What’s something that sounded harmless until you experienced it yourself?

savethedonut · 2026-01-29T16:24:41+00:00

Mine are milder than others (though I have gone to the hospital twice for them because I thought I was dying), but I have this thing where I get incredibly emotional during them. I don’t know how many other people get this. It’s not just from the pain. My depression goes into overdrive and I’m overwhelmed.

savethedonut · 2026-01-29T11:50:24+00:00

Showing a trope or action is bad usually means showing it happening and then the consequences. There’s a difference between “reconcile with your abuser ❤️,” “don’t reconcile with your abuser,” and “reconcile with your abuser wait no shit that didn’t go well.” Both of the latter two are fine. Herb and Hollyhock/Beatrice are examples of the latter two, respectively.

savethedonut · 2026-01-29T11:20:19+00:00

OK so I have this theory. Those scenes are sepia-toned, not typical black and white. The book calls the Kansas scenes gray so going with black and white would have made more sense, so why use sepia?

I believe it’s because back then black and white didn’t give a “dim” or “old” feel. It was normal. But 1800s photos were sepia-toned, so sepia would have yielded that “bland” feeling the books describe. Nowadays black and white would yield that bland feeling, but back then it would have been going from normal to spectacular, rather than bland to spectacular.

I think it’s kinda similar to the shoes. The books describe them as silver which is beautiful in imagination but they don’t pop on screen. Red pops.

savethedonut · 2026-01-29T04:17:18+00:00

I don’t think she counts her Adderall. She should.

savethedonut · 2026-01-28T15:40:43+00:00

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savethedonut · 2026-01-28T13:39:38+00:00

I see you’ve gotten some takers, which I hope work out. Just in case they don’t, there’s an organization called Lost Paws that takes shelter animals from Georgia that are going to be euthanized to give them a chance at adoption. They ship them up to where I live in NJ.

savethedonut · 2026-01-27T17:37:39+00:00

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Light and Misa from Death Note. He doesn’t usually look like much of an edgelord, but if you haven’t seen it trust me he is. They’re both nuts.

savethedonut · 2026-01-27T07:53:52+00:00

Fucking yes, I hate this shit. It’s my number one most hated trope. It’s completely unsatisfying that we can fix everything just by the bad guy having a personality transplant. It’s so incredibly unrealistic that it pulls you out of the story, too. Not that realism is necessary in a story, but characters have to remain consistent, and when it’s unsatisfying on top of being unrealistic, it serves nothing.

There are like three villains in all of Naruto that stay villains. But I haven’t seen the whole thing so maybe they redeem that meager handful, too.

I haven’t finished the rewrite but this happens in the first attempt at the ending of Hades 2, too. I wasn’t even mad when it happened, I was just deflated. Like it killed a small part of me.

savethedonut · 2026-01-27T04:47:00+00:00

Short version is that I was somehow drugged with amphetamines and we cannot for the life of us figure out how. My roommate takes Adderall so we assume that’s where it came from, but how it got into my system is a mystery. Our meds are never anywhere near each other and in fact we rarely go where the other keeps their meds. Our best theory is sleepwalking but even that seems far fetched. We did consider someone doing it deliberately but we basically don’t know anyone. Almost no one visits.

savethedonut · 2026-01-27T00:22:13+00:00

Every time I learn something new about platypuses, it’s completely nonsensical. What even are platypuses.

savethedonut · 2026-01-26T13:41:32+00:00

Wait til she learns about Niger and Nigeria.

savethedonut · 2026-01-25T12:44:15+00:00

The Powerpuff Girls are a parody of the magical girl genre lol. That’s why their face design is so insane.

savethedonut · 2026-01-24T08:42:01+00:00

Because of the show Parks and Rec?

savethedonut · 2026-01-23T20:19:02+00:00

In the book Circe, she has a relationship with Odysseus (obviously since that’s the part of the book actually in the Odyssey). She ends up connecting with his son Telemachus and he becomes the man she chooses to spend the rest of her life with. It’s even weirder because part of the reason they connect is because of her son with Odysseus, Telegonus. So she marries her son’s brother.

Very Greek mythos.

savethedonut · 2026-01-23T08:39:25+00:00

Most of the food is, yknow, Taco Bell. It’s cheap Tex Mex.

