#and to make it all worse I JUST started the xfiles and if I watch this damn show I’m going to stop caring about the xfiles

[thefall-mp3]

I can’t do it again. I did it with Castiel Supernatural but I cannot do with Crowley I really just can’t.

[mlobsters]

supernatural s7e9 how to win friends and influence monsters (w. ben edlund)

this whole electricity to the house they're squatting in situation, i commented on it was weird how they were squatting in houses with power here recently but i can't find the post(s) womp womp.

DEAN Weeks, guys. Weeks. We've been living with cold showers, cold Hot Pockets, cold freaking everything. I mean, this is the bottom that we're living in. You guys get that, right?

like. thawed but not microwaved hot pockets?? not good food safety right there, friend 😂

DEAN That's just great. This is stupid. Our quality of life is crap. We got Purgatory's least wanted everywhere, and we're on our third "The World's Screwed" issue in, what, three years? We've steered the bus away from the cliff twice already. SAM Someone's got to do it. DEAN What if the bus wants to go over the cliff? SAM You think the world wants to end?

team free will!

haha jersey devil, goofy ass og xfiles episode about it.

attack of the Pass Word again. are they going to kinkos to make color printouts of webpages, while also off the grid. gnawing on frozen hot pockets.

BRANDON Sidewinder soup and salad combo goes to Big Bird. TDK slammer to Ken Doll. And a little heart-smart for creepy uncle.

i have no idea what's happening. but ken doll dean. getting the turducken whammy?

DEAN You used to take us hunting. Remember? Dad had a case, he'd just dump us on you. Shoot, you must have taught us most of the outdoor tracking we know. BOBBY Yeah, what I could get to stick. I never could get you little grubs to pull a trigger on a single deer.

more morsels of backstory, thank you

"man, i liked rick" with bonus chopsurveillance

this is very xfiles bogus alien autopsy. very slimy

DEAN That's funny, right? I could give two shakes of a rat's ass. Is that right? Do rats shake their ass, or is it something else? Eh.

i guess this was out of character enough to make them realize something's up :P this oozing sandwich is beyond, BEYOND dumb.

LOL wait is this the plot of serenity? drugging the masses to keep them calm but then a few of them turned into reavers/hyperaggressive cannibals oops?

SAM Yeah, I kind of mean more like, uh... more like ever since my head broke... and we lost Cas. I mean, you ever feel like he's -- he's going through the same motions but he's not the same Dean, you know? BOBBY How could he be? SAM Right, yeah, but what if -- BOBBY What if what, Sam? You know, you worry about him. All he does is worry about you. Who's left to live their own life here? The two of you -- aren't you full up just playing Snuffleupagus with the Devil all the live long? SAM I don't know, Bobby. Seeing Lucifer's fine with me. BOBBY Come again? SAM Look, I'm not saying it's fun. I mean, to be honest with you, I-I kind of see it as the best-case scenario. I mean... SAM presses the hand he injured in 7.01 Meet the New Boss. SAM ...at least all my crazy's under one umbrella, you know? I kind of know what I'm dealing with. A lot of people got it worse.

thank you ben edlund for these conversations

BOBBY I've seen a lot of hunters live and die. You're starting to talk like one of the dead ones, Dean. DEAN No, I'm talking the way a person talks when they've had it, when they can't figure out why they used to think all this mattered.

one thing that's always really hurt to watch about dean is how burnt out and overwhelmed and ready to die/self destructive he gets. i think the feeling is too relatable and all the more painful.

BOBBY Come on, now. You tried to hang it up and be a person with Lisa and Ben. And now here you are with a mean old coot and a van full of guns. That ain't person behavior, son. You're a hunter, meaning you're whatever the job you're doing today. Now, you get a case of the Anne Sextons, something's gonna come up behind you and rip your fool head off. Now, you find your reasons to get back in the game. I don't care if it's love or spite or a ten-dollar bet. I've been to enough funerals. I mean it. You die before me, and I'll kill you.

bobby doesn't get a punch in the face for bringing up lisa and ben i guess. and i mean, is it not love for sam that's what's always keeping his head in the game?

🤦

these photoshopped roman pictures are terrible...

