#thunkin all day

[anthrokiaera]

Are you thinkin about the possibility that Gavin certainly most definitely quite possibly might just be conditioning his emotions around Caelum?? The times when he definitely probably did?? especially when he’s with freelancer and the little guy because he views Caelum as an innocent, almost child-like daemon, and he accohnts the fact that he can feel the emotions of others just like any other demon?? So he holds off on a lot of things like for example resisting the urge to make an innuendo when Caelum’s around and trying to give his best “we’re fine, little guy” emotions during the aftershock series and and stuff???

Yeah..me too…

also I’m exhausted and I’m pretty sure my reedited word vomit doesn’t make much more sense

[randomfoggytiger]

React: "Return to Me" (from the POV of Someone Averse to RomComs, Part IV): It Seems I Am Terrible with Names

To recap: Bonnie Hunt is great, sweetheart Elizabeth ??/Jane Bennett was doomed from the start, and Bob and I are in a war over his stupid name. He's called Ben now (unless I get particularly salty and start extrapolating dumb nicknames out of Bob.)

Ben takes his tasty little takeout out with him; but before he leaves, he notices Grace/Minnie Driver singing with the restaurant band.

Charlie's here-- he actually stepped out to convince Ben to come back in.

He failed his objective.

"I know you're going home."

"I'm not going home-- I gotta go to work."

So anyways, back at home--

No wait, car gag first. Little driver forgot to move the seat back.

That's funny, Bonnie, thanks.

So anyways, NOT-at-home Ben roughs it in his pickup at the worksite to eat his takeout.

...That's brilliant.

That's when he notices the "thank you for the heart" letter.

Just when you thought you're out you're back in.

Okay, wait, no, wrong prediction: this brings Ben more peace through a few more tears.

Minnie knows that the discarded phone was Ben's he'd accidentally left and has some thunkin' to do of her own.

Rando construction guy takes the voided plans home so his kids can color them in. Great touch, Bonnie.

Bob's flustered that the restaurant called about his phone-- "Who called? ...Who from the restaurant?"

Wait, I liked Bob so well in his new scenes I dropped Ben.

CURSES BOB, you've fooled me again.

Bonnie's low-key chaotic house.... *chef's kisses*

OH, Bonnie's name is Megan. ...Meagan? Meghan? Pfffft, Megan....

Am I just bad at names?

Kid so proud he relayed his mom's "daddy's a gorilla" joke from yesterday. Amazing.

The husband wants to set Grace/Minnie up with a former Father Joe. I think? It's always Father Joe... or is the husband's name Joe?

...Oh, no.

Nope, Joe is the husband. The priest's name is... ???

Minnie's OUTTA there.

The entire house is melting down over words and the ex-priest is here and everyone's aware this is going to be a disaster.

...Why does the ex-priest still have his priest garb?

BONNIE HUNT what have you DONE with this movie.

Charlie's really hittin' the town and wanting... fine, BOB, to join.

Bob's been turning his closet upside down. A little... nervous, a little anxious, a little twitterpated, are we now?

He dragged out the dusty dress shoes. This is serious.

I think it's catching, Bob, because Grace already has it.

Charlie calls him on all his lies-- "Oh, yeah? What's the [Cub's game] score?"

Bob fumbled the ball (ooh, nice pun; but--), or should I say the remote, and just chalks it up to "The Cubs are losing."

SKATE BOY'S BACK. I think I know what this next scene is, I saw the screenshots: Bob gets fashion advice from a kid 10+ years his junior. THIS is the premier content I signed up for.

"DAN THE MAN" AND "BOB THE SLOB"???? I love this kid; though, admittedly, he gets the better end of this name-calling schtick.

Kid won't be house-cleaner, too: "I don't think you can afford me."

Bob, your life of crime is going to land you in jail one day:

I wonder if Minnie will kick back?

"How do I look?"

"Tall."

"...Tall."

"Tall, yeah."

This kid is my sister, my kid sister is this kid. We've finally found someone I can relate to-- well done, gang.

Also, Ben the felon, he calls you Bob the Slob; so, I don't think this kid admires your drip. And look at his color theory and well-groomed nature. Yeah, this kid doesn't care for your middle-age-crisis look but he's also not even looking because he knows it will never meet his standards. "Tall" is all he wants to notice, Ben the Felon, and that's all he ever will.

