beauty in various turns of phrase so it's not all bad

but you don't get good without hijacking your brain’s pattern-matching to constantly notice flaws in text and identify discrepancies between stated and intended meaning

noticing these things doesn’t make you a bad person but it does inevitably lead you down the path of being kind of an asshole

every time anyone says anything you are reminded that the world is a flawed, imperfect place and that things could be better

there are a ton of takes like “why are great writers all assholes?” as though there were something about being an asshole which makes you a great writer, but i think it’s actually the opposite and being good at writing is what makes you into an asshole

everyone complains about how quickly people play contemporary games, move on, and forget about them in an endless churn; if only there was a game mechanic which required people to take their time with things and spread it out across multiple sittings

my current controversial games take is that grinding is good actually

« It should be noted that Pokémon Legends: Arceus was developed to be played by the general population and not specifically for academic specialists. »

this is kind of sad when i think about it

i've never read a fanfiction able to capture the raw teenage horniness that stephenie meyer did with isabella swan

let me put it this way: i was born in 1994 and it wasn't “The Sign”

man, the song which was billboard #1 on the day i was born was really shit

https://youtu.be/lOqy8cC72wA

i have the slowpoke song stuck in my head

everybody knows David Brooks is a hack but as a newspaper you have a reputation to maintain

and i just feel like any good editor would have pulled him aside and been like, dude. say the first thing not the second

he could have just said “the idea of a race war is a white-supremacist fiction and we have to understand the language of activists in context” but INSTEAD what he said was “some activists are good and embrace multiculturalism but some activists are bad and speak with an us-versus-them mentality and that’s why racism still exists”

is David Brooks the 9 Chickweed Lane of op-eds