every time i shower im like “yeah! i’ll take better care of myself!! this rules!!! yeah!!!!” and then the horrors
One interpretation of Daphne (and Fred but I’m focusing on Daphne) that I’ve never particularly liked that ofc the Velma show falls into is the idea that Daphne is super popular and therefore super bitchy. Because no she isn’t. Daphne may be “the pretty one” and not have as many book smarts as Velma, but she is still a part of this dorky amateur detective team with her three friends who stop adults dressing up like ghosts from committing property crimes or w/e. She’s kinda weird and probably would likely be a social outcast due to her hobbies despite her interests in makeup and fashion.
One interpretation I like of Daphne is, ofc, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated. She is shown to have rich parents who are willing to practically pay for her success, and she’s shown to be really pretty and people like her and whatnot, but like she’s still not a super popular girl. Among her sisters she’s the least successful, her parents disapprove of her spending her time doing investigations with Mystery Inc. instead of trying to achieve something greater, and most of the time at school she’s seen talking to members of Mystery Inc. and not surrounded by other popular girls or w/e. She’s Daphne, so she still likes makeup and fashion, but that doesn’t default her to popular girl, and you cannot call default Mystery Incorporated Daphne “bitchy” even if she can get upset when someone bothers her.
Similar with Fred, he’s not a rich mean asshole, he’s literally the friendliest guy to the point that he sometimes doesn’t see that others wish him harm due to his own open friendliness. That damn movie where he’s a camp counselor at a summer camp that is kinda down in the dumps poor compared to another more successful rich camp nearby but he still harbors love for his smaller camp and the children attending it, dedicated to giving them a good experience, like that’s just peak Fred right there, friendly and upbeat and wholesome and cares for others. Fred is also smart, since he’s usually “the trap guy” and always coming up with complex traps to catch their villain of the week. He’s a strong leader, but not by virtue of being a dick.
Anyway HBO Velma sucks but I just wanted an excuse to talk about Scooby Doo characters and their good qualities so thx
fitting that the single most famous Hollywood landmark is literally just a sign that says HOLLYWOOD in huge obtrusive letters. of course the most self-obsessed culture on the planet is obsessed with their own name. utterly shameless, love that energy
NEWS FOR YALL
Every now and then, people ask me if I should go to art school, and I usually say something like “Do you want to go to art school?” and if they say “Yes,” then I say “Yes,” and if they say “No,” then I say “Don’t.” This is why I am a crappy source of career advice.
However.
There is ONE class that I think nearly every writer, artist, and creative type out there would benefit from, and as it happens, it’s ceramics. Preferably with a strong wheel-throwing component.
No, really.
Back in ceramics class, in college, at the end of the year we would gather up all our dishes and pots and sculptures that we had labored over for weeks—and you really do labor for weeks, because you’re sculpting and drying and firing and glazing and firing again—and we would look at them. And what we generally realized was that we had created a lot of things that sucked. There is just a point where you hold this lumpy-ass thing in your hand and you realize that it has not added to the sum total of awesome in the universe—and that you don’t have to keep it. And then you wind up and fling it into the massive dumpster behind the ceramics studio and it smashes against the bottom and a demented exhilaration surges through you and you grab the next one and smash it and it is glorious. Now, there are people who do not smash their failed work, who cannot bear to do it, and so there was always a shelf full of sad lumpy clay things with a little “free to good home” sign on it. Some of them possibly were adopted eventually. Mostly, though, we learned to smash. Pottery, particularly wheel-throwing, is wonderful for this, incidentally. You fail over and over and you fail fast and you are creating quantity to lead to quality. You throw and throw and throw and things die on the wheel and things die when you take them off the wheel and things explode in the kiln and after you have made a dozen or two dozen or a thousand, none of them are precious any more. There is always more clay.
It breaks you of preciousness and perfectionism. You can’t fiddle for two hours with wet clay on the wheel getting it perfect. It’ll be an over-saturated lump of mud long before then. If the walls are thrown too thin, they are too thin. It’s not worth fixing. Start over. Do it again. Finish, don’t fiddle. I can’t do pottery any more because if I tried to hunch over a wheel these days, my back would go out so hard that I would never walk upright again. But I still think it was one of the most valuable classes I ever took, because it taught me to acknowledge failure, not to fear it, and then smash the hell out of it.
I need a Haikyuu!! wiki that documents what every character calls every other character. There are certain patterns (Takeda adds “kun” to their names, third years call kouhai by last names alone usually) but some characters are harder (such as Noya calling Tanaka “Ryuu” when Tanaka calls Noya “Noya-san”) I went through a few chapters and got a list started. Please feel free to add to/edit this list! It is very incomplete. Note: suffixes sometimes drop during matches.