Bonnie literally has Husband Joe (not Father ???) dragging all the kids to bed after the not-great-date while Bonnie-Megan is catching up with Grace-Minnie over the former priest's oddities. Stunning.

Also: Grace hates telling people about her heart surgery because they look at her as broken. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, foreshadowing, she's not going to tell Mons. Bobert hmmmmmmmmm.

Bonnie's family has no chill, wow.

Grandpa is blessed with work and calls his granddaughter by her first and middle name. Me heart, it beats like a little baby Irish sheep.

Couples just casually smooching to rub it in to Grace.

Old men are still arguing; but their fandom conversation has moved on from musicians to dream teams. This sounds exactly the "Japanese Vocaloid singers to 'Choose Your Apocolypse Team'" pipeline from back in the day.

Here comes Ben the Felon.

Grandpa has a great quip to Ben: "Now, you are either very late or very early, what's your view of it?"

Bob the Build-a-Better-Outfit is fishing for details about the lady who called (I'll bet it's the loud, happy waitress from Part... II? and not, as he hopes, Grace.)

Grandpa's straight-up fishing for singleton status. As the kids say: a legend.

Both of these men are fishing in the same pond without realizing.

As the kids have already said but I'm going to be those cringe Facebook memes posted years out of date: legends.

Grandpa got a new recruit for his Tumblr mutuals.

"This is my friend... uh..."

"Bob."

"Bob."

Friends wait.

"His wife is dead."

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEY" "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

Bonnie, this is so good.

Angelo is Marty's BIL? That's why it's an Italian-Irish restaurant. I love that Bonnie didn't force that information into the first half, letting it pop up naturally.

Bob stands up politely when Sophie (the waitress-- okay, I will remember this. Sophiethewaitress, Sophiethewaitress, sophiethewaitresssophiethewaitress---) tells the boys she's heading home. She's so casual about the old guys trapping another friend... is this how Angelo and Marty got the other two guys to join?

"Sophie, his wife is dead."

The waitress isn't surprised if not fully convinced.

Sophie's sweet on Wally (who is the guy with the arm tattoo and is thoroughly confused and frustrated when the guys badger him about it after Sophie leaves.)

Even Bob chips in with a quiet "I think she likes you" and all the men are happy he agrees. Wally decides this means the new recruit has good taste since he "can't depend on you two hobos."

Build-a-Bob asks if everyone's gone for the night-- fishing that little fishing pole into that same little pond-- and those dudes are oblivious and MARTY HAD TO WALK SOPHIE OUT SO HE COULDN'T SCHEME but all is well because this movie's half over and the romance is bound to happen soon. Don't you worry, Bobby ol' buddy ol' pal.

Grace is still living with guilt that she is living someone else's life, I see. That Edgar Allen Poe heartbeat under the metaphorical floor of her ribs and all. But she's still grateful, if haunted.

There goes the magic again-- curtains whipping open so she'll stick her head out and see Bob. The 90s... thingamajig.

Bob's cleaning out the restaurant, but his sweepstakes have nothing to do with a broom. (I salute myself over that joke.)

Here comes Minn---

...I love this movie so much.

"I want you to meet my granddaughter, Gracie. Isn't she lovely?"

"Yes, yes she is."

I'm dying.

Bob can build both of them a better wardrobe.

"We spoke last night--"

NO BOB, YOU'RE KILLING THE SUBTERFUGE. BOB, NO. YOU'RE WAVING A RED FLAG IN FRONT OF GRANDPA MARTY. BOB DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'RE DOING--

Doesn't matter because Minnie's melting in a graceful little pool over his jab at "water lady."

No joke, this immediate cut away--

made me bust out laughing. That never happens because I'm a private person who dies laughing inside (except for some exceptional X-Files episodes.) Bonnie, you did a miracle.

Grace caught all that and knows she'll never live this down.

Tumblr took away my screenshot space, so that's it for now (if I caaaaaaaan upload another part I will. Sometimes it gets really weird and tyranty about me flooding the system with hundreds of screenshots, I don't know whyyyyyyyyy~.)

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[thee-achilles]

Hii there!! How are you?

I had a astrology question in mind!

