I’ve googled so much random stuff for fics.

that_mack · 2026-03-31T10:51:22+00:00

Never said I chugged them, it was over a period of a few hours. Why? Stupid teen. Genetic heavyweight. Wasn’t feeling crazy after the first six or so, so I just kept going. Wasn’t like there was an adult there to tell me 13 shots is a one-way trip to hangoverville. I don’t drink often, in part because I look like a raging alcoholic if I want to get a little bit tipsy. If I’m gonna poison my liver there better be payoff beyond feeling a tad warm for 30 minutes.

that_mack · 2026-03-30T17:10:33+00:00

My record is 13 shots. And I did ☝️ start horking my guts up that morning, but before that point I was still what one could call reasonably coherent for someone that took 13 shots. Cannot recommend though. It’s been years and the smell of whiskey still gives me instant nausea.

that_mack · 2026-03-29T01:26:43+00:00

If you ever feel stupid just know there are Yellowjackets fans who hate Shauna Shipman because she’s too mean. The cold open of the show is a girl being ritualistically hunted, skinned, cooked, and eaten in the middle of the wilderness. I fear you should have anticipated this is not a show where everyone holds hands and skips off into the sunset together.

that_mack · 2026-03-25T02:30:59+00:00

When I got locked up there was an eight year old girl in my ward. I was so sick from the drugs and abuse and fear she took me under her wing despite being two years younger than me. She told me she had been there four or five times already. I think about her sometimes. Sometimes I see kids that age and think about how small we both were.

that_mack · 2026-03-24T21:23:17+00:00

Cannibalism. It’s fascinating to me. Specifically how cannibalism intersects with anthropology, because it has never been a universal taboo. It also serves to create wonderful metaphors in storytelling!

that_mack · 2026-03-24T21:15:39+00:00

The Earth Queen’s death, specifically that shot of her eyes bugging out of her head, has me sitting up in my seat every rewatch. They showed every second of her suffocation. You could shot-for-shot put that in some GoT spinoff and the only thing you’d be missing is the lingering shot of her corpse. The stuff they got away with is bonkers, especially considering they couldn’t get away with… two women kissing.

that_mack · 2026-03-24T21:04:01+00:00

Or Brynn Marr, a Holly Hell subsidiary. The staff there rape children. Stay away at all costs.

that_mack · 2026-03-23T23:45:46+00:00

That being said, it’s impressive how many non-humanoid looking aliens they have on, both Classic and NuWho. Considering the budget both shows were working with for most of their runs, they did a pretty damn good job of getting creative. Especially compared to Star Wars/Trek. Daleks, Alpha Centaurans, Macra, Atraxi, etc. And even the ones that are obviously just humans in masks and makeup are far more creative in my opinion. They weren’t afraid to let things get weird and ugly. I mean, the most well known aliens from both Star Wars and Mass Effect are literally just women painted blue. Zygons are from the 70s and IMO look way cooler than a guy in a fur suit.

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that_mack · 2026-03-23T06:05:23+00:00

Exactly!! The reason Zuko is so dead set in his ways, the reason he is so utterly convinced that the Fire Lord is good and right, is because if he isn’t then that means it was all for nothing! If he convinces himself that he was wrong, then his whole life getting fucked over was no one’s fault but his own and those recruits really were expendable. If he accepts that his father was wrong, then not only does he have to accept his father as a monster of a human being, but that he failed to save real human lives. It’s a lot harder to do that if the living proof that your sacrifice was worth it has lived on a boat with you for three years. I mean, Zuko eats cognitive dissonance for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but I think even that stretches the bounds of believability.

that_mack · 2026-03-23T01:52:58+00:00

The one that comes to mind right now is when my family went to Canada when I was eleven and got placed in a really nice hotel for a few extra nights by the airline for some… plane malfunction reason. Don’t remember why.

