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@Phorm

@spottyfox

@spottyfox truth in advertising?

@eredien I think something might not be threading for me! Mind a screenshot/link?

@LexYeen You rang?

@Phorm I was just about to go peek in on you, and apologize for not having been more help through all this. Still a little rough around the edges from recent family crisis but I should have some reserves soon if you need somewhere to vent. *TACKLEHUG* Been missing you.

SIlly stoned thought from last night:

You know how they say film genres have a life cycle? And they go through "primitive," "classic," "revisionist," and "parodic" phases?

I was thinking about what would happen f the remake trend itself went into its final throes and we started getting WEIRD remakes of things...

Like, years ago I was matching Evil Dead 2 with a dear friend and we started joking around about doing a remake where all the SFX gore -- literally meat scraps and red Karo syrup per Raimi-- was replaced with breakfast foods. It's the exact same film, but when someone gets splatted, out comes orange juice, scrambled eggs, æbleskivers, sausage links...

Or a remake of Tarantino's Deathproof. But the villain(s) chase innocent women around in their tricked out polka-dot 1920s clown car with a goofy air horn and 50 of their friends crammed into the back dressed in harlequin makeup.

Title: "Foolproof."

@arilin That moment you're describing is basically my single favorite thing about furries. 😻​

@JulieSqveakaroo @Austin_Dern

@chimerror I am not generally a big sports fan-- but I used to have the best time watching the Celebrity Sureshot skeet tournaments at 3 am on ESPN.

@chimerror espn ocho

@balinares This is the smartest point about this topic I've heard all week.

@LexYeen With my recent need to ponder and commit Cat Crimes, this fact has VERY much dawned on me recently. >:D

@anthracite YES

@spottyfox And of course the Boobie O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_monocular_O

@spottyfox You've seen THIS gorgeous mutant, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O

@spottyfox So yeah: "restless leg syndrome." *nod*

@spottyfox You know SOME jerkass would go and take that as a straight question. It might as well be your friendly neighborhood Martian. :D

Here's your answer, fishbulb.

I can not begin to express how grateful I am to have an anxiety journal these days. It does miracles.

I just dumped all my current concerns into it -- Mom being by herself here in Ohio, my busted (but not that badly it looks like) ankle, Shemp's been AWOL for a couple days again, Roe v Wade about to go down.

And I can't speak for anyone else but it really really works for me. These things will still worry me, but I don't have to RUMINATE about them. I don't have to feel like if I don't juggle them in my head constantly, I'll let something slip.

And I've kinda tricked my brain into feeling I've done something about them. "What are you complaining about? They're on THE LIST now. That's standard procedure. Everything is going according to plan."

And maybe some or all of these things will still turn to ruin. Sooner or later one of them has to. But now, after nearly five years of keeping this journal, I have a mountain of evidence that, nah, odds are good it's fine. The TRUE disasters have come a lot less often than I worried, and all of them have just kinda... sunk into the waves of time.

I'm not good but I'm OK and having a *strategy* for being OK in this day and age is important and fuck. Again, can't guarantee it'll work for you, but I recommend it very highly.

@Austin_Dern "The Finnish are a curious and inscrutable people."