#zag on em

[emptyjunior]

On one level a dune video game sounds absolutely egregious, taking a story about colonialism, religious propaganda and imperial power imposing upon any nations they want for resources and making it like "Click A to design your own Prophet" is horrifying, but in another way it's also unbelievably funny.

Yeah I guess what if you and your buddies could ride that worm that's explicitly a cultural artform and practice. What if you saw Arrakis as a dangerous sand place to host an MMO. What if you treated every person you meet as an ally or enemy divided into neat understandable factions that you could push and pull at your whim. What if you just started stacking on bene gesserit, mentat, warrior achievements like they're power ups.

You know what that sounds like, sounds like Paul Muad'dib Atreides, they get the book more than anyone else Ever has.

You tell me if I got high with Frank Herbert we wouldn't start theorizing what if Paul was born a girl and fucked feyd rautha??? This game understands the book completely

[opaquestrategies]

when you start with a sight metaphor but then go straight into a sound metaphor instead

[ujungs]

ill love chocome no matter whos in it but i really love the idea of it being the short girls just bc everyone was so sure exy eunseo seola and bona were gonna be the first wuju unit

[vaxildad]

for everyone who cant afford amazon prime / doesnt wanna give their money to amazon --- amazon prime offers a 30 day free trial folks! when the series drops, sign up, binge the series, and BOUNCE after 29 days babey! sc*mming is my specialty 

[to-appear-sad]

i love my kids show meant for children

[jareths-nasty-dunks]

One year after starting my Zag on em Zag Cha boy competed in his first pro rock climbing competition.

[chickpeamcb]

twenty-serpentine was a SUCCESS 🐍

[EDIT: added some actual coffee in the cup and steam, reblog this one!]

[nonkillbananashelter]

Hey y'all it's the holiday season and some of you might be looking for gifts right now. I've got a redbubble shop full of stuff and a mighty need for some extra funds for this Australia trip to see my brother and his fiancee git hitched!

How's about takin' a gander in my shop and we can help each other spread some joy? ;o https://www.redbubble.com/people/Jopomo/portfolio?asc=u

[canis-la-trans]

what’s up folx i haven’t made a text post or been real active on here for a hot minute cause twitter is faster, but here’s an update for all of 2017:

got my GED, saw the mountain goats in concert, moved back to the state of my birth, got my first job, started 2 new relationships, and started physically and socially transitioning! 

[lordzenaida]

A dry erase board with Zag On ‘Em and a little goofy snake drawn on it Here’s how I’m leaving my cubicle’s whiteboard before I leave the office for the Shmanners/MBMBAM show. Never forget the lessons of Twenty Serpentine!

[jeanstin-jackelroy]

There’s only a little over a month left of 20 serpentine. But you still have time to zag on everyone. Afraid to try something knew zag on everyone and try it out see if you like it. Scared to ask out your crush zag on um nerves who you excude confidence(fake it til you make it)

We still got time to zag on um guys

[axelaqua]

wait.

i think i thought of the perfect zag

[trickyworm]

THIS PLL EP JUST KEEPS ON ZAGGIN OH MY GOD

[zags-on-em]

mysterious-lights-overhead —> zags-on-em

Just when yall thought I would never change my url….I zag on yall

[memorycapsules]

Zag on ‘Em

I’m excited for a lot of things right now and that’s making time move slowly...I’m at home right now, 3 days out from moving to the city.  Finishing up packing, visiting friends, and stopping by my old college campus this week.  I think it’ll be weird to be back there.  It feels like a lifetime away rather than just a year ago.  And I haven’t even done anything that crazy in that time.  I’ve been playing it safe this whole last year in going back to my same summerstock and in going back to PCPA.  Places I’ve been before and feel comfortable working in.  Doing stuff I’ve done before even if I know already that I want to try new things.  I can’t imagine how far away college will feel after this next year, where I’m finally taking twenty-serpentine to heart...

Let me use that as a springboard to describe those things I’m excited about.  Should make it evident that I’m kinda going off the rails in this upcoming year and it’s fucking thrilling.  Terrifying, don’t get me wrong.  But it’s making me grin just thinking about it and I’m doing it anyway.  I’m gonna make it fucking work for me.

Ahem.  Let’s start with the thing I’ve been writing about all summer:

Zag #1. Turning down that cruise (potential) offer to freelance in NYC

I remember saying in senior year that I thought it was crazy to move to the city without a job lined up because of how expensive it was to live there.  That was literally only one year ago and here I am doing the exact thing I was so opposed to then.  So what changed?  I’m sick of taking the safe and easy route.  PCPA was comfortable but it was more of the same thing I knew before moving out there, which is that I know I want to try something other than carpentry for a minute.  I can do carpentry but I don’t know if something else out there will make me more happy.  It’s like how I felt dating Joe... I didn’t feel unhappy, I just felt like maybe something better was out there, and boy fucking was there.  So why tf do I keep making that same choice?  Because it’s real hard to turn down stability.  Well.  Fuck that.  I’m gonna give freelancing a shot.  Actually try to go for the things I’ve been telling myself that one of these times I’ll do it.  Now is the time.

Alright, also something I’ve been writing about all summer.  I’m realizing I like to agonize about things before making a choice.  Hopefully I get better about trusting my gut even though it seems at face value like the risky choice.