EXCUSE ME 😂 other two are bad but this is just. egregious! did they change who they use for graphics or something i wonder

well, bobby. shot in the head and all that mushy talk and extra screentime. doesn't bode well. i knew he didn't make it intact but also know he's around in some incarnation at points after. don't have to worry about dean dying first now, when he might have otherwise, right?

i'm sure dean would handle bobby's death well.

[twoheartsoneclara]

🔥 fanfic tropes (for the unpopular/spicy opinion meme!)

omg immediately forgets every fanfic trope ever

okay let me see....

i literally could not care less about fake dating aus they are so boring to me.

any variations thereupon are also boring to me: arranged marriage/marriage so i'll inherit this money/etc etc

same goes for only one bed like. ok. who cares?????? who cares

okay i kind of lied a tv show pulled off the only one bed trope once and i was so not mad about it but they actually managed to do something interesting with it

also i feel like the same goes for enemies to lovers - it has to be done really well for it to work but most of the time it's just like "meh you're the worst!!" "good i hate you also!" but we're ✨ attracted ✨ to each other so it doesn't really matter.

also a weirdly specific one but when people write fandom fusion fics so like if you have a pairing from one fandom and write them as if they're mulder and scully from the xfiles or whatever, but another character would fit that role better, but then they'll keep it that way because of the ship. it bugs me so much. if it's not as specific like if it's pacific rim fusion and they're just meant to be drift compatible or whatever and not taking the main character's arcs it's less of an issue for me

this is maybe not a trope, but i hate it when people steal other character's traits to give it to their fave/character bashing/etc. grow up. get a job.

also the cinderella complex of acting like one character is just soooooo mistreated by everybody else, everyone is just a huge meanie to them all the time, like yawn 😩😩

especially when the character in question happens to be treated no worse than any other character in the actual narrative, or they happen to be a character who's actually really assertive in canon and then in fics they'll just be a complete walkover. like literally what happened here.

i also get really annoyed by huge fandoms where there are plenty of characters to write about but all of the fics are almost exclusively about one (1) ship and this really becomes a problem when it ignores/bashes other characters like i said above

soulmate fics aren't an immediate won't read for me but they have to stand out in some way

halsdkjkfslj this just makes me sound like i hate shipping fics and it's kind of true but i actually love a lot of tropes and shippy tropes like i love aus, role reversals, 5+1, etc. i guess i just hate when characters are ~ forced together ~ into love by contrived circumstances. it's so....eyeroll-y to me. it's like when you watch sleepless in seattle and you get to the end and the movie's like well! those two sure are in love! and you're like no! they've known each for two minutes! they're not in love!

same thing for most of these fake dating/enemies to lovers/bed sharing, it's like people are like "well these tropes are how you get to xyz" instead of actually developing the relationship alongside it by showing how feelings for each other have begun/deepened. like that one bed sharing scene i mentioned, it shows how awkward the "relationship" is because they are like okay i guess we have to share a bed but i need my white noise machine but you want to watch cyrano de bergerac on the tv but we can't POSSIBLY sleep head to head foot to foot it has to be a head foot foot head type situation. but cyrano de bergerac is french so i'll read off the subtitles to you because you can watch it in the mirror and as you fall asleep it's the part where cyrano is admitting his love and i'm saying it softly because i know you're asleep but i'm starting to realize i'm a little in love with you too.

like the LAYERS there.

but more often that not it's like fic writers assume that you will just automatically assume that that is what is happening rather than actually writing it. (this is a problem with published fiction too, particularly romance, since it seems that my biggest gripes are with that general genre lol)

anyways thanks for asking! <3

[joecial-distancing]

July Roundup

Lifestyle:

I’ve been getting back into running this summer. It’s been about 4 years since I’ve done any serious running, and I have been made painfully aware of the differences in my body at age 29 compared to 25. My knees hurt more, I need to attend to stretching much more seriously than I used to. I’m coming at the task with better self-knowledge than last time, though; I know how far and how fast I’ve been capable of pushing, and I find an enormous amount of comfort and strength from that familiarity. 

