I finally get a message. A really nice one, and it disappeared!
“So, i’m rewatching season one of gilmore girls and every time i see jared I think about what you called him, ‘sam undercover’, and it fills me with amazing supernatural/gilmore girls feels!! thank you! I love your blog!”
Well, thanks anon! I appreciate it. Though I think I saw the undercover Sam thing somewhere else, but it seemed really appropriate! Also, I’m glad you love my blog, I do, too. That’s why I keep posting stuff (mostly dumb stuff)!
By not trying to [top it]. By being smaller. More personal, more painful. By being the next thing that should happen to these characters, and not just a rehash of what seemed to work the first time. By having a theme that is completely fresh and organic to itself. I want to know what makes them tick, what makes them flawed, what makes them fight — and ultimately, what makes them awesome. I go to these movies for those moments when the heroes define themselves, either through action or deliciously overwritten speeches.
Joss Whedon on what he would do if he were to direct the sequel to The Avengers
SOMEONE SUBMITTED A QUESTION, RATHER THAN ASKING IT:
So does being atheist really make you happy? Just curious. Are you a ‘live soley for the moment’ type of person? Do you live for science? Yourself? What motivates you to be a good person? (according to psychology, no act of the will, ie a moral act, can be without reason or motivation. such an act would be unreasonable and impossible. so you can’t say you have no motivation)
I am a good person because i want to be. I am a good person because when I do things like help people, or care for people, the positivity is returned to me through making friends, or me feeling good because I helped someone have a better day.. a better life. I don’t do bad things like kill people, hurt people or steal things, because I know by doing these things, I am causing hardships in the lives of those around me (not to mention the negative outcomes, like my imprisonment). Being a good person doesn’t need to stem from a higher being. It can certainly stem from caring about others. And to go further, this is an evolutionary trait.. If our race just simply did not caring for those around us, so many people who need help would not receive it. Lives would be lost, potential for on-going reproduction would then suffer.
So, in the wake of reading this terrifying shit, Postcard and I started chatting, as you do, about the zombie apocalypse. Here are some things Postcard and I enjoy: zombie media, common sense, and YELLING ABOUT STUFF. Thus, for your reading pleasure, please enjoy our simple twenty-step guide to NOT DYING in the unlikely event that a zombie apocalypse ravages humanity:
IN THE EVENT OF AN ACTUAL APOCALYPTIC SITUATION, ASSUME THAT THE FOLLOWING THINGS ARE GOING TO STOP WORKING: running water (this includes toilets); anything that relies on electricity (this includes gas pumps); anything that relies on natural gas lines (this includes gas stoves/central heat); basically, anything that relies on there being a factory of some variety at the other end of thing you want to make do stuff. THAT’S ALL GONNA BREAK. THIS INCLUDES THE INTERNET. Thus, the most important thing to do in the event of a zombie apocalypse is:
RESEARCH. For as long as you possess the internet, do everything you can to learn as much as possible. Research edible/medicinal plants (or seriously, go into a bookstore and loot your shit a guidebook, they’re not large, they sell little tiny ones, you can put it in your pocket, WHY DOES EVERYONE IN EVERY ZOMBIE MOVIE NOT DO THIS). Research, from available information, how the zombies work/which of their senses are functional—for example, if they operate largely by smell, you want to work on smelling not alive. If they operate largely by sight, DON’T LIGHT FIRES AT NIGHT. And speaking of fires…