What are your favorite harsh/challenging aspects and why? (From your chart or in general)

Idk if that was a good question but anyway! Hope you have a wonderful day!! ❤️

hello!! i’m doing well! thank you so much for asking!! <33 your question got me thunkin big time 😈

personally, when the growth of the person is in mind, venus harsh aspects are my favorite. it may take time for them to grow, but when they do, they really flourish. they truly shine once they acknowledge the darker sides of their venus self and what they need to do in order to grow.

as for in my chart, one of my favorite harsh aspects in my chart is my NN opposite my ascendant. i know that, in some way, i am going to be the first to do something in my family. my NN is in aries at 13° in the 6H. funnily enough, my brother’s NN is in taurus at 13° in the 7H. he’s an extremely talented musician and he’s the first in our family to actually do something with that talent.

the main reason why i bring him up is because he has always known that’s what he wants to do. his NN sextiles his sun as well as quintiles his mc. i am extremely proud of him, though i wish i knew what i wanted to do like he did. my SN is in the 12H and it’s in libra (i’m libra dominant) so it’s got me like 🧍 what do i do. obviously, i know what i like to do: astrology, but it is important for me to make money as securely as i can (it’s my scorpio venus, man💔).

as for why i appreciate this stupid puta of an aspect in my hot and sexy natal chart, i feel as if it heightens my intuition. while whatever the NN is telling me to go one way and my asc is telling me to go another way, following what my intuition is telling me gets me where i need to be. i think my need for financial security is causing me to be resistant of whatever purpose i need to fulfill. and since my venus is biquintile my NN, i should just get over it because if i follow my purpose, it’ll just give what i need to me. 😒

ah. the inner conflict continues. 😋

NN isn’t all about jobs, i know, but it’s in my 6H which leads me to believe it has something to do about my job. however, i need more input about it in order to see what else this could refer to. :)

thank you so much for you lovely question!! it had me learning some things about myself as well as my chart. :)) hope you have a gorgeous and grateful day!! <333 🥰

[thedoctormcdonald]

THEORY TIME, KIDS!

Ok so this thing;

Had me vibrating and hyperventilating more than anything else in the trailer, and I think its design tells us ALOT about what’s really the purpose behind this heist.

I say this b/c as the unapologetic cosmic horror freak that I am lemme tell ya... HOO DOGGIE is the design of that thing HELLA ancient, mystical and Lovecraftian.  So it’s got me thunkin... what if the purpose for this whole heist is to steal this thing b/c (Actor) Mark knows that it and it alone holds the requisite eldritch power to be able to effectively thwart and/or defeat Dark, thus ridding Mark of his biggest “problem” once and for all?

IDK, just the first thing that popped in my head; I honestly can’t wait the 7 days that stand between us and this insane masterpiece!!  😘😁👏👏

[swipestream]

Sensor Sweep: REH Guide, Realism, Short Stories, Street & Smith Pulp Sales, Star Wars

Books (Skelos Press): Presenting the English translation of the award-winning book that introduced a new generation of French fans to the father of sword and sorcery. The Robert E. Howard Guide was born out of years of scholarship, but took its final form after answering the same questions from fans over and over again. In many ways, Howard remains a “famous unknown writer, “the man who single handedly defined modern fantasy, but whose life and works are still known mostly filtered through adaptations, pastiches and gross approximations. Because of those specificities, he is more often than not known for what and who he wasn’t, for sentences he never wrote, or for characters who bear little resemblance—if any—to his original creations. This, in turn, explains how and why this book was conceived.

  Popular Culture (Jeffro Johnson): You can see the cultural programming for this present disaster hit hard just by looking at the movies of the sixties and seventies. Marathon Man (1976) features a “nice guy” protagonist. Dustin Hoffman plays a nebbish that blunders into a bit of a thriller. “Realism” in this case means that he is such a loser that the only woman willing to take up with him is one which is willing to do so under the orders of a mysterious figure from the underworld. (Note how this character type would undergo some modifications in the eighties: loser protagonists in both Gremlins and The Karate Kid fall into completely arbitrary female favor without establishing any of the sort of qualities that could motivate it while characters that could command that sort of attention are painted in the worst light possible.

Gaming (Gaming Ballistic): Today I pushed the “Blast Emails” button on the PDF for Dragon Heresy. It’s got the cover, hyperlinks and bookmarks, and I hope is as error-free as it could be. Backers should find the notification in their email box.

I will be spooling out a gigantic file for upload to the printer today or tomorrow (the office in Hong Kong is closed tomorrow, so doing it early doesn’t make much sense). It’s been a long journey to this point, but within a day the process of making the physical books will begin. I’ll stage the PDF for release on my site and Drive ThruRPG in a week or so; I need a breather first. On the other hand: PDF promised end of July. Delivered 6wks early. Booyah. Now I start cranking HARD on Hall of Judgment.

