i think people in the middle ages acutally did know how to make photorealistic drawings they just chose not to because it’s funnier to draw some fucked up creature
they actually did make photorealistic drawings things just looked different back then
editor: ok, so what are we talking, little green men?
ka applegate: i’m thinking more like…giant blue deer-people with no mouths and scorpion tails
editor: little green men would be easier to put on the cover
ka applegate: yeah, but deer-people are cooler
editor: but what about the cover?
ka applegate: don’t worry, I got you…covered
editor: this is just a cocktail napkin with the word “horrifying half-human half-animal abomination” underlined six times
(ka applegate has already skateboarded away)
OP it’s vital to me that you know that KA originally wanted to put little grey men in her books, but Scholastic told her to be more “creative.” Knowing that it was 1990-something, and Scholastic was planning to maybe make a TV show, KA responded by being petty as hell and making the most absolutely batshit insane alien ever. Something hard to, say, do in SFX if you’re Nickelodeon in 1995-ish.
Something like blue deer scorpion people with no mouths.
does anyone remember the time during protests where protesters were getting kidnapped in unmarked vans? was that situation ever resolved? because if this happened in any country the US considers enemy there would be call for military intervention
yeah it happened in the US, these things are normalized unfortunately because US police is so militarized and corrupt
one of my favorite examples of why you cant trust snopes.
“What’s true: The literal act of kidnapping”
“What’s false: Kidnapping is a criminal charge and no one involved has been charged”
literally BEYOND parody.
imagine this logic applied to a serial killer–“ted bundy isn’t a murderer because he hasn’t received the charges yet. victims of murder are technically not murdered until there’s a legal charge of murder.” you could also apply it to any dictatorship rising to power. fucking morons.
