sometimes when I'm hangin out here on cohost, I'll see the fringes of Big Drama(tm) that's supposedly going on, and a handful of posts will suggest it's a big, all-encompassing Thing that permeates every corner of the site that no one can avoid and Fitting Hyperbole Here if we don't do something about it.
and whenever that happens I feel like one of those characters in a movie that's sitting in the foreground just, like, eating dirt or something, completely oblivious to the protagonist and their nemesis having a fight to the death on jet skis in the background.
nothing specific is prompting this, there's just been half a dozen-ish moments in the past couple months where I'll see One Post about how prevalent such-and-such thing is and my reaction is invariably, "They did what with a jet ski??" And then I'll turn around and there's a conspicuous jet ski-shaped hole in the wall directly behind me, but it's been covered with caution tape for weeks and anyone asked about it just mumbles something about "The Incident" with no further clarification.
i'm not sure what point i was trying to make, but i'm glad people are having fun with their jet skis
Feels like a good time to share this post, mostly because I absolutely love this tiny detail that disappears into the background of this bonkers, gargantuan painting, but also because it's helpful to remember that one person's Final Boss Music Knock-Down Drag-Out Brawl is always going to be another person's Doesn't Even Rate A Footnote. I'm not taking a shot at Big Drama™, I've just learned that no drama, no matter how justified or consequential, is so big that you can safely assume everyone knows what you're talking about.
