Sunny Moraine

I don’t have to reject that person or reject the things that person loved in order to recognize the very basic fact that I’ve done some growing up since then

Honestly same. It isn’t that I think I won’t like it anymore, it’s for the same reason I’ve seen others offer: it was important to me at a specific time in my life, and I honor who I was then but that’s not me anymore and my tastes have grown and changed since then

It IS one of those instances where you see that if society itself was less viciously ableist, there would probably be fewer parents being that way

Yeeeeeeeah

And again, having compassion for that doesn’t absolve them of responsibility for the harm they’re causing, like y’all are goddamn adults

It’s still on them as adults to manage it and move past it so that it doesn’t do damage to anyone else, but it sure doesn’t seem fun

Also: Don’t have kids myself but my general sense is that for some parents, having them kind of breaks something in your brain in terms of being able to distinguish legitimate concern from irrational anxiety, they become terrified all the time about everything, and I don’t envy them that experience

Harris is very good imo at striking the right balance between compassion and “oh my god what the fuck is the matter with you people”

Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response YouTube video by hbomberguy

If you aren’t sure what specifically I’m talking about, this is worth a watch and contains parts of the story that I did not actually know about when I saw it for the first time youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...

The parents who aren’t actual pieces of shit—because God do those exist—may be foolish, they may be infuriatingly credulous, but to put everything on them risks obscuring the calculated maliciousness of the people who materially benefit from antivax conspiracy theories and fear

Something that becomes very clear when you revisit the early days of the Wakefield-era antivax movement is just how much of that movement was and is based around confusing and terrifying essentially well-meaning parents

Which isn’t to excuse anyone or anything, it’s just the truth

Honestly I am too utterly baffled by this to even be annoyed

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Yeah, I genuinely hope it bombs

And if I had a chance to go back in time and be showrunner I would have most likely made it at least one season shorter and kept the focus much tighter

My own feelings about Lost have warmed somewhat since the heat of my fury at its conclusion has had years to cool, like at this point the ending doesn’t make me so angry that I can’t enjoy any of the rest of the show, but yes, it’s only going to ever be deeply flawed at best at least for me

And that doesn’t mean “just reboot Firefly but do it better”. Do something new! Firefly does not have the corner on space westerns!

Honestly this one MILLION percent

I think just about everything I loved about Firefly could be done better by someone else now, not least because, as I saw someone else say, the good stuff Firefly was doing is no longer so unusual

I treasure every story I get to end on my own terms, and I treasure even more those endings where I’ve stuck the landing and come out satisfied. They’re so hard and so rare and I value them more every year I do this

Twilight meme riffing on the "skin of A killer scene" with them wearing photoshopped cowboy hats: Edward saying "I reckon this be the skin of a no-good feller, Beller" Bella: "Heavens to Betsy"

Happy Sunday. This is very dumb but it made me laugh. A lot.

In retrospect too many pieces of media that I’ve liked have gone on much longer than they should have

I think about this a lot

I feel like I might have considerably less fondness for it had we gotten two or three seasons of space for some Whedon Nonsense to really rear its head

what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession

and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock

There are so many potential new things to potentially be excited about!

Yeah no you were cooking actually even if you didn’t know all of why at the time

It’s good for some things to end and for that ending to be permanent. Fond feelings for a thing or even genuinely good quality in that thing shouldn’t preclude being fine with it being over. This is a very basic truth that I feel more and more powerfully every year I age

To be abundantly clear: I think there are many excellent reasons aside from the issue of quality for Firefly to stay dead, I’m just mostly reacting to this one thing I’m seeing a good bit of

It’s not like there isn’t enough Whedon output out there to last through several centuries even if he WASN’T garbage

We don’t need him to come back, he can stay and should stay gone

It makes me real tired!!!

It is actually okay for things to just end and stay ended, and they don’t need to suck or be bad for that to be the case

You can like something and think a lot of it is pretty good and still hold the opinion that it had its day and we don’t need more of it now