Zag #2.  Deciding to share a bedroom with Tony. Aka, not holding back in a relationship because it’ll be easier that way to get over it if we break up.

Let me spell out on paper all the things that are wrong with this scenario, and therefore why it took me so long to decide that it was worth doing it anyway.

At the time of beginning to agonize over this, we’d only been together for 6 months.  And I didn’t even want to date him at the beginning.  I wanted to be single/have a fuck buddy but he made me realize that all the shit we were doing was literally the same as dating, I just hadn’t wanted to call it that.  And since I didn’t want it to stop, I begrudgingly agreed that yes, I guess we had been dating... Anyway, moving to the city to be with Tony and not only that but moving in with him again, and not only that but sharing a room with him this time...Does not sound like a good idea at all.  But we had just spent the last 6 months living together and we had no problems there.  And I was moving to the city because of my previously mentioned zag, and it just helped out a lot that I could move in somewhere with ready-made roommates and could have a cheaper rent than I would’ve otherwise.  It was good timing to do this right now because if I waited til after a cruise contract, it would’ve been super weird to move into the bedroom of an ex boyfriend.  By that I mean it wouldn’t have happened.  So now was good timing, and I did miss him a ton.  Saying goodbye in California was way harder than I anticipated.  I felt better deciding to do this because I wasn’t entirely moving there for him, although it is a big perk for sure.  Just one more very big thing to be excited about with this decision to move there.

What scares me a bit also though is how much I want to open myself up to him.  I’ve thought about him more seriously than anyone else I’ve dated, which feels dumb because we haven’t been together all that long.  I just really like trying to figure him out and hearing how he thinks because we’re such different people in a lot of ways.  I think if we were any more different than we are it would be too much and I wouldn’t feel like I could relate to him, but if we were too similar it would be like dating Josh and it would end up feeling too much like just a best friend in the world, and wouldn’t and up working out long term.  I mean I know things could end at any second and odds are always more likely for a relationship to end at some point rather than for it to go on, but thinking about some kind of life with him is really exciting.  I didn’t quite feel that way with Josh.  I felt like we could do it really well and be a great team but I didn’t really have any emotional response to it.  I don’t know why but with Tony I think it would be really fun.  Not saying I want anything to happen right now, I just wanna see how things go for a while first. Just sayin’, I’m interested.  I don’t know if it’s where I’m at now in life, that I finally have taken my self imposed ��you’re a kid, you can’t make big decisions yet” blinders off, and am realizing the full potential I have to take charge in my life- but I feel like, why not open yourself up fully even if it might rip your heart out later?  He might end up being the guy you marry too, why not give it everything you’ve got?  Cause that’s what he seems to be doing for me too.  

Bleh, anyway:

Zag #3. Actually planning a trip to Europe with friends.

This is something I’ve been talking about with various friend groups since high school.  And it’s always been something I’ve wanted, but like I’ve said I had those blinders on and it didn’t really feel like something any of us would actually pull off.  But now I think we really can.  And I have a fantastic friend group to do it with.  Something about Sami and Andie actually making that trip to Charlottesville to visit me this summer makes me think they’ll pull through again and actually save for this trip to Spain we were all talking about yesterday.  Shaina has been trying to organize some sort of Europe trip since I think freshman year of college.  And she’s been out of the country a million times so I know she knows what she’s doing in terms of planning and budgeting.  The real kicker is that we’ll all have jobs that allow us to actually save up enough (I’m assuming my freelance stuff works out, give me this), and we’re young enough right now to not care about staying in cheap hostels. Saving $300/month for the next 10 months sounds reasonable, and I think we’re all genuinely serious about it.  And not like high school serious about it, where we couldn’t back these plans up. I mean achievably serious.  And I’m excited.

I thought last year was exciting, what with living in California for a year, and officially being on my own, and knowing that for once in my life I wasn’t going back to school at the end of the summer.  And it was, but by the end of it I was left wanting.  I felt like I had gotten complacent in California, like life was good but I wasn’t challenging myself or striving for anything I couldn’t easily achieve.  I felt like I had settled for a lot and like I was spinning my wheels and not going anywhere.  And I think those are fair assessments.  I also think I needed to feel that way in order to convince myself to jump into things like this.  Because I don’t think I was ready to make these kinds of choices this past year.  Otherwise I would’ve moved straight to the city like so many other people have done.  But I needed to feel that long term stretch of sameness and not moving up at all that came from Santa Maria to make me itch for a big city.  To make me know that my chance to try out different departments and go for those things I keep someday-ing lies in a major city.  My route to not being a sad TD for a regional theater in some land locked state lies in New York or Chicago or wherever else I end up.  The choices I’ve made this summer feels like jumping the tracks and getting me out of that rut that leads to regional TD-dom, that I just kept seeing myself trudging towards during college and in Santa Maria.  They’re me hatching, like Shaina said.  They’re me letting myself be an adult for the first time in my life, and loving- not without fear -but openly nonetheless, and chasing my gut feeling that a different department will hold more happiness for me.  They’re risky, but I feel so much happier even just knowing that I’m trusting in myself enough to take those risks anyway.  No matter what happens, and I know it could all go wrong, I’ll still be here and I’ll get through it.  If it comes down to it, I’ll stand up on the other side and make new plans from there.  

I’m ready to fight for this. Zag on ‘em.

[vanillamieux]

It's finally here!!!!!