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Umbrella Academy was directly inspired by Doom Patrol. The original comic was created because the writer wanted to write Doom Patrol but couldn’t get DC to sign onto his pitch, so he just made up his own universe to play in.

I enjoyed the first season and some of the second, but it really didn’t need to run for twenty years.

I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.

suffer loveless relationships

Sex is not the sole expression of love that a person can give to their partner.

Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past… even the grimy parts of it… keep on getting brighter.

I’m wondering why I even need a smartphone at this point. I’m tempted to go back to a flip phone.

Who keeps greenlighting this guy? He had a couple of good seasons of Doctor Who, maybe one and a half of Sherlock, but it’s otherwise all been pretty insufferable.

tells the true story of a downed airman in occupied France and how he got involved with the French Resistance

My grandfather went through this exact circumstance. The French Resistance helped him get to a secret camp full of British and American soldiers, and they spent most of the war hiding in the countryside and digging little holes so they could play mini-golf with hand-carved clubs.

This reminds me of a Joey Comeau story I saw published fifteen or twenty years ago. The narrator’s wife had died, so he programed a computer to read her old journal entries aloud in her voice, at random throughout the day.

It was profoundly depressing and meant to be fiction, but I guess every day we’re making manifest the worst parts of our collective imagination.

I’ve literally had my home broken into and stuff stolen from it. It was the one time in my life that I ever called the police. They trampled through my place, made a mess and broke more things, and then decided I was reporting a suspicious amount of electronics and accused me of trying to do some kind of insurance fraud.

Fuck cops.

I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.

So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.

“I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved.”

“This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you’re not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!”