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And now they're lecturing a mother who killed her son's bully about how "high school is very difficult for some kids, but eventually it's over." And that line damn near spelled a 10-yard flight for my laptop.

Not if you're a cop, apparently. You get to play the bully for years and years and years. Motherfucker, I hope your personal afterlife is just being kicked in the crotch hour by hour by people who got scarred for life by that dismissive "nothing that happens to teens matters" shit.

Smug Cop to his "perp," a bouncer who accidentally rolled an abusive drifted down a hill to his death: "Treating a human being like garbage is not a job, it's a choice."

Me: *makes Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers shrieking noises while trembling and pointing at this side of back bacon who's treated innocent witnesses like garbage because "it's his job" for four straight episodes*

Gil Grissom, giving advice to two forensic specialists trying to destink themselves after leaving the morgue: "Lemons. Use lemons."

Me: "Ah, mais oui! Le jambon, c'est meilleur avec les citrons!"

@Leucrotta At first I read that as "postmodern hypostasis" and I was like, WOW, what the fuck kind of cop show is this?! :D

For example, one of Our Heroes to his coworker, investigating a murder in a high school:

"Which one were you in high school? A jock or a brain?"

Me: "I'm pretty sure I dissected a fetal you in AP Bio, actually."

Oh, and honestly, it's just plain fun rooting against the "good guys." The amount of casual bullying they get away with towards ordinary working-class folks and professionals is ridiculous, and it's obviously they fully expect us to be cheering for them to "tell it like it is."

I'm gonna have to watch like four full seasons of Reno 911! to get the stink of this show out of my fur. (And don't you dare try to tell me Reno 911 is copaganda. NOBODY is rooting for those guys.

Okay, *maybe* for Jonesy. :p )

Current activity: hate-watching CSI in a bout of good media starvation.

It's actually kinda fun. It's SO PATRONIZING. They talk down to their audience so hard, via people with scientific educations who would absolutely never be having these conversations with each other. It's "AS YOU KNOW, SARAH JANE..." to the tenth power.

I've also called about 3-4 of their "shocking twist endings" by, you know, reading the damn paper now and then. Like the episode whose "twist" was a rebirthing therapy that had gone awry. Even though they said the deceased had been in therapy for an attachment disorder in the first five minutes of the episode. And he died by being smothered by a blanket. Because that was ALL OVER THE NEWS.

I'm still working up the nerve to watch the "yes we seriously believed furries could fuckpile in latex-lined fursuits and not die of heatstroke because what the fuck is research" episode.

Oh, and now I'm pretty sure the urban legend that the writers were in a secret competition with the other crime shows to see who could pass the worst technobabble past their boomer idiot bosses is 100% true.

@Austin_Dern "The Strange Case of The Coati Who Regretting Reading The Comments"

Today absolutely sucked and my morale, my temper, and my common sense hit rock bottom for a while.

But you know, rock bottom for all three is a lot higher than it was when I lived out in Seattle and Boston. I think a certain amount of deprivation has been good for my WIS stat. :p

Plus, Peg demonstrated once again that we have some pretty damn good relationship and conflict-resolution skills, and performed a VERY smart act of open communication that probably saved us both hours of grumping, fighting, and despair.

And my employers made me feel really smart and well-appreciated by giving me a nice chance to show off. They also seem to actually give a shit about the little nerdy extra things I do to support the team (like making up a little glossary of geographical terms in Thai for the annotation team), which is a hell of a lot more than I can say about anyone else I've ever worked for.

The isolation, the bugs in the kitchen (and the postponed exterminator appointment), the draconian local weed laws, the lack of social opportunities (even virtually), my lack of Parallax progress, and the utter death of my libido and my fantasy life... these are still problems. I still feel like I'm farming barren earth.

But I can feel kinda good about *myself*, at least. And my crazy-but-surprisingly-sane dragon lady.

