sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of war

i don’t want to be angry anymore i’m never going to hate again unless someone says something really stupid or if i see something i don’t like at all or maybe just whenever i feel like it

[wishing so bad to vaguepost but not wanting to send harassment after anyone] i saw a post. and it was bad.

just got a call from the american psychiatric association. you old dogs, i said, picking up on the first ring. how many times i gotta tell you to lose this number. i don’t want you coming around here anymore. “listen, toots, we’ve been doing some thinking,” they says, and i says, guess there’s a first time for everything. “you’re a real funny dame, sugardoll. reviewing criticism, we’ve determined that the biggest issue with our previous diagnostic and statistic manuals of mental disorders is the anonymity of it all. we’ve been circling around a vague figure of the mentally well without defining the traits of a mentally well person. there’s no personality. what we need is a cute broad with a couple opinions to model the psychological norm.” so i’m saying back up and give it to me straight: i’m the new standard of sanity? can i get that in writing? and they say, “as the american psychiatric association we hereby state that you are the baseline and any deviations from your personality are deviations from the very concept of sanity, at least in the united states psychiatric system.” they’re making it public tomorrow. it’s a nice gig, if you really want to know. never thought they’d let a woman do it.

I have to come to terms with the fact that I'll never be able to fry people who piss me off with Palpatine lightning, and that sucks

i am just moved by everything now. i'm porous and everything gets inside me

I’m like if the Buddha was also a hater

arts degrees r so funny because you go in class and theyre like What Is A Poem? we dont know for sure... and then moral of the story is we don't know what a poem is. and then the worst part of it is that theyre right

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

Gonna start leaving unsolicited comments about how I actually DONT shave my bush for sensory purposes

Honestly the fact that a lot of people's immediate defense against criticisms of genre media tends to be "it's not that serious, it's just dumb fun" is a bit. Idk. You can have it both ways. Your genre media can be both enjoyable and engaging. A lot of classic sci-fi and fantasy films are not remembered because they were "dumb fun," they're remembered for being actually well-written and thoughtful in spite of existing in a genre that has been often seen as below critics.

Like. Fun can be extremely serious! Aliens is a very entertaining action film and it's also like good cinema imho! I don't feel the need to defend it like "yeah it's pedestrian and poorly written and indefensible as cinema but at least there's cool aliens in it."

And don't get me wrong I love schlock, but most "it's dumb fun" media is way too good (derogatory) to count as schlock. For something to be bad not in a "eh it's unremarkable" type of way but in a "this sucks, I need to know what the hell went wrong" kind of way needs there to be an Auteur. The modern blockbuster industrial complex means that even when a movie has everything going against it it can't hope to compete with Some Utter Dogshit in terms of being a fun trainwreck.

For example: the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is, in fact, Some Utter Dogshit, but it's still kind of fascinating in terms of having had a completely alien and bizarre vision. Sadly, I can't think of a good corollary to Super Mario Bros. (1993) that would demonstrate the other type of movie, i.e. a movie that is for all intents and purposes unremarkable yet has people defending it as "dumb fun." Oh well.

It also feels so insincere. "Why are you grading an action/fantasy/horror/sci-fi movie on the same merits you would a Real Movie? Don't you know that action/fantasy/horror/sci-fi doesn't have to be and in fact can't be good?"

Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.

fanservice sucks bc it’s never you that’s being serviced it’s always some other really annoying fan