Hinata to Kageyama: Kageyama or Kageyama-kun Hinata to Noya: Noya-san or Nishinoya-san or Nishinoya-senpai (on special occasions..!) Hinata to Suga: Sugawara-san Hinata to Tanaka: Tanaka-san Hinata to Tsukishima: Tsukishima Hinata to Asahi: Asahi-san Hinata to Kiyoko: Shimizu-senpai* Hinata to Kenma: Kenma Hinata to Takeda: Takeda-sensei
Kageyama to Hinata: Hinata Kageyama to Suga: Sugawara-san or Suga-san Kageyama to Asahi: Azumane-san or Asahi-san Kageyama to Noya: Nishinoya-san
Tanaka to Hinata: Hinata Tanaka to Noya: Noya-san or Noya Tanaka to Asahi: Asahi-san Tanaka to Daichi: Daichi-san Tanaka to Takeda: Take-chan (lol!) Tanaka to Kageyama: Kageyama
Suga to Noya: Nishinoya Suga to Asahi: Asahi Suga to Daichi: Daichi Suga to Kageyama: Kageyama Suga to Hinata: Hinata Suga to Shimada: Shimada-san Suga to Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Suga to Kiyoko: Shimizu
Daichi to Suga: Suga Daichi to Asahi: Asahi Daichi to Tanaka: Tanaka Daichi to Takeda: Sensei Daichi to Noya: Nishinoya Daichi to Ennoshita: Ennoshita Daichi to Kiyoko: Shimizu Daichi to Yui: Michimiya
Noya to Asahi: Asahi-san Noya to Hinata: Shouyou Noya to Tanaka: Ryuu Noya to Tsukishima: Tsukishima Noya to Kageyama: Kageyama Noya to Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Noya to Daichi: Daichi-san Noya to Kiyoko: Kiyoko-san Noya to Ennoshita: Chikara
Tsukishima to Kageyama: Your Highness or Kageyama Tsukishima to Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Tsukishima to Hinata: Hinata Tsukishima to Asahi: Azumane-san Tsukishima to Ukai: Ukai-san Tsukishima to Kiyoko: Shimizu-senpai
Yamaguchi to Tsukishima: Tsukki Yamaguchi to Yachi: Yachi-san
Yachi to Tsukishima: Tsukishima-kun
Kiyoko to Yachi: Hitoka-chan
Asahi to Suga: Suga Asahi to Noya: Nishinoya (I think also Yuu at times?) Asahi to Hinata: Hinata Asahi to Kageyama: Kageyama Asahi to Tsukishima: Tsukishima Asahi to Yachi: Yacchan
Takeda to Noya: Nishinoya-kun Takeda to Ukai: Ukai-kun Takeda to Hinata: Hinata-kun Takeda to Kiyoko: Shimizu-san Takeda to Suga: Sugawara-kun
Ukai to Takeda: Sensei
Akaashi to Bokuto: Bokuto-san Akaashi to Kuroo: Kuroo-san
Kuroo to Tsukishima: Glasses-kun then Tsukki Kuroo to Hinata: Shorty Kuroo to Kenma: Kenma
Kenma to Kuroo: Kuro Kenma to Hinata: Shouyou
Inuoka to Hinata: Shouyou
Bokuto to Kuroo: Kuroo-kun Bokuto to Tsukishima: Glasses-kun then Tsukki Bokuto to Akaashi: Akaashi
Yaku to Lev: Lev Yaku to Suga: Suga-kun
Lev to Yaku: Yaku-san
Oikawa to Daichi: Sawamura-kun Oikawa to Iwaizumi: Iwa-chan Oikawa to Kageyama: Tobio-chan (just “Tobio” when speaking about him to others) Oikawa to Ushijima: Ushiwaka-chan Oikawa to Hinata: Shorty
Iwaizumi to Oikawa: Oikawa Iwaizumi to Kageyama: Kageyama
Shimada to Yamaguchi: Tadashi
Ushijima to Oikawa: Oikawa
Yui to Daichi: Sawamura
* when speaking to Kiyoko, Hinata starts out with “Ki” and then corrects himself to Shimizu-senpai
yeah they dropped a new love language. yeah a sixth one. its biting
the cutest puppykitty 😭
I mean, even if someone was faking it, like ?
I say let them use the wheelchair, the bandages, the medical ID, etc.
Because once they see that when you can walk and be not in pain, etc. its actually much more inconvenient to use a mobility aid.
Using a wheelchair isn't easy, using a cane isn't easy, being legally underpaid because you have a disability, being belittled and talked to like a child, and paying thousands when someone calls 911,
They suck.
And if an abled-bodied person wants to roll in our wheels for attention, they may just learn a thing or two about our ableist world
there is more love stored in <3 than anything else in this world. pass the word along