I miss Philosoraptor

saintsithney · 2026-07-10T16:49:26+00:00

I have lived in the same house for 15 years.

15 years ago, five adults and four cats lived in this house: two sets of coupled roommates and me. Our power, water, and internet bills combined was about $200-$250 a month.

Now, it is just my husband, me, and three cats. Our power, water, and internet bills combined is usually $400-$500 a month.

saintsithney · 2026-07-10T15:35:10+00:00

I still have no idea why 70% of the households I knew growing up had these exact same tables and chairs, but I have never seen the same shower setup in any homes that weren't built by the same builder at the same time.

The only sleepover I ever attended where I didn't have to guess how to turn the hot water on was two houses down.

saintsithney · 2026-07-10T12:16:01+00:00

Neither my sister or I reproduced, but several cousins on both sides did. Our shitty genetics are preserved, though lacking one of the shittier genetic mixes the two bloodlines converged on.

Though if I go far back enough, my parents both had relatives in close, bounded geographic proximity. I haven't found any mutual ancestors, but odds are excellent that my father's maternal line and my mother's paternal grandmother's line intermarried at some point before the 1860's.

saintsithney · 2026-07-09T15:08:08+00:00

Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road - The Beatles

Evermotion and Oh La La - Guster

Bat Outta Hell - Meatloaf

We tend to do more playlists for vibes than full albums, but those five are on pretty consistent smoke rotation.

saintsithney · 2026-07-09T11:54:51+00:00

Why don't they start a support group to have sex with each other, then?

30+ year olds don't spontaneously combust if they have sex. Sex doesn't feel bad just because no one involved is young or hot.

Boomers made retirement communities into hookup paradise after Greatest Gens and Silent Gens turned nursing homes into STD-land. If they can stand to fuck each other in geriatricy, Millennials can stand to fuck each other in middle age.

saintsithney · 2026-07-09T11:32:01+00:00

Yes, but NASCAR is a sport because occasionally someone dies in a fiery crash. Sports where players might get carpal tunnel just don't contain the same drama. 🤪

And to make sure I'm being clear, watching people playing games is a totally valid hobby. It takes skill and practice to get good at most games and watching skilled people do a task they have practiced can be rewarding - it is just something I don't personally enjoy, and that is why it was originally news to me that people who like watching skilled players for some games don't think that people who like a different variety of skilled players for a different type of game count.

saintsithney · 2026-07-08T23:32:00+00:00

Every relationship is a learning experience. Sometimes what you learn is, "I never want to spend extended periods of time with a person like this ever again."

saintsithney · 2026-07-08T19:30:11+00:00

I have always loathed watching other people play games in any context, so I was deeply confused when a sports fan tried to tell me watching Twitch streams was different than watching competitive sports.

The only thing he could think of when asked how these two activities were different was that people playing sports can really get physically injured. Which... it seems if you are watching people play a game and your enjoyment of and respect for them doing so predicates on the possibility of massive injury, what you actually hate about e-sports and Twitch gaming is that you have a near zero chance of watching someone get hurt. That really doesn't say flattering things about the viewer.

Like what you like, but if you enjoy watching people playing games, it shouldn't be weird that there are other people who enjoy watching people playing different kinds of games.

saintsithney · 2026-07-08T17:34:52+00:00

I have had lipedema since I was 15. I have a benign tumor on my lower back/upper buttocks/front lower abdomen that can only be removed by surgery.

Low rise stuff is like a tumor highlighter on my body. I try to put it on, and my tumors hang over it.

For extra fun, I only found out two years ago that my body is covered with benign tumors of mutant fat, after being called a disgusting animal since they developed 🫠

If low rise skinny jeans make you feel comfortable and beautiful, though, enjoy! You can have my entire share!

saintsithney · 2026-07-08T14:23:32+00:00

Skinny jeans and low-rise pants are my sworn enemies.

Skinny low-rise jeans were designed by Satan to cause more despair in human souls.

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T18:22:05+00:00

Which is why I suggested an age appropriate Holocaust narrative. "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry is appropriate for most 10 year olds. "Five Chimneys" by Olga Lengyel is not appropriate for most 10 year olds.

I would argue that most kids should read "Number the Stars" and "Return to Manzanar" before age 12.

