the worst thing about modern green lantern lore aside from the military psyop nonsense is the fact that people have convinced themselves hal is supposed to be played by the allegedly hunkiest military adjacent white man alive when he is canonically literally a loser. he is a horse girl for planes he has no job 90% of the time he doesn’t know how to keep a relationship bc he has no personal stability he has to pay his way through meals by asking the boss he’s hopelessly in love with and his two sugar daddies to do it. this is the world’s biggest meow meow given the universe’s most dangerous weapon so he can be consumed by it until the point he’s willing to fling himself into the sun he should look like that meme of bugs bunny sitting on the edge of his bed looking like he regrets being born
The other worst thing is people being convinced John Stewart is a military hunk who is the stoic straight man of the group and can’t awknowledge any feeling other than anger or manly straight love, when he’s actually the weirdest nerd you’ve ever met. John can quote paragraphs from 37 different books about philosophy. He sees Hal walking straight into a glass door and try to play it off as intentional and goes “wow. he’s so cool… I hope I can be just as cool as him one day…” John watches the sunrise in space every day because it’s so pretty and he cries every time. He stares down at the Earth without moving for five hours, doing an entire philosophical speech that no one hears. You hire John to design you a house and before he shows you the plans he spends 65 minutes telling you about how much beauty and symbolism he put in there and when you look at it, it’s the ugliest house you’ve ever seen and quite honestly, it might be a hazard.
Do you not like hell? Do you want to leave and crawl back up into the sunlight of the old UI? Well, have I got a link for you! A beautiful tumblr user has gone and fixed things beautifully for you already: https://github.com/enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker
You will need you have Tampermonkey installed on your browser of choice, and once that’s done, just go to the github link above, and peruse the readme to install. And voila! You have your old dash back!
The authors of XKit Rewritten said during the experiments that at the time, since this was an “experiment” they weren’t going to implement anything to revert to the old UI (although who knows if they’ll do it now). And the dashboard unfucker has worked beautifully enough for me to where I genuinely couldn’t tell if they had ended the experiment or not.
Thank you SO much for this, I missed having the old layout back <3
hyperfixation sucks I think just a little too hard about a guy who isn’t even real and I could start crying any second
like, you’re telling me I’m just supposed to go to work tomorrow with the complete knowledge of all the things all the horrors these guys have gone through
The last place where I would have thought to find a study in kindness is Dracula
But Mina is kind and Jonathan is kind and Mr. Swales is kind and Sister Agatha is kind and the people of Bistritz are kind and the Captain of the Demeter is kind and Count Dracula is monstrous because he is a bully who loves to fuck with people and Lucy is kind and Quincey is kind and the people on the train from Klausenberg took Jonathan too, even though he was in a state!
It is Human Kindness vs Monstrous Villainy, this book.
You know what, fuck it, I don’t *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you’re lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that’s designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like “ker-chunk!” when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don’t want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic “upgrade” every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!
