Whoa. People were apparently confused about the "Bao" short in Incredibles II, b/c in part they didn't understand that was a dumpling.
I've been around the concept of hombow and eating them for my entire life except for a little bit in REALLY rural Georgia. This is like realizing the concept of peanut butter is alien to some people (it is BUT).
And even if it didn't SPEAK TO THE MOST RESONANT DEPTHS OF MY FAMILY EXPERIENCE or whatevs, I thought the plot/analogy of the short was pretty obvious?
weird personal quirk
I think accents are *fascinating*, because they're an insight into a speaker's first language - basically an indication of "how do you teach English in *this* language, and still have it make any sense?"
F'rex if a waitress asks me "you like sharimp?" that means "do you like" makes no sense in Cantonese (ok, "DO you like" sounds weird once I get past always having heard that) and that the combination SH+ other consonant doesn't exist, that there's always a vowel as a spacer.
lewd, libido weirdness
me: spends nearly the entire day thinking about everything other than sex, considers self somewhere vaguely ace, draws non-sexual content most of the time and occasionally pinup stuff rather than outright whatever.
also me: in the right place and time online I am as completely headspacey as an entire fuckin' kennel of submissive petplayers, I am like a one-neutrois Folsom Street Fair, I need to cum like the last time was two weeks ago rather than last night.
* data entry and archiving in SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce, Raiser's Edge and more
* typing at 70 wpm
* lifting and carrying up to 60 lbs
* answering or referring a high volume of phone calls and emails (up to 300+ emails daily at a prior position)
* driving automatic transmission vehicles for extended periods of time
* skilled fencer (foil, saber, some iado) with some capoeira, wing tsun and stage combat experience
* artist for hire!
There's this little glockenspiel leitmotif which shows up in the JW Fallen Kingdom soundtrack and combines with some really sad string motifs to suggests that the movie should occur around Christmastime, there should be snow, and a kindly old man passing away should be a lot more heartbreaking than it actually was in the movie (JW was technically a Christmas movie, Fallen Kingdom isn't afaik).
I blame Danny Elfman.
not my art, dinosaurs, mild gore, pol adjacent
oh yeah the regularly scheduled "wow, I learned completely the wrong languages to get a job" as a subset of the larger "wow, I completely wasted my opportunity at college and if I'd picked a GOOD major I wouldn't be doing this right now" as a subset of the larger feelings of being a completely worthless POS. Not very motivated to do job hunting this morning, like you've probably noticed.
oh yeah, John Williams' stirring March of the Brachiosaurs!
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.