I sort of want to get back into physical media and DVDs, and set up a projector in here, and turns out it's a little Hard Mode if you DON'T want Smart Features. I want these devices dumb as a box of rocks, and Not Allowed Online like homeschooled Amish children
(my facial expression foolishly changes, considering it) ...hundreds of years trapped in a magical book, you say? horribly...peaceful, with nothing to worry about? I don't...have my phone or get emails?
(nodding) yes, I'll make sure not to do this
Had a dream last night where i was given the practical life advice: don't seal yourself in the pages of a magical book for safety, because it's hard to get back out. Feeling very "...oh yeah, sure, that seems right" about this.
I'm assuming all of this is likely totally coincidental to my comics...and that there's a real chance some of them had the same trajectory I did, thinking of "Candy Heart" as a name first and then going naw, make it quirkier and more distinctive
searched this a while ago, and it feels very correct to me that the real life people who go by "Honey Hart" and/or "Heart" appear to be at least two drag queens, a streamer who plays horse games, and a real estate agent
Honey giving Turpentine a comically huge plastic storage bin full of "honey hearts" cookies to take home, like, here, heard you looooove your GIRLfriend 💖💖💖. later, she's appalled to find out Turp has just been living on that for like three weeks instead of bothering to make dinner
extremely on-brand unofficial Band Vs Band recipe! She would love this, and bake an absolutely impractical quantity of Honey Hearts
oh man yeah, this sounds exactly like what I imagined, and also I like your little square cassette player!
and there is, of course, plenty of precedent here! Like, for just about everything historical that you could dismiss as a terrible idea Of Its Time, you can find contemporary criticism from people also of that time