Q Is A Mechanism

in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)

I hate that i feel pain and sorrow and grief and madness for myself and my only instinct is to turn it into a beautiful piece of art.

idk if anyone’s made this comparison yet, but “Whose Eye Is It Anyway?” by Jhariah fits very well with all the Jarthur divorces.

And its not even just the mentions of blindness.

It just seems to encapsulate a lot of my personal ideas about Jarthur during their divorces.

Just the first section, “My head is overflowing, with these thoughts/That if I return the favor you might understand/But I know, I know you could never carry the burden/You've left with me and I can't give it back/So why even try?” It just fits some of their early dynamics.

I’m not very good at explaining this stuff the way it works in my head. But you can probably draw your own comparisons.

happy birthday miku binder!!!

time loop fans when the loop slightly changes

Those "modern fairy tales where the princess saves herself" types of books not only misrepresent the gender roles in fairy tales (there are tons of stories where girls get to save the day), but they fundamentally misunderstand the entire genre.

Fairy tales aren't about saving yourself.

These aren't epic myths or heroic legends about the great warriors who slay every monster in their path because they're so awesome. Fairy tales are almost always about ordinary, even incompetent, people who get thrown into strange situations where they only succeed because of the help of others.

It's not a gendered thing. The boy who goes off to seek his fortune is usually the dim-witted third son whose older brothers are the strong, smart ones. The third son succeeds because he is kind to the magical helpers who then complete the tasks for him--and the exact same thing happens when a girl is the main character.

The characters in a fairy tale rarely succeed because they embrace their own strength and take their own path. Much more often, they are told step-by-step what to do, and they succeed because they obey--respecting the wisdom of others.

The core virtue of a fairy tale is not pride, but humility. It's not a story about the strong, but those who are weak, small, helpless. The people who can't do it all on their own, but can recognize the worth and wisdom of others.

Turning this story into a "girl power" (or even a "boy power") story warps it into something that is fundamentally the opposite of a fairy tale, and it has nothing to do with the gender of the main character.

I’m visiting family in Montana and I cannot stop thinking about woe.begone

guys im in woe.begone country. glacier national park? no. Sylvester August Baxter country.

my grandpa is a potter and he makes pots with bison all over them and so i cant stop thinking about the american bison.

THERE ARE BEAR IMAGES EVERYWHERE MY SISTER IS SO TIRED OF ME POINTING AND GOING “omg the bear” “look, its mike” “the bear” “hahaha lol ‘i’m the bear’”

Woe.Begone is everywhere. I’ve listened to season 10 at least three times in a week. I want to go to ol’ brush valley, i want to wonder what it is about that place.

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wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

my toxic trait is that if i ever met a famous person, i would tell them how the only “famous people” i’ve met are mormon church leaders.

and then i would info-dump about my mormon religious trauma