And the bakeries are still open. That's important. 😺​

@001zlnv Damn, I was really considering asking you how many GP/gems/energy it would be for that Vacation Suit you designed for me...

Repost from another thread.

I had a listen after I mentioned it.

And then I cried a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAhbVzwzZ6U

@Momentrabbit And heh, the tone of that spiel was beautiful and/but it reminds me so much of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAhbVzwzZ6U

@Momentrabbit Yeah. The universe still owes me our Return of the Secaucus 7/Big Chill. Even if it's bittersweet, I kinda demand it.

@Balinares *spittake* Olivia!? 😼​

*reads up on the AWSW wiki*

OK, yeah, fair enough! Olivia is a self-centered flake (aka: "a cat") but at least she hasn't given up on people and she genuinely *likes* most of them...

I had a really haunting dream and I just can't see anything but ruins right now.

@Aradia Yeah, Servalan is only an inspiration for a REAL dark alternate-universe of Olivia (which, spoiler alert, is NOT off the table), but she is still God much like Ivanova is God. Servalan and Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul both fit the "driven and ambitious" part of Olivia's character, as does Dana Scully, but none of them are damn CRAZY enough. :)

I finally broke my writers block and started into Act 2, Chapter 2 of the Vek-10 (space monks) side of Parallax, and I realized something about our lead character, hypermath prodigy/catwitch Olivia: I couldn't think of a single other character in media to model her on. Not off the top of my head.

I did finally come up with a few. I'm sure there are plenty of obsessive, impetuous career-science women in literature, but almost everyone I thought of in film/TV was not only recent, but from a certain narrow band of modern animation, basically the "New SIncerity."

So... Princess Bubblegum, Entrapta, Twilight Sparkle, Agatha Heterodyne, and maybe Webby Vanderquack (at 24, with a math degree, having put all her XP into INT and none into WIS).

And maybe that's just my brainstorming failure -- I'd love to hear more if you can think of any -- but I'm still feeling pretty good that I'm putting a character archetype out there that's still badly underrepresented.

Hooray for irresponsible female power nerds!

I... I may have crossed some boundaries of civility with Gov. Ivey of Alabama. O:)

1) Reggie Watts and Maktub, "No Quarter"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsF1fQm3_0

(original: Led Zeppelin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu94mWlgzMY

2) The Church, "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0bky8HRRg4

(original: Ultravox)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3kQr4lAcsA

3) Dinosaur Jr, "Just Live Heaven"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLOr8S2d2E

(original: The Cure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ASpBpT8bRQ

4) Juliana Hatfield, "Raisans"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eYaZehVrY

(original: Dinosaur Jr)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8XsL6veaU

5) Kid 606, "Mr. Wobble's Nightmare"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epI6D8NG4VE

(original: 4hero, "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THCj2AJuNVE

6) Information Society feat. Ayria, "Heffalumps and Woozles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbZVpgabWA

(original: Richard & Robert Sherman)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3RZGZQciXU

7) Jonathan Richman, "Egyptian Reggae"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyMPToh9Yg

(original: Earl Zero, "None Shall Escape the Judgment")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3yIXt6kls

8) Stereolab, "One Note Samba/Surfboard"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtvwwvis8M

(originals: Antonio Carlos Jobim, "One Note Samba"; Esquivel, "Surfboard")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rzNLXxo01Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglD0H-cps

9) Luna, "Bonnie and Clyde" (sadly my favorite cut, the "fast version" from Lunafied, is not on the web)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6DQhSGnGsY

(original: Serge Gainsbourg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66HiF91gjQ

10) Moose, "Everybody's Talkin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7mSJ508mDY

(original: Harry Nilsson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFKDyVPkonc

ok i am an ancient shoegazer relic i admit it

@typhlosion I'll bet there's an alternate universe where it's become mandatory, the exact timeline of which is left to the eager student, and I'll bet it's a more interesting universe than ours.