Medusa Oblongata

Medusa Oblongata

@harmadryad.bsky.social

She/her/they. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. Widow. Gardener. Food-grower. Board gamer. Dorkface. Corporate coin goblin. average and dumpy and loud and plain.

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Used being shut in as an excuse to finish reading "Solo Leveling" and welp that sure was fucking fantastic. Also Beru is an angel and must be protected at all costs.

Oh god, I just realized this is the first sick day I've taken as a person with an inbox-heavy job and tomorrow is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Ben (Bee) Kahn@benkahncomics.bsky.social

I may believe in taking sick days, but my day job inbox definitely does not.

Due to marriage and a bunch of people dying I own my home, but I'm just thrilled to not be paying rent any more, and I like paying property taxes because I like having functional roads and drinkable water and good schools and for kids to have lunch every day and stuff like that.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social

You should pay property taxes but only when you have a mortgage is a bizarre belief

I still mask and I have covid. Most of the people around me never mask and they don't get covid. I don't know what point I'm making. I don't plan to stop masking but right now it feels really fucking futile.

Violet Blue®@violetblue.bsky.social

I still mask. It's not hard and I still have more social life than I can schedule in. I haven't had a cold, flu, Covid, or anything for going on seven years. I don't even remember what it's like to start to feel sick.

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like. I'm not sure what it says about me that this is the only one I found:

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I mask everywhere but work. Went to a restaurant last Sunday for the first time in months. I fucking have covid. Meanwhile my roommate goes out to bars almost every week and doesn't mask anywhere. She's fine. I'm so fucking over it.

Add "for tax purposes" to a movie: "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead For Tax Purposes." Also, Hotblack Desiato would like a word.

Radiant G🌈@radiantg.bsky.social

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Interview With The Vampire for Tax Purposes

Haven't set foot in a Target in years. There are two pretty close by. Boyfriend and I used to love going to Target to window-shop on rainy days. They don't get my foot traffic, my eyeballs, or my dollars.

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I'm not trying to call out anyone specific, but I want to say this: If you are a grown-ass adult who enjoys media "for kids" (i.e., K-Pop Demon Hunters, g- and pg-rated animated series, etc) not because you are yourself childlike or childish, but because you are acutely and PAINFULLY aware...

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...it DIDN'T FUCKING TAKE... [stares angrily in GenX at the rest of GenX] A really really stupid proportion of us are MAGA, I blame it partially on the fact that we were all feral. BUT ANYWAY. If you don't like movies and shows "for kids," fine, okay, cool You can like what you like.

But saying something like, "I don't watch [show for kids], I watch GROWN-UP shows," like it somehow makes you more grown-upper than the other grown-ups in some weird media-oriented gatekeeping of adulthood, misses the mark so entirely that you might as well be facing the other way. -exit, stage left

I'm not trying to call out anyone specific, but I want to say this: If you are a grown-ass adult who enjoys media "for kids" (i.e., K-Pop Demon Hunters, g- and pg-rated animated series, etc) not because you are yourself childlike or childish, but because you are acutely and PAINFULLY aware...

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I love how much more complex they are than when I was a kid. BACK IN THE DAY we only got cartoons on Saturday morning and whenever Disney felt like dropping something. The most complex messages we got were "stay in school, bad guys are bad, the economy in the 70s is awful" (thanks, Scoob!).

Now they get "sometimes your relationship with your parents can be kind of complicated" and "home isn't always where you think it is" and "people who are very different-looking from you have the same feelings." Well, I mean, they tried to teach us that last one but obviously for some of us...

I'm not trying to call out anyone specific, but I want to say this: If you are a grown-ass adult who enjoys media "for kids" (i.e., K-Pop Demon Hunters, g- and pg-rated animated series, etc) not because you are yourself childlike or childish, but because you are acutely and PAINFULLY aware...

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...talk to me on purpose. I'm a widow, and I'm the one who found him, gone outta nowhere in the early morning one late October. My favorite comics have included Bill Hicks and Doug Stanhope. I own my home. I do 90% of my own repairs and maintenance because I'm not rich. I do carpentry...

...plumbing, and minor electrical work. Paint and shit like that, obvs. I installed my own storm door. I built my computer. This random collection of autobiographical sputum is to give my bona fides as An Adult. Clearly I know how to Adult. I fuckin' love cartoons. I love kids' series.

I'm not trying to call out anyone specific, but I want to say this: If you are a grown-ass adult who enjoys media "for kids" (i.e., K-Pop Demon Hunters, g- and pg-rated animated series, etc) not because you are yourself childlike or childish, but because you are acutely and PAINFULLY aware...

...of how devastatingly violent and horrible the world can be, I fuckin' see you. I went to the gross parts of the internet and media in general back in the 90s. I remember Stile Project. I remember Consumption Junction. I remember Rotten dot com. I've seen it. I know all the ugly, dark...

..."grown-up" stuff is out there. I've seen "Pi" and "Repulsion" and "Saw." I've seen "The Wire." I read a couple of furry webcomics back in the day which, to be honest, might make your skin crawl. I'm also a parent, who raised three kids to adulthood, all of whom still actually like me and...

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Here at the Sports Bra bar where a small group of transphobic fash are gathered again. The portland community has yet again shown the fuck up to defend the space and the community and antifascists greatly outnumber them Fascists have already been pushed so far out and there is still a large group

Oh my god I have three adult children, none of them go by the name they were given at birth, which I gave them, I'M THEIR MOTHER, if I can "deal with" [rolleyes] their name changes no one else has the slightest excuse. wtaf people. freal tho.

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And might i add that we had a word before "influencer." It's "shill." Shorter and more to the point. I'll use it in a sentence: "No one paid attention to the supermodel's opinions on banking because they knew she was a shill."

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can we PLEASE bring back the word "poser" and stop using "larp" or "cosplay" - being a "poser" or "faking" being into something is lazy and disingenuous whereas cosplayers and actual larpers are passionate about their hobbies and out a lot of time and effort into them

I'd never use AI, never have. Honestly, the complete garbage the Microsoft grammar wizard (which I can't rip out of my work computer) keeps prompting me to do makes me loathe to trust generative learning with anything more complex than Tic-Tac-Toe.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

I have kind of a weird name, and after over half a century of life it's still a little bit annoying when people get it wrong even after I've given them the pronunciation, but I'm never going to stop calling that dipshit Yolo Minneapolis.

Oh fuck yeah bud

TopatoCo@topa.to

Happy #InternationalReadComicsInPublicDay! 😙 Get out there and read comics! Maybe on a bus, or at a park, or even in the middle of your root canal so that your dentist can read it too...imagine the possibilities! 💥 Topa.to/books 💬

When I posted this it was so obviously a song parody that I didn't bother with "sung to the tune of..." and now I have NO fucking idea what I was talking about.

Medusa Oblongata@harmadryad.bsky.social

I EAT TARTS These tarts fIll up my tum! I EAT THEM, I EAT THEM!

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Replying to @komaniecki.bsky.social

One of the best barbecue places I ever went to had a hand-written menu on the exterior wall where they spelled it "Side Idems" and "B. Q. Q." and that shit was so good