Eliot on Hardison’s brew pub purchase for ronandhermy.
i want to be clear–this rant right here? is exactly why hardison bought a brew pub
because this, this is a familiar rant. hardison has heard it every time they are even so much as within 5 miles of a brew pub (and, ps, none of those brew pubs ever succeeded in designing a decent menu, per eliot)
when he first sees the listing in portland he cringes and clicks away fast because this is one of the rants it’s not even funny to goad eliot into because it happens SO MUCH and eliot doesn’t even get amusingly wound up, just earnestly offended/annoyed, and this is just the first tenth of the rant, okay? the rest of it involves complicated dissections of where brew pubs in general fail at menu design, and then move on to particular brew pubs who have offended eliot’s soul with the travesty of their menus
no way does hardison want to sign up for a daily dose of that rant, directed at his skills. except then he admits that it would take eliot about 2 minutes to take over the menu design, and this is the guy who can identify the sound of 28 different tire treads over 31 different types of surfaces, okay, he likes a challenge, and really it’s a gift to provide eliot with this opportunity
parker doesn’t look convinced when hardison tries out that explanation. “you sound sarcastic, he’s going to think you’re messing with him, not giving him something.”
and, okay, even in hardison’s head it comes off as sarcastic, as do the fifteen other ways he tries to practice giving eliot the brew pub. the problem is, hardison and eliot are only good at emotions with each other when shit is super tense and potentially-death-filled
hardison clicks away from the page again because it seems kind of hopeless, figuring it out, but then he thinks about eliot having an industrial kitchen to cook for them in, and a staff to order around, and a menu design he’s just secretly dorky enough about to brag about on brew pub posting boards and, well
maybe eliot will knowit’s for him from the get go, maybe he’ll figure it out along the way, or maybe it’ll never click for him, whatever. hardison isn’t concerned about the credit he just wants eliot to have it
It’s a zine about mental health and superheroes. Mine concentrated on self-care / self-love. I also wrote a little something explaining why I picked to do something on self-care, in which you can read about it in the zine (download for free! woop) here: https://gumroad.com/ricochetpress
Reblogging this again because it’s all good advice. 😀
even though it’s something they both did, even something as seemingly small as the partying thing reveals a completely different psychological profile from the two characters
like 616 tony partied because he drank. he drank because he’s an alcoholic. he’s an alcoholic (at least in part) because drinking was attempt to self medicate for his MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER that boils down to tony being pathologically self-loathing
mcu tony partied because he was empty because- despite all his money and power and genius- he couldn’t connect with people which could’ve been a result of shitty parenting but it also seems like it could possibly be narcissistic or possibly borderline personality disorder
I’ve been meaning to write a post on this forever, and the topic recently went around again, so this seems like a good time. As per my usual method, my goal is to lay out what actually is in the source material, from which I will draw some conclusions and you will probably draw others.
Really interesting meta, but I’d like to correct the original meta writer to say that there *is* alcohol in The Incredible Hulk – Betty, Bruce and Leo drink wine at dinner before Bruce has his little wibbly moment, and then later, Bruce and Leo drink while they have their frankly amazing heart-to-heart. In the second scene, the wine is actually drawn attention to deliberately – Leo offers Bruce some wine, and Bruce says,‘if you’re having some’ and Leo says, ‘oh, I’m having a lot’.The sharing of the drink helps put both of them at ease enough to have their discussion about Betty and Bruce’s past, the residue that past has left on their present, and how Leo has learned to live with the shadow of Bruce in his and Betty’s relationship.
knitting in the dark 