Sleepaway Champ

@sleepawaychamp.bsky.social

Rapidly-decaying desert goth from New Mexico. Writing. Media. Immersive fiction. Union goon. Ascended Meow Wolfer. Collaborator for the news collective @505omatic.bsky.social. Plz give me a job.

“what if people were nice,” isn’t a premise, my friend. a premise would be “what if people were nice BUT…” and that was a movie called “Pleasantville” and that one Treehouse of Horror where Flanders becomes a dictator

Ted Lasso returning means I am once again bemused by the fact that some people see a show with the premise "what if a man was decent" and react like vampires before a cross.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Every take since the Odyssey has been people wishing their favorite director would adapt Gilgamesh. This is low-hanging fruit. And nothing compared to the 14th century military tour de force that is, “The Knight who Could Make Pussies and Assholes Talk.”

If you gripe about unhoused people, the solution will look like flock cameras! If you bitch about how people drive or their loud engines, the solution will look like flock cameras! Teens? Flock cameras. Loud music? Flock cameras. So: take a deep breath and stop being an irritable little prick.

People point out movie tropes for the same reasons they point out argument fallacies, oxford commas and the fact that they're called "cartridges" and not "bullets:" because it's the only specialized field of knowledge they have and they want a gold star for it.