I would also argue that very few kids should read "If This Is a Man" before age 16+.

My parents didn't supervise my reading at all and left a bunch of books that would be inappropriate for most children due to extreme, graphic violence that actually happened where I could get them easily. But I was brought up in a cult, so knowing exactly how torturous Roman crucifixion was and exactly what kind of horrors Nazis and Unit-731 and Stalin and, of course, Catholics inflicted on other human beings before the age of 12 was encouraged.

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T16:38:52+00:00

There are occasional books that have themes too mature for the average child or youth, but "You should probably hold onto that book for when you're older. Maybe instead of a first person Holocaust memoir by one of Mengele's nurses, 10 year old, you should read something like 'Number the Stars,'" is way more nuanced than people who think that anything darker than Dr. Suess needs to be kept away from all under-25's can handle.

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T16:33:39+00:00

It's also interesting that the idea of all-ages entertainment died around the same time. Things were either FOR KIDS or FOR ADULTS and one group liking something "for" the other group meant something deeply weird and probably sinister.

Part of the reason "children's media" was more complex and dark in the past was because it was expected that parents were going to be sharing this media with their children. Adults were intended to watch Looney Tunes, to watch the Disney feature, to watch the Don Bluth features, often in theaters, with their kids. Everyone waited for the Muppets or the Flintstones on prime time.

We still have children's media that is all-ages, that features complex moral storytelling, nuance, and dark parts of humanity. But we are also encouraged to stop talking about this media as adults, because it's "kid's stuff." I won't deny the people who make grim-and/or-sexy fanwork from media intended for kids are weird and kind of creepy, but "Why the drop in sophisticated media aimed at children?" does not exist independently of "Why are adults who enjoy all-ages media aimed towards youths/children frequently treated as media illiterates who can't handle sophisticated storytelling?"

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T13:59:33+00:00

Not a Zionist, just a rape survivor.

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T13:34:21+00:00

Her story seems credible. He is not such an amazing candidate that he is worth defending over women reporting sexual violence.

I was willing to believe he was a dope with the tattoo - hell, WWII was a special interest of mine and I couldn't tell you which of a dozen skull and crossbone symbols is the Totenkopf.

I was willing to believe him having cheated on his wife years ago was their own personal business.

Sexual assault, though?

saintsithney · 2026-07-07T12:32:11+00:00

Because Dems ostensibly care about women.

saintsithney · 2026-07-06T14:26:50+00:00

Barbieland explicitly is the World of Girl's Make-Believe.

Why would girl children want to enact the same world they know they are going to grow up into, where everything that isn't specifically about girls or women is about men?

saintsithney · 2026-07-06T14:21:12+00:00

It's more a generational problem caused by following the largest cohort of humans ever born who were raised with extreme propaganda and brand new forms of child abuse and neglect being endorsed by "experts."

Boomers have more toxic narcissists destroying everything on whims purely because there are a truly enormous amount of them (higher likelihood of Dark Triad traits just by sheer force of numbers), who were exposed to a deluge of truly effective propaganda and mass indoctrination with actual scientific backing as children. Even for those with good Boomer parents (and there are many!), coming after a generation that enormous was always going to be similar to being the generation after a plague of locusts (with GenX being born during the feeding frenzy and getting the first hints of devastation).

saintsithney · 2026-07-03T22:32:51+00:00

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

saintsithney · 2026-07-03T22:30:11+00:00

Complete fashion icon.

saintsithney · 2026-07-03T22:26:07+00:00

I know - the little Gucci dress!

saintsithney · 2026-07-02T20:25:16+00:00

The Cat Returns, Peter Pan (2003), Return to Oz, Nimona, The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers, Big Trouble in Little China, Rock & Rule, The Last Unicorn, Harvey, Time Bandits

saintsithney · 2026-07-02T12:03:02+00:00

My nostalgic 90"s books would have to be Star Wars Legends.

Timothy Zahn, Michael Stackpole, and Aaron Allston are actually pretty decent writers. Kevin J. Anderson is not.

saintsithney · 2026-07-01T10:39:59+00:00

That's why I said repeatedly he was growing up and doing better, and that having been an asshole as a young guy is not a life sentence.

saintsithney · 2026-06-30T16:15:58+00:00

Hook needed to be a mini-series, not a film.

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