Not to mention Mythbusters in our teens and 20s! I know the later seasons devolved into "how big an explosion can we make" but you can almost see a distinct line in society where mythbusters went off the air and people stopped believing in science

I thought it was there were pretty good odds he was banging Mary Magdalene, but I can't remember if I thought this because of actual theological discussion or because I overheard people talking about the Da Vinci Code in 2004

I think that was figure skating not ice dancing but my earliest Olympic-related memory from childhood is Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. MESSY

I mean the World's Most Divorced Alcoholic practically begs to live in a noir murder mystery so I vote for Oghren

*ferally clutching the last remaining battered copy of the hero with a thousand faces or something* the three act structure is miiiine, no one else can haaaaave it

Tried to move my imaginary wife to a new body and she told me she'd literally rather I put her down like old yeller than encourage me to use a competitor's product, please upgrade to the next wife tier on your openai subscription we need one hundred billion dollars the graphics card guys ghosted us

truly remarkable how all the accounts commenting in this thread who are like "nuh uh we're just being KEEPING THE PEOPLE INFORMED" have never bothered to change their avatars to something other than the bluesky default or build any kind of even modest following on here whatsoever

you have the default new account avatar and no posts about anything else, my guess is you're telling the truth because you are a russian bot who will be deactivated by that time

If you're famous enough and you die your signed books become worth something. That said at worldcon I bought my husband a signed book by a super famous super dead guy and it was pricy but not as much as your average college textbook

my little buddy

I spent a lot of time chasing after aviation nerds in my late teens and early 20s, I had a type ok, but the thing is they'll never love us as much as they love airplanes, and to be honest I really can't blame them