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@eredien Thanks! (and I can barely speak a few words of Chinese, I can't even read hanzi)

I have no clue what I just made but I finally used the last of the sausages.

Also the other day I had my first PSL of the season and it was basically good, but they used so much syrup it was sort of Samuel L Jackson yelling “pumpkin motherfucking spice, muthafucka!” syrupy. i’m amazed I don’t have cavities after that.

“a delicate fresh scent that breathes life into your laundry”

dude it’s gonna raise my towels to HIDEOUS UNLIFE like in the Fiend Folio?

D&D joke I thought I was in the shower while barely awake (which is probably why it doesn’t seem that funny now);

A wizard, a warlock, and a sorcerer walk into a bar, and the bartender says; “good evening, Professor! Welcome, Ezragiel the Devastator! Hey Pete!”

Like we’ve reached the stage we’re just them saying anything is basically a CPTSD trigger; admittedly their statements are all inflammatory, but I don’t think that’s all of why they managed to get me this pissed off.

And hearing that THING address, the UN brings me to the ethical issue sooner than I’d like. I think it’s never truly ethical to wish death on somebody but sometimes it’s the most ethical behavior I can choose and since I’m not in a position to either kill or save the people I feel need to die, it’s largely academic.

Were I to take direct action AGAINST anyone from random Cybertrukk drivers to Trump, Vance, Noem or any of the truly awful people, THEN I’d have an ethical dilemma. There is no ethical dilemma in hating people who have done hateful things, OR in opposing them through peaceful means intended to prevent harm.

I think I’m okay in my current milquetoast feeling actions/reactions, even if my crap temper and personal history with bullies means I WANT to lash out.

much as I’d like to love everybody OR be okay with self assured anger, the further I get from the direct instigators the more muddied things get. And ultimately my big take should be “I want these people to stop doing harm” not “I want these people punished” although it is obvious some will not stop doing harm unless dead or otherwise disempowered. I would be ethically wrong to hate all Republicans; I am not ethically wrong to hate the upper echelon or their SS.

see if I actually lived in the Jurassic Parkverse, I would not want to take big resort vacations to see huge dinosaurs, I would like to adopt all the small stuff. Can I have a pet Yi qi? Could I have a Psittacosaurus to hug on?

etc etc

and it would be a COMPLETELY TERRIBLE IDEA.

This is all about growing up in this grinding incessant context of punishment; as a kid I had exactly no way to judge that something not actually intended as a punishment wasn't just more being punished. It's got exactly nothing to do with holidays or religion except this is another place it happened in childhood.

holidays certainly help with realizing how much space in my brain is taken up with;

"I MUST do something I'm not really interested in/so even without an authority as negative as in childhood, my assumptions kick in/this mandatory thing is good but between how I don't want to do it and how I'm innately BAD, I'll invariably fail/and when I do so I'll be punished, probably disproportionately/so now I have even less interest in doing it, and therefore more certainty I'll fuck up and be punished."

@Tuftears Thank you! There's still stuff I want to do better, but I don't have a really good idea of what that is yet, if that makes sense.

@Kusimanse 18th century stuff seemed appropriate!

@Tuftears Okay (tell me to shut up if you need); apparently Montalban's family was from CORdova, rather than the usual pronunciation corDOva, so people overheard him saying the name a lot. Apparently he sounded cool enough that the ad agency made up "Corinthian" as a description for the leather upholstery so they'd get to use him saying COR anything.

@eredien I mean, having a summoned vrock work for you is *basically* a parrot.

@Tuftears I was listening to the Wrath of Khan soundtrack at the time! I've actually heard an interview with Ricardo Montalban in which he actually explained the whole "rich Corinthian leather" deal.