While a lot what I post here is whimsical, I thought that the domain washingtonpost.com and the board /f/general was enough to suggest that this was a serious piece about an absurd thing. I suppose I should have rewritten the title to make it more clear.

I'm not usually into stories about crime, but I thought this was particularly interesting as how contemporary it all was, like:

1. dating app on a phone launching jealousy
2. boyfriend being a huge gamer and a self-defined "ethlete" up to 13 hours a day
3. katana (the commercialization of them perhaps more than recognizing them as a thing you use for crime)

It's a very modern spin on an age old ill. This is a bit utopistic at the moment given how abstinence only education is gaining more steam under the present administration, but ideally I'd like to see infidelity treated with more depth in schools since it's so common. Not just a superficial "nu-uh it's bad".

this reminds me of ai weiwei's sunflower seeds exhibition, millions of individually painted and crafted seeds, none of them really unique but still singular

I was only tangentially aware of the work, but I thought that they were just ordinary sunflower seeds this whole time! Let's just say that back then I wondered what the deal was, exactly.

Rice is delicious and surprisingly under appreciated. Just think of eating curry without rice...

My phone is similar and I only became aware of the breadth of my achievement when I decided to close them all at the same time, which is when my phone notified about my high score. There was like 20 tabs that had information I wanted to save but couldn't bother to dig them anymore.

I think the oldest were open for about two months or so.

You should feed it more fiber.

Idk. It's easier to open a new tab when context switching from n old one than to close old ones or navigate them elsewhere. Also I can't, like, close by domain like all Reddit tabs or what have you.

Also, Bohemia has a coast in one of his plays

I want these girls to swoon me with a duet

This is like the side of gaming I've never done anything with but it rules

why did no one tell me about cat girl bards previously

I read the Zombie Simpsons book but I do feel like it could have gone more into the basic storytelling problems. The best bits were a bit circumstantial, like how much staff they bled or how the show became more cartoony (like pointless chases and so on).

I must agree with Devtesla - the conclusions about Lisa are mostly spot on, but the diagnosis on the whole about the Simpson's decline is mistaken. Actually it could have been a better piece if it was all about Lisa as now the first part seems abandoned in the end.

As an example where the essay falters is seeing one of the episodes this piece mentions (by quoting it) as something absurd and as a vehicle for jokes is Selma's Choice. However, it actually has a very clear three act structure:

1. (The Proposal) Marge's mother dies and her family and Patti and Selma meet at her funeral. Mother has left behind a video tape about her deathbed regret of remaining single and tells in it for her daughters avoid her fate. This gets Selma nervous. (Proposal: life without family/lover is unfulfilling.)
2. (The Argument) Selma begins dating but doesn't succeed at all. Men are garbage. Selma also visits a theme park with Lisa and Bart and it all ends with chaos.
3. (The Conclusion) Selma has a speech in which she concludes that the company of her iguana is plenty enough for her and that not everyone has to have the family or love life like others. She rejects the proposal of her mother. And I'd say this is presented as a positive thing.

Thus the episode is hardly random and in fact the first act is laid down with care, length and clarity to set up the whole thing in motion. You don't even have to know about The Simpsons to get it! "I am the Lizard Queen" is funny in part because it's basically pointing at how terribly Selma fares with kids.