I’m way too old to have accidentally stayed up past 1am reading fanfic on a work night. Chalk it up to running around acting like almost everything is fine when I hit 110% of my social coping capacity a week ago
i was about to caption this “me every time my friends and i are just trying to have a nice dinner” or something like that until i remembered that that is, in fact, the exact situation going on in the full strip
Danny Phantom is a solidly okay, so-so kind of cartoon, unless you have specific Danny Phantom-shaped receptors in your brain, in which case it is sublime
Had to do ice-breakers at a work thing today and the guy I got paired with was immediately like "hello ma'am" and then apologized for saying ma'am so I took that as an opener to say, "haha actually yeah I am non-binary." I'm not really used to doing that, but I'm trying to learn to get out ahead of being 'she/her'd into the dirt by strangers every day. I get that it's on me at least as long as I stay in south texas, and it probably will stay that way unless I ever grow a beard. Anyway the guy was pretty chill about it except for he kind of over-corrected and started nervously rambling about how he has trans friends. It was such a goofy faux-pas I wanted to laugh maniacally but I held it in. We got the assignment done and there were no issues (apart from when he got agitated because I compared Invincible to the The Boys in passing).
At the very end of the day he flagged me down and said, "hey, can I ask you something I've been wondering about?" My, "yeah sure?" was wary. This guy goes, "Is it true that the German language has a bunch of names for things that translate really literally." I went, "Oh yeah, like how the word for 'plane' is 'flying thing'? There are lots of nouns like that." "Really?! Wow!"
I cannot imagine 1) That the Corporation Rim would produce free entertainment 2) That Murderbot paid for any of its serials. The entertainment feed is HuMaxFlix Plus with 500 different micro subscription options, and Murderbot has been the universe's most prolific TV pirate this whole time.