i fucking love the use of vocabulary in homestar runner it’s like they invented a specific niche regional dialect for free country USA. like strong bad’s manner of speaking is so goddamn enticing especially when he says shit like “on account of my brothers are galactically incapable of friend-have”.
2002. Cast Bronze.
“I’d rather betray the whole of mankind than have them betray me!”
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Help me ob-gyn kenobi, you’re my only hope.
She needed more midwife-clorians.
I really hope everyone reblogging this followed the link and read the article, because it’s larger point is really good
“Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank. Having babies is worse than being mauled by a wampa ice creature or being chopped up by lightsabers and falling into a river of lava. Lucas can write a world like that, and worse, the audience will accept it.
But uteruses aren’t made of malignant magic. Women’s bodies are real physical things that can be studied and understood and when necessary, cured. ”
IDK about everyone else, but I’ve actually been certified as a doula and childbirth educator and worked in women’s health media for most of a decade.
All points valid, but “Help me OB-GYN Kenobi” broke me.
And this is how you can tell a story was written by men because pre-natal healthcare never even occurred to the writer. Women’s insides are a mysterious and magical place that no man either can fathom, or just just not want to think about, so in stories like this they just handwave it away as” dying in childbirth”.
Help me, OB-GYN Kenobi.
I love how everyone’s like YES ALL POINTS VALID
But
“Help me OB-GYN Kenobi”
to be fair, it is a brilliantly executed pun
kidz bop cask of amontillado
i’m sorry but that caption had me wheezing for a good couple of minutes holy shit