I’ve also been applying to jobs, a process which started as nauseatingly daunting, but has gradually settled into just a regular chore of the week (ideally chore of the day, if I’m to keep up with new years resolutions). Getting a resume mushed into a satisfying shape has felt nice, as has getting together a form cover letter that I know hasn’t hurt my chances of getting my foot in doors. Annoyance Boxes checked off, and the rest is getting familiar with the rest of the grind. Interviews have been and will be the same process.

Games:

I’ve also been playing a lot of Sekiro. I’ve always “liked” Fromsoft games, but it’s been rare that I’ve been able to justify the time investment. There’s an appeal in the structure, endless chances to bash myself against a problem until it clicks, being able to run drills when stuck or inadequate (and there is a hook in the inadequacy; nothing frustrates me more than being unable to Just figure out a solution, or requiring too much time to get there. I have a tense relationship with time and deadline pressure. Impatience is one of my greatest vices). So with school finished, I’m diving into this as a treat to myself. The systems are fun, and the camera is so fucking awful that I get unreasonably angry about it. One thing I always do with these games that I think is anathema to a lot of their fans is to spoil myself on what I’m up against. In dark souls I would always have open area maps, rather than try to navigate the combat and exploration simultaneously. It put my mind at ease, I didn’t like the discomfort of the tension of untriggered surprise. And with Sekiro, I know roughly the zones I’m up against, I’m not above watching videos of the boss fights to learn the proper counters etc. No shame, no honor, that’s not what I get out of these games, really.

As with running, so with jobsearch, so with Sekiro, the method is diligence, the appeal is the pleasure of feeling my improvement over time. There is nothing more exciting to me than casually accomplishing something that I know would have annihilated me only a short time ago. I can finish 2 miles in 20 minutes, I want to get it down to 15. This also means the videogame tends to lose out on the priorities list—if I’m wanting to dedicate myself to practice, there’s almost always a different outlet that’d be better outcomes in the long run

very 8 of pentacles mood overall, lately.

Books:

I’m almost done with Pynchon’s Against the Day, which had taken up all of my Reading attention span this month. Unless it does something in the final 8% to lose me hard, it’ll probably clock in as my 2nd favorite of his stuff, behind Gravity’s Rainbow.  Anarchism as expressed against American mining companies, European empires, and the Mexican state; searches for a lost paradise city; warfare between schools of mathematics; the nature of Light. At face value, it feels closest to Gravity’s Rainbow and Mason & Dixon, compared to the rest of his work (I know there’s a lot of subtext and referencing going over my head with all of these in terms of both history and literature; I noticed a lot of reviews of AtD focused about the variety of genre style work that he’s pulling from in certain sections, nearly all of which is lost on me. It has, however, been very fun to me that I’m able to keep up with the mathematic academia infighting depicted in this). There’s a “fairy tales coming to life” quality to all three, if instead of Grimms’ stories it’s historical models of the world: Supersonic rockets wreck the flow of pavlovian cause & effect, the destruction of natural landscape in the course of linear surveying becomes a direct conduit for a massive influx of evil energy, quaternion mathematics casting time as real and space as imaginary allow a yogi to contort himself out of sight and into the imaginary plane. The aether is experimentally disproven in the beginning of Against the Day’s timeline, which doesn’t stop holdout engineers and mystics from working wonders with it.

It feels like there’s about as much going on in here as GR, but where GR is claustrophobically overstuffed (which is also part of the reason it’s a better book) and Mason & Dixon gets kind of plodding, the material here is given space to breathe, without losing momentum. It probably helps that the characters in this are a.) numerous, and b.) unusually solid as far as Pynchon goes.

It’s also got many great examples of something else I really like about Pynchon, which is that he is willing to commit 110% to incredibly stupid jokes. There’s an Elmer Fudd reference in here that completely knocked me on my ass.

Viz:

Watched the Bo Burnham netflix, which was mostly pretty good, though I’m completely out of patience for ostentations self-awareness or fake debate where the ~comedian~ who’s concerned about being ~white privileged mannn~ feels guilty he might be ~taking up space~, doesn’t know that he ~deserrrrves it~... out of patience because I already know what he did with that guilt (if genuine) — he didn’t scrap the project, he released the fucking thing anyway. What am I to do with this, Bo Burnham? Would you like my permission? Would you like an “it’s ok dude” from people of marginalized groups within your audience? Why am I watching along for a decision you’ve quite literally already made? I don’t trust displays of vulnerability before an audience of this size.

