land of hills and rain
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we all know gideon nav has zero game but the thing is harrow thinks she has like god tier rizz. harrow things gideon can get any bitch by just looking at her. harrow does not know gideon’s socially awkward girl w bad jokes swag only works on her
Counterpoint: fully half of the people reblogging would also simp for a ripped, socially awkward butch with zero game if given the chance
(via in-mutual-weirdness)
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One thing The Good Place articulates really well is that when total information about the impact of our behavior is available, the response is almost never optimal.
The morally scrupulous eat themselves alive; other people take refuge in glorifying their trash behavior; other people lack the perspective or education to even understand it; and to the privileged is just another way to keep score.
None of this means it’s wrong for people being harmed to speak up–we (you) are fortunate they (we) don’t just set things on fire instead of writing about microaggressions–but the combination of increasing interdependence and the amplification of those uncomfortable truths produces a lot of Chidis and Eleanors and it’s hard to figure out a solution to that.
On a somewhat less deep front, this is why I think Tahani is maybe the worst person of the core 4 and certainly the least sympathetic; Chidi and Eleanor are both overwhelmed in different ways by moral ramifications, and Jason is just so overwhelmed in general that the rammies don’t even penetrate. But Tahani (and her family) know right from wrong, have the leisure and resources to make a difference, and make a game out of it. Even the good she does accomplish isn’t her intention but a way to score points. (But not enough! Never enough.)
Tahani becoming an Architect has always been one of the few off notes in an otherwise brilliant finale to me, and maybe that’s why.
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One thing The Good Place articulates really well is that when total information about the impact of our behavior is available, the response is almost never optimal.
The morally scrupulous eat themselves alive; other people take refuge in glorifying their trash behavior; other people lack the perspective or education to even understand it; and to the privileged is just another way to keep score.
None of this means it’s wrong for people being harmed to speak up–we (you) are fortunate they (we) don’t just set things on fire instead of writing about microaggressions–but the combination of increasing interdependence and the amplification of those uncomfortable truths produces a lot of Chidis and Eleanors and it’s hard to figure out a solution to that.
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I’m transcendentally high rn
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James McMurtry is another one who can turn a phrase.
‘Course you had that boyfriend with the Chevrolet
He never met Will Rogers, I’d be willing to say
Yeah, it’s safe to say he never met Will RogersIf only he did not use this power for evil.
Ruth Ann and Lynn, they wear them cut-off britches
And them skinny little halters
And they’re second cousins to me
Man, I don’t care, I want to get between ‘em
With a great big ol’ hard-on like a old Bois d'Arc fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate fromChoctaw Bingo is an excellent and very well-observed song, it’s just written from the perspective of someone I don’t want to hang out with ever.
Contrary to popular belief, Robert Earl Keen did not write that last song.
I wrote it for my buddy Max from Floydada, Texas. Floydada didn’t fit the meter, so I used “Levelland.”
Max was a communist, so he didn’t fit in too good in Floydada. American Workers Party is not very well-represented out there, you know?
Max told me that a good ol’ boy can become an intellectual, but an intellectual cannot become a good ol’ boy.
I believe that to be true.
So why is it that the son of a couple of blue-blooded, erudite Connecticut yankees gets to sit behind the presidential podium and talk about “nucular” weapons?
I mean, Jeb Bush doesn’t say “nucular,” and you know good and damn well Barbara doesn’t say “nucular”!
You know what Nixon said about Barbara, don’t ya?
When asked about George Herbert Walker, he said, “He’s okay, he can do his job, he’s just not very interesting.”
He says, “Now Barbara, she’s interesting: she knows how to hate.” -
James McMurtry is another one who can turn a phrase.
‘Course you had that boyfriend with the Chevrolet
He never met Will Rogers, I’d be willing to say
Yeah, it’s safe to say he never met Will RogersIf only he did not use this power for evil.
Ruth Ann and Lynn, they wear them cut-off britches
And them skinny little halters
And they’re second cousins to me
Man, I don’t care, I want to get between ‘em
With a great big ol’ hard-on like a old Bois d'Arc fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate fromChoctaw Bingo is an excellent and very well-observed song, it’s just written from the perspective of someone I don’t want to hang out with ever.
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I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we’d have so much fun with it.
Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going “I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them”
and then all the comments would be like “ girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀”
ok.
(via roach-works)
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James McMurtry is another one who can turn a phrase.
‘Course you had that boyfriend with the Chevrolet
He never met Will Rogers, I’d be willing to say
Yeah, it’s safe to say he never met Will RogersIf only he did not use this power for evil.
Ruth Ann and Lynn, they wear them cut-off britches
And them skinny little halters
And they’re second cousins to me
Man, I don’t care, I want to get between 'em
With a great big ol’ hard-on like a old Bois d'Arc fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate from -
People that say (either in a derogatory or neutral way) that D&DQ is the only D20 season to not be a mash-up don’t get it. Yes, the world is a very classical high fantasy world. The secret ingredient this season is drag. It’s drag. It’s taking the cliche’d and taking it all the way over the top. It’s not being ashamed to name your underwater city Everdeep and your fae mcguffin the Allblossom. It’s being, in fact, shameless and unshameable. I’m an angsty loner witch and yes I do have horns! I’m a brutal orc barbarian who only speaks in grunts! I’m a sexy half-fish assassin! I’m a horny fae ranger! And I’m your DM who wears a fuckin paldron and speaks only in portentous cliches!
Brennan Lee Mulligan is at his most CAMP counselor. There’s a pun there. Miss it at your own peril.
Confirmed by Brennan in his interview with ScreenRant btw
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It doesn’t have any one big hitter on it (imo, your concept off a big hit is going to be different from mine), but Transcendental Youth is one of my favorite Mountain Goats albums as a whole.