The Diner, Library, or Forest.

I think I'd pick Forest just to have a place to think without having to worry about losing time. Like if I really need to be alone and have restful sleep and delicious food, I can't beat that.

If I'm having a bad day or just want more sleep, I can find some fruit, read a book and return when I'm ready.

The Diner is cool because good food again and just meeting people. It would be cool to just watch the day go by while enjoying free food in a secluded booth. Or I sit at the counter and chat with people.

I like knowing things and the library seems cool. I just wish I had infinite time to enjoy it. I would procrastinate returning so hard if I find a good book.

Final decision - Forest.

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Ooof. I was a young lib at that point. I remember voicing my annoyance with Obama failing to get same sex marriage legalized when that was one of his promises. I thought Obama was bad, but I still believed in The Process

Jesus fucking Christ

I've never watched or listened to anything from Cumtown.

I just meant if I was in the jungle, I wouldn't want a tick on my leg or whatever.

That explains so much

I notice a gradual blurring of the line between fiction and reality.

Characters are no longer just a set of traits that can be adapted and updated to keep with the times. They're treated like real people, but in a fixed state with a right or wrong canon.

One of the earliest examples I can think of is Optimus Prime. A lot of lonely kids saw him as a father figure in the 80s and now it's hard to tell stories with him that break away from that image.

The recent Transformers canon describes the robots as genderless, using terms and knowledge that wasn't widely shared forty years ago. It's jarring to particularly reactionary fans who don't want to think of their projected father figure as anything but male.

I bring this up because the idea of canon can be really dangerous in the hands of a soulless corporation. This soulless corporation is selling canon to the highest bidder. Companies do it regularly, but with extra steps involved.

IP laws and the commodification of canon sets a bad precedent for art.

Maybe I'm not being clear, but I'm pointing to the explicit ethnocentrism in the West (Europe and the US) that redefined beauty standards to exclude BIPOC people.

I'm not saying beauty standards or hygiene are Western intentions. I'm saying that in the West, people in power pathologized humanity because their system had an easy way to determine who is and isn't professional, valid, human.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but the white supremacy delusion is rooted in the West's part in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the West exported those beauty standards to other parts of the world.

I'm not mad at you, but I am frustrated that I'm not communicating my point clearly.

Dragon Ball Babies!

The franchises we have will never be allowed to die. I wish more people found that disturbing.

I've been working with a therapist on making the life I want for myself. It's been really nice because now I have some goals I can work towards.

They were usually too big to process and work towards and now I have clear steps I can identify and keep in mind.

And one of those goals is just to spend two hours once a week doing nothing at all. Don't have to nap or answer texts, or do anything I can call productive.

So I've been returning to the habit of daydreaming and seeing where my mind takes me. Or napping if I feel tired. But just doing something for myself without a profit motive.

The movie Matilda was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I rewatched from start to finish without using my phone, playing a game, or doing chores. I just gave it all my attention and enjoyed the movie for me.

I loved it!

I've always wanted one of my comments to become a tagline, but I don't want to get banned in the attempt.