I moved from Oklahoma to Washington, don’t let your dreams be dreams.

Nah, summer is super depressing. All I have the energy for is to lie under a fan and slowly melt into a puddle of listless, sweaty sadness and long for death. In the winter, I’ve actually got the energy to get up and get shit done, build a snowman, frolic. Less sun is less headache too, so bonus points for it being dark all the time.

Asexual is a spectrum. On one end, you’ve got the people that don’t want to cuddle or hold hands, and on the other end, you’ve got the people that will have sex, but find it about as exciting as brushing your teeth.

Not saying OP is or is not ace, but that the asexual community might have people who align with their sexual preferences.

The strangest part is that this is not the only time humans have blown up a whale carcass, and it’s just gone everywhere.

Here’s a modern folk song about it happening in Novia Scotia, lol

Those are embers lol

No spoilers, but you’re close!

What if there was only one other person on the plane, and it was a screaming baby that kicked the seat while eating broccoli?

Yes, it’s not a high bar at all. It just requires slight divergence with reality. Some degree of unreality, if you will.

See, I hear ‘fantasy’ and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.

Like, idk, James Bond’s gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it’s not fantasy to me.

Like I said in another comment

Yeah, I really think it’s a type of media illiteracy, and it’s much larger than just sexualization.

I envision ‘realistic’ as a spectrum. If it is 100% realistic, it’s a documentary, if it’s 100% unrealistic, it’s probably a fantasy movie or something, and most works of fiction fall somewhere between.

characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research

Like, you understand this is my point, right? The plot is not real, and that’s what makes it fictional?

Fiction does not require unrealistic elements.

If it is entirely realistic it is no longer fiction. Ergo, fiction needs some degree of unreality. I don’t see how that’s controversial, haha.

What’s wrong with it?

Nah, fiction needs unrealistic elements. You can have realism in fiction, but fiction is defined by its deviance from fact. If a movie were completely realistic, itd be a documentary.

Yeah, I really think it’s a type of media illiteracy, and it’s much larger than just sexualization.

Like, I grew up in the church, and remember when they adopted the Left Behind novels into church canon as prophecy. It’s the same kind of not being able to tell fact from fiction, and my parent’s church encouraged it because they were a bunch of con artists.

Somebody else said that, not me. But regardless, it’s still a problem with people not being able to recognize fact from fiction. Makeup is not the problem, the problem are people who expect you to to look like that without makeup. Boob jobs are not the problem, the problem are people who think there’s something wrong with you if you’ve not had one.

If they replaced everything with mocap tomorrow so actors didn’t have to look the part any more, the problem would still be that people look at Marvel and think it’s an accurate depiction of reality.

I propose it’s not the fiction that’s posing unrealistic standards, but the people who can’t tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction, is by definition, unrealistic.

I usually call them “those, uh, usb thingies” while pantomiming plugging one into the wall

Oh no, over here a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, haha

I like the idea that these are all steps to one process. Like, you gotta steal her shoe and some hair and pins, and the best distraction is with cheese.