  Publishing (Red Pill Religion): Science Fiction is a wasteland of Politically Correct, croney-laden publishers. Most self-publishing solutions generation nothing. How do you sell books in the early 21st Century? Join professional writers Brian Neiemeier, Declan Finn, Russell Newquist, Nick Col, and John C. Wright as we discuss navigating Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing in 2018!

  Comic Books (Brian Niemeier): Yesterday I mentioned comic artist Ethan Van Sciver’s account of his amicable separation from DC Comics. Ethan’s a decent guy–the kind of normie entrepreneur, husband, and father one could once be in America before peak SJW convergence. It’s good to know he isn’t fretting over where his next meal is coming from since his independent Cyberfrog comic just raised over $200,000.

I take comfort in knowing that creators like EVS are out there, humbly making new culture to replace what the Morlocks befouled. I experience an altogether different emotion when I hear of the diabolical persecution SJWs subject honest family men like Ethan to.

  Gaming (Walker’s Retreat): I’m seeing the institutional incompetence too common in tabletop RPGs is now present in videogames.

The tell? The production of things that call themselves games, but are not.

A game has a few defining characteristics:

A defined scenario, putting out what the playable space is and what constraints bind it.

A defined objective- a win condition.

Limited resources–including time–to achieve it.

Systems for interaction between player(s) and the situation as it develops.

Defined loss conditions.

No reliance on narrative or other non-gaming practices to produce a satisfactory experience as well as to avoid detracting from same, because the point is to challenge the player, to see if he can face adversity, and then to see if he can adapt and overcome to achieve the objective.

  Writing (Wasteland and Sky): From a chart passed around by author Jon Del Arroz comes this list showing the sales of different SF subgenres. To no one’s surprise, the ones focused on action and adventure are at the top of the chart. In addition to some weird listings (“Alternate History” and “Alternative History” are two different categories) this isn’t all that surprising to anyone who pays attention to what mainstream people like. I’m sure if you’ve read this blog or similar ones you know all of this.

The worst part of this chart is how low short stories are. Despite being cut up into three categories (again, for some reason) short stories are at the rock bottom of the list and have been for a very long time. Think about it.

  Publishing (Pulprev): We’ve got to create the culture that we want to enjoy, and that means backing those willing to put themselves out there. While that does mean spreading the word, ultimately it comes down to putting either your money or your skin where your mouth is. I understand if you’re having to pinch your pennies, but if you can’t put your money down then you can find a way to contribute otherwise; I can write, so I’m putting skin down instead and throwing my hat into the ring. Below is an excerpt of what I put out on my writing blog last Friday.

  Pulp Magazines (Pulp Archivist): I recently came across a ThePulp.net article covering the 1949 death of the pulps, where Street & Smith axed all their pulps except for Astounding. It parroted the popular wisdom of the time, where changing tastes among the audience doomed the medium. However, what caught my eye was the sales figures included.

  Gaming (RPG Pundit): So, I have an earlier blog entry where I’ve told my readers that they can post questions and/or requests for rant topics from me. I will periodically respond to any of these I think I can do a good job at answering. So if you have something you want to ask me, or ask me to write about, go to that entry and put your question/request in the comments!

Today, we have a question from Omer G. Joel: “I’d like to read your opinion about “new school” D&D, that is 3.5E/4E, as I got the impression (am I right?) that you are closer to the Old School in your tastes and views.”

  Cinema (Reactionary Times): Kathleen Kennedy hasn’t just destroyed careers and childhood dreams during the parade of incompetence that was her tenure as head of Lucasfilm. Theaters got hurt.  Disney investors got hurt.  Disney as a whole has taken a punch to the head. From Ace: First: Disney’s publicity machine got a new recruit in its war on (former) Star Wars fans: Steven Colbert decided to attack them as racist, sexist manbabies.

Everything to protect his Khalisi Kathleen Kennedy.

  T.V. (Emperor Ponders): *Kyphosis, actually, but that doesn’t sound that funny.

I saw this image yesterday, and I chuckled immediately. It was a reflexive laughter, and it took me awhile to understand what exactly had triggered my reaction. s I said, I laughed when I saw this, even before I had consciously processed what I had seen. A few minutes of heavy thunkin’ later, I realized what was wrong: they look ridiculous while trying to look cool, which is the worst kind of ridiculousness that exists.

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