Also watched through I Think You Should Leave, which... sure it’s funny, and also very effective at making me uncomfortable, which is clearly what it’s aiming to do, but. I don’t really get why it’s got such a strong cultural draw within the online spheres I’m normally checked into. Saw some discourse about how the quotability is somehow distinct from regular memeing, which, alright get over yourselves jesus christ.

speaking of flavors of the month, watched 50 shades and lmao. I’ve been told by a trusted source the books are worse which is hilarious.

also speaking of flavors of the [century], S.O. and I have been doing a rewatch of pre-MCU comic book movies, which has been some fascinating anthropology. It meant, though, that we had to sit through howard the duck, an absolutely wretched film. Other highlights so far: willem dafoe power rangers acting, the soundtrack on affleck daredevil (incl a fuckin choice Evanescence exercise montage), Blade & Blade II still hold up.

We’ve also made it to the final season of pre-reboot xfiles. Duchovny’s mostly gone from this last season, replaced largely by robert patrick of T1000 fame, who is a better actor but a worse character, dude’s basically just A Cop. The writing’s weirdly probably better than the last couple Duchovny seasons, but the show doesn’t work without him — his bad acting was the main thing keeping things together, the tone’s all off now.

[coccsd]

Dumb Summary By Me: A computer kills people because it got insulted.

Monster: The computer? Brad? The glorified superior dude?

Favourite Quote Moment: Mulder shoving Scully up an airduct.

Would I Recommend It: It’s not too bad so yeah.

My Initial Thoughts: I can’t remembered if I watched this the first time round but I like it.

Episode Title is Said:  ❌

State: Virginia.

Special Minor Character of the Episode: Jerry Lamana.

Special Prop of the Episode: Shoes.

Inappropriate Mulder Humour: 😞

Inappropriate 90’s Terminology:  😞

Scully Favourite Sentence(s):  😞

Scully Doesn’t Suffer: 😊 (well, she does nearly get killed by a fan)

Mulder Drives: 😊

Scully Drives: 😊

Brief Case Appearance: 😊

Sharing Glasses:  😞

Scully Writes a Report: 😊

Scully Says OMG: 😊

Scully Autopsy:  😞

Scully Ditch:  ❌

Scully Pyjamas: 😊 (purple ones)

Scully Wears A Skirt: 😊

Scully Smiles: 😊

Stupid Tiny Gun Watch:  😡

Mulder’s Hand on Scully’s Back: 😊

Mulder and Scully Talk on the Phone:  😞

Scully Costume Change Counter: 6.

As usual, my comments are under the cut.

This episode just screams 90s.

You can tell this dude is a nerd because he doesn’t wear suits.

Yikes that line delivery.

Xfiles really needs to come with an epilepsy warning…

Fancy sink.

So moral of the episode- don’t have electronic bathrooms.

Why is their a camera in the bathroom?

Why does he have a shower in the bathroom, does he live there?

Why does he even have his own personal bathroom, is that normal?

Closest xf ever came to having a Halloween episode- this is your episode.

I really don’t understand why she’s jealous/mad here. It makes no sense. Jerry, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a Phoebe or a Diana- why are you angry that he worked with him?

A basement office with no heat or windows- that must be fun all year round. I might write a fic…

Yo she FALLS.

And you’re stuck in a lift.

If a lift started working again after momentarily breaking I think you’d let the dude know.

Okay so the camera isn’t facing the shower but still…why is there a camera in the bathroom?

Privacy didn’t exist in the 90s.

Aw Mulder’s nods.

Scully tidies up Mulder’s desk one day and he gets annoyed because he can’t find anything anymore.

Aw Mulder got his work stolen, that’s sad.

It’s actually really sad how he doesn’t want to say anything about it, too.

Jerry a cnut.

What is with these blazer to skirt ratios?

There’s too much feet out.

What is she actually carrying in that briefcase? Is it necessary?

Miss Scully.

