Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

See, what *I* get out of archaeology is that when we look to the past we see similar people. And one of those similarities is that there’s almost always some sort of trans thing going on. So please, DO gender every pelvis and mandible you find because you’re proving THAT point, not that it’s somehow violating some divine plan to transition.

Let’s say, sake of argument, you can identify birth gender from remains 100% accurately. Bodies are only one way to study the past. Do you think in all those people at Canyon de Chelly, there were no nadleehi? Are you sure that apparently female Scandinavian buried with weapons presented as female? Do you really think medieval London wasn’t full of AMAB folks presenting female?

Star Wars is so 70s it’s got space truckers, an evil disco ball, and even smoking in restaurants if you count those dudes with the hookah in the Mos Eisley cantina. About the only thing it doesn’t have is roller skating rinks.

Gotta say “opera in midsummer evenings by the lake” sounds ridiculously good somehow.

this was going to include her overcoming her fear to master Shai Hulud but then they realized “riding the pink sandworm”

so glad that Barbie seems to be doing well enough at the box office they’re going to be able to make the second half of the novel where she drives the Harkonens from Arrakis and overthrows the Padishah Emperor

More “maybe I’m ADHD,” I have so many books I’m only partway through!

Homemade bread so healthy and whole grain you could seriously dent someone’s skull with it™️!

I’m a Barbie girl
In a Barbie world
Spins a web any size
Catches thieves just like flies

#drawing on a kinda off day. Very non-Greek minotaur faces off against Greek adventurers, which I realize is kind of a trope. I was feeling especially stuck on doing recognizably Greek armor on the warrior until I realized I could draw the Dendra panoply and then I was STOKED. Cw eye contact, drawn human remains.

Most agree that the series really went off the rails in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 6, in which after murdering her treacherous mother on the advice of her father’s shade (see MBFGW 5), Toula (great granddaughter of the original character) is pursued from New York to “far flung Ypsilanti” by the vengeful Erinyes, who are pacified by being renamed “the kindly ones.”

analogies;

* being neuroatypical is like being a fish in a desert

* being a "gifted child" is like being handed a tightly sealed canteen with no information on what a canteen is or how to open it, by people who don't understand why a fish in a desert might be an issue, because after all they gave you plenty of water.

the theory that Spongebob Squarepants is a modern retelling of the Iliad sounds reasonable when you consider Patrick Star as Patroklos and Mr. Krabs and Pearl as Agamemnon and Iphigenia, but it quickly falls apart when comparing Plankton to Hector and Squidward to Telamonian Aias.

okay, I refueled the car, cleared email and applied for jobs, made soup for now and marinated spinach for later, cleaned out some fridge fossils to run the dishwasher later, applied for last week's UI (made too much to receive any but am required to submit), laundry's going. I'm now out of spoons.

maybe this is true for most folks, it's definitely true for me;

I am simultaneously a relatively competent, smart, likable person and ALSO a complete weepy useless inept wreck

and the big things separating those aspects are how much sleep I've had, how much food I've had, and activities (like say, job hunting for the last 3+ hours; it's not emotionally compelling, it IS essentially coerced and involves having to justify my existence)

oh shit, I'm pissed off about THAT, again! Since you're reading this, you aren't in my head 24/7, so I probably don't sound like a broken record to you, but I sure do to *me*.

... to be fair, Mola Ram manages to be a really fun villain despite being two dimensional. In part because of how fun a villain actor Amrish Puri was, in part because for someone with an army of goons, you get to see him *think* his way out of problems (flooding the mines, walking his hostages onto the rope bridge, how he fights on the fallen rope bridge are all fairly smart).

Also, we run into him in partway into collecting the stones; between enslaving children because literally they're smaller and therefore better miners (capitalism!) and condemning an entire small village to slow starvation, you already know he got the first two stones doing *something* completely heartless. The slow build of accumulating stones is different from most villains' need to get hold of the single McGuffin and NOW, and suggests he might have other things he's doing to advance his agenda.

WA politics, action to protest a massive timber sale

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Wishbone . Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/wishbone?source=twitter&

okay, I fess up that I still like Temple of Doom despite uh *gestures, winces* because of where it's a D&D movie

TELL me your players wouldn't adore getting to be in the mine chase sequence. Fairly certain they'd be less into the Gygax spiked-ceiling trap. The bridge sequence vaguely qualifies because it's definitely player character thinking.

I'm listening to the Temple of Doom soundtrack. Which is WAY better than the movie. Also this leads me to the thought that it's actually NOT the worst of the Indiana Jones movies.

When a movie with horrific racism in which Indy isn't so much an archaeologist as generic adventurer, is still exciting and even fun by comparison to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, this bangs home how abysmal the latter was.