It's been a couple of weeks since I watched The Perfect Game, but I'm still reeling from the fact that one of the best Catholic priest portrayals I've ever seen onscreen was played by Cheech Marin.
Can't wrap my head around it. Actual Cheech (of 'and Chong' fame) playing a kindly, lovable, devout Catholic priest who serves as mentor and friend and role model to this team of baseball-playing boys who take their faith seriously. He blesses the boys before every game. Teaches them doctrine while still encouraging their love of baseball. The faith is just part of their very human lives. I didn't think we could see it on-screen and especially never would have expected that casting.
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yo barbies do have absolutely inhuman proportions and theyve given ken a truckload of cake. just an observation after play acting a barbie affair to a toddler and trying to reiterate the points her mom was trying to make every time she was upset through Ken, who had to be the voice of reason the way Barbie and Barnie kept hitting & yeling at him bc he had a baby with Barnie and their baby can magically fly and is causing a whole lot of problems and infected Dr. Mouse with her magical flying ability but neither of them are good at it and they keep sustaining what should be fatal injuries by jumping off of rooves and i got nowhere in probing about why Baby and Dr. Mouse want to hurt themselves and won’t just rest it off like Dr. Mouse said before she got magic infection and like Dr. Unicorn said before that before he died (permanently i guess she never brought him back lol) because this little girl had more insistence toward playing barbies for “just a little longer” than i have ever had toward ANYTHING…
(like. 2 hours of barbies prior to driving her around and hoping she’d sleep then bringing her to a playground trying to tire her out then the long way home to see if she’d pass out then for like 3 hours but ALAS she wanted to play barbies again within the hour and we continued on and off for 5. hours. i was three feet from the dolls to take my meds and a drink of water and she was like “ken…?” and i was like “one second honey ken is distracted by the movie but i’ll come back over in just a minute i just need to do something real quick” and she was just like “no! no!” and intensely cried for the 30 seconds it took me to swallow 👁👄👁)
((maybe i was also bossy af at her age, suppose maybe i wouldnt remember being tantrum prone toddler lmao… everything i remember i feel like i was pretty meek but i probs cried a lot. idk if i WAILED tho. my mom describes me as “perfect (in terms of childhood behavior) until puberty”. whereas my brother was a monster until about 3 or 4 and she isnt afraid to say so… either way no judgement unto the toddler, i probably started internalizing my feelings way too young for that to be healthy. tangent. my b.))
anyways point being: why are barbie’s legs still so fucking long??? her torso is more normal these days than 20 years ago but ye gods, the woman has still gotta be 7ft tall… and why can’t we out barbie in flats? literally why does she still have deformed ballerina feet? little girls don’t wear heels. little girls shouldn’t wear heels? not like that? because adult fucking women shouldn’t? (thankfully my psuedoneice wants everyone but ken naked ?)
SECOND POINT BEING: MOMFEMS, SINGLE MOMS, MOTHERS IN GENERAL… i have the utmost fucking respect for you. mothers do more for the world than ANY man, EVERY government & law system, fuck, even all the goddamn charities and every single scientific discovery presently known or yet to be found out. and it is NOT EASY WORK!! it is often THANKLESS WORK. it is always UNPAID WORK. mad fucking respect to moms. i could never.
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tomorrow, i have an appointment and then afterward my therapy appointment, which is going to be around the time where the snow starts. where i live has historically been really lucky when it comes to weather, but over time i have discovered a severe fear of bad weather/power outages/large storms. my sister is home with me thankfully and i have a lot of books but i am really scared still. especially because the appointment is running so close like i can do tele-health call but with my whole family home that is risky.
anyway. i need to go to bed so the plan is to. blockade all my doors again, lock the ones with external locks (can’t lock my bathroom door shut :/) and just. really really hope we have no outages for longer than like, a day.
goodnight everyone, i hope the weather where you are is okay and you all stay safe and warm <3
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tfw you find a playlist of stupid in concept but ridiculously too funny for their own good Gravity Falls videos that you wanna share with a friend but you find out that the very last video in the playlist makes a few icky jokes that taint the whole thing so sharing it would feel wrong... such a fun experience...
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So I got this one coworker and I ask him if he's doing anything illegal this week, and he says "Yo mama"
And I snap straight to laughing because dude, it's mother's day and my mother is dead and not only do you crack a yo mama joke, you crack a combo yo mama+doing your mom joke
And he starts laughing because he thought it was kinda awkward not to and then I explain to him the layers and I can clearly say I've never seen a man apologize while laughing that hard before
But later he really did come up to me and apologize for real, but he looked like one of those little schoolboys forced by a parent to apologize and mean it and I kept laughing and
That was a day lol
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Today I was talking with my mom about why seeing an alligator is fundamental to my mental health. At first she laughed but I got her to listen and she gets it now. My psychiatrist and I call this the alligator litmus test, and it works really well for making decisions about my treatment. I bring this up because perhaps there is something in your life that you can use in a similar fashion.
I have severe major depressive disorder, and I treat this depression with medication. I've been on meds for about... seven years now, and sometimes we have to mess with them. But sometimes the emotional part of the depression is just super bad and there's something underneath that needs to be addressed. When we are figuring this out, my psychiatrist says to take one alligator and call her in the morning.
See, no matter how bad I'm feeling, seeing an alligator almost always cheers me up in the moment. (This works with other large crocodilians, too- they gotta be big, it doesn't work with caimans. I don't know why.) I can't look at their goofy toofers and beautiful eyes and bumpy hides and not be a little wowed by them. Millions of years of evolution have led to this amazing creature and they are completely unbothered by me. Almost all of the time, they make me feel happy. Or maybe I'll feel sad for some unspecified reason. Maybe I'll get worried about the ecosystem or something- but invariably, I will FEEL.
Unless, of course, it's my brain chemistry. If I can experience an alligator and not feel anything- not happy, not sad, just numb- there's something wrong and we should talk about adjusting my meds. Usually with a little tweaking I'm back to my very functional medicated baseline in quick order- instead of wasting time with coping skills and such alone when what I really need is brain chemicals, it's a much quicker way to communicate what's going on with me. At the same time, it also helps me know when the coping skills ARE likely to work without changing up my meds, or when there's something I need to work through with some help.
It's a pretty solid test. Might not work for anyone else on the planet, but it works great for me!
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thinking about that straight couple from college i mention sparingly
y'all don't know this, i don't think i ever gave details beyond "i hate their pda". but i think the girl is influencing the guy in key ways
like. he had a mullet. then one day? short hair. like nick from heartstopper level short (don't make me come up with another guy with short hair rn). and he also used to dress comfy but now he wears these. just.
i often judge men's fits and women's fits because i'm bisexual and bored and horny. right. and with the men the default is "wow innovating with the t shirt and pants"
that guy started innovating by wearing the UGLIEST ARTICLE OF CLOTHING I HAVE EVER SEEN. it's not even fun ugly it's like this bizarre bright orange jersey or smth. i just roast him by thinking he's coming out of the high school musical set that had a one dollar budget
and ever since they started dating he talks way more sparingly to his friend, i notice it because his friend's an alright guy, one of the few in that hell. i just. it's way more annoying to hate a couple when you feel like they legitimately maybe should break up. beyond just "public pda is annoying if it's making out in front of me" and "i'm bitter as fuck about being single"
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