I often worry that the next book that really *needs* to be written is one that basically cannot be published in the current climate

i can’t think of a better dogshit whistle than “elevated.” like genuinely when’s the last time you heard of something allegedly “elevated” that didn’t suck ass

last night was a Bionicle plot twist in a spaghetti western

How it feels deploying a feat thread for bec noir on some unsuspected hazbin hotel fans that said i was just being biased when i said that he washes the hellverse

what if the real media literacy was the media illiteracy that we literacied along the way?

what are the telltale signs of the performative female

This film gives Ghibli vibes ✨

to be young in America is to know only a slow rot you're forbidden to give voice to. everyone studiously ignores it, demands others ignore it. rage against it can be voiced only in specifics that affect somebody else, somewhere else- to voice your own hopelessness is taboo

self

we could at least partially solve mask discourse by designing one that doesn’t look soul-crushingly ugly imo

I also worry sometimes that “understanding” contemporary phenomena basically means destroying your brain. Of course it’s also a Sisyphean undertaking

If we read Lynch as someone out to “pin the blame” (I personally would not) there are several undeniably American phenomena informing his darkness: Hollywood, the nuclear bomb, the American frontier, etc. Even if not strictly Western, it’s seldom just “Evil Forces” as you say.

this is kinda how Shinji was in unit-01 in episode 16