Oh, geez...

Apparently, one day last week there were two overdoses at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Which is sad. And that editorial goes along fairly normally until the last paragraph:

And we've had the debate: Use naloxone to save overdose victims or let nature take its course? It's a different conversation when it's a friend or a loved one who's involved, but still the debate rages. Because there is no end to the drug scourge in sight.

THAT IS NOT A DEBATE. There is no debate here. What sort of amoral monster do you have to be to think that there is a debate here!?

Every once in a while I think "It might be good to be more on top of local news", and then the Advance reminds me why I don't bother. Never change, guys. Never change.

With Biden in the chair on Jan. 3, the Senate can confirm a renominated Merrick Garland. Here's how.

This strikes me as even less likely than anything to do with the Electoral College, but if you have a Senator who is carrying over from last term, go ahead and call them about this. What's the worst that can happen? (In the comments, people are saying that the worst that can happen is it sets a bad precedent, but seriously, the GOP has been setting awful precedents left and right, so I don't care.)

I don't always talk about the things I like

This is probably a holdover from adolescence or something - I don't want to feel I'm getting laughed at by people who think what I like is stupid. (And this comes up more often than you think! "Has anybody ever liked book/movie/tv show that you're supposed to like?" Um, me? "Hahaha, nope, nobody because it sucks!" Um....)

So I've been thinking about this for a while, and I don't think I've posted it because of what I said above, but I really like Megamind, and I like Megamind fanfiction, and this is one of the cutest fanfics you will read. (Content note: Teacher-sanctioned bullying ahoy! This is probably canon anyway.)

But that's not what's been percolating in my head. Megamind is a seriously small fandom (rules: watch the movie. agree it got screwed by Dreamworks. there, now you're a card carrying member of the fandom - and step one isn't strictly necessary anyway), but it certainly has accrued an awful lot of widely-accepted fanon. Megamind and Metroman's "real names". Megamind eating an tons of sugar. Megamind and Roxanne playing card games if Metroman doesn't show up quickly. But maybe this is how it works? Maybe the smaller the fandom, the more rapidly little bits of lore perpetuate themselves throughout the entire cloud?

I clearly need to insinuate myself into more fandoms of varying sizes and then evaluate them carefully for widely-accepted fanon. But who has the time? Honestly, I already have so much to catch up on. I need more hours in the day, and also a reset button.

This post was more coherent in my head. I apologize.