What the fuck is a “scruffy mind”

More stuff just keeps getting added to these reports she writes.

Also why is she still wearing heels? You take that shit off the moment you get in.

Is this actually possible?

The voice is creepy.

Nah I think Mulder’s got and gets it worse.

How did they come to this conclusion by doing that?

Lol drawing on the computer screen. I don’t care if the screens are glass, it’s stupid and unnecessary.

Is this dude’s house necessary?

He’s so hunched over. That’s not good for your back.

What an effective security guard.

What’s with the weird camera angle?

I’m not getting in lifts again.

Well I think he’s dead.

Lol and he actually did go back.

It feels weird when Deep Throat appears in MoW episodes.

Should I do a death toll? Death counter? Is that morbid?

It’s weird seeing a season 3 outfit on a season 1 Scully.

Was Mulder actually allowed to get that laptop into the prison?

Where did he whip that from?

Just another day where Mulder and Scully almost die in a car accident.

She nearly falls up the stairs. Mood.

Mulder just saved Scully’s life.

That would still shock him tho wouldn’t it?

It’s so simple that it’s stupid.

Yo remember that time Mulder shoved Scully up an airduct? I wanna see that conversation.

She also should have went up more airducts. Or more tight Scully sized spaces.

I’m not a fan of these unnecessary weird camera angles.

All the papercuts ew.

Can you imagine crawling all that way just to be blown backwards?

Aside from the murder fan beneath, that looks fun.

Mulder’s backpack.

Surprise, Motherfucker!

Surprise, Motherfucker!

Scully’s had a TIME.

That’s why she was never shoved up another airduct. Mulder tried to and she threatened to walk away.

The voice goes from creepy and plain stupid.

Scully cross chain changes all the time.

Hey remember Jerry? He dead.

That’s a big ass ugly phone.

So what happened to Brad? Is he still in prison complaining that he has to wear shoes?

Final Thoughts: I actually really like this episode. It’s no way a good one but it would probably be at the top of my list of meh episodes.

[beatsheetketch]

@astermacguffin​ hello good evening. So, here’s my concept: 11x14 The Vessel, teleplay by mr. bobo berens, BUT no angel warding on the submarine, Casifer stays with Dean to find the Hand of God. He has to play Cas for an extended period of time, in close quarters, while Dean wears a Navy outfit. Shenanigans ensue.

So obviously Casifer is fun bc Lucifer is privy to Cas’s gay thoughts. And i enjoy the “*puppydog eyes* Dean…” impression greatly. AND he also (three episodes earlier, before they find out it’s not Cas) puts his hand on Dean’s shoulder for no reason while in shirtsleeves, because Lucifer likes to make men uncomfortable by acting bluntly gay (not a Mark Pellegrino acting choice i am wild about). All that business makes me think about how much worse Lucifer could have made life for both Cas AND Dean if the fancy struck him. I don’t think he would, just because he simply doesn’t care about other people’s problems. (In “Rock Never Dies,” Berens has him sum up the Cas possession experience with: “I know what a weak, duty-bound, pleasureless dullard you are.” Someone who lives for the drama, such as Crowley, might prod these qualities of Cas’s just to make him uncomfortable, but Lucifer just doesn’t give a shit.)

So. The Vessel. What if the Vessel but no angel warding, and Casifer does stay on the submarine, and do the secret away mission with Dean? Cas, sharing the mindscape with Lucifer, would have a TORRENTIAL mental freakout about a. putting Dean in danger and b. staring at Dean in a Navy outfit. Dean meanwhile is realizing that something is up with Cas—but not soon enough.

One last thing you should know about The Vessel is this—it is a (much messier) rewrite of The X-Files episode 6x03 “Triangle.” Triangle is a CLASSIC and completely chaotic episode of xfiles: Mulder goes looking for a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1939, just at the outbreak of WWII. Instead of finding the ship, he gets sent back in time TO the ship. He tries to blend in but gets caught immediately (familiar?), then the Nazis board the ship searching for a weapon called “Thor’s Hammer” (sounding familiar??), which the ship’s captain is willing to die to protect… etc etc. BUT: Triangle is iconic for being THEE first onscreen [semi canon, bc time travel reasons] mulder/scully kiss AND their first “i love you” [canon bc it’s back in present day]

So with all that in mind. I think I can reconstruct the first draft that exists on mr berens’s hard drive. 

