Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

I still do it, though usually in the form of binge-rewatching shows, because that’s easier on my painfully short attention span.

There are a few specific episodes of things I’ve rewatched over and over, though, if that counts. Namely, I genuinely can’t count how many times I’ve watched Last One Out Of Beach City, but it’s gotta be in the triple digits. That’s not even an exaggeration.

 

I tend to watch movies i like get on dvd or something somewhere around five times directly back to back? and then inevitably drop it until i feel like watching it again maybe. It's a weird habit I've had since I was little, drove mom nuts.

 

me: bluh im stressed, theres so much to do for this move and im in so much ouch and exhaustion

my gremlin brain out of the fucking blue: what if jack skellington was trans and the whole pumpkin king schtick was originally just him gleefully asserting his masculinity in the most commanding way possible to make a new brand/icon for himself.

 

see also: genderqueer jack for the "no animal nor man can scream like i can"

see also x2: intersex sally

 

I absolutely do the music thing too, and to a much greater degree than with videos. Like, I once listened to a song over a thousand times (yes, seriously) in the month after it was released, although that’s extreme even for me.

(Also FUCK YEAH SHUFFLEABLE PLAYLISTS. I have an unthemed playlist of Tasty Jams that I listen to a lot, although that one’s 400+ songs so the context is way different. :P)

 

omg NASA is sending a flying drone to Titan!!!
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/nasa-will-be-sending-a-quadcopter-called-dragonfly-to-titan

i have been mildly obsessed with Titan since i first learned about the Huygens probe, and i have been really hoping for some more exploration of the surface ever since. and this is just so cool! it's going to be able to land, take measurements, then fly to the next site! :O the downside is, of course, that it takes a long time to build probes and a long time to fly to Saturn, so it will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. still! a robot that flies around Titan!!! fucking radical!!!!

 

H O L Y S H I T

 

I can't be the first person to have the mental image of Zim demanding Dib draw him extremely tepid PORNOGRAPHY, can I?

 

Happy Hamilton day!

 

Spoiler: Bee on a flower

 

What kind of bee is that? It looks so soff,,,

 

Don't you always just want to pet the fluffy bees? Too bad the bees wouldn't appreciate it. (Mental note for future fantasy species; bees the size of guinea pigs which can take a petting.)

 

Probably some bumblebee spp. Usually the stocky, furry bees are bumblebees. Would probably need more info on the general location to try to more definitely/accurately identify it, there are lots of bumblebee species out there that look pretty similar

 

I used to pet bumblebees, they're soft. where i used to work had several huge lavender bushes that were absolute bee magnets when they were in bloom, and the bees were more interested in flowers than me. the most they would do is fly to another flower or raise their middle set of legs in warning when i gently touched them.