Ginny [they/she]

If I had a penny for every time I heard about new advancements about to revolutionise solar panel technology, I’d have glazed the bloody Sahara with them by now.

They will, in fact, calm up.

I can’t wait for Jurassic World 6 when we send the dinosaurs to space!

If I had a million dollars we wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner.

But we would eat Kraft dinner.

Ice cubes and artificial sweetener?

So no.

If you’re inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:

These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn’t possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.

(Not saying I agree.)

If I had to describe my feelings about this, I would have to say that I am bivalent.

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?

I sought an ADHD diagnosis.

Something something Jesus new covenant.

Haha! Yes! Informed consent…

whimpers in British

Aha! You can’t trap me with your recursion! It’s turtles faking it all the way down.

But what if I’m merely faking my concern about my faking it?

Jonathan Harker proves that he can’t do accent work, but he did do some decent acting in The Devil’s Advocate.

I am an introvert. But I’d really prefer to have a five minute call to a text message conversation taking place over an hour. Organising plans with people is infinitely more painful over text messages than it is over a group call. Am I unique in this?

Edit: I do appreciate it when people text to ask if now is a good time to call, though.

Pirating it wouldn’t make it more popular if you kept it to yourself, but talking about it after you watched it probably would.

Reminder: “separating the art from the artist” is an approach to engaging with an artwork, and is a separate question from whether or not you should engage with an artwork when doing so has real life consequences.

Whether or not you should consume HP Lovecraft media despite the fact he was a racist is entirely up to you because he is long dead. He doesn’t make any money. He isn’t even racist any more. Because he’s dead.

When you consider whether or not you consume Harry Potter media, you must consider that JK Rowling will make money and will donate that money to anti-trans groups. If you still go on to buy licensed merch, or pay a streaming service to watch it, you will literally be helping to propogate transphobia. Continue to enjoy anything you currently own if you want. That is where separating the art from the artist comes into it. But if you still actively promote the material online and thereby increase the demand for it; again, transphobia, arguably.

Yew-ess-ay-ian doesn’t flow like yew-ess-ian.

I think there’s a difference, though, between liking it in private, and talking it up publicly.

If someone still listened to their Lostprophets albums I’m not going to judge, but if they spent a lot of time posting about how much they loved and still love Lostprophets… that still feels a bit off.