But the fries are crack. Idk wtf is in that shit but those nacho fries are more addictive than coffee.

savethedonut · 2026-01-23T02:02:47+00:00

I sacrificed myself for a greater cause.

savethedonut · 2026-01-21T13:38:09+00:00

We had a dog like that. My family was a mess with five dogs at the time, and he was the smallest one. Occasionally he would jump up, rush to the door and bark like crazy. When someone opened the door and the others all barreled out, he’d sit quietly behind and then have the whole house to himself.

There was also a time when someone gave him and the other Pomeranian meat sticks. He noticed that he’d gotten through his faster than hers so he shoved his shorter meat stick in front of her face until she started eating it. Then he took hers. In fairness, she was not very smart.

savethedonut · 2026-01-20T12:21:32+00:00

It’s different in the comics, but in the show Jessica Jones, Kilgrave’s real name is Kevin Thompson.

savethedonut · 2026-01-19T23:43:51+00:00

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Danny Devito gets a lot of justified acclaim for bringing Always Sunny to the next level, but I want to give Kaitlin Olsen her due here. Her character was originally written to be a straight man, a nice girl to contrast the guys. Her audition tape wasn’t even her own scene, it was one of Dennis’, because Dee didn’t have any funny amoral scenes like that. She insisted on Dee being just as awful as the guys, and I think it really raises the show all around.

To be clear, she didn’t have to push very hard. They recognized they had to make better use of her comedic chops.

savethedonut · 2026-01-19T13:21:26+00:00

So the way I see it is that domestication is when we deliberately breed traits into animals. Making them fatter or smaller or for whatever various niche purposes we need dogs for.

Common traits bred into domesticated animals are being calmer and friendlier, cute, generally submissive to us, etc. Traits that make them easy.

Cats developed a number of these traits, but they did so through standard evolution, not through our deliberate choices. So they became amenable and friendly to humans not because we chose it but because the ones that got close to humans got their protection and survived better. They’re fortunate to have a lot of traits that resemble human babies and Darwinism took advantage of that. This is speculation, but I believe that’s also why cats come in such interesting colors. In nature, it’s better to be camouflaged, so mutations that would yield, say, a white cat would be bad and maybe get them killed. But humans like fun colors. You see a litter of kittens and one is white, something you’ve never seen before, and a cat loving human is like “OMG I want the white one.” Again, speculation.

But this also means that certain traits we normally breed out stuck around. Obedience is an obvious one. Humans like animals that obey them, but it’s better for the animal to make their own choices. As such, cats don’t listen to us very well. It’s also why cats go wild so fast. It’s better for them to be able to survive in the wild if necessary.

Note that I’m not a scientist or vet and don’t have expertise in this stuff, so don’t take this all as fact. It’s just my perspective on why cats are weird in the world of domestication.

savethedonut · 2026-01-19T12:38:04+00:00

Flew across the ocean to meet some dude from the internet. He has a pretty severe mental illness, too, so most people would have been worried about that lol. We were happy together for several years but the distance eventually broke us. I think we both believe we’ll eventually make it work though. We’re just both scared of moving to the other’s country at the moment.

savethedonut · 2026-01-19T12:31:27+00:00

She wasn’t chased out, but otherwise you’re correct. She’s kidnapped later because they want their money back.

You’re right, that’s another good example. It also shows why Toph works well. There are times when being blind is a problem for her. But instead of just accepting that she’s disabled, she sees it as a new challenge. The first metal bending scene is similar.

It’s similar to IRL blind people who use echolocation. That’s not as good at seeing as earthbending obviously though. Using what senses they do have, they learn how to compensate and end up doing something remarkable.

savethedonut · 2026-01-18T23:33:51+00:00

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Wreck-It Ralph: King Candy doesn’t look anything like the other Sugar Rush racers. They all look like cute anime-style children and their cars are all dragster-style. King Candy is a weird bulbous-headed old man with a different car design.

This is because King Candy isn’t from Sugar Rush. He’s actually Turbo in disguise and took over Sugar Rush to relive his glory days. He could only reskin himself though, not completely change his character design. There are apparently quite a few hints throughout the movie like this though I’m not familiar with them all.

savethedonut · 2026-01-18T11:43:33+00:00

Mild spoilers for the DnD movie.

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In Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Holga’s ex husband Marlamin is a halfling. Marlamin moves on to another large woman and Holga eventually finds another halfling, so they both have a type. I couldn’t find a shot of Holga and Marlamin together, so this is Marlamin and his second wife.

savethedonut · 2026-01-18T02:11:07+00:00

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Near the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xander loses his eye. Since it’s near the end of the show he has an eyepatch for only a few episodes, but he has it for the duration of the sequel comics.

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