I am 9 minutes into S6E3 of Lucifer. Why is there a new angel? Shouldn't we have met all the angels by/in the S5 finale?
Anyway, I guarantee you this one's a lesbian. I am 110% certain.
And BY THE WAY, I was already 75% certain based on that two-second shot of her feet in S6E1.
I'm also just gonna repeat what I said eons ago about how obvious it is that all the heaven-dwelling celestials in this show are het and all the queer celestials are hell-dwellers. Like, I get that it's cable TV but that's still f'd up, it's 2021 people
HI, HELLO, WHAT DID I SAY
WHAT did I SAY
Also imagine being queer and flirting queerly in front of your father. Your F A T H E R
Like, has anybody ever had the spine to do that?
So, just for the record, Fox, and whatever hetero people wrote this, this is not what we mean by "cool gay aunt"
UPDATE: I have now finished the entire Lucifer series franchise thing and I challenge any of you to explain those last two episodes to someone who hasn't seen this show in a way that doesn't sound totally batshit
That's right, you can't do it. How could someone do it?
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Tech books exhibit a strange cost bell curve relative to quality.
Expense-it-to-prodev priced books are consistently fair-to-middlin'. Accessibly priced books, a standard deviation above or below that. Free books, either TRULY shite, or the best tech writing I've ever read.
My hypotheses on why come from my experiences:
- planning books with big publishers
- hearing from published author colleagues
- getting pitched on self-publishing
- self-publishing for reasons totally unlike the pitches
Here they are, in all their half-baked glory:
1. Books from big publishers
I won't name names, but if you've been around tech, you know who this is. These are the places with the highest price point. It's that high because they expect people to expense it to their employers. These places have a lot of name recognition, and
So a Worldcon guest tweeted that U.S. defense companies can be ethically "grey" despite, uh, getting paid to orchestrate killing people.
The evidence: the OP's partner works at one; the OP used to work at one that helped w the moon landing.
I'm not here to drag. Let's talk.
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FIRST THING FIRST: I'm not sharing the screenshot because I believe it is unfair to share people's de-anonymized hot takes without notifying them or linking to where they might amend. That's closer to lashon hara than accountability and that bothers me.
On to the take.
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I've watched something like this play out pretty often in tech: a person thinks of themselves as a good person, or they are dating an ostensibly good person, and that person works for a company that does bad things.
So now they have to back-justify what's happening.
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DOC: Yikes. Broth has too much sodium. You'll raise your blood pressure
ME: That's the point. My blood pressure is low
DOC: *takes bp* ...wow. I...could prescribe something to raise your blood pressure
ME: *points at broth*
This summer in NYC, I fainted in the middle of a 500 person junk swap because I'd gone for a run and I guess hadn't fully rehydrated. THAT's how close to the line my bp runs.
Then when they took me to the ER, where my poor mother had to come visit me thinking I might've DIED /1
they wouldn't let me leave until my bp & hr returned to "normal." Except my usual 106/60ish and 48 doesn't hit "normal".
I had to wait until nurses weren't looking, have my mother shield me, and do jumping jacks so they'd let me leave.
The TV equivalent of french fries, the not-exactly-satisfying-but-momentarily-deicious stack of cable TV tropes in a trenchcoat that I've threaded the daylights out of on its queer representation: Lucifer
I've been looking up a lot of soup recipes lately.
Now, the way that I learn things is to avoid committing a bunch of seemingly unrelated stuff to memory by coming up with a framework that connects all the pieces together.
I give you: A Framework for Vegetable Soup
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STEP 1: Choose two vegetables.
I have no idea why it's two, but I can confirm that "garden soup" where you blend several together tastes gross to me so let's just accept the Magic Number Two for now