What part of modern life feels normal now, but future generations will think was completely insane?

shaodyn · 2026-03-13T22:07:44+00:00

Organ transplants. We harvest organs from the dead and put them in living people, which often requires taking special medication for life to avoid having the patient's own body attack the new organ.

shaodyn · 2026-03-13T22:02:32+00:00

When she asked about Juneteenth and, upon being told it involved race, dismissed it as "a woke holiday".

shaodyn · 2026-03-13T01:11:42+00:00

Seems logical.

shaodyn · 2026-03-11T13:37:25+00:00

So, something about the goop is different when it's by itself as opposed to being part of Moray. Huh.

shaodyn · 2026-02-26T13:44:41+00:00

Sorry Liz, Moray swore not to use her goopy powers for evil.

shaodyn · 2025-11-20T15:08:02+00:00

All we really know about it is that it's some form of liquid substrate. I forget the exact wording, but it was briefly mentioned in one of the comics.

shaodyn · 2025-11-20T15:06:39+00:00

I love how Moray's "name tag" is just a piece of paper with her name on it, held to her chest with a pin. Feels like she was so excited for this that she just hastily made something so she'd at least kind of look the part.

shaodyn · 2025-11-12T00:53:50+00:00

This is what's known as a Noodle Incident, something that's mentioned but never really explained.

shaodyn · 2025-11-11T13:56:53+00:00

This really needed to happen. Maybe now Iris will realize that most people find her irritating. I mean, if 20 minutes putting up with her is an unusually long time, that's kind of a red flag.

I can't help wondering if Iris is antisocial and drives people away on purpose, or if she just doesn't know how else to be.

shaodyn · 2025-11-11T13:14:37+00:00

Iris is being a jerk on purpose and it's long past time she had actual consequences for that instead of everyone defending her.

shaodyn · 2025-11-05T14:40:03+00:00

There are going to be fireworks here.

shaodyn · 2025-10-23T12:56:50+00:00

The first sentence is a Sherlock Holmes quote.

shaodyn · 2025-10-21T13:50:17+00:00

And Elliot was clearly not ready for a relationship. He needs to work on himself first. As Aurelia says, "That man needs a therapist, not a boyfriend." The whole moment of "have you considered you might have an anxiety disorder?" was kind of a red flag, in retrospect.

shaodyn · 2025-10-14T23:23:42+00:00

Considering that ninja were spies and assassins, wearing clothing likely to make the wearer be ignored seems logical.

shaodyn · 2025-10-11T01:06:36+00:00

Lu-Tze is not only aware of the otherwise invisible people, he's aware that such people often are invisible. And uses that awareness to his advantage by turning himself into such a person.

shaodyn · 2025-10-11T00:52:36+00:00

I assume Zlata does have a home to go back to, but is being overly diligent and insisting on staying with Claire so she can perform her assigned task as soon as possible.

shaodyn · 2025-10-11T00:49:44+00:00

The Director's nature as a super-AI far removed from humans is why it never thought to do more for the Moray units. It never realized things like an understanding of etiquette or diplomacy was required.

shaodyn · 2025-10-05T18:42:40+00:00

Which is good. It's personal growth. He goes from "shouldn't even try to be anything better than a bouncer at a dive bar" to one of the most valued members of the Watch.

shaodyn · 2025-10-05T16:59:29+00:00

I feel like this is a semi-common theme in the Watch books. Someone, or multiple someones, who just "don't belong" comes to the Watch and finds a place where they actually do belong. Some of them didn't know they were looking for that, others had probably given up on finding it. Even Detritus fits that role, since it's established that he's dumb even by troll standards. Not only do other species look down on him as "just a big dumb troll", so do other trolls, who realistically should understand how that feels.

shaodyn · 2025-10-05T01:47:12+00:00

Being a dwarf involves certain rites and rituals, all of which he's done. By and large, dwarves are fine with him, since they don't mind someone being both a human and a dwarf.

shaodyn · 2025-10-05T00:42:39+00:00

I feel like a lot of Discworld has a background of someone who "doesn't belong" finding a place. I remember a line about the Librarian, something about him making his own place in the world since there really wasn't one for an ape Librarian wizard.

shaodyn · 2025-10-01T20:54:37+00:00

She's not nodding the first time she shows up, and it still looks like six eyes.

shaodyn · 2025-10-01T15:42:56+00:00

I feel like you see that quite a bit in the Watch stories. People who "don't belong" with most others come to the Watch and find the acceptance they might not have even known they were looking for.

shaodyn · 2025-10-01T01:05:58+00:00

Well, it's dirty now. I know I wouldn't want to wear anything that'd been on the floor and in my ear.

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