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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Six episodes in, I'm really unsure how I feel about Bly Manor. I'm less invested in it than I was in Hill House, and I feel like that's a combination of the very different dynamic of varied employees vs. tight-knit family, and the relative lack of compelling recurring ghosts.
I think Hill House felt more like a character than Bly does in large part because it was less shy about its ghosts.
Honestly, Miles being so deliberately off-putting so often... it's one of the more effective things in the show but it doesn't add to the experience of watching it.

I do find it interesting that each of the two Haunting serieseses has made a lesbian romance the central present-day love story, and it's more central in the second one than the first.

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9 Oct
I keep mentally referring to Ratched as American Horror Story: Disability, but that could really describe so much of Ryan Murphy's corpus.
I think the character of Ratched is better when she's unexplored and unexplained. You really don't need a Joker Origin Story for the ableist control freak medical professional who just bulldozes over patients' lives. That's *normal* in our society.
But as a prequel for the book/movie and an origin story for the character as she exists within it... Ratched worked better than I had expected? It understood the character better than it might have, showing a character who can identify institutional and personal pressure points.
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8 Oct
The day I learned about "shots", as a small child... I don't know how old I was, except pre-K. I couldn't contextualize it except that one of my friends was going to the doctor to "get shot".
When it was rephrased that he was going to get "his shots", I started to imagine that at the doctor's office they had like a wall of cabinets with little compartments that had people's names on them, which had like guns or ammo in them.
The clarification that it was "a needle" just made me picture something like a nail gun. Like, they shoot a needle into your arm? And if not, why was it called a "shot"? They needed somebody better at naming things to straighten this out.
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8 Oct
The Shirley Exception: Surely, there must be reasonable exceptions! Can we write those exceptions into law? No, because people will take advantage. But surely nobody would just let someone die!
The original Shirley Exception thread, which goes deeper into the concept.

The belief in a Shirley Exception is crucial to the self-image of most conservative voters, as is the belief that people will take advantage, if rights are spelled out.

The fear that someone, somewhere will take advantage and get something they don't need/deserve is the only "moral hazard" that really matters in US politics.
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8 Oct
MYRTLE/OLIVE 2020
IN BOB WE TRUST

It's hard to pick a favorite ship in #PiratesOfLeviathan because the setting is literally made out of ships, but Myrtle/Marcid is especially good.

"You're... still alive. That's... fine."
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7 Oct
I think my favorite Dimension 20 sidequest might be... all of them. I honestly can't choose. They are each such different creatures.

I think there's really something to be said for the character design that goes into them.
The sidequest seasons are short, self-contained stories with characters who already have some levels in them (the first one was explicitly an epic level cmapaign) and history and characterization.
And obviously any RPG character is going to evolve through play but when you're planning on what amounts to an extended one-shot and you're doing it for an audience, I think that inspires the players to really go to the next level in bringing a fully-realized person to the stage.
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7 Oct
So if you're not sure if an image you see going around with captions on it is real, the first thing to do is check if the video exists. These days a static screen shot of a current event won't exist if the video isn't around.
Honestly, if your first reaction to something is a feeling of "This can't be real." or "Someone please tell me this is fake."... be the someone. I mean, assuming everything fake is obnoxious and equally gullible in its own way. But check.
You should never be spreading something around with a comment like "Hope this is fake" or "This has to be fake. Doesn't it?" If you're already suspicious, check it out.
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