Jaida R. L. Mack

Having just a supremely bad day, if anyone has some cute animals or beautiful pictures of sunsets or plants or anything like that, I would like to see something that reminds me of the small joys of life

This is a gif which will never, ever fail to get me smiling. The longer I look at it, the better it gets; I will routinely smile just by remembering it exists, and end up launching in to full-on belly laughs after a minute or so of watching Handsome Pete's frantic bopping.

It is the very simplest of pleasures, and while it might sit just outside the brief, I think it counts and I would like to share it. If nothing else, now I'm laughing like an idiot.

On Tumblr there are these blogs called like “X character of the day” or some variation, with X being something like asexual, kittycat, tax evader, &c. &c. There’s one that’ll always stick in my memory, called “fat-nuts-haver-of-the-day”, where every post was just about Tom Nook.

The blog’s still around, but not posting anymore. Retweet if you love Tom Nook’s fat nuts, ignore for 10000000000 years of bad luck.

Nothing will ever do it for me like the Buena Vista dub of Pom Poko talking about tanuki 'magic pouches.'

God, what I'd have given to hear Tress MacNeille, Clancy Brown, J.K. Simmons, and the other regular suspects all talking eagerly about HUGE TANUKI NUTS.

my opinion on steven universe had been "it was really rocky & uneven but they stuck the landing with the last season, movie & epilogue". having fully rewatched it as of last night, not only is it way less rocky than i thought but the stuff i thought was good is even better. steven universe future is a fucking gut punch and i relate very deeply to it and i'm glad they not only told that story but had the confidence to put steven, their protagonist, through that as a character. it's ugly and raw and real. i have also been through that "everyone is leaving me behind and i've got to lock down anything i can" wringer. i've been the person who can't stop self-sacrificing because i don't know who i am otherwise.

also, just. god "mr. universe" is a heartbreaking episode.

i've mentioned this but i think steven universe was a victim of both its toxic fandom and the insane airing schedule. when you watch it now, free of both problems, it really really holds up. if you are like me and my friends and didn't follow through with steven universe or remember it not-so-fondly, i strongly suggest checking it out again. i'm really glad i was able to re-evaluate this show and see it for what it is, and not for what fans wanted it to be. i think sooner or later a lot of people are going to start waking up and realizing steven universe whipped ass all along whether they're taking my word for it or not.

and in the last stevonnie episode, they finally put on shoes!

to this day saying the words "Steven Universe was good actually" makes me feel like someone's going to read them and finally order the sniper outside my window to take the shot but i do think it's time for SU's cultural redemption as people who were put off by the horrible airing schedule and all the Yelling Online and bailed like i did come back around to it, or the (mostly) kids who were doing a lot of the yelling enter their prime Nostalgia Years for it and reapproach it with more mature viewpoints.

the show does not deserve to have a legacy as The Discourse Cartoon and instead we should all be hauving covid for Pearl like normal, civilized humans

and also one day jasper will learn to use a door and then she'll be perfect

penne is the worst pasta

it just sucks ass at everything fusili whips at