Erika’s (Too) Online

Oh NO yes this is critical. Also I don't think you should throw magic spheres at them.

Where is the hidden city of Degays

oh my GOD the cuteness.

I'm trying to get the wee beastie into baby possums by way of teaching them that we can snuggle in bed with them "riding" on my back. Like a baby possum!

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

This kid would never confuse pokemon but I guess real creatures of the earth have not been developed by game designers to be maximally collectable.

Me: <shows the wee beastie a picture of a muntjac>
Wee beastie: Puppy!
Me: No, it's not a PUPPY, it's a DEER
Wee beastie: OK deer puppy!

Holler if you ever want to talk more about it! So few people get it as undergrads!

The actual answer is "do you really mean that," and as a certified expert in both linguistic anthropology and being an asshole, "do you really mean that" is actually the meaner thing to say.

Brooke is a better person than me.

Yeah when you initiate some kind of conversational repair, you make it THEIR turn to respond/clarify/justify/explain whatever they just said, and chances are, they can't. Or if they can, you can always follow up blatantly horrible stuff with a nice "go and fuck yourself."

Here's what a PhD in linguistic anthropology will do for you: teach you how to be an evil bitch, amongst other things.

In fairness, "do you really mean that?" or a nice, "I'm sorry, what?" is much more evil and sneaky. If they have a shred of shame left, it WILL shut them down, or they will flail haplessly trying to make what they said seem reasonable. Or they'll be proudly awful for all to see. Either way, useful!

Maybe? You should see what he has to say about basil!!

I was guessing <insert bad joke about English food here> but he REALLY love onions and is pro-mustard so I don't know WHAT's happening.

"Many authors quote many diseases this is good for; but conceal its vices. [Garlic's] heat is very vehement, and all vehement hot things send up but ill-favoured vapours to the brain. In coleric men it will add fuel to the fire; in men oppressed by melan-choly, it will attenuate the humour, and send up strong fancies, and as many strange visions to the head; therefore let it be taken inwardly with great moderation; outwardly you may make more bold with it." tl;dr: IF YOU ARE DEPRESSED GARLIC WILL MAKE YOU TRIP.

Nicholas Culpeper, famed 17th century doctor

(and herbalist and astrologer because these were largely overlapping skills)

thinks you probably should NOT cook with 40 cloves of garlic, let alone 40 heads.

chat did you know sunshine and relaxedly moving your body feels really nice?

out and about for my first bit of anything resembling exercise since I broke my toe!

I hope the correct way to watch this was by savaging it while looking things up on Wikipedia, because that's what we did

Episode 3 is literally titled EMPIRE, following episode 2, CONQUEST

My spouse: "they're doing dinosaurs as Game of Thrones and the T-Rexes are the White Walkers."

This Netflix dinosaur series has more or less literally turned tyrannosaurs into yeti, help, I need an actual paleobiologist bc I am merely the graduate of an anthropology PhD program who had to take enough evo/bio stuff to really QUESTION uh... all of the behavioral claims.

"This Love Affair" also completely destroys me.

But also the rest of Want Two.

I have MOUNTAINS of recs but this morning my heart moves me to nominate Rufus Wainwright, "The One You Love"

RETVRN
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"If Trump is performing for the crowd, they must want the thing he is performing. If the crowd had ‘legitimate concerns’ there would come a moment where they realised these weren't being met."

I love sad people with pianos of any gender, although the extent to which this music "rocks" is kind of a debate. But I didn't know about the musical! Which I will now have to look into!

Moon Pride (Opening) - Sailor Moon Crystal OST YouTube video by Sailor Moon Channel

I've had fun trying to explain the Sailor Moon Crystal theme song to my confused spouse because "girly metal" and metal fusion jpop stuff and the gender politics around that genre are totally different in Japan vs the US. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCNy...

I always enjoyed over identifying with Fold's sad sack image, which is how I respond to most music. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's not about lust for me, it's about subject positions I want to occupy. (I ALSO like silly fun metal of all stripes!)

Holy shit this whole graphic novella is such a good commentary on so many things but maybe especially the weirdness of being a comics character with a forever life, living through all the time we do but never really being touched by time itself...

I think the other one has a somewhat more unorthodox construction, which gives it a particularly striking look? I don't think this is a less nice ring, but I do think it's got more of a standard fine jewelry style to it, and it could also maybe do with a refresh of its gold plating?

My rabbi: Have you considered that hamantaschen look like vulvas and are maybe a persistence of ancient goddess-worship in the Levant.

My spouse: They look like they should. They're like Star Trek communicator badges. That's the ideal hamantaschen shape.