��THE VESSEL 1.0″

They zap back to the submarine. No warding, no problem. To avoid detection, Casifer turns invisible, but Dean has to hide. (Dean, from under the bunk: “Can’t you make me invisible too?” Casifer: [Mark Pellegrino shrug from across the room].) Dean takes care of most of the action, while Casifer follows and is mostly just invisible and unhelpful. In this version, Dean steals a uniform without knocking anyone out, so he can evade detection for longer. Also, when Dean talks to the navy guy and fumbles the whole, “she’s a hottie. uh I mean. the gams on that gal!” conversation, Cas[ifer] is standing there watching, which is probably fun. for Cas.

So they’re looking for the Hand of God on the sub together. Dean starts to pick up on something, bc Casifer seems to just find him annoying—instead of charming/exasperating, the two typical Cas reactions to Dean’s behaviors—and he is doing an increasingly poor job of hiding it. 

Dean starts to think something is truly up after he gets apprehended, and Cas just... stands there and doesn’t help. Then the captain puts Dean in the brig and questions him, etc, plot stuff.

Once they’re alone again, Cas reappears and Dean turns on him and is like, “What the hell? Can you just turn me invisible next time?” and Casifer is like, “I can’t do it unless we’re touching.” So Dean is like sure whatever hold my hand Thelma i don't care, just help me get out of here.

Casifer breaks Dean out of the brig. Lucifer has to operate without using any of the angel powers Cas has lost, like flying, which is annoying Lucifer almost as much as Dean is. By this point, he really would like to get the weapon and zap home, but the dame told Dean where to find the Hand of God, and when Casifer is like “where?” dean’s like “just follow me,” and won’t elaborate. So Lucifer rolls his eyes and follows Dean down the narrow little hallway. And that’s when they spot the Nazi ship up above, and all the alarms start blaring. 

Now we’re freaking out, Casifer’s like we’re running out of time, Dean, we should just go back [thinking: and then I’ll come back and get it ALONE, so I can use my damn angel powers], and Dean’s all no, we need it to defeat Amara —Lucifer is truly now at his limit—when they hear shouting behind them, and there’s nowhere to hide, so Dean’s like, they’re coming! invisible me, dude! zap me! zap me! So Casifer kisses him. As soon as their lips touch, boom, invisible. and the navy guys run by. and then as soon as the guys are gone, Casifer pulls away and they un-invisible, and without a second look he walks off, leaving Dean leaning against the bulkhead like. Um...

Later, when Dean realizes, oh, this is Lucifer, it’ll be too late to ask him what the fuck was up with that. Would he ask, even if he had the chance? I don’t know. But, like, oh, of course, it was just Lucifer... causing problems... trying to distract me... being Lucifer. No need to dwell on it. 

As the audience, we would never know the effect this has on Cas. I think if I was Cas, after that, I would pack it in and go watch TV in the bunker kitchen in my mind.

i deserved a motw ep where ambiguous monster either a) shifted into cas and hit on dean b) possessed cas and hit on dean c) showed dean his greatest fantasy (it’s cas) or d) love spelled dean up to no effect because dean has been encasing those boxes in concrete and throwing them to the bottom of the ocean for decades

[bogwisdom]

All of those incredible asks, b

Thank you so much b!!!! This took me forever to do but it was a nice distraction :) 

Racist with a Terrible Headache: if you could just get up drive anywhere, right now, where would it be?

If I had a car here in Valencia, I guess I’d drive to Altea, which is like two hours south. In the U.S. I’d drive to that dark sky park up north

Bruce Campbell the Bigamist Demon: what is the biggest surprise you've ever had in your life?

Honestly I surprise myself with my own behavior constantly, lol 

Mildly Upset Meteorologist: what would the weather be like if you could control it?

It would be sunny like 25 days a month, and it would actually rain or storm the days where it wasn’t. None of that oppressive cloudy bullshit

Creepy Death Photographer: what is something you're morally ambiguous about?