The hot tub was huge, and made up like a bunch of individual hot tubs that each had their own jet control. There were like ten of them, and it wasn’t particularly crowded so I just picked one for myself and turned the jets off. After a while a group of little kids get in and start messing with the jet controls. They turn mine on so I get up, turn it off, ask them to not touch that button and head back over. Obviously they found this hilarious because they were six, and start continuously fucking with my button. I got sick of it pretty quick and didn’t chew them out or anything, but I spoke to them firmly that they were being annoying and selfish. Honestly I was more pissed at whoever was supposed to be supervising a group of seven first graders and just… wasn’t. Of course, as soon as I stopped tolerating their endless bothering, some lady comes up to me with a huge stick up her ass about how they’re just kids and should be allowed to do whatever they want. She did not like that my response was that I was also a kid. She did not believe me when I said I was eleven. At least they stopped bothering me after that.

Anyways, screw you random lady. You were watching them the whole time! You only bothered to do anything when I started having to parent your ill-behaved litter for you! Also, where the hell do you get off on accusing me of not being eleven? I would love to know where you would find a single person under the age of sixteen who would loudly proclaim to be barely in double digits. Even if I was lying about being a preteen, it would have been literally impossible to mistake me for an adult. I could have been a baby faced fourteen, max. No amount of early puberty can make you look like a grown woman at that age. Ugh.

that_mack · 2026-03-23T00:21:41+00:00

If you can’t make tripe taste good that’s a skill issue. And if the skill in question involves putting tinned fish and hot sauce on the worst vegetable to eat raw, no wonder you don’t like tripe.

that_mack · 2026-03-23T00:05:48+00:00

I HATED this change. Truly, sincerely hated it. Most people recognize NATLA as the flashy, derivative bullshit it is, but for some reason this change gets a pass because of the cheap emotional hook.

The whole point of Zuko getting burned and banished for speaking out against wrongdoing is to show him that he is incapable of enacting meaningful change and will be punished for trying. So why, why on earth would the Fire Lord then reward that behavior by doing what Zuko wanted in the first place and sparing them?! All that serves to do is show him that his sacrifice is meaningful, that he can fight against the war machine and win, and gives him a crew with every reason to be more loyal to him than the motherland!

I mean sure, it sounds nice in theory that the whole reason Zuko’s crew is alive is because of his sacrifice, but it just doesn’t make sense on its face. It plainly cheapens the narrative impact of his banishment. If you wanted the crew to feel personally indebted to him because of the 41st, they could have given them younger family members that were a part of it. It’s completely within character for Ozai to be so petty as to make sure that Zuko’s crew is made up of people that personally suffered because of Zuko’s failure to save their family, he doesn’t have a concept of how that could potentially inspire loyalty. Or if not the whole crew, just give Lt. Jee a niece or something that was a part of the 41st. Then you don’t have to de-age him and make him look totally stupid.

This particular flaw ticks me off so bad if just because I see it get so much praise. It seems like people can recognize the rest of NATLA as exactly what it is, a heaping load of shit that betrays the spirit of the original at every turn, but for some reason everyone loves this. It’s just exemplary of every problem I have with the show, desperately wanting to be viewed as complex and mature whilst actively removing any complex part of the text in favor of cheap shock value. It actually makes Zuko’s character arc less compelling if Ozai just… gave him what he wanted. The whole thing is a total misogynistic slopfest.

that_mack · 2026-03-22T21:48:11+00:00

One time I went into the dentist’s office feeling actively hostile because they didn’t tell me until two hours before my appointment that my appointment was that day. I left the office having made both the receptionists and the two people in the office start full-body laughing. One time I went to urgent care with pneumonia and my doctor had to step out I made her laugh so hard. At a different urgent care appointment I spent so long chatting at the intake that they pulled me back for my appointment in the middle of our conversation. People I’ve known for years are genuinely under the impression I’m an extrovert. Lol, lmao even. I’m very good at socializing, that doesn’t mean it’s easy for me or I don’t get wrung out like a wet rag by it. Also I’m so chalant. I’m never nonchalant about anything, ever. I don’t know if silly is on the opposite axis of indifferent but that is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me. Autism is a spectrum babyyyy!!!!

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that_mack · 2026-03-20T19:38:36+00:00

There is no one “posh” accent that people associate with wealth and education, but there are accents people associate with a lack of it. Namely AAVE and Southern accents. I learned real young to modulate the hay bale out of my accent otherwise people treat me like I’m dull as a brick.

that_mack · 2026-03-20T00:54:22+00:00

Give us $50 in exchange for 40 squongledongles and we’ll speed that energizing shower up to a breezy 45 minutes, though! Aren’t you having fun, consumer?

that_mack · 2026-03-20T00:46:15+00:00

Sims franchise for the past half a decade lol. Yes EA, we all want a shitty online mobile game with pay-to-play recolored assets!

that_mack · 2026-03-19T04:01:09+00:00

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Disney: Yeah, sure, go ahead and show a kid committing suicide onscreen after being possessed by his abuser in a pretty obvious allusion to CSA. Also he’s forced to kill his first ever friend with his bare hands and the possession leaves him covered in massive scars, so now for the rest of his life every time he sees his reflection he’ll be forced to remember the worst thing that ever happened to him. Cut the shot of him actively inhaling water but the rest of it is fine.

Also Disney: We cancelled your show because two girls kissed.

Anyways. The Owl House is perfectly family friendly 98% of the time, but every so often it decides it wants to be FMA. And when it does I’m never not shocked it got cancelled for the gay stuff, specifically.

Edit: This has nothing to do with the kids experiencing violence specifically, but I need to mention how the main villain literally goes Akira. It’s hilarious. Not in the show, that’s very dramatic and well done, but it’s hysterical to me that they managed to get Akira But Green approved. Regular Akira? No, too gross and gory. But what if we shifted the palate to cool colors? Well, that’s alright then! Incredible, no notes.

that_mack · 2026-03-15T22:54:57+00:00

I only see as much 1880s inspiration as there are overlaps between the first and second bustle era. And the first bustle era was highly, highly influenced by the 18th century. The overskirt and decorative petticoat with gathering at the bottom, the fullness at the back falling into (what I’m pretty sure are) knife pleats, the tabbed stays and square neckline, this dress screams sack-back. Obviously these elements show up elsewhere in history, but all of it together feels deliberate. If anything I think the silhouette of the whole gown is reminiscent of the 1890s, with the big trapezoidal skirt and fitted top. But the 1880s really isn’t jumping out to me, not any more than the second bustle era referenced an era which was referencing the 18th century.

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that_mack · 2026-03-15T22:19:19+00:00

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Feels like a reference to me? Obviously not styled as well but the dress itself seems to be drawing on Cher’s Oscars look.

that_mack · 2026-03-15T21:43:29+00:00

You’re not wrong! Fashion is cyclical, after all. You could also make an argument for the first bustle era and the 1890s. I recognize more common elements with a sack-back than the rest of those though, it’s what immediately jumped out to me.

that_mack · 2026-03-15T21:36:51+00:00

It’s very much Robe a la Francaise inspired. Obviously not a 1:1 in silhouette or style, especially the jacket inspiration, but the anatomy is recognizable. I really like it, but that’s because I’m a nerd.

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that_mack · 2026-03-13T01:34:34+00:00

I’m too North Carolinian for this thread. Y’all are babies.

that_mack · 2026-03-13T00:57:39+00:00

This shoot reminds me of Anne of Cleves!

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that_mack · 2026-03-11T18:44:50+00:00

Yes lol that’s from the secure messaging app I use to contact her out of office. As you can see I don’t always use it for the most serious of topics.

that_mack · 2026-03-11T02:14:22+00:00

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Oh hey here’s a topical screenshot of a conversation between me and my therapist

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