remember, it’s imperative to turn your aesthetic preferences into moral ones. you can’t just dislike neutral colors, or glass-and-steel skyscrapers, or flat design, they have to be symbols of neoliberal capitalism in decay. it’s incredibly important that you make sure everybody knows that the only reason anyone could like the things you don’t like is that they’re an empty shell of a person.
When I think about American attitudes to parenting there’s something that always comes to mind, but I don’t know whether it’s a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I’ve heard child characters addressing their dads as “sir” or being told off for not doing so.
Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?
There’s still time to increase the sample size!
it’s always why the fuck are you making a periodic table blanket and never how was the periodic cloak did you have fun wearing the periodic cloak
His url used to be just “jim”
Sorry, boss, but we can’t get this thing running til tomorrow. Tony was the only one who had the timings memorized and he just got isekai’d. Yeah he’s on like a quest or somethin right now. Took my fucking alen wrenches with him, too.
Switch to another screen that’s just a very confused dad in a hard hat w/ the title “I was a MILLWRIGHT until I fell in a PORTAL and now I’m a KNIGHT and three princesses are in love with me??!?!”
Ok, but I love the idea that the crew back home all KNOW he got isekai’d. Like, he can still call the folks on his crew back home through like, his accidentally purloined wrenches and he calls them for advice while trying to cope with demons or whatever. Like his buddy Kelly gives him advice on how to let the princesses down gently. John has a bunch of kids and gives him diplomacy advice because he’s so used to intervening in his kids bickering. Leo is trying to pretend none of this is happening, till they’re all gathered around biting their nails when they get just an audio feed while he’s fighting a dragon.
Eventually the Ultimate Evil is contained in a really well made cabinet that Tony can be proud of.
Give me Tony the isekai’d millworker with backup crew and magical wrenches I want this now.
This is a writing prompt now. I surrender it unto the collective.
showed this post to my wife and that’s how I found out there is an actualfacts honest to god anime with this basic premise out this season called “Handyman Saitou In Another World.”