one of my favourite things about my boyfriend is that heās 6'4 but convinced he is a normal sized person and this does not constitute ātallā
once, if not twice, a week the card game shop he plays digimon at upload a top-4 photo best described as āgandalf and the hobbitsā and every time he is genuinely baffled as to why he looks like that
told him i made this post and heās still insistent that he isnāt tall
bf: iām not tall! i feel like everyone i see is around the same height as me. like people in the street
me: they arenāt
bf: but i can see their faces! if iām looking at their faces they must be the same height
me: youāre looking down slightly babe
bf: why would i do that
me: because youāre tall
incidentally the fact i am 5'5 also comes as a shock to him at least once a day and then he inevitably asks if iām ānormally that shortā
if you lean in real close you can hear his singular brain cell bouncing around like a windows screensaver
Has your boyfriend got his eyesight checked? Bc when I donāt wear my glasses Iām nice and close to the ground but when I do itās HOLY SHIT WHY AM I THIS TALL, IāM AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, HELP ME time and itās genuinelly terrifying.
he wears glasses heās just dumb
update to this post from yesterday:
bf: apparently only 7% of people are over 6ā tall me: yesā¦ā¦..? bf: that isnāt very many. am i tall? me: i cannot believe we are having this discussion again. yes. you are tall. you are still tall. you were tall yesterday. you will be tall tomorrow bf: oh my god iām tall arenāt i me: my love the netherlands is the tallest country in the world and even there average male height is 6ā 0.5". you are tall by ākingdom of giantsā standards, even. but we live on āshortarse islandā, soā¦ bf: AM i tall though me: you are 6ft 4
he is heās very pretty
Can he make spinach puffs? Asking for irrelevant reasonsā¦.
having watched emperors new groove (itās my favourite) he does understand this reference but also he really loves cooking so you saying this has now prompted him to look up how to make spinach puffs
which is to say that yes, he is kronk
fun fact theyāre both the same person. same 6'4 boyfriend referred to himself as a short king because he thought it meant a man who really likes wearing shorts
I had never heard of this character before, but it really was published over a hundred years ago. Hereās a comics blog talking about her, and a couple more gems:
āI am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinās brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.ā
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Pandaās Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
okay, you know what? Running away shouldn’t be a crime. It shouldn’t be dangerous, either. Any kid should be able to leave their parents if they want, for any reason. No I’m not kidding.
“But Rue, where will these kids stay? Do you want them on the streets?”
of course not. In an ideal world, a kids would have multiple adults other than their parents they could look to for care, but I recognize that that will never be a reality for every single child. So: youth shelters, if they have nowhere else to go. There should be clean, warm shelters where anyone under 18 can stay for as long as they need, no questions asked. (And of course shelters that aren’t just for kids, but we’re talking about youth rights right now)
“But Rue,” I hear you say, “what if some moody teenager runs away after an argument?”
First of all, I’d rather a thousand moody teenagers run away than one abused child be trapped. Second, so what if one does? A kid needs time away from their parents, so they leave. The vast majority of them will get some time to cool down and then go back home, and if they don’t want to go back, period? Then nine times out of ten, they have a good reason. (Because yes, as hard as it is for you to believe, kids are humans who have common sense.)
“Okay, but what about the one time out of ten the kid doesn’t have a good reason?”
Then the kid doesn’t have a good reason. It doesn’t change anything. If someone wants to break up with their partner because of something stupid, you wouldn’t say they legally shouldn’t be able to. (And if you would, then you’re just a bad person.) No one should have to be in a relationship, romantic or otherwise, that they don’t want to be in.
what did you create today bud? maybe you created a thought about a balloon? maybe a breakfast this morning? maybe a look at a dog trotting by. maybe a heartbeat? it is incredible how much art you are making all the dang time. you are SO prolific
successful outing is successful, everyone wins especially Hugo
Trace, our dog when i was very small, had a stuffed Koala, too. named Kwally
he was a sled dog very old and retired by the time i knew him, very reserved and dignified boy, sleeping quietly on the floor of the main room by my big sister’s nest bed. He always slept with Kwally. i don’t even know what color the toy used to be- im assuming it had two eyes originally- but he hugged it in his front paws and carried it with him if he was curling up somewhere else for the night
we always put something with the dog friends and cat friends when they go, always a blanket, take off their collars, a bundle of flowers, a few rocks from the river… with the cat who used to steal water from our glasses, we put a cup. with my sister’s protector dog, i took my favorite black hoodie off and handed it down to snuggle her in
with Trace there was no question. we tucked Kwally in with him, between his front paws
thanks for reminding me of that. thanks for reminding me of him
Tatiana Maslany was literally insane for playing like 12 different people with the same face and then interacting with multiple versions of herself for five whole seasons
she really Did Thatā¢ and we are all incredibly grateful
No! No, but hereās the important thing! She did it so flawlessly, that you would actually forget these characters are the same actress.
I found myself feeling bad for the actor who plays Alisonās husband, because āhe never gets to work with Maslany,ā because in my head I kept equating her with Sarah, when literally he only worked with Maslany!
The special effects were so seemless, and her performances were so flawless that we have never seen this gimmick done this effectively, this naturally. And I donāt think we ever will again.
She deserved that emmy.
Itās impossible to describe how phenomenally good a job Maslany did with these characters. Like, it wasnāt just that she played every one of these characters so genuinely and distinctly that you forgot they were the same actress. It was also that the characters, being clones, would deceive people by playing each other.
Alison would be on the screen, and youād be like, āthatās Alisonā. Then Sarah would be on the screen, and youād be like, āthatās Sarahā. Then someone who looked exactly like Sarah would be on the screen, and youād be like, āOh, Alison is pretending to be Sarah.ā And some of the clones were better at pretending to be each other than other clones were. And you could always tell who you were looking at and who they were trying to imitate.
