Me trying to explain to my therapist why everything is going to shit.

Chilling in bed (alone) reading a book/the internet.

That’s nearly all my favourite things in one activity, I’m lucky I’m such a low maintenance person.

This is how I figured out I was Aro/Ace.

Won’t be long till tomato sandwich season now either. I go feral over those too but it doesn’t make as good a meme because colour theory.

Yes.

I’d wait till the weather is properly hot before trying one for the first time though, they’re tropical fruits and need that heat to ripen fully and be properly flavourful. Cold, hard mango isn’t anywhere near as good.

I can’t be so rare in not wanting to talk to people about my fixations, surely?

It’s far more enjoyable to go off on my own and do the thing, than it ever has been attempting to explain it to people.

She-Ra is my main comfort cartoon these days, but previous shows on rotation (that don’t often get mentioned on threads like these) have included:

Axe Cop

Bee And PuppyCat

Dogs In Space

Scavengers Reign

Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts

Major Lazer

Appreciated, lmao. I should have really checked the one I grabbed with the screen brightness up and red light filter off before I posted it.

Disgusting and unfunny is very on brand for him.

Crying in Ehlers-Danlos. I was too bendy for my own good, and now I’m none bendy, left pain. All that is left is pain.

Ok, so I’m about twenty minutes in so far and I do appreciate all the little Trek tropes and nods, but I’m not finding it particularly funny yet and I dislike the main guy (holy shit, I’ve just realised that’s what Seth MacFarlane looks like), his vibes are bad and the whole ex-wife cheating thing is tiring as character motivation for them both.

The best friend pilot guy seems like a dick too, that stunt he pulled swerving the shuttle about while approaching the Orville is going to be hard to redeem himself from.

Also captain and his ex-wife look like siblings, they practically have the same face with gendered variations to their features. Very weird watching them talk side by side.

Really nice to see Brian George! I wish he had time to say banana again before it all kicked off.

Nobody thought to put a safety guard on the banana aging ray? Or to pull Janice out of the banana ager ray before she got olded to death? This is not only poor lab safety but a terrible work environment, there should at least have been a safety stick near by to push things out of the ray.

Those Krill landing ships are sexy af, all pointy and sleek. The Orvilles landing pod looks like an orthopedic nurses shoe in comparison.

I will admit though, I do like how curvy the main Orville up in space is, those Trekky slow shots pulling up to it earlier in the ep were very cool too and I liked that obviously shot in miniature shot of them disengaging from the space station.

Trying to remember which aliens the Krill face and armour designs are reminding me of, they’re so very familiar.

Lmao I think it just hit me with the “Give me the device.” Krill who snuck onto their landing pod. They look Scarren! All this chap needs is a bit of face bondage and a better accent and he’s practically Scorpious.

That’s a great Micheal Dorn impression the ungendered annual pee alien on the helm keeps doing, I do hope this character gets more development though.

The framing thing would have been funnier if I liked the capitan more as a character but he and ex-wife involving the Scarren/Krill negotiator in their marriage problems was actually quite funny. They really do look like siblings though, ugh.

These Union guys sure do kill a lot of people. Those phasers earlier were definitely not set to stun and that time traveling tree bomb utterly massacred that Scarren vessel.

Ugh, the complete lack of chemistry between the captain and his ex-wife is grating. The implications they’re going to get back together, with those lingering shots of their faces while they talk, is annoying. She is so much more competent than him and is for some reason benevolently propping up his career, and yet we as an audience are seemingly supposed to be rooting for the pitiful captain who gets off on humiliating his ex wife in front of his coworkers? And she chose to stay?

The music for this show is hilarious and I appreciate how on the nose they made it.

All in all, this isn’t actually bad for a first episode of a Trek show. 90’s Trek is just as, if not more, annoying in many similar ways. Just as good though too.

I’m going to keep watching and come back next week to rewatch and leave a few words about episode 2.

I’ve been meaning to get in on this show for years, seeing this post is great timing!

If you want to try something similar but imo better, pickles dipped in hummus are beyond delicious.

Add some rice noodles, green onion and chilli oil, and this is basically what I ate for dinner yesterday.

Batter and breadcrumb your slice of congealed noodles, and pan fry it.

(If you want to make yet another food culture twitch, you can call this a kugel.)

It takes time and effort to reach critical mass for this sort of thing, especially for a niche community like this. Thank you (and erota!) for putting in the time and effort!

I’d put money on being more proficient with chopsticks than you.

Is there a show with a blue cat girl? Who are these guys?

Wooden chopsticks. Metal is too loud to eat with, plus I’m clumsy enough to end up biting the fork and hurting my teeth.

I do like playing with forks though! Some heavier and more angular shapes, like 2, tend to have a really nice balance to them and are satisfying to twirl in my fingers while I’m working on something.

If I had more in my phone I would be sharing them. If I find any new ones that aren’t already here, I will though!