astronomy club sent up a weather balloon w a gopro in it last friday. put in three packs of fruit snacks so they could have a giggle over eating fruit snacks that had been to space.
balloon went up into inner space, about 90,000 feet. came down right near the dinosaur park. a few physics teachers drive out to get it, crack it open on the way home to start watching the footage.
fruit snacks are missing.
multiple sources confirm that fruit snacks were put in balloon and sealed in with duct tape. physics teachers check entire balloon. no fruit snacks.
physics teachers watch footage. all 7 hours of it. right in the middle of footage, there are about 8 minutes of visual and audio static when balloon is in orbit. no other interference with balloon recorded.
Everybody keeps saying “Amethyst will be better if she just trains!” and “She’ll never be as good as Jasper, but if she just trains!”
Buddy. Guy. The whole point of “Steven Vs. Amethyst” is that, even with training, there’s only so much Amethyst can really be. Only so strong she can grow physically.
That shouldn’t be considered something embarrassing, or wrong. It shouldn’t be considered hateful to point that out.
I’m proud of Steven for matching up with Amethyst. I’m proud of Amethyst for not being angry at him, but herself, and for trying her damndest even as she was struggling emotionally.
She loves Steven. Steven loves her. The gems love her. But she’s still defective; she’s still going to live and work differently from regular gems. If she didn’t, Homeworld wouldn’t have felt the need to instill the thought that any gem that wasn’t perfect deserved to be crushed.
Amethyst is never going to physically match up to a gem of her making. And that’s fine. What she doesn’t have physically, she has in how loving and strong emotionally and mentally she is. Thousands of years struggling with her own self-worth haven’t stopped her from having fun or joking around; that’s strength.
Thank you. I wish other people could realize this.
In Greg the Babysitter, Vidalia’s babysitter can’t work because of a “death in the family” (which is revealed to be a hamster).
Vidalia also mentions that this babysitter is 12 years old at the time, which means they’re about 12-13 years older than Sour Cream. If Sour Cream is currently somewhere between 15-18, this would mean the babysitter is currently in their late 20s, early 30s. Most people in the show are either “parent age” (Greg, Vidalia, Mayor Dewey), “teen age” (Sadie, Cool Kids, Ronaldo), or “kids age” (Connie, Onion, Petey). This leaves but one option:
Which leads me to the most important fact in the entire show: Jamie the Mailman used to have a hamster.
Theater is Jamie’s life. As a former drama geek myself I guarantee we’re exactly the type of person who’d go into a full mourning period over a hamster.
