Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

"You're not really ace, you just drink too much soda."

"You're not really 'immune' to caffeine, you just haven't drank the right coffee yet."

"You know, your heart starts to race, you feel all tingly, your chest feels tight and your thoughts are going a million miles an hour."

[Smiling and nodding politely] Sure, yeah, of course.

Being caffeine-immune and being ace/aro have a surprising amount of cultural parallels

Whenever I read 大学 (big + learning: daigaku, university) my brain just goes "BIIIIIIIIIG LEEAARNIIING" like the MST3k professors

From watching a mix of both this week, I think wuxia films are closer to fantasy-adventure than to kung fu movies, but they get lumped together a lot in Western release because "Chinese film with fights in".

It would be like if Lord Of The Rings was marketed as a HEMA martial arts movie, and got a reception of "There's 5 minutes of cool sword and bow stunts, but then they walk around a forest talking about jewelry for the rest of the film, 1/5"

It's a completely different set of expectations.

Most words: Ok, these two kanji mean that concept. Cool!
Some words: Kanji for this word(v1), Kanji for this word(v2)
Some words: Yeah I got nothing, smells of etymology tbh

Every time it happens in a book, movie or show, my mind returns to this comic.

Gravity is just as much a fundamental part of "our place in nature". We evolved for that, our bodies like it!

But whenever you get "Nope not going into space. That's unnatural!" in SF it's only from backwards sects of pitiable weirdos.

SFF writers, please, just once

Can we overcome cell senesence and it not be a big hand-wringing affair over "Oh! Oh! The very SOUL of humanity! Tis tarnished! Death, it defines life, you see!"

Get lost with that drunk undergrad philosophy schpiel, istg

And on that note

"Necromancy is AGAINST THE LAWS OF LIFE ITSELF! (Healing magic's ok tho)"

Like, yeah, your arm exploded? Buddy, this mage'll magic you up a new one! He's all harmonious! Look, there's birds in his beard and everything.

If it's your brain, though? Nah man, that's Unnatural.

What's wild is that Point Break only came 3 years later, and in that the "off-duty cop who starts a shootout in a building full of hostages during a robbery" is a minor antagonist who causes a tragic bloodbath.

Which feels very pointed and deliberate, like so much of that movie.

It feels like it's ramping up to action films of the 90s, in terms of tone and writing. Things aren't at the point of campyness you'll get in stuff like Total Recall or Demolition Man, but the path to there from here is very clear.

That was weird. Fun movie, very solid structurally. It does not feel like a 2hr 12m movie at all. Bizarre mix of lots of copaganda stuff that really doesn't land in 2023, mixed with the *most* inept cops this side of a Police Academy movie.

Alan Rickman is just amazing, and the entire film hinges on his performance. I love that in a cast of baddies yelling "SCHNELL! 'EE KEELED MEIN BROTHER!!" he is playing a guy named Hans Kruger with the most English accent imaginable.

There was one amazing scene where it looked like it was about to turn into a mistaken identity romcom with Alan Rickman & Bruce Willis, but the cowards veered away from it at the last moment.

Give me that movie, dammit.

These two are at the absolute top of their game, wow.

(Spoilered for spoilers. Gringo Loco vs Hijo de Vikingo, Ring Of Honor 23-4-20)

#wrestling

The kanji radical (smaller parts that make up the kanji characters) for 'strike, hit' is 攵, aka the 'folding chair' radical

This makes me so very happy

If you're in the UK, there'll be a big blaring 10s noise from your phone at 3pm

Turn off Emergency Alerts on your phone before then if you wanna avoid this. I think that should do it? Not 100% whether it turns off all levels of alarm or just the lower ones. >< Sticking mine on airplane mode then as well.

"I need some motivation to learn kanji, this is a lot."
"You mean the written language that is famously good for making puns?"
"Raring to go, I got this"

tiny dinosaur (european jay)

Watching the NXT Wrestlemania go home show, brain went "Pretty Deadly are femboy Ant & Dec" and now I can't unthink it

After watching Guyver 1 and Mortal Kombat 2 and reading that both were critically panned, I come away convinced that the 90s kept just accidentally creating absolute masterworks of camp cinema and then going

"Ugh! Camp!? I thought this would be edgy, somehow!"

I love TJPW's penchant for high-melodrama show titles. AEW and WWE should have events called things like "What I Am Missing Is Something You Do Not Have, A Prince That Rode In On A White Horse"

Embrace the Utena energy, cowards