A sarcastic little shit that stumbled upon a website that introduced them to the wonderful world of fandom. Whatever makes me giggle goes on my blog. Stage Manager. Beta Reader. 27 They/Them
I appreciate the concept of a receptionist but the number of calls my coworkers send to voicemail even when they’re available makes me think they should just suck it up and screen their own calls since they don’t take them anyway
I feel like it really adds something to know that this coffee shop was right next to the state capitol building. There is a non-zero chance one of these lattes ended up in the senate chamber.
I just learned that Jim Henson was so conflict avoidant that there was this time his lawyers were arguing and they wanted him to get involved and he said ‘nope, I’ve got to catch a flight to London’ and then he got on a plane. He did not actually have to go to London he was just trying to get away.
I’m not even kidding when I say that one of the things that finally lit a fire under my ass when it comes to taking care of myself is learning how Jim died. It’s that wild irony that he was so concerned over not having enough time to do everything that he wanted to do that never slowing down ended up being his demise. I think most of us artists are like that, so let’s remember to take care of ourselves and remind our friends to do that too.
that is…not what happened at all.
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(my PhD is on Streptococcus pyogenes, and we hold Jim Henson’s death in the category of “it doesn’t matter how much money or access you have, modern medicine can’t beat this” same as Eric Cornell losing his left arm and shoulder)
this is why you need to treat every strep throat.
Another important contributing factor to his death was that his resistance to seeing doctors (for anything) was probably directly related to his being brought up a Christian Scientist, a sect that absolutely refuses doctors or medicine for anything. Religiously motivated child abuse can and does leave lasting effects.
Wait, that’s what my grandmother converted to in order to hide being Jewish. My mom wouldn’t get taken to a doctor unless it was absolutely necessary in the 50s. My grandmother actually had a lot of dark secrets but the Christian Science thing was really wild.
Don’t use the phrases of your enemies to attack them.
By which I mean, saying a man has a small dick because he’s wrong politically? Saying Elon and Trump and secretly fucking as an attack on them? It’s fucked up, don’t do it. That’s just invoking toxic masculinity and homophobia as an insult, and I don’t care if you think it’s different because you’re “using it ironically” or “just calling out their hypocrisy”- no, you aren’t calling out any hypocrisy. What you’re actually doing is just being a hypocrite.
Ironic bigotry is still bigotry, and just like you shouldn’t call Stacy Dash the n-word and you shouldn’t call Ben Shapiro antisemitic slurs- you aren’t doing either of those, right?- then you shouldn’t be calling the fascists in the oval office homophobic slurs, either.
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