Telling people things that will hurt them even if they’re the truth. Sometimes I think it’s probably better to just not say anything, if you can live with it

Mulder in One Son: what's the most awkward situation you've been privy to?

OMG! My cousin marrying some dude she went to high school with years later after they reconnected on some dating website. He’s crazy (like anti-Semitic and very homophobic, even though like half my family is gay) but treats her well? It’s all so weird. 

Florida Gothic Aesthetique: what is a situation where you were overwhelmed but you pulled through?

Where to begin, tbh. If I’m still alive in two weeks I’ll say this month was probably the most overwhelming of my life. Too many emotions, too many things to do. 

Homeowners Associations are HORRIBLE: what is a community you really enjoy being a part of?

Spartans! I love MSU so much and see other spartans all over the place, like I met some dude at 3 a.m. in Valencia who had just graduated from MSU. We’re everywhere 

Dogs? I don't know: what historical figure would you consider a kindred spirit?

Oh god, I don’t know. Maybe Aldo Leopold just for fisheries and wildlife reasons

Phillip Padget Eat Your Heart Out: what is something about yourself you feel others do not see?

Nothing, tbh!! I overshare and am pretty much some version of myself around everyone

Flesh Eating Magic Mushrooms: name three things you do NOT want to be covered in

Olive juice, millipedes, and poison ivy

The Kid Eats Brains: what are your favorite brain foods?

I think blueberries are a brain food? I miss blueberries. I swear Spaniards haven’t even heard of them 

It's a Metaphor for Teenage Speed Use: talk about peer pressure you experienced

The closest thing was my friend Tyler convincing me to smoke a joint w her in the park once when I wasn’t in the mood, but it was hardly traumatic obviously

Even Luck is Terrifying: what's the luckiest thing that's ever happened to you?

Meeting Julian maybe? Hard to say if that was good or bad luck, but it was definitely luck

Screw You DONALD: what is something you feel guilty about but was justified?

I felt guilty for a long time about not ultimately choosing the hardest possible major/career path, but fuck that

Literally Fear Itself: what is the embodiment of fear itself to you?

The idea of Room 101 is terrifying, which is a little meta I guess

Cigarettes are Bad by the Way: what are you addicted to?

Physical contact of any kind. I need to be held or something or I’ll start to feel physically worse after 36 hours or less

Kathy Griffin Incites Mass Violence: why did you want to punch the last person you wanted to punch?

One of my good friends because she’s unbelievably self-righteous at times and thinks her life is on a better/more “right” track than mine 

Jinn, the Coolest XFiles Monster: what are your three wishes?

I’ll be realistic and selfish. 1. To understand why I feel the way I do about anything/everything. 2. To not make any more decisions that hurt people I care about. 3. To be less moody overall but it’s getting exhausting 

Cult Worm, Name of My Band: name three things that gross the hell out of you, like this episode

THIS episode for real, omg. But also eyes, millipedes, and STDs. 

Half Man Half Reptile Completely Incoherent: if you were half man half animal, what would you want the half animal to be?

Not sure how it’d all work, but maybe an eagle?

The Kid has Bugs for Hormones: what is something you yearned for but did not receive?

Ooh emotional intimacy with just about everyone I’ve ever known

The Kid has Bugs for Hormones: what is something you yearned for but did not receive?

Oh, so many things. The smell of the employee hallway at the mall where I used to work, Smashing Pumpkins music, the way the air feels in April, etc. I think if i met someone who wore the same deodorant as Anthony I’d probably start crying 

Burt Reynolds is Literally God Here: link me to three of the nicest songs you know

Lover, Lover, Lover by Leonard Cohen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYkJuAb0mMk

I’m Bound to Pack it Up by The White Stripes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE90fWBT__0

Honesty Is No Excuse by Thin Lizzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQTq4RaVQYQ

This Lizard Man was Adorable as Hell: what's your favorite thing about being human? what's your least favorite?

My favorite thing is being able to use tools and understand my surroundings fully-ish. My least favorite is everything we’ve done to the world that’s destroyed it 

The Band-Aid Nose Man: what really disappoints you about the world?

People